"What's the point of government lol" to protect us from flesh-eating worms, actually.

Have you ever heard this quote from a letter that Fanny’s father sent her as a teenager? “Music will perhaps become [Felix’s] profession, whilst for you it can and must only be an ornament, never the root of your being and doing.” Turns out that quote is WRONG and has been for 150 years!

Every time I see a picture of him I'm like "Is that CGI'd? How about THAT one? " I need an adult. I can't tell.

Have you got 5+ copies of any of your books just hanging around? Want to raise money for VoteRiders and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice? We want YOU! form.romancingthevot...

Obviously but people apparently don't want to listen.

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Subterranean Press to Close locusmag.com/2026/06...

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

gambling? encourages fraud? well, heavens! why did they legalize it then? *looks straight at the camera*

Making a perpetual motion machine is extremely easy. It’s just hiding the battery that’s tricky.

Dear anybody who works at an institition with a good science library: can you please please invite me to have some kind of research visitor electronic library access. A good friend once did this for me through Caltech but it was only allowed for two years and that was a while ago

He was very fond of animals, though, especially crows. The ones on his land, he said were the best in Ireland, and he wouldn’t allow his trees cut because they lived there. Anyone who shot one was out. Mind you, instant dismissal was something of a hazard for his staff

reblog to deploy suspicious iguana

Counter-weighed and measured perfectly to balance the TV. Everyone knows it’s 4 cans for a 55” screen

There will be an army of vloggers catching trains and planes to get to Belfast to try and help stir shit up, reminder that if a man with a GoPro starts filming you, you can always ask "aren't you that paedo guy?" to ensure the clip doesn't end up online.

I'm being glib but the internet is both and has always been both because thats also what every library is

For years now, public discourse regarding online radicalisation and hate has focused on Twitter, anonymous accounts and young people. Meanwhile, your uncle is out there sharing memes about great replacement theory on Facebook using his legal name.

IPOs from SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI - truly Hot Couch Investors have never had it so good. The time has come for divorced dads to put the money they got from selling their Funko Pops into the blender and setting it to liquify.

I'm about to go to a local library "talk about whatever you read last month" book club and among other things, I'm going to discuss @tkingfisher.com 's Snake Eater. It has a small Intersects With My Sustainable Energy Obsession bit and I don't think I thanked you for throwing that in there!

Imagine being the most decorated gymnast in history, almost dying, and media referring to you as “NFL Wife” as your greatest achievement.😑 Misogyny is a helluva drug. Smh. Truly hope Simone is safe and makes a full recovery. What a horrible experience.

Fascinated by this phenomenon - groups organizing against datacenters mostly by posting AI generated images on social media

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❗️FBI is reaching out to people who were previously arrested by NJSP during protests outside Delaney Hall. Some have received phone calls or door knocks. National Lawyers Guild is spreading an advisory for people to contact their hotline if feds come knocking:

new William Gibson book opening line dropped

Probably true for all cities/regions, head's up!

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

Last time corps said this it turned out to be a huge lie. Also wage theft is greater than all other theft combined, at least in the US.

The entire point of the human built environment is accessibility. Literally every technology starts as assistive technology Shoes! Glasses! Clothing! What makes things possible for someone makes things easier for everyone and all evolutionary roads lead to easy

I learned recently that the only reason Laika Studios is still running and hasn't gone bankrupt, despite their movies not making money, is because the owner is the son of Nike's CEO, and he's bankrolling the company for the love of stop motion animation Only Valid use case for billionaires

This is how it’s done: Set the predicate, ask the question, let them answer, follow up. bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Trump: "I didn't guarantee no war." Trump guaranteeing no more wars:

Today's "not gonna go viral" challenge: If you got a billion dollars, after taxes, what is one big and one little thing you'd do? "try and form a bank that gives the interest away lottery style" and "pay a couple of authors I like $200,000 to write books that I want to see in the world", for me.

I'm a week late to this and I just got mad because we've been choking public housing since 1993 (Faircloth amendment, apparently, is the phrase.) "Fund mass affordable housing stock" is good but right now we don't even have the "stop hitting people" level of helping people.

Today in Unexpected Wikipedia Sentences: "Director Martin Scorsese used rotoscoping to remove a large chunk of cocaine hanging from Neil Young's nose in his rock documentary The Last Waltz."

I feel like a huge jerk but the "no-tech" tractor is both a good idea and unknown implementation. They built less than 100. Those are basically prototypes. Will they last? Are there car engineering decisions that "everyone knows" they are about to learn? I don't know. I wish them the best.

Remember how you used to just know everyone’s phone number? Then cell phones came out and you could barely recite your own number? That’s what AI’s endgame is but for every aspect of your life.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year. The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."

I wrote about shutting down Delaney Hall (with reference to the forthcoming book HOW TO CLOSE A CAMP)

Generally speaking if you have read claims of sexual misconduct in the a broadsheet newspaper or glossy magazine, you can assume that they have been thoroughly vetted and that there’s a lot of worse behavior that couldn’t be confirmed.

truly, the possibilities are endless

www.hipcrimevocab.net/stage-four-t... There's a lot of mental heavy lifting in this article and, well, that's the point of the article. We, collectively, don't do that any more. And the quickest, flashiest things win attention. Hence Murdoch, hence Trump. I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... We are going to cut screw worm prevention and mRNA research and spend that money on coal - Brought to you by the Committee for Negative Externality Maximization

May We Suggest for that guy: "If I can't use AI, I'll start writing."

Who are the four alleged Democrats who voted for this? The article doesn’t say 😡, so I looked it up. Adam Gray (CA-13) Donald Davis (NC-1) Vicente Gonzales (TX-34) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-3)