Mandatory age verification to "protect children" is not to protect children. It is to deanonymize every adult speaker and consumer of speech online so the government can retaliate against speakers and speech they don't approve of. For instance: apnews.com/article/trum...

I posted about this dress back in 2018, one of the first years I began to do my #ootd. Even from all that time ago, I have never forgotten this dress- a 1900-05 Doucet robe a transformation. It was therefore such a pleasure to see it in person at the #PaulPoiret exhibit. Once again, it was there

This will be forever one of my favourite garments in the V&A. It is a late #1890s coat from Marshall & Snelgrove, featuring hand embroidered sweet cicely flowers with white felt petals that float on top of blue velvet, V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

this is like half of r/ups now

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

“this guy who makes money from every person who clicks on and spends any time with his thing did something terrible so here is a live link to his thing, check it out, click through to see how shitty it is” will never make sense to me.

PSA on links: On Bluesky, there’s no limit to the number of links you can share, and they will receive the same visibility as your other posts 💙

"Personality, knowledge, and emotion are the three things that need to exist [in art] — and I'm sorry, they don't come from a fucking app." Del Toro sums it up 🫡

Excellent article on the effectiveness of Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes on wildfire smoke and other PM2.5 airborne contaminants: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

It's officially spring up here because there are tiny Metaphycus nugget wasps in the savannah grasses again and I am happy 🥹 #EmotionalSupportWasps

I got this from someone on Twitter years ago, and it's great fun The poster is credited to Raven Amos & Elyard • www.coherentlichthouse.com, but that seems to be a defunct URL now.

Bitly is adding advertising interstitials to its free QR code service. Which I guess is part of trying to balance the cost and revenue. But it is also doing so retroactively even for existing codes. Which is a really shitty thing to do.

NYT: “Urban sketching has completely changed the way I travel around the world. It allows me to travel more slowly and appreciate more clearly what the day-to-day life of a city is like: to perceive its light, its sounds, its routines.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/t... #usk #urbansketching

Remember that in order for hatred to be multiplied, it must be engaged with. Don’t “dunk” on racist/transphoic takes - block them. Don’t entertain trolls and bad-faith individuals - block them. Don’t let the people assailing those you love encroach on YOUR space. Kick them out and lock the door.

Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys

The horrific fires in the LA area are creating massive amounts of wildfire smoke and a reminder that communities need to be providing "safe air centers". Grants for free filters and fans to build Corsi-Rosenthal boxes are available at www.corsirosenthalfoundation.org

This is deceptively difficult in practice but absolutely necessary

One of the really common questions I get with #BadActorBingo is: why would anyone want to DO that? What's their MOTIVE? It's a hard question to answer sometimes, because there's a billion possible answers and some of them make you sound like the guy standing in front of the murder board ranting.

So I wrote this, and it's the best thing I've ever written. "We will resolve disputes in favor of protecting users as a whole." That right there. That tells everyone how Trust & Safety is going to act, and it gives T&S profound latitude. They're not there to rules-lawyer or first-amendment.

This is actually urgent. Prioritize the intentional capture and archival of those recipes we keep saying we're losing. Also figure out what you haven't passed on yet that you need to gon' head and do.

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this pack of Korean cigarettes has the greatest logo I've ever seen

Skype a Scientist is a far-reaching program that can send a friendly inspiring scientist into any classroom w/an internet connection. It can go where local budgets have been cut, textbooks censored, or schoolboards coopted. If you'd like a cool bureaucracy-free org to support in trying times...👇

Grandma Candy 🍓 #pixelart

Visited the Met Cloisters and got a lot of ideas for future gardening. Not sure I have it in me to do the trees but the way they grew hops and the use of vines and sticks was inspiring. Have 10 ft of wattle fence in progress but the use of low wattle for each bed is exactly what I'm aiming for. 🩷

Reminder to folks: Blocklists are often weaponized by bad actors. Seemingly upstanding and reputable people and accounts have used blocklists to try to vilify and silence people they have vendettas against. Be careful with ALL lists you subscribe to. Seconding that Rahaeli is awesome, btw. ❤️

Had someone ask if I knew of any "intro to Bluesky content moderation systems" for the new folks, and I realized I don't actually know of anything that covers the full range of the systems that are available, so let me take a stab at it!

If you came to check out who I am, I'm mostly a lurker here and follow you because I enjoy reading your posts and followed you on other platforms before here.

Wim Delvoye, hand carved tyre, 2013 www.perrotin.com/artists/Wim_...

LUCILLE CLIFTON, everybody

The thing I like about GBBO is that when a piece of kitchen equipment has a spectacular failure, they show it instead of trying to hide it. Always seems to be about shoddy glass products, too. Love it when a mixer bowl or oven door explodes into shards at zero provocation. 😒