Little too on the nose.

Our CEO, Dr Rebecca Don Kennedy, spoke yesterday in the National about the urgent need for a comprehensive ban on conversion practices in Scotland and the UK. Read the full article here: archive.ph/b1ZZv

A civil society group's successful bid to intervene in Apple's challenge to EU interoperability rules illustrates how enforcement of the Digital Markets Act is being shaped beyond the Commission, writes Megan Kirkwood.

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

Marlee Jane Ward's queer novella set in space is out from Interstellar Flight Press. Pick up THE FORGETTING NAVIGATIONS today. www.interstellarflig...

“Eryka Caldwell, a 41yo transgender woman beloved by her community, was stabbed to death in her Bushwick, New York apartment on Sunday morning. Police arrested her boyfriend, 38yo Jonathan Fernandez, at the scene &…charged him with second-degree murder” www.them.us/story/trans-...

John Oliver on the Supreme Court: "It was a 6-3 decision in the case of White People vs. Everybody — and you’ll never guess who they ruled in favor of”

FWIW this is why, in The Originalism Trap, I say it's imperative for us to reject the idea that the Court has a monopoly on constitutional interpretation we can push for an emancipatory vision of the Constitution instead of the Supreme Court's neoconfederate nonsense bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I'd never heard of Comstock until I read "The Future of Another Timeline" by @annaleen.bsky.social a few years ago, a novel which continues to be strikingly relevant in its premise that "changing the timeline", that cardinal sci-fi sin, is basically what politics *is*, what we're *all* trying to do.

I can honestly tell you that if I were offered a seat on a rocket, I would have MANY questions and would not just get on, as the idea of being reduced to dust over the Atlantic Ocean does not appeal to me.

Word. Every project I work on --code, tabletop, gamedev, ttrpg, novels - I will not use LLMs. I will make sure anyone I work with doesn't either. And I will never willingly* use AI art. Asterisk below.

Missed this one from yesterday, but X, which Elon Musk said he bought to enable free speech, is now limiting non-paying users to just 50 posts per day. Or you can post as much as you dang please on Bluesky.

From The Other 98%. So many tides. So much turning. Way to go Georgia! #elections #Georgia #LGBTQ+

PSA for authors: gen-AI kills your "voice". Gen-AI works using a probability model (which word is most *likely* to come next), drawing on a database of other writers' work. I know a lot of editors, and what they're talking about right now is the manuscripts they're seeing sounding the same

it was raining hard today #REBHfun #ResidentEvil #RE2 #LeonKennedy #sketch

Calarts staff has been struggling to unionize for awhile now meanwhile Ravi was given a 4.5 million dollar home by the school. (This fucker went to Yale btw) his "secretary" is actually chairwoman of the school board. www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/26/c...

When Minneapolis felt under heavy siege, people from everywhere helped and reached out and it was really heartening and made a difference. Memphis deserves that too, all the more so because there appears to be a concerted effort to keep their occupation out of the news

Thinking of all the idea scoops we’ll miss out on

эхб, почему в голове картинка всегда вкуснее, чем в итоге получается. #арт #хср #мидей #art #hsr #mydei

Celebrating Thirty Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓 Most Talkative: ICQ & Hotmail The beginning of being always reachable…for better or worse. See more of the Class of ’96 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/c... #Classof96

I'm so glad Hailey's mom is better and that Hailey is making art again. She's done so much for the trans community in Brazil and elsewhere. But it sucks to be in a place where the smallest disaster can throw you back into dire straits. I am really hoping Hailey gets on a more secure footing soon.

the most fucked up thing is the part where it claims that AI overviews are used by 2.5 billion users. the article neglects to mention that Google does not allow you to turn off the AI overviews. you have to force it off with a third-party script.

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

oh no what a terrible and completely unforeseeable thing to happen to one of the leading intellectual lights of her generation

Honored to see “Border Less” featured here, in excellent company. Thank you @debutiful.bsky.social and @rachellayown.bsky.social for spotlighting polyphonic stories that take risks with form and voice. 🙏🏽🤎 For more on each 📕, visit: debutiful.net/2026/05/18/t... (Images reposted from @debutiful )

Hey Bluesky, could you help me signal boost my Big Cartel shop? Jeremy Creatures are designed and hand-sewed by me, and they take many hours to create. jeremycreature.bigcartel.com

this is such classic grifting language, I simply do not understand how any rational person could take any of this seriously.

And not to be a dick about it, but the same family who owns the New Yorker also owns Turnitin, the for-profit AI training and student surveillance platform.

Trump has eviscerated the refugee program and turned it from a program of humanitarianism into instead a piece in an overall white supremacist project. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

there is a fund set up for the family of amin abdullah

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

"This means a staggering 96.7% of users are rejecting the premium AI features, yielding just a 3.3% paid adoption rate. When viewed against Microsoft’s estimated $37.5 billion quarterly AI spending, this is an alarmingly low adoption rate." rofl

Sometimes you receive a better sense of clarity once you simply look at some newspaper archives

'The decision to close it was taken despite the faculty continuing to plan high-profile campus events, including the booking this month of US civil rights advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw.' 1/2

I am in community with lots of disabled authors and literally none of us are using GenAI to write books. Avoid the lying plagiarism machine.

I buy one book series (@seananmcguire.bsky.social's Wayward Children) in hadback and eBook, and donate the hardback to my local library, because they're *exactly* the books non-conforming teenagers should find and read.

Heads up. He is/was in a lot of starter packs, too, so check yours if you've made one so you're no longer recommending a rapist.

BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'm not surprised thry deleted it. It's a prime target for a lawsuit - see the NYT'S ongoing suit against OpenAI. Too bad for SI Internet Archive exists...

"AFAB trans woman" is incoherent because cïs and trans women are the same gender (woman)—all cïs or trans tell us is the directionality that we took to get to that gender. To say otherwise is to say trans women are some separate other thing, which is just shouting your transmisogyny.

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

Texts for an anti-canon of minor literatures minorliteratures.com/2024/09/03/m...

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Great thread, though I'd add one clarification: not all libraries that use Libby look at the "Notify Me" tag to plan acquisitions! So if you feel like your library ignores your Libby asks, maybe check if they have another way to make suggestions. 👍

As I told a reporter last week, nearly all convocation brouhahas boil down to a single issue: Students, even normie non-radical students, rightly understand graduation as a day that is for them, and about them, and which belongs to them. You fuck with that at your peril.

In Kansas, a judge looked at the medical evidence on gender-affirming care and found the evidence simply does not support the state ban on these treatments. Don't believe the propaganda. Youth trans care is not a particularly tricky or nuanced medical question. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

It didn't take long to type out a quick message explaining the utter hateful ridiculousness of "warning" against the presence (or even the mention!) of trans people in a show.