Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

Huevember 23 | Chartreuse Pacific Sea Nettle #jellyfish #pacificseanettle #marinelife #marineanimals #marinebiology #invertebrates #animals #wildlife #nature #animalart #illustration #animalartist #artwork #drawing #art

This is my wife's favorite photo of mine from 2025. She convinced me to include it in our photography club show and sale and it's one of the photos that sold.

I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case

So when I say there is *zero* utility for LLMs, I don't mean there are zero use cases. I mean there are zero use cases that even begin to make up for the damage that's being done.

These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

This strikes me as just a way to let LLM in the door over at SFWA. You do not a survey to craft a no generative AI policy.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 23 This colorful acrylic pour painting uses metallic paint and is on 4x4” stretched canvas ❤️ #fluidart #acrylicpour #colorful #painting #Art

Day 23 Another fusing workshop piece that I made at a Cambridge Glass Studio demo by Michell Mativi a prize winner of the Stevens Architectural Glass Competition in 2015, awarded by The Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Glass Painters. #ArtAdventCalendar #StainedGlass #Optics #GlassFusing

🧚‍♀️✨ Hapalochlaena lunulata, the Blue Ringed Octopus 💛💙💛 🎨 Hand sculpted from clay and lovingly painted 🐙 #ArtAdventCalendar #ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #Sculpture #Octopus #MarineLife #CoralReef #ArtSale #BSNM #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

"can't trans kids just wait?" "can't trans people take a backseat until we win?" that's not how time works. there's a thread in here with a story. it's my story. it's not a pleasant story. there are at least 3 more years of trump. think about how *your* body changed between 13 & 16, 15 & 18.🧵

is this legislation really that bad? yes. read it yourself. find the text of both house bills is in this link. it is truly vile stuff. do you really need to call dems? yes. THEY WOULD NOT HAVE PASSED THE HOUSE WITHOUT DEMOCRAT VOTES.

why in the world should you threaten your vote? isn't this time for solidarity against trump? it doesn't feel like "solidarity" to the people being sacrificed. for that matter, "solidarity" against fascism never starts with sacrificing people. you don't even have to mean it. they'll never know. ⬇️🧵

what should you do? call your senators. what if they're GOP? call. some house GOP voted against both. what should you say? try one of these scripts. make it your own! they're less than a minute with built-in bail outs. yes, you should threaten your vote. who's your senator? tap here: reps.fyi 🧵

hi, cis folks! this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers. they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both. tap into the 🧵for a quick action.

🚨🚨🚨📢 Pls. post your comment (via the link below) on the newly proposed HHS rule that would financially destroy any hospital providing gender-affirming care to youth. Regardless of what you think of GA care (which you should support), you really don't... www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 1/3

Cook safe this holiday season! For the ham!

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

You don't need to think about what is "normal." You are you. One day, the world will come where there is no need to categorize people as LGBT🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Until that day arrives, I will continue to send out this message. Your soul is beautiful.

🧪PSA The introduction of universal dose of Hep B vaccine led to a steep decline in Hep B infections in children. Before 1991, 20,000 newborns/yr were infected. Now it is fewer than 20. This trend will be reversed now. RFK Jr. must go! @standupforscience.bsky.social@savehealthresearch.bsky.social

Here’s a thread for anyone who wants to help buy gifts this year for trans kids in need this year Please share!! Every year I use my social media accounts to collect money for kids’ Transanta wishlists When we pool our money it goes far — we’ve bought ~$17,000 worth of gifts since 2022

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

23 Dec 2025 @rikiwilchins.bsky.social -- GenderBender, 1 of 11 companies FDA is trying to force to register chest binders as "medical devices," fires back: "Chest binders aren't a medical device in the same way that scissors used to give someone a gender-affirming haircut aren't a medical device."

I really don't like systems that force libraries to pay-per-use and I wish libraries themselves were more upfront with users about how much every movie you take out from Hoopla or Kanopy is costing the library.

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

Song of a Winter Night (2018) Happy Solstice ☀️

That's fucking it. I'm not touching your game until I see declarations and certification that no generative AI was used at any point in the process. Stop taking shortcuts at the expense of human creatives.

Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists: If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community

Finally got some photos of Australia’s “blue ant”, Diamma bicolor, which is not an ant at all but a shockingly large metallic blue thynnid wasp, wingless and solitary, that hunts mole crickets. Been meaning to shoot this thing for years.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Merry Auksmas! #Solstice

Day 22 #artAdventCalendar my bee (and other pollinator) propaganda I made for Manufactured Ecosystems. 🧪🐡🐝 Thinking about the future of pollination and seeking solutions from technological and nature-based knowledge. This is essentially my conclusion: we can aid our beleaguered pollinators with 🧵

I'll start. I’m a witch who paints the whispers of the forest, the shadows between worlds, and the quiet melancholy. Here are some of my older pieces inspired by nature, and the mysteries that linger at the edge of sight.

Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

To all Fallen London players: thank you for everything this year. From the roleplaying game taking a tangible step towards materiality with the Kickstarter in February, right up to the collective efforts to burnish our wilting tree, we're so grateful that you're still enjoying the old beast.

The winds are wild, the lacre deep. The snarling stones arise from sleep. The Fifth's tales may exalt the suns but never hope to halt what comes.

#TeaWitches 2025 edition. #art Day 22: Lapsang Souchong my favourite tea I only drink a few cups a year of, because it tastes like a liquid forest fire (positive).

Happy Decembear 🐻❄️ [ #cuteart #traditionalart #sketchbook ]

Hoping you all have a warm, light filled Longest Night from my little family to yours

Why would you need to put a pause on a story that has been meticulously fact-checked and lawyered? Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!

party larva

Happy Solstice! Not a fan of the dark, so always happy to reach the point where days start getting longer. Spring is just around the corner for those of us in the Northern hemisphere, so here's a happy chickadee for today's #ArtAdventCalendar

Happy Solstice ❄️

Dec 21: Winter Soltice #watercolour #watercolor #ink #pen #landscape #ArtAdventCalendar #solstice

“I WILL be next if I allow this to happen to other people. That’s what brings me out here, man.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

I guarantee you that all of those Trump voters still blame liberals/Democrats for the denial of disaster aid.

Even on the longest, deepest night, don't forget: we're stars. Happy solstice, friends.

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!