“it takes an extraordinary man to play an ordinary man” Some truly amazing anecdotes in this obit. Real surfeit of potential pull quotes

This article summed up a lot of how I feel about AI, about the ways it's making me doubt my own writing style in my stories now, about how there's a war between the ways it's useful and the ways we're using it and screwing everything good about the internet up. www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

Had someone reach out because of my critique of the Obama guys’ insipid commentary and ask for one piece of advice I’d give a politician that wasn’t cliche. Fine. Your job isn’t always to inform voters. Sometimes it’s to give voice to things they intuitively know and might struggle to communicate.

This is going to get removed from a LOT of butts…

"Classic" Fandom Did This Too: Being "Weird" About Fic/Fic Writers In modern fandom, the fan writer delivers the product and that's it. I guess... most people don't pal around with their plug, huh? #fandom #mywork #fanfic

Omg!! This is the best fox pic I have ever gotten! This one ran right out in front of me yesterday. Such a beauty! #wildlife

#ukpoli #europoli

Got briefly logged out of this app yesterday and saw this login screen which is such an inaccurate representation of the Bluesky experience that I think it could be legally actionable

There should be a Star Trek movie every two years and they should have indie film budgets and no explosions and almost everyone should hate them.

This old dino comic from @ryannorth.ca has an extremely useful final panel.

#transphobia tagged for trans friends who are looking to avoid this one.

I used to feel a little bad that The Onion is about to surpass WaPo in print subs and stopped promoting the membership as a direct foil until today they came out with “Do POOR BABIES deserve DIAPERS???” so therefore

Today in neighborhood bumper stickers #bugsky #insectthursday

Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

In addition, Family Search frequently utilizes prison labor to digitize materials they make available so it's just a turducken of exploitation activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

#uspoli they’re welcome here. I hope we make them feel that way.

I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.

Someone dressed a Pomeranian dog up as Paddington Bear and it’s adorable 🥰

This is extremely correct.

Check out these dummies

#uspoli I truly don’t even understand how they can pretend this has any legality.

reposting with alt text bc this delighted me (and I want the delight to be accessible)

February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM-generated answers news.gallup.com/opinion/meth...

Not Pew!

The dearth of media literacy thing has been around for a while, but never mind interpreting texts critically, a lot of people now just straight up do not know how to even watch a TV show or movie in the first place anymore.

Such a fun thread. Desperately needed in this crazy timeline we’re living through right now. Thanks Tom! Hope Bridget is back home now.

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

I have no notes.

On our way to start shooting the new episodes of MST3K this morning. Very exciting! (He’s gonna drive)

Slightly increase a band Some Doubt

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

Please. For the love of god. Stop sharing the balls article.

Happy Mother's Day

Same. HUGE gap between experts & everyone else. This was already expert consensus 2 years ago. Now? Trump's horrible & evil war have wrecked the perception of oil & gas as stable and cheap in the decade when solar, wind, batteries, EVs are SURGING worldwide www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...