the three words every girl wants to hear

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

Oh wow, now there's a comic name I haven't heard in a long time. On a totally, 100%, and legally distinct different note: pic unrelated.

I happened to spend much of today, Homestuck's 17th anniversary, on a 4hr+ road trip, so I reread the most recent important Homestuck-related work: the UHC postmortem. Nowadays when someone asks if they should read Homestuck, I only say yes with asterisks, and this is one of them. Happy(?) 4/13.

Hiiiiiii, hows it going over here. Long time no skeet. Just popping in to post an article I wrote about the current state of web design and why it's kind of bad! heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/10...

Seattle: there is a proposal to build five of these things in our city. Yes, really.

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because more and more we see how the investor class is the same old boys club that deep down really, really loves exploiting and abusing women and making sure their nastiness is always the dominant narrative about what real life is like

A flamingo rests at the Pairi Daiza wildlife park in Brugelette, Belgium. More of our most unusual photos of the week: reut.rs/4ssY979 📷 Yves Herman

EVERY FUCKEN DAY - dashare.zone ADMIN

genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang

my Romanian ass going through all the stages of grief when acquaintances pick Dragostea Din Tei at karaoke

When Walgreens was complaining during the pandemic about having to close stores due to shoplifting, they were in the middle of paying a huge wage theft fine in California ($4.5MM, huge in terms of wage theft penalties).

NEW: Here are the emails that allegedly got UW professor removed from position as director of the university’s Middle East Center in full. Haven't seen the full text anywhere else yet... www.theburnerseattle.com/post/here-ar...

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Back to work grinding that hustle. This hustle wasn't going to grind itself. Picked up a new hustle grinder just for this occasion. It's got a motor. There's a big warning on the side to make sure you secure loose clothing because it does not know or care the difference between hustle and flesh.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

This was a really nice article for me to read, and I'm holding onto it like a prayer. AI's roots have wrapped around every industry I have worked or could reasonably work in. Someday I hope quality stands for itself.

2️⃣ IX contributor Tara Tarakiyee argues that tech discourse, most recently Cory Doctorow's Enshittification, routinely misreads Audre Lorde's "master's tools" speech. https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse

While doing some unrelated research, I stumbled upon and greatly enjoyed this queer analysis of the orca from @nichecanada.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2024/07/08/a...

I remember marching up 8th Avenue in NYC during the protests over Iraq in 2003 and as we approached Madison Square Garden with tens of thousands of people, along with 200k+ elsewhere around NYC, Fox News was *on the screen* outside MSG saying “hundreds protest war in Iraq”. I’ll never forget it.

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

the sad reality: your favorite local haunts (that indie bookstore with the queer book club, the game shop that hosts tcg nights, the cafe with local art shows, etc) are always teetering on the edge of closure every single month. just a reminder to show these places love whenever you can.

You can give all your love to another even when loving yourself seems impossible. That doesn't lessen your heart's truth. But starting to care for yourself doubles the love —you give more to them, and beautifully back to you. Your soul is worthy of gentleness. Nurture it. You're enough🏳️‍⚧️🌈

the thing about certain works is that they sort of test whether or not you as the reader/viewer/etc treat "this is the writer's thinly veiled fetish" and "this has important literary themes" as two separate, mutually exclusive things, or two parts of a whole that can exist simultaneously

people are making Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny bits right now because of Chuck Norris's death and I think its important to note that today is also literally Mr. Rogers' birthday

A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany. We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.

We reflect a lot on what draws people to AI as a source of historical information. It's clear that for many people, the AI 'voice' comes across as authoritative and convincing in what it conveys, even when the actual content is pretty banal, surface-level or just plain wrong.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

hi guys I know I haven't been very active lately, and I don't talk about where I'm from often, but the government made some really scary announcements today so I thought I'd share to let everyone know what's happening. here are some posts from twt for context

Many describe Trump as acting like a child. This assume children are inherently less developed than adults. But children often have a much more developed sense of empathy & justice than adults. Trump is not acting like a child. He is acting like an imperialist. US leaders have always acted this way.

Also while I was fighting despair by sorting laundry and watering plants I want to say Happy International Women's Day to the women and especially the women who are in the closet about that It's your day! Even if it's a secret

Olympia, WA just codified protections for polyamorous and non-monogamous families. Now renters can move all their partners in without claiming "room mate" or "friend" to avoid discrimination. theolympian.com/news/local/a...

I strongly encourage people feeling too much of The Doom to emotionally regulate themselves, very deliberately, if you start dipping into the despair. Being overwhelmed can quickly turn into learned helplessness and we absolutely need people to do what they can to positively impact what they can

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

"it has been zero days since I've had to live through a traumatic collapse of an order my life depended on" shirt

Oh, the full coverage of this exchange is even worse: 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

The Seattle Public Library hired a cop to run security. It's going about how you would expect. New article from DivestSPD editor Justin Ward: www.theurbanist.org/2026/02/23/s...

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

Yesterday Cory Doctorow argued that refusal to use LLMs was mere "neoliberal purity culture". I think his argument is a strawman, doesn't align with his own actions and delegitimizes important political actions we need to make in order to build a better cyberphysical world.

"We invented pornographic art tens of thousands of years before written language." (Full size image) Words by @funkittoys.bsky.social, images by @erikamoen.bsky.social (and various uncredited prehistoric artists, craftspeople, and caveperverts) Full post: www.patreon.com/posts/150935...

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment