Oh shit. Interesting read. buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

Devastated that we lost Marjane Satrapi and Anthony Head within a day or so of each other.

What a wonderful human being. What a loss for humanity. Also, stop reading at "build a better world for the future" because then the article devolves into trash.

Osprey enjoys dinner with a view #birds

#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

OPPORTUNITY BBC Script Editor. Not affiliated, shares welcome careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Internat...

At least I finally fixed WhatsApp myself given that it's been broken for years on Android without any option to ONLY have vibration notifications. Had to download a silent mp3 and set that as WhatsApp notification "sound".

BSKY's motto is "If it ain't broken, break it"

Not to mention "hide post" STILL only works per device instead of per account. @bsky.app

When are the shitty UI changes gonna be rolled back? Specifically the now hidden download button for images and the teeny tiny ALT text display. Oh and videos are STILL broken and automatically blast sound when you click on them.

I'm not crying, you're crying www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Sokobond is 75% off in the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase! Sokobond is an elegantly designed puzzle game about chemistry. It's logical, minimalist, and beautiful - crafted with love and science. store.steampowered.com/app/290260/S...

#Firefox is STILL fucking up preferred URLs/history in address bar between devices. After all these years.

Damn, we watched Argo two days ago and I was thinking of her.

NO!!!!!

un sketch pour un futur print /sticker héhéhé

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Deutsche Bahn Hass #DeutscheBahn

Noch nie so ein scheiß unfreundliches, unhilfreiches Oaschloch von einem Zugbegleiter erlebt wie in diesem verspäteten Zug grad, wegen dem ich zwei Stunden länger brauche. Deutsche Bahn verkackt echt auf ganzer Linie.

#Radfahren ist gesund, kostengünstig, umweltfreundlich, reduziert Staus, Abgas- & Lärmbelastung. Aber wie radfahrfreundlich sind Österreichs Gemeinden und Städte? Jetzt bei der Radfahrumfrage mitmachen vcoe.at/vcoe-radfahr... #Weltfahrradtag #Fahrrad 2/2

Westminster MPs have until the end of the month to reject the proposed anti-trans guidance. If you haven’t written to your MP yet, here’s a good template for you to use. writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev

For games especially, being anti-AI absolutists matters. Barks, "placeholder art," wherever they think they can get away with has to be treated like rat feces in food. Some coders will keep using it until the pricing adjusts and no one will disclose, but "slop doesn't sell" is the only way forward.

1/ This company’s models were trained on web scraped datasets (like LAION) and their founders are ex-Stability AI employees who engage in the same thieving practices that led artists like myself to sue Stability. GenAi companies NEED big names to sanitize their exploitation and crippling PR.

Public domain art Part 1: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-dom... Public domain art Part 2: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/more-publi... Public domain settings: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/public-dom... 5 free fonts: www.skeletoncodemachine.com/p/five-free-...

It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

happy *quiet, chill* pride

A Roman horse terracotta figurine found in Rottweil, dating 2nd or 3rd century AD. Horse figurines served as offerings in sanctuaries or domestic shrines and occasionally as grave goods. Their use and meaning shift depending on context but reflect associations with status/wealth or...🧵1/2 📷 me 🐎

This 2,000 year-old Roman glass storage bottle still contains its original contents! 🤯 An ointment composed of fatty acids, glycerine, and plant fibres. Perhaps a cosmetic or medicinal cream. Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier 📷 by me #Archaeology

But hey at least there's a circling helicopter at quarter past eleven pm, because of course.

Schönes Spiel "sind die scheiß juckenden Dippel, die ned weggehen, vom Eichenprozessionsspinner oder von Speckkäfern". Mit der anhaltenden Trockenheit fühlt sich das schmerzhafte "alles anzünden" auch nicht mehr so gut an.

Fuck yea, I love reading the news.

Windows 11 did a fucking update and removed all my defaults and re-installed Copilot and some other shit. I'm so fucking tired.

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

NEW EPISODE! queerasfact.podbean.com/e/hwarang/ Hwarang, a group of youth in first millenium Korea who represent nationalism, masculinity, and gay love. Episode contains: the most beautiful men in Korea, song lyrics about gay love, and how to approach queer history across time and culture.

The c. 3600-year-old Nebra Sky Disc is considered the oldest known realistic depiction of the night sky. Instead of portraying stars as gods or mythical creatures, it shows them as simple, shining points, a remarkably modern in concept. With a diameter of 32 cm, the bronze disc...🧵1/2 📷 me

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

thank you to the people who are not artists and the sfw artists who stand up for us, it means the world. It shows the powers that be that this is a problem that they can't brush off as "oh the perverts are mad they can't get their rocks off".

If any of you have Git Hub accounts, let's share what we think of the account-wide censorship filter here. It worked for the terrible carousel feature, so I know they read those.

Ich: wenn ich schon ned hatschen kann, dann kann ich aber vielleicht mein Fahrrad in die Seenregion Salzkammergut mitnehmen und dort meine sehr kurzen Strecken fahren! Die Seenregion Salzkammergut: so gut wie keine Schienen-Infrastruktur, und in den Regionalbussen darf man kein Fahrrad mitnehmen 💀

"Don't make a woman out of me. My name is Megillus ... I was born a woman like the rest of you, and I have the mind and the desires and everything else of a man." Megillus in Lucian's 'Dialogues of the Courtesans', 2nd century CE #transhistory

A big month for next generation Covid vaccine trials! — Details of an exciting trial in Tanzania for an intranasal vax for low-resource communities—results may come soon; — An overview of the Covid human challenge studies, as one reaches a milestone .... 1/2 absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/05/31/a...

What is it with cars often blasting dial tones for everyone to hear?

Is it PEM if I feel like crap every day but also exercise almost every day #PostExertionalMalaise

Bsky is apparently gonna start flagging whole accounts as nsfw soon so if you don't already know about your moderation settings, highly suggest switching nsfw from Hide to Warn; otherwise many creators will completely vanish from your timeline when they roll this out.

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

I don't even know how to express my frustration any more. The worst timeline. My depression certainly is very happy.

STAUDENKNÖTERICH ist ein ALPTRAUM für Naturschützer. Die invasive Pflanze wächst rasend schnell und verdrängt heimische Pflanzenarten gnadenlos. Wo er sich ausbreitet, entsteht ein Monokulturteppich, seine Bekämpfung ist Sisyphusarbeit. Selbst winzige Wurzelfragmente wachsen zu neuen Pflanzen heran.

I used to work at a company that made computer-assisted medical transcription software based on "traditional" speech recognition techniques, and I can confirm point B here. This was actually a scenario that already worked extremely well and did not need further "solving" with LLM bullshit!