Human is a stereotypical noir detective haunted by the horrible things humans do to each other. Their life is falling apart and the only being they can maintain a relationship with is their dog. Meanwhile the collie is like "I'm Coco and I'm a good girl. I protect the weird two-legged sheep."

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

The sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their fathers' magic carpet made of steel... Good thread about tipping and racism and just tip service workers already

YUP. This is why ppl actually acknowledgeable in industries... publishing, gaming, biotech, etc... are literally ignored when they say "That's dumb. That makes no sense, and no one will buy that." re: startups. There is no intent to EVER get something to customers. That's some other guy's problem.

My City.

The NYT sees itself not as a defender of journalistic principles or a champion of democratic values, but rather a theater critic for political actors. There are no real-world consequences here, no pain or suffering for the common people who aren't in their social circles. It's just a parlor game

There's a theme in these lawsuits where a librarian has been fired for refusing to remove books or discriminate against LGBTQ+ folks. They are not losing. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/edu...

Weekend Editor @ericoscott.bsky.social reviews Jeffrey E. Anderson’s study of the historical evidence for the theology, organization, and ritual practices of the Voodoo religion of the Mississippi River Valley in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. wildhunt.org/2026/05/revi... #pagan #voodoo #book

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

if you cowardly try to sacrifice your friend, NPS will simply send a second bear

I went into History, as a young white Southerner, not wanting to study Race. It didn't seem like my story to tell. But I was studying US History. Which means there was no part of it I could study without studying race. It's all fucking racism, all the way down.

okay hi Americans I don’t know who else needs to hear this but ‘nonce’ is not a catch all insult for someone you dislike. it does not mean dumbass. it does not mean asshole. it means paedophile. that’s why we call him Prince Nonce. thanks for coming to my ted talk

(2/2) Sometimes I look at a thread and I think "okay, I recognise you feel you're being sealioned here, but the fundamental problem is you're trying to debate the thesis of 'The Wretched of the Earth' with someone who thinks 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' is an incisive denunciation of colonialism".

Of course in very Slate fashion, it's a reprint from somebody's blog mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/

I like how every data centre proposal has to include how it's not going to be as horrifying on the environment as you'd think rather than what societal benefit it'll provide in exchange for strangling the last of our dwindling resources

A common trope in carbrain is "we can't make US cities more like Europe because Europe wasn't built for cars." There was this thing called "World War II," after which many EU cities *were rebuilt for cars* -- with help from U.S. carbrained planners! But within a few decades, they hated it.

Anyways I'm too busy to get to the wedding Don junior. Working on some documents.

Queer comedy and drag are pretty common, but you don’t often hear about queer wrestling. The wrestlers at House of Danger take their personas and storylines seriously.

If you spoke Old English and were boiling something, you'd use the verb sēoþan – from which English today gets two very distinct words: - From its infinitive/present tense, we get 'seethe', now used for strong emotions. - From its past participle ġesoden ('boiled, cooked'), we also get 'sodden'.

Four-wheel FAFO www.fox6now.com/news/driver-...

A cool thing about NIMBYs is that if you let them talk long enough they eventually say or do something that gives mayors all the permission they need not to listen to them.

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Pika... Pika

The goat carries a castle on its back. From a distance, it looks like a model, the size of an apple box; if you get close, the castle suddenly towers over you. Many assume a mage misheard a request for a moat. Regardless, the castle has withstood all attacks for centuries. The goat wanderers on.

Thread is ongoing but great so far

During the Civil Rights era, white towns drained their pools and closed their municipal zoos rather than integrate. We cannot get better until we confront the evils of the past, because they are still here.

Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?

16. Voodoo: An African American Religion, Jeffrey E. Anderson Fantastic - extremely readable overview of what is known about Voodoo in the Mississippi River valley, from New Orleans to St. Louis. Argues Voodoo died out in the 1940s and today's is a reconstruction - fascinating to me as a Heathen.

jesus christ

When we were fighting to make PrEP (effective HIV prevention) available on the NHS, the Daily Mail tried to set it up as a conflict between hedonistic gays and people needing surgery. Sad but unsurprising they’re employing the same tactics now, pitting trans and disabled people against each other.

“You have one remaining wish.” “Summon a hydra in the middle of my enemy’s fortress, but one with so many heads that any new heads will be crushed immediately, creating an ever-expanding mass of hydra heads that will destroy the entire stronghold.” “You mean…?” “Yes. A hydra-djinn bomb.”

"Who else? Ah, the red balloon. You showed an entertainment industry that wants red balloons to be creepy, or at the very least French, that you can also just be in a corner."

This is honestly so good in so many ways that are, whether by design or no, a rebuke to the aesthetic tyranny of the big budget, the phantom “general public,” etc, public access is strictly better than what we decided instead to pay for. Stop me before I thinkpiece but honestly though

This is so ridiculous. Permanent residency is for people who are here and settled — a recognition that they are part of our communities. To force them to leave to access it defeats the purpose of Permanent. Residency. But we all know that’s not what any of this is about.

I find this whole sequence incredibly alarming. What do you mean this lady has been working for the leading Dem on judiciary for 3 months??? I’m glad Durbin has made the right move to fire her, and I hope he goes further to respond to the clearly politically motivated prosecutions.

Magritte was a shitposter

You mean the government can choose to help people in difficult times and it benefits more than those who directly receive free stuff? That it doesn't ruin the economy if people who would have done without now have something and that someone else getting it free doesn't effect those who pay?

While immoral amounts of money are poured into machines that can generate empty, doubly-extractive texts, countless volumes of texts in pre-modern languages remain untranslated. These are extremely unhealthy priorities.

Hey y'all! In 2026 we are partnering with Rainbow Broomfield to manage donations to help cover some of the administrative costs of the auction. We can turn $5 in shipping sponsorship into $25 - $50 for our orgs! This year we're supporting Vote Riders & The Southern Coalition for Social Justice.

President Sheinbaum "The three agreements we signed today, between Mexico and the EU represent more than — represent the possibility of consolidating a strategic relationship based on mutual respect, equality between nations and confidence in a common future."

Menwhile, spotted at Tumblr... www.tumblr.com/depsidase/81...

Unexpected 2026 realization. Metacognition is *exhausting.*

Guilty. Also a great name for a restaurant, not gonna lie

It's been fascinating to follow AI industry's journey from "it's smarter than your experts!" to "at least it's cheaper than a human" to "your annual token budget ran out in March"

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

It’s like the whole accusation that climate or vaccine or *any* scientists are “in it for the money.” They literally cannot conceive of another motive. Maybe that person just really likes curing pancreatic cancer. Get the fuck out of their way.