it's true tho

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CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

It turns out you, me, and Cate Blanchett all share this same empassioned rage against the loud motorized suburban air tube

this is what makes atproto cool btw

gonna build a personal website and its gonna be super fun and it will have a chatroom

thanks for the help

I've worked with a number of people who hire like this and it literally is that easy up to a point they were amazing work environments specifically because my gender was never a part of working there. no one working there was thinking about it.

Listening to a single from a certain forthcoming record and thinking about this tweet.

I have no idea how to end this thread, so I'll just say this: There are a lot of completely miserable people on here, and they will tell you, earnestly, that you owe it to them to be just as miserable as they are. Please do not listen to them. You are loved, and you deserve your joy.

I am once again asking you to stop screenshot posting just because you are afraid of the repercussions of what you want to say and you want your self righteousness to stay in your safe little bubble

healthy consensus rulings rely on the quality of an opinion, not the quantity of people who believe in an opinion. that's the reason representative democracy is good actually.

any time I have ever seen anyone say something violent, whether or not pointed at a meaningful enemy, it has caused me to question both their judgment and their integrity

can you believe that there's people out there who only shower in the morning? No shower the night before, they just take all of the previous days sweat and get right in bed with it, every night!

I should lift before I go insane again

I still think screenshotting people's posts to make commentary is bad

Crows going nuts, dive-bombing the top of a pine. First 6 then 12 then 24. A gigantic red-tailed hawk emerged, crows swarming, pulling wing feathers and tail. Hawk dropped a large rabbit with a loud thud on the neighbors roof. Now the crows are celebrating like they just won the World Series.

honestly after spending several months not on here, I have remembered that so many of you are unaware that you are offering so much of your attention to garbage that is probably harming your mind and thereby your wellbeing

couldn't find the fountain pen that I write with every day just before some travel and no I'm not freaking out I'm fine

Twenty people

anyone had luck making the traveler brass fountain pen not suck

gonna co-opt and pretend by saying nice salteñaing

both are true tons of people use + will continue to use it AND the effect it is having on the people who don't understand how or why it is having an effect on them will become a huge part of politics it's not that hard people

So after listening to multiple talks by philosophers of mind who defend consciousness as the substrate of the entire universe, and physicists who invoke quantum mechanics as the source of consciousness, the conclusion is clear: they have no idea about neuroscience, nor any interest to know about it.

A new special issue of Philosophical Transactions B takes on one of science’s biggest questions: how life begins. Rather than retracing Earth’s history, the authors look for the universal conditions that could make life possible anywhere, approaching the question from many fields and angles.

What can we learn about living computation from non-living machines? In this @royalsocietypublishing.org A. Adamatzky shows that a computer doesn’t need to be solid. From droplets 2 chemical waves, liquid computers blur the line between chemistry & thought. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

Context Collapse and Halloween Traditions REAL VIDEO MOSTLY NO AI (Hotline 79/81) youtu.be/mG1U5CbiOd0

I can't even read this "great read" without wanting to rescue an 8-year-old son from his father's effort toughen him up and exploit him for a Times byline. I Tried to Toughen Up My Son. Things Didn’t Go as Planned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/m...

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Poetry made by bots and outrage

confident ignorance as tribal identity works great until reality selects for people who actually learned how things work

I think Faine is right the responses to the initial comments on all the white house posts seem well-planted, as do the initial comments themselves you win the information game by playing a different game

I still think declarative quoted posting instead of conversation is a net societal negative

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expanding on this the single thing that frustrates me the most about modern app tech is if it doesn't work on a user's phone without an internet connection I should not have to always use the internet to access data I want to manage locally

I keep thinking about how powerful our phones have gotten and how almost all of that power is used to process cloud-hosted UIs instead of processing anything locally

"The dollar is no longer the reserve currency of American capitalism. Digital data is. Data strikes are not our only power, but they are an absolutely imperative one." open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

I agree but also think that defying the sort of thinking steadily programmed into civic society by algorithms that thrive off of outrage might have something to do with why not that many people realize it's an option we think using algorithms. when we learn to think with bad tools, we think badly.

the fact that blocking a user hides their reply for everyone, not just the user who blocked them, seems like an extremely toxic pattern for collective sense-making. 1. user makes [xyz claim] 2. another user corrects them 3. blocked, hidden it should be explicitly shown as hidden instead

Unironically keep doing this. BC&BB

next step is nuclear sovereignty for the Diné nation

oh wow the Atlantic wrote an article about poster's syndrome

honestly I get the waffles thing because it feels the same as how anyone reasonable has started to feel about the AI thing

it’s a lot harder to get unjustifiably outraged online when you have real hobbies that you’re involved with

The Louvre of Bluesky is Libs of TikTok for leftists and it's embarrassing that anything they say has a large footprint here

can we seriously please stop screenshot-posting it's giving fear of consequences

My conclusion after the last 24 hours of discourse on this app about AI is that maybe reading comprehension is something that we should really be investing in as a society just maybe.

man the current wave of ai discourse is one of the bleakest i've seen. some of the smartest people i know within their domains spending useless hours trying to explain "no it doesn't work like that, i know this because i actually work with these for a living" to people who are like "don't care cunt"

also FYI Garmin is the superior company here and Strava will not win www.techradar.com/health-fitne...

thought-stopping language is going to kill the internet