Aurora borealis and Ursa Major over the Mackinaw Bridge. Mackinaw City, MI 2025, September 29 I don’t usually write much here, but this has been such a good “weekend”. I took a couple extra days off work to come #UpNorth (Michiganders know) and get away for a bit.

Big beams going up in Maine right now likely visible from most of New England. Take a peek north and pull out a phone camera if nothing is visible with the naked eye. go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

Why are all the skeletons in my neighborhood so horny this year

bluesky uses an advanced (but open-source, so it's ethical) ai to detect if a user has ever had sex and preemptively moderates as a tactical first strike

33% of removals were some variation on the word capture - but were used completely innocuously. I will directly quote my video descriptions here:

Yes this is in direct response to ManyVids removing 15 videos without notice due to WORDS in the descriptions, taken out of context. Years of views and fan reviews, totally gone, because of this. They could have notified me - they could have asked me to just change the text - but they did not.

No one outside adult truly has any idea what online censorship really looks like. They imagine it's easy to get around with a cute spelling. In reality, censorship is arbitrary and nonsensical, enforced by multiple parties. The liability so great that some topics stop getting discussed completely.

You want me to verify my age on here? The place where everyone is 38 years old??

Gonna stream in a second, we’ll talk about the Bluesky noncon situation + where things stand with the site and censorship

Tsunami evacuation systems in Kochi City and Kure town, Shikoku Island. The 1946 Nankai Trough earthquake and tsunami swept ashore here, flooding all these areas - only the most recent of many over the past ~1300 years. The vertical evac towers are really impressive.

I do not trust the people who run social media networks or payment processors or hosting sites or our goddamn government to decide these things and it terrifies me

"you're overblowing it" man am I?? I sure do get sanctioned for posting an incredibly unassuming artistic boob lol

King of the Silent Hill

"Canada Post is on track to lose money" Hum. Duh. It cost less than a toonie to send a letter across Canada. "Canada Post is a service and not a business" was common knowledge until late stage capitalism brain rotted most people into think if it ain't making money for shareholders, it's failing.

🌌 gnbsky

ICE arrested press tonight. They threw a tear gas canister into the press last week. This was not an accident. Release Steve Held.

Grocery order had way more ginger than I expected. Figging party at mine I guess, lol

Read the banned books. But also read the ones that could be banned. Ones from trans authors, Palestinian authors, and indigenous authors. Read the ones about black happiness and sapphic history. Read the ones from climate scientists and critical comedians. Read the romances and the horror novels.

Guess what! I'm participating in an auction where you can get a custom commission by me, along with a bunch of Gravity Falls signed books/merch... All to benefit the Sameer Project for aid in Gaza! Check it out: The auction: givebutter.com/c/xGpVMu/auc... My listing: givebutter.com/c/xGpVMu/auc...

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Big win. Now you can leave Bluesky AND return to their servers if you wanted to. Folks who migrated to blacksky.app, myatproto.social, and cryptoanarchy.network were taking a leap of faith move over to servers hosted by Blacksky Algorithms. Hopefully this de-risks things for folks.

Statues auto-flagged by Bluesky as adult content. Embarrassing platform

LinkedIn job postings: -AI wrangler -Scam listing -Scam listing -AI wrangler -Engineer at the War Crimes Factory -Scam listing -Listing reposted by middleman company that was already filled two weeks ago -AI wrangler for the War Crimes Factory

The puppeteer's union has rejected my slogan "We Need More Hand Jobs!"

Hi Bluesky! I just launched my Big Cartel fabric art shop, and I was wondering if you could help spread the word? All of my creations are designed, hand-sewn, and hand-embroidered by me. Any sales are colossally appreciated. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

if you've read I BELIEVE IN MISTER BONES you should write up a little review on the places you do that. if you haven't read it, you should go read it. it's a pretty cool book imho and more people should be reading it

Today, state building experts are drawing attention to the importance of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings, located all over our state. URM buildings have the most potential to experience collapse and damage during an earthquake. They created this 3-min video. #FixTheBricks youtu.be/2HE56WwI6zE?...

every trans person I've spoken to is feeling the Drag Down right now. not everybody has fallen into despair but we're all feeling it creeping in around the edges, doing our best to fight it. things are bad. if you know a trans person, look after them.

*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

SKIN CRAWLING NIGHTMARE FUEL and also Junji Ito youtu.be/YVkJ4lMCsoI?...

“These recommendations amount to service cuts, contracting out and major rollbacks to important provisions in our existing collective agreements” - @cupwsttp.bsky.social

The legislator behind the new Ohio age-verification law doesn't even know what's in the bill. He claims that it excludes social media sites. No such language exists. This is why you don't push something you couldn't get passed the normal way into an budget omnibus. www.wkbn.com/news/ohio/ho...

Rachael Thomas and the Conservatives are hypocrites “Rachael Thomas lied about what I said. She’s also a hypocrite for saying that she defends free speech while insinuating Cult MTL should be cancelled because we published something she finds offensive.” An editorial by @taylornoakes.com.

These rooms should be filled with newborn cries, the beeping of monitors, pregnant women being cared for, patients finding relief amid a genocide. Instead, these rooms now stand empty because MSF was forced to evacuate our last functioning health facility in Gaza city.

Canada is not powerless. It must stand up for humanity now - sign our petition: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/now-more-tha...

As tanks closed in and relentless airstrikes occurred within a kilometre of our clinics, it was impossible to continue our vital work. Thousands of people still remain in Gaza city, now stripped of critical medical support. Read more here: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...

#AO3 will be going down for about 20 hours of maintenance at 05:30 UTC, two hours earlier than previously announced. Check what time that is for you: ao3-news.org/maint2025092...

Canada Post “lost” 1 billion dollars last year? How about, “it cost Canadians 1 billion dollars to have a national postal service” which works out to costing about $25 a year per person (population of Canada in 2024 = 40 million). Seems like a pretty reasonable cost to me.

weird bird alert

Shoutout to the Microsoft worker organizers who have been tirelessly (and often at the cost of their jobs) pushing Microsoft- not nearly enough but just another brick to crumble

waiting for you [happy new silent hill day]

Purposely playing The Quarry and making all of the wrong decisions is fun; in a very fucked up way. But look at my trophy count finally going up, up, up! RIP Emma, Dylan’s hand, Jacob, and Abigail (so far)

Was instinctively driven to draw a goddess ordering pizza and wings on doordash. It needed to exist

🏠🌳 Montreal has a long history of using environmental projects to attract capital into the city. Parc-Extension residents say that puts them in a bind: greenify and risk gentrification, or keep dealing with increasingly hot summer temperatures. ⬇️ By Neha Chollangi

For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children. Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

Podcasts should be made by media obsessed weirdos with no budget, I've always said this