you are all fools the REAL music question that will cause intergenerational warfare on bluesky is actually: what is weird al's signature song?

Out loud, sure. In my head, nope. The narrator in my head is ... just words that are silent, I guess? Like, I know what the words are, and they're there, but no tone, volume, inflection, anything.

Nope. It’s always the voice in my head, which is sort of my own voice. Can’t explain it exactly.

Hey, so here's a question: Folks with aphantasia—can you read something in someone else's voice?

Dear @strongbadnofoolin.bsky.social. I want to start a new AI film but I don't have any ideas of what to do for my AI film. I was wondering if you could give me some ideas for my new AI film. This AI film will be cool and I'll e-mail you when I'm done. Sincerely Yours: AI Film I mean Ian

Especially if you have been curious about my upcoming Access as Love: Weaving Words for Liberation monthly workshops for the rest of 2026, my next literary reading is a great time to get a feel for what you can expect from me if you join us on Saturday, February 28! 🫂🍉✨ aymolive.com/app/stream/k...

one of them is in the picture on the left

Latest from FHS PhD candidate @tsk.bsky.social and collaborators on the public health impacts of transitioning away from decriminalization practices on populations already facing multiple challenges. #SFU #SFUFHS #pwus #ToxicDrugCrisis #Vancouver

"experts say . . . they look cool" Do they, though?

I'll say this: They appear to meet my crucial kitchen-shoes criterion, in that my foot would probably be fine if I dropped a knife

Aside from everything else wrong with this, the trope is so far out of date - I thought people stopped using that one decades ago.

Told he couldn’t grow tropical crops in B.C., Toyin Kayo-Ajayi did it anyway. Now he’s feeding community and building space for Black farmers to grow culturally meaningful food closer to home. thenarwhal.ca/bc-black-far...

Re-upping a few #ParticipateInResearch opportunities from the past couple of weeks! 👇

/Scream-sobbing in "watching the health care system be strangled"

It's so funny how many rich people's Wikipedia pages now feature this table of contents

Just realized I started this #CanCon thread exactly a year ago! (The numbers don't add up because I paused in November for #LyricsPrompt.) Canadian music is fucking amazing, y'all. I've found some absolute bangers doing this that I now consistently revisit. Strongly encourage exploring upthread!

Also: "Hey, y'know the handhelds they use to scan your ticket at a sporting event or show? The ones they use for inventory at every grocery/retail store? The ones Instacart shoppers use? The ones nurses use? The ones every distribution center uses? Those are going up 20% in cost in the next month."

Gung Roulé Mubarak

Excellent youtube.com/shorts/Ou0_2...

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

A big celebration for a big old orange bridge 🌁

just used chatgpt to tell me how to circumvent claude's programming so i could use claude to tell me how to hack into grok which i then used to find everyone's credit card details on twitter which i will now collectively use to buy a home

when life gives you demons, make demonade

My god do we need UBI “Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“

Agreed in full. No author should have to come up with original definitions of standard terms and descriptions of their parameters. If they need to or want to, sure, coolio.

Self-plagiarism is such a bullshit concept. THERE ARE ONLY SO MANY WAYS TO EXPLAIN WHAT MAJOR DEPRESSION IS AND WHY IT'S A PROBLEM. Background and methods sections should be exempted from plagiarism checks.

How vaccines give our immune systems a home advantage theconversation.com/how-vaccines...

DUMPLING WEEK youtu.be/pkytSRn-N_I?...

This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.

it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters

And rare disagreement with Tim here. The countless people here who stuck our necks out to warn about MAHA and disinformation, often to receive vitriol and slurs in response, have every right to say “I told you so.” It’s true, after all.

Today is a good day to follow news outlets that explicitly disallow Generative AI slop: go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

This is one of the most flabbergasting pieces of text I've ever read

So this weekend TikTok removed our video about Elon Musk showing up in the Epstein files for "promoting misinformation", which we're sure has nothing at all to do with billionaire Trump megadonor Larry Ellison taking over control of TikTok's algorithm.

Harm reduction services, including syringe service and fentanyl testing programs, are proven to save lives. As a federal court recognized, people with substance use disorder have a right to these services under disability law.

according to google, Fig Newtons is actually just short for Figurative Newtons

OMG 🤤 youtu.be/sOTXIpMyiYI?...

What drugs are safe during pregnancy? There’s a shocking lack of data www.nature.com/articles/d41... "Drug trials have typically excluded pregnant people for safety reasons. But that's now starting to change"

A psychology researcher at Northumbria University is looking for people 18+ to complete a 20-minute survey for a study on sensory processing and cognition. I've confirmed with them that folks can participate from anywhere in the world. #ParticipateInResearch nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

UQAM researchers are looking for Canadians 18+ to participate in this survey study on sexual and relational well-being: uqamfsh.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #ParticipateInResearch

Shoutout to the one out every 50 repliers who lets me know that’s not him

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

Nuremberg trials. There's a reason behavior like this has been taboo for millenia

SPOUSE: "Imagine how epic bobsleigh cross would be."

DTES Calls for Retail, Not Police, in Vacant London Drugs Spot via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

Starting to think this Jeffrey Epstein guy was causing a lot of problems

In the Toronto Star I write about Toronto Police's violent corruption scandal. Will it move the needle on police reform? It's a dramatic escalation in a long history of police intimidation, bullying their critics & broken trust. I argue 3 big things have to happen, including firing this chief.