You can either make peace with the fact that gender performance is a sucker's game and a lot of your best liberal candidates are going to be sincere nerds or even, gasp, actual ladies, or we can just repeat this unpleasant process forever

if you are a man considering weighing in on the latest graham platner story i urge you to take a beat. women who are your peers are watching.

Indeed. But maybe there's something here we can use...maybe if enough folks make a friendly ID of the next local cop they meet - walk up and greet him by name, brag about how cool their glasses are - they'll block this shit instantly? www.history.com/articles/bla...

You know who's been quiet this Pride Month? Charlie Kirk.

Alright DC friends - I'm far away now, so I am going to need one of you, if at all possible, to please post up out there to film the removal, because the AI slop version of it that I unwittingly encountered was unfortunately sadly delightful and I think we all need a REAL LIFE ACTUAL removal video?

Female birds with confusing names.

I once walked in my local pizza join lt without any money on me. Forgot my wallet entirely. But I'm in a lot and I'm friendly and he told me to just pay next time I came in. (Which I obviously did plus large tip). Local businesses are the best.

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Here's the thing: we like computers because they do, in fact, make things easier! If you're not very good at computers & don't understand programming at all, AI looks like just another way to use a make-things-easier machine. "It's just another program/tool" is both true & deceptively inaccurate.

Important genealogy research rule: Always always always look at the original record if you possibly can. Be skeptical of the info from any record when you can't.

fortune.com/2026/05/28/a... Can anyone explain how this is significantly different than if we picked four not-entirely-random people off the street? AI approximates a human response. That's all it does. Reminder that the people we elected picked the guys who trained Grok to run DOGE.

One of the things they mentioned is they go out into social media and see “design leaders” talking about how this shit is inevitable, and coming whether you want it or not, how compliance is the only way forward, etc, etc, etc. And it makes them feel hopeless. Spine the fuck up, design “leaders.”

Talked to a group of design students this morning. All their questions were about AI. Most of them feel like they’re graduating into a field where they’re no longer welcome. We have a new generation of people who want to do the work and we’re going to lose them. No one wants this shit.

More of this, please!

Happy pride month!!! 🏳️‍🌈🌈💕 This saturday a friend and I are putting on the Marin County pride picnic at Town Park in Corte Madera. You are welcome to bring clothing to swap, food to eat and/or yourselves to celebrate!! It will be going from 5pm to 8pm. Look for the hand woven pride flag to join us 💖

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

I appreciated this thread (and the related article); not least because I (also) appreciate Rebecca Solnit's take, but also because I really wanted to vote for Katie Porter. The top-two 'jungle' ranking, however, means games must be played, whether we like it or not.

The Fort Reno concert series could use your financial support. If you’ve ever gone to their free concerts chip in a little fortreno.com

Oh hey...look... an account to block instantly! @ai-art-a-day.bsky.social

I dunno, feel like shit like this absolutely gets attention, and as a result gets voters to turn up... for someone they can actually support?

teeth teeth teeth TEETH!

Ha!

This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 is the best verbal excoriation of Trump by a judge by a long shot. It’s poetry.

Yup, it's exactly like the slightly tipsy guy at the end of the bar who just desperately wants to talk to someone/anyone, and will say whatever he thinks you want to hear to keep the convo going.

BREAKING: we just won our Kennedy Center case! Both the renaming & the closure of the Kennedy Center are enjoined Kudos to our wonderful client @repbeatty.bsky.social & my colleagues @democracydefendersaction.org & Washington Litigation Group This is a 1-2 punch against Trump's corruption

LOGGING ON

I do not disagree, but also: transferring hope from my learned nationalist superiority (USA! USA!) to a bigger faith in humans in general is an interesting mental switch, but longer term, there's an opportunity for others to fill this gap, attract the talent & do the work... we will all benefit.

Yes, yes this!!

Shop.brambledragon.com or brambledragon.etsy.com Since I remembered to link my shops, you can all ignore this post. Ceramic jars. #ceramics #pottery #art

Last year, Evanston, Illinois terminated its Flock contract and removed the cameras. Flock *put them back up* and reactivated them. Then Evanston put trash bags around them. Flock says: "legal conditions may prevent a city from voiding the contract without grounds to do so"

Email notification this morning: "Trending on Nextdoor: Rat poison!" *delete* I use it for work (direct community engagement/marketing) but I really need to turn off those notifications.

I love a good success story.

From @blackgirlinmaine.bsky.social, in a piece where she shares the words of other Black and POC Mainers who said things like: “White people love to tell Black people how they should respond and react to racism without checking themselves.”

I do think a widespread misunderstanding about the political campaigns here in northern New England is because everyone thinks that all campaigns are national now they don't understand that politicians who are successful here are the ones who run very locally

I respect Shay quite a bit. We were mutuals for years on Twitter. She gives a thoughtful perspective here on Graham Platner. Even if you hate the guy, I’d recommend reading this and sitting with it a bit.

Semiotic anthropologist here w/alt-text! As I tell students & everyone who will listen: One of the great lessons of anthropology is that we built this. All of it. And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built. We can & must build differently.

Ok, someone help me out: if the video was "a deep fake by AI" why is there film of him being fitted for a wig? www.nfl.com/news/jaguars... I mean I have a bunch of other questions about this also, but. 😂

HOLY CARP... my grandfather's Canadian birth record just showed up on Ancestry.com. It's not been there when I searched previously; they've just added 1918 and there he is! His family story is the one that got me started: at his funeral, I met a whole bunch of relatives I hadn't known I had.

Ok, appropo of TOO MANY things, I need to throw this out there: Anything that depends on your faith in it to work is SPIRITUAL - we sometimes call it religion, but we do NOT call it science. SCIENCE is what happens whether you believe it will or not. Please please please don't confuse the two.

This sort of thing used to be satire. www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...

Made a ceramic lillypad paint pallette + Water lilly brush holder! #art #ceramic #pottery

I made these! These did not exist until I created them. Go make something that doesn't exist yet. It feels great. (Yes, you can. Stop gaslighting yourself.) #pottery #ceramics #experimentation #nature #color #luster #design

The entire NFT lifecycle was spent asking "so what can I DO with these things" and never receiving a valid answer. AI is doomed to the same fate.

“Bubble” is just a pejorative way to say “community.”

I think I've said before that the "bubble" discussion is so weird because it's like saying that my LEGO building club should include people who hate LEGO and smash any LEGO set they see. Some folks fundamentally misunderstand why we're on social media in the first place.

Is anyone objecting to Truth Social being a "bubble"? I'm gonna guess no. I think Bluesky folks know that's the point & are absolutely fine with being excluded from.... that. It's folks who can't stand to be excluded from anything ever who are characterizing Bluesky as a bubble?

#SundayReads: Tobiah Black on the history and afterlife of the Sanborn fire insurance maps: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/sanborn-fire-insurance-maps/

excluding nazis is not creating a bubble.

According to my mother, I read every book in the children's section of the local library. I read a lot of nonfiction after that. Still do. I also regularly got in trouble for taking books into the bathroom (we had one for four people) when I was a kid, but I couldn't put them down.

Update! Nothing bad happened! She had a wonderful time, saw family she hadn't seen in thirty years, and is back safe. She looked so happy talking about it.