The color of the sky in Seattle is feldgrau #4b5761

Post a poster you used to have in your room, apartment or house

AI is the bro who confidently shoves his way to the front, says Let Me Handle This, then proceeds to say the wrongest shit you ever heard And after proving it’s ignorant as well as an asshole, I’m expected to trust it unquestioningly, defer to it completely, and depend on it for everything? Nah

It is amazing to read these feature lists and every time there’s not a single thing I care about in the slightest. Yay for the occasional accessibility improvement, otherwise 🤷🏻‍♀️ iPhones will keep getting more expensive, complicated and full of AI BS for shareholder value, not users

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

What would it actually take to improve women's health care in the U.S.? We have to start by prioritizing women's lived experiences, both cis and trans. I break down the challenges and the possibilities at @damemagazine.bsky.social: www.damemagazine.com/2026/05/27/f...

Any excuse to get this out

#flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

Just an annotation relevant to the headline on this piece: all of my devices have had (variously) DuckDuckGo or Kagi as their default search for literally *years*. And I’m not an amateur internet user. A better internet is possible.

Why LLM AIs are scary & bad: Me: Wait, you trained an AI on the entire content of the internet? AI GUYS (proudly): Yes! Me: Have you *been* on the internet lately? AI GUYS (proudly): Yes! Seems fine to us! Me: [facepalm] So I am guessing it picked up the internet's personality as a result?

#Seattle @ericacbarnett.bsky.social

How does a single average-sized head of cauliflower cost $8.82

Big CEO man has no concept of Stranger Danger

Important thread The core issue IMO is Google Search is no longer a platform that connects queries and relevant information; it now wants to completely control the information you get and how it’s presented. It’s separating info seekers from info sources by pretending it’s a source when it is not.

We can make the bed or we can go to Narnia, it’s not really a question is it #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Let’s clarify: Google wants to insert itself into every aspect of your online shopping so it can record, exploit and monetize every detail about everywhere you shop and every single product you look at, even those you consider but don’t buy. Sounds absolutely terrible, why would you give them that

As someone who exclusively uses DDG with all AI disabled, I carry on as usual doing web searches and getting results, blissfully unaware of whatever this hot mess express is I avoid ignorant argumentative people at all costs, why would I want to deal with ignorant argumentative software

When I got laid off I signed up for job alerts, so often I get Microsoft job posts. 90% of them are bullshitty nonsense about various types of AI product management, with lofty buzzword-laden text where I can read hundreds of words and still have absolutely no idea what you would do all day

Seems bad

Digital surveillance abuses are being normalized across the Americas—but we can fight back. EFF's new guide lays out concrete steps governments must take to protect privacy rights and end arbitrary state surveillance. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I have a great idea for the next frontier in biodiesel

Glad I’m not the only person who reads the fucking TOU/TOS You should read them! They often contain terrible things!

Pick a Bond from photos you already have in your phone.

Um okay so Well, see, the thing is So what we have here is Oh fuck where to start

For the love of God, *do not* do this.

Getting promoted at Amazon requires significant engagement from your manager, and at higher levels another mentor/advocate as well. Managers checking in via bot are not doing the day to day coaching and development that helps people grow, nor are they building any relationship with their team.

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

#OtD 13 May 1985 Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmental group MOVE, then dropped a bomb on it, killing 5 adults and 6 children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless.

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

#flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

A person I know (and who is? was? a good professional al) left an AI-generated comment under my LinkedIn post. Full-on AI slop. I asked: why do this? He replied. It’s because of “engagement.” People are burning their profession al reputation, paying for AI tools, for nothing

The Seed Song

Data centers, aka the Smol Bean Protected Class

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Anti-choicers are in a total meltdown over a very short stay on an abortion pill ban. They are stupid people, yes. But they have good reason to worry the GOP isn’t eager to take on the political risk of decimating abortion access. www.salon.com/2026/05/06/a...

Hey so if you’re a man with an XX partner or child that you care about, I need you to read this thread because shit is not going to change unless cis men start not being okay with this stuff.

Thread Tens of billions more for ICE with little to no accountability, plus a billion for Trump’s illegal ballroom, which he repeatedly said will be paid for by private donors. The war he started is ongoing with no exit strategy. Gas was $6.19 today in my neighborhood. Cool cool cool

The Black Parrot tulips just came up, by far the latest tulips. Perhaps their age as they were planted 4 years ago. #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport

#Seattle be aware

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An entire industry based on theft and lack of consent. Not just the initial training, but many of what the bros think are great use cases are actually abuse of someone’s likeness/identity

If the Dems don’t make an absolute spectacle out of this theft, after all the times Trump said donors already paid for it, I give up

the administration that ran on a platform of “political violence kicks ass and we’re gonna do a ton of it” and the media representatives who enthusiastically normalize and promote it would once again like the nation to unite in condemnation of political violence lacking their seal of approval

Rather than having AI do shitty writing for you and then running it through another AI to make it seem less AI, what if you LEARN TO HANDLE BASIC WRITTEN COMMUNICATION LIKE A FUNCTIONAL ADULT

Got her tooth pulled but feeling juuuust fiiiine #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

Seems like an egregious amount of damage for a vacation

Just saw “Tokenmaxxing” from @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com and very interested in how pretending maximum AI usage itself is a good performance metric is going to square with rate limiting and cost increases!

Me trying to be normal

Haha neat all the snapdragons overwintered and came back! Where are the new snapdragons going to go? IDK! #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling #gardensky #flowerreport