My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

Please stop destroying the world, I was using that

a lobster is a shrimp kaiju

I hope #mermay is still a thing

"I'm Far Too Clever for MY Big Brain to be Jellified by the Brain Jellifying Machine: in this essay I will" –– a guy who built an entire side career out of telling others that they were delusional

“I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative & cynical & predict doom for the world than it is to try & figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter." - Jim Henson

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Infeasible things become feasible all the time. Repealing the Voting Rights Act wasn't feasible until it was. People who really wanted it repealed tried until they did it. We can change things, too. Negate the corrupted insurrectionist members of the SCOTUS. www.the-reframe.com/the-unmovabl...

A black girl born today will have fewer reproductive and voting rights than her grandmother.

Mom: “It almost feels like they just killed Martin Luther King all over again, but metaphorically this time. Almost like its a fun little game for them.”

It's hard to put into words just how bad this is.

As the Artemis II crew was rounding the Moon—the first crewed lunar mission in 54 years—the White House was proposing to cut NASA's budget and terminate FIFTY science missions. Here's a timely rundown of just *some* of what we'd lose if those cuts came to pass. www.planetary.org/articles/mee...

Once again, they're trying to make one of the classic blunders!

I don't want a motherfucking ballroom, especially since I'll never be invited to use it, and neither will 98% of US citizens. I want USAID. And NIH. And NSB. And NASA. I want free breakfast and lunch for school kids. I want healthcare for all.

descend upon them: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings... you are a gremlin in the comments now go be a paladin in the public comments

ME: Ah, but one of us only lies and the other tells only the truth! OTHER GUY: (to the adventures) He does this every time. You guys can just go in

I used to think it was my responsibility to look for the good in everyone. Now I understand it's my responsibility to be the good I can't find in others.

Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe. Happy Earth Day.

Here is a photo that shows the stages of making the shoulder armour for the Fat Henry VIII mouse armour. I’m building an edition of 12 mice so that’s two per mouse, basically a lot of parts. #jeffdeboer #mouseart #mousearmour #henryviii #miniatureart

Just loving this random image I stumbled upon. A female potter. Her finished work is on the shelf next to her and she's using a little object to draw lines into the clay. The Ambras castle Hofaemterspiel (Court-office Game), ca 1455.

Look, not everybody needs to be a strawberry, okay? There's room for cranberries in this world too. You can be weird and sour and only tolerated by a handful of people around the holidays. I know you can. You can be fun if mixed with enough vodka. I believe in you. You can live in a bog

My beautiful porcelain creatures 💕 Available to purchase on my website www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide shipping available

This Day in Labor History: April 16, 1836. Massachusetts passed the nation’s first law limiting child labor. It required that children under the age of 15 working in factories be given three months off per year to attend school!

bringing my sawed-off to the ska rumble

sorry for the bad news but you're only a real woman if you've been to the moon. there is now one real woman. all the rest of us are fake women. gender is moon now

“every triumph, every tear, every birthday cake, every disappointment, every skinned knee, every dust off, every draped flag, every first dance, every missed flight, every shift change, every twirl hug, every wave goodbye, every love note, every human. us. you. all we have.” - christina koch 🌎

I believe that in order to take some small step forward, the word “bird” should be replaced with “saur” in all common names. Mockingsaur. Secretarysaur. Red-winged blacksaur. HUMMINGSAUR

Florals, for spring? Groundbreaking. Some past watercolour flowers.

Chicago Pope vs New York Grifter Politician really feels a bit like an escalation of the Great Pizza War, doesn't it?

🎶 It's a brand-new record, for... um, 2026...🎵 New TMBG!

What if we just cleared Congress of all the abusers and sex pests this week what is stopping us who cares what party they are in

"So it appears that CPAC was funded by a foreign government that was working closely with Vladimir Putin." Color me exceedingly unsurprised.

Pushed a pencil around on paper for a couple of hours today. Was not great, but also wasn't the worst drawing I've ever done (that's a very low bar, but I'll take the win). Not sharing it this time, because I don't need the pressure/expectations. Progress is progress. Onward.

Be Yourself. 🪽

This. Entire. Thread.

To explain the incredibly important lesson I think Americans should take from the Orbán defeat, I have to start by telling you about my high school friend Jonah who is the biggest LA Dodgers fan I've ever met. Weird, I know. But deeply relevant. Let me tell you why. 🧵🧵🧵

I frequently laud the wisdom of "Don't engage, just block" when it comes to trolls on social media, but here on Bluesky I also want to remind people that you can detach quotes and use "mute for all" for comments when you find either in bad faith, aside the point or otherwise problematic. Try it!

Life size velociraptor

Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.

You can remove our colleagues who are women or Black or Brown or LGBTQ from agency websites & their images from agency walls But you can’t erase this: bc of those heroes of the past we have these heroes today inspiring future heroes Thank you Dorothy, Katherine, Mary, Sally, Christina & Victor ❤️🚀

After threatening the Pope and trying to get involved in a land war in Asia, I'm now kind of just waiting for this administration to decide to go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Hi all, its your friendly neighborhood retired therapist here to remind you that the horrors persist and so do we! Have you: -had a glass of water or something liquid that is not caffeinated recently? -used any calming or grounding techniques you like? -eaten a food? If not, do that now. 💜

Hard to believe we used to be a country where not being able to spell "potato" was enough to end a political career.

I would rather live in a tiny, humble world full of love than in a vast world full of hate.

weird juxtaposition where people in power and influence are saying absolutely heinous, deadly things without any restraint of conscience, and everyone reacting to it is having to bite their tongue and speak in euphemisms not to get banned or arrested or whatever

Really feeling February and December right now, TBH

Queen of Hearts, 1909, by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Glasgow School Movement and Art Nouveau #WomensArt

We are so, so small. #Artemis

I would trade all the armies that have ever marched for a single blade of grass left untrampled.

Over 500 sketches from my new book. Yes, it’s a lot of work. Yes, I am tired. Yes, AI could do it quicker. No, I never will. Please support (exhausted) human artists.