However bad you think China’s intentions are with Taiwan, it’s worse. This poster is in Traditional, not Simplified, Chinese, meaning it is at least postured as outward-facing propaganda.

Here is a capture of it from the Wayback Machine - the original site is down. I wonder why… web.archive.org/web/20250429...

This right here is why I will share that Luddite dot pro “Lost Penny Files” article until my fingers bleed - they uncovered the ppl who created Midjourney and Stable Diffusion knew users were making CSAM w/their apps and ignored it. GenAI app makers also didn’t care abt the CSAM in the training data

Thanks so much to @davidforbes.bsky.social and the team at @transnews.network for giving me the opportunity to speak about my experiences at the nyt, whose work has had such a profoundly negative effect on the lives of all queer ppl.

if you haven't read jezebel's 2018 coverage of the listserv where 400+ "left-of-center" transphobic "journalists" methodically orchestrated the current moment, it's a good companion to the TNN interview: www.jezebel.com/private-mess...

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

New year, new #promosky Hi, I’m Arlo 👋 If you enjoy yapping about these things lets be friends! 🦖 dinosaurs 📚 reading (and chaotic reviews) 🎧 Sleep Token, Ghost, INK, Bad Omens and similar bands 🎮 gaming 🌙 chaotic witchcraft 🐈 cute cat pictures 🎨sometimes art 🦕 even more dinosaurs

King of the canyon #paleoart

umoonasaurus needs more paleoart methinks (art by josh lee)

Australovenator casually strolling on the beach

'Reply with a piece of paleoart that influenced you as a child'

In 2026: Generative AI is not inevitable. You can say no. You can refuse. You can reject the disgusting lukewarm slop that the richest and worst people in the world are trying to force-feed you. You can tell them to eat shit and die mad. You can break the machine

be the lowtax you want to see in the world

Although, Ceratosaurus wasn’t nearly as large as its fellow predators so it’s likely would have been a scavenger and an opportunist hunter. It also had a pretty flexible tail, so it’s possible they could have swam. Also, extra fun fact, people often get Ceratosaurus and Carnotaurus mixed up.

These would have most likely been for display purposes, so they could have been potentially brightly colored, which is pretty cool to think about. Ceratosaurus lived with other large predators like Torvosaurus and Allosaurus. Niche partitioning keeping them from fighting over resources. 👇👇

Just your friendly neighborhood dino nerd stopping by to give you the last dino fact of 2025. Ceratosaurus, it was a medium sizex theropod that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic. It had a crest on its snout along with two smaller ones in front of it eyes. 👇👇

Hook-laden epic heavy metal out of Greece. Review of Black Soul Horde - Symphony of Chaos. www.metalcrypt.com/pages/review...

Some new #paleoart to see out 2025: a Hybodus shark attacks a squadron of belemnites (Passaloteuthis), which respond by deploying ink decoys of themselves and jetting to safety. Cephalopod ink use is amazingly sophisticated; it's not just a smokescreen! #HappyNewYear, everybody! #sciart #fossil

One of the richest ironies of the West has always been juxtaposing its rampant Islamophobia with just how much its right wing's ideal society is basically Saudi Arabia.

Fun fact: Adultery laws are primarily a thing in heavily patriarchal and explicitly theocratic nations. India only declared its adultery law illegal in 2018. It's all about retrenching notions of ownership in intimate relations, during a time of ascendat patriarchy. Shit sucks!

Fascism requires mythology. Fascism is built on symbols, aesthetics, and raw emotion. The rationalization is an afterthought. If you ask a fascist what radicalized them, guess what you're going to get?

There's a bunch of great Perun videos about procurement and supply chain stuff but one of the best ones was where he was going over about a dozen different warship classes built in shipyards across the world and every single one of them used a German diesel-electric engine

if you follow military procurement at all you recognize that even getting main battle tank procurement autarky is very difficult. trying to get fighter jet autarky is next to impossible and in the modern context ~2 countries have managed it

A problem with this line of discussion is it had a tendency to conflate two things: could Israel keep up the slaughter in Gaza if the US cut everything off cold turkey (yeah, probably indefinitely albeit less efficiently eventually) vs could they maintain ~QME~ w/o US military gear (lol no)

Come on, Israel, make Lavi 2. Use what you've learned from the F-35 to make a new stealth fighter with all the bells and whistles. Run your national bank into the ground to fund its development 😈

And in the case of Russia and China they have invested more time and effort into Türkiye and Iran and so on, and Israel is experiencing a gradual retreat in terms of its "QME". The logic that underpins giving Israel everything at the cost of everything else is no longer as strong.

No other country receives this from the US and no country gets this from Russia or China.

Essentially free military equipment, completely unconditional and unlimited diplomatic support and even lawyering (USG under both parties has consistently made other NATO / European powers back down on Palestine), unprecedented intelligence sharing, legal exemptions under Congressional statutes, etc

Yeah it is certainly possible Israel will cozy up further to Russia or China but it should be emphasized that the Israelis will never get a sweeter deal than what has been given from 1968 to today by the US. There is not and never will be a replicable *ideological* commitment from any other country.

We won't begin to roll back the tide of fascism until white liberals come to terms with the fact that tens of millions of their fellow citizens actively, knowingly, support racist Gestapo policies. Tens of millions of racists were not deluded or misled. How will you adjust your strategy accordingly?

reminder of cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine: "although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness." www.jstor.org/stable/jj.55...

Dinocember - Day 30 - Liopleurodon #dinocember2025

spooky scary

Snailish buddy for #InverteFest! Your day has been blessed with snaily goodness 🐌

all at once a queer accident happened

Art vs artist 2025 🖊️🦖🦕 . #artvsartist #paleoart

Mosasaurus. (Redone from February 2025) Genuinely one of the top predatory marine reptiles of the Western Interior Seaway, and rightfully so thanks to their streamlined body and shark-like paddle tail. 💙/🔄s are welcomed! 🌊🦎 #ArtistOnBlueSky #AS05 #PaleoArt #SciArt

Half hour environment sketch, Tasmania, late Cretaceous. Leaellynasaura mid-molt out of summer browns and into winter whites scans the landscape in the weak fading Antarctic sunlight. 🎨 #SciArt #PaleoArt

Wear the brown pants

Frankly, I've had it up to here 🤏 with you liberals. You're MAGA but your 'holy book' is some pipe dream of a benevolent US government. You're bible bashers but you throw 'due process' at anyone who dares speak up about the policy or conduct of Dem politicians.

This is incidentally why I believe you can't win by pointing out that their positions are illogical and incoherent. Being unbound by logic is a privilege of wealth. Incoherence is a flex.

The true monsters of the depths of the Mesozoic, the possible plesiosaur of the abyssal zones: the Abyssosaurus. #abyssosaurus #paleoart #cretaceous #plesiosaur #marinereptile

since Taiwan's back in international news again, reminder that the popular refrain of Chinese nationalists is 留島不留人 (keep the island, not the people) China's intent is genocide and settler colonialism. they are no different from Israel and Russia. never forget that

“Sex work is exploitation.” Okay, and so is every corporate job, but you’re not posting about that, are you?

Ruin two bands by combining them Lykathea Inflames

Have you heard someone use the disgusting “argument” that queers should not care about Palestine? I have a recommendation. Read this book. Inara: Light of Utopia is an anthology of poetry and stories from queer and trans Palestinians imagining liberation. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Also, a LOT of the anti-Chappell Roan comments tearing into her over not knowing about Bardot's controversies are very clearly just weird Kamala Harris superfans who are still angry that CR didn't endorse (but did vote for) Harris.

A short break from the Mesozoic… here’s a European Homotherium latidens trying its hunting skills during the latest ice age some 12,000 years ago. #paleoart #sciart #prehistoricmammal

Even Spinos wear sweaters! This is part of my aunnual Dino Sweaters tradition I do each year ☃️ #TheDinosaurMann #DinoSweaters2025