If I were a Science Edumicator, I would be thinking seriously about how to teach people to distinguish between machine learning, which is a Cool and Important field of scientific inquiry, and large language models, which are Theft-Fueled Bullshit Vortices

What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech.

Two days ago, the regime police in Georgia arrested a man over squeaking a chicken toy towards the police. So, yesterday, many people brought these chickens to do the same. #GeorgiaProtests 📷 MOSE

Mighty Cabaret Voltaire manoeuvres last night. Greyscale early works, mid belters, Sheffield bleepcore and the rest all finely tweaked for the heft. Nag, Nag, Nag and Sensoria encore: oof. Strafing support action from the excellent MICROCORPS @alexandertucker.bsky.social too. There was dancing.

I’ve heard this widely living in DC: That there are just massive boosts given to mediocre conservatives in the law and in media 1/

Playbook | While Marjorie Taylor Greene was celebrated in Washington for forswearing toxic politics, her internal polling showed she'd have to go back to harassing school shooting survivors if she wanted to win another Republican primary.

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

When I wrote about the ancient Zanclean megaflood filling the Mediterranean in as little as 12-18 months (!), it was wistfully. I'm English. Lovely place, England, but Big Geological Drama? None of that round 'ere, sadly. Imagine my delight at what geophysicists found in the English Channel. 1/

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Can I offer you a few capybaras in these trying times?

if trump actively sending a mob to storm the capitol & murder these people didn't move them to do anything concrete to protect their own asses i don't think anything is gonna do it short of a massacre. even then it's a coin flip

For today's #Nudivember I used sparkly watercolors and contrasted it with sumi ink.

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance 🏳️‍⚧️🕯️ We honour the lives tragically taken by transphobic violence and hatred, and we reaffirm our commitment to creating a world where every trans person can live openly, safely and with the dignity they deserve.

The President called for the murder of Congressional Democrats. Congressional Democrats should call for his immediate removal or resignation. Congressional Republicans should condemn his statements and call for him to recant them. It's the very least they should be doing!

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Londoners baffled by bizarre Christmas mural. At first glance the suspected AI-generated mural seems to depict a crowd enjoying the festive season. But closer inspection reveals a disturbing array of figures including people with warped faces and dogs with the heads of birds u.afp.com/SnCD

i fucking hate these people so much. "i spent the time working, reading and thinking" so you want a train. you want the bus. get on fucking public transit you absolute coward. or are you afraid of being next to god forbid someone poorer than you??

UPDATE: Rigsby WI chapter 4 page 198 Rigsbywi.com

"we just fell in love with convoluted regulations for no reason and need to fall back in love with building things" is a lazy misdirection away from the fact that corporate power and extreme wealth have so grotesquely corrupted the American experiment it no longer serves the public interest

Why did I only just find out that that there are water striders that live IN (ON!!) THE OPEN OCEAN? 🧪 OCEAN STRIDERS!!

“One of the attorneys said part of the operational plan involves undercover ICE and FBI agents attending and documenting church security plans.”

All these attempts to frame it as “oooh, scary foreigners are bringing foreign diseases!” No, you miserable little bookend, pushing the screwworms south was an incredible feat of international cooperation, and the minute it broke up, the screwworms were always coming home again.

I was sitting in my car when all these House Sparrows suddenly decided they were obsessed with the mirror— too funny

Ahem.

This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead. Trans People Deserve Better. "Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right open.substack.com/pub/wellread...

As foretold in blogs of Olde.

Club-mosses are so cool. Descendants of the most ancient vascular plants, these tiny forest dwellers are the legacy of giant plants of the Devonian period. They reproduce through spores. I think these two are Prickly Tree Clubmoss and Interrupted Clubmoss 🌿

Autumn Meadowhawks still flying around in numbers at Occoquan Wildlife Refuge - even still mating! Crap phone photo as evidence #dragonfly #invertebrates

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Reminder! @solarisbooks.bsky.social has a bunch of horror and horror-adjacent ebooks for sale, including four of mine, for several more days! :D Remember, horror is in your HEART, not a CALENDAR 💀 geni.us/Solarissale

A friend from college texted me asking for advice and this was my first and immediate response.

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if you’re a journalist who wants to talk about how embarrassing this week has been for our profession (the michael wolff, landon thomas jr, nuzzi/bernstein of it all) message me on signal

This is Calappa, the same crab that I made a pumpkin of (next skeet) and one of bluesky's favorite crabs. Not only does it run funny, it has an adorable face and its claws are specialized like a can opener for snails 🦀🦑

lol I just confused Petra Haden with Petra Kelly

Billion year old shallow water stromatolitic carbonates contact metamorphosed. Green layers with diopside and occasional grossular garnet. Sedimentary layers are preserved, including ripples! Franklin Mountains, El Paso, Texas.

One of the highlights of a short trip to Yunnan last week – the Spot-breasted Parrotbill: an icon for functional morphologists, an insectivore with the 'wrong' beak (stubby like a seed-eater) which nonetheless makes ecophysical sense because it uses bite-force to snip through grass/bamboo stems

I sometimes feel like they don’t want to end poverty or reduce inequality because they believe they’re entitled to a class of people they can prey upon

Not for nothing, this is one reason why we say "pregnant patient" instead of "woman." It's not just for non-binary inclusion.

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing Day to all who celebrate

Ooh just four more days until November 18, the release day for Solvej Balle's "On the Calculation of Volume III"!

Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.

don't forget 🤖🚫

Apropos of nothing in particular, here is a very small weevil posing majestically. (Brazil) #Bugsky 🐙🌿