this very evil thing appears to have not happened in large part because one guy just refused to do it for as long as he could hold out until he couldn't hang in there anymore and quit his job, at which point the Do More Evil Machine had gotten bored and moved on to other ways of doing evil

And the paper itself

I’ve seen multiple people say that Utah will go blue because of this and it won’t. They already have a narrative in place for this and this is going to be a piece of that same old story.

For Pride I ask you to look at what I think is one of the most powerful pieces of queer art. Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers) By John Boskovich

I just yelled at my mom for texting me that long covid Wired article. Somehow the retrain your brain article is EVERYWHERE and the "long covid is transmissible by blood in mice" article is not. WONDER WHY.

It's funny how the pitch for SpaceX is domination of the global AI business but the company's primary business (~60% of revenue going forward) is leasing its GPUs to Anthropic and Google at a discount because nobody wants to use Musk's MechaHitler AI.

i believe in all the same policies and values as platner and his defenders *and* i also believe it’s important to actually live those values and that somehow makes me an idiot? no. fuck that. i don’t accept those terms.

I just want to point out that all the sex workers interviewed or asked about their interactions with Hunter Biden, they all said he was a gentleman who tipped well. While he was actively in crack addiction. I like that.

Reframe the question and it becomes very clear. If you hire a manager to run your estate can that manager burn down the buildings on your estate or chop it and sell it off in parcels? Pretty obviously not. The president doesn't own the country. He's hired to administer it for four years.

"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 women accuses platner of sexual assault is a neonazi. yeah, so? that doesn't mean shit to me beyond 'platner has relationships with neonazis bcos those are the circles he travels in'.

My friends, let me introduce you to the good news from @maxgladstone.bsky.social that everyone in Star Wars is a bee. reactormag.com/every-human-...

Suggesting that a shadowy cabal of Israel supporters are the reason drunk-women-are-asking-for-it Nazi tattoo guy is accused of abuse is a highly embarrassing combination of wishful thinking, misogyny, and antisemitism

What are we reading this weekend, friendos?

If I'm understanding this correctly (?) it seems like the American Diabetes Association is disavowing their own journal's editorial team for criticizing the Trump admin's science cuts

i was feeling left out

I also want to remind folks: every corp pride initiative had dozens of folks (if not more) pushing on the inside to make sure it happened. It helped to make workplaces less hostile. I know a lot of you only see the external side but it helped INSIDE companies.

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

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.

Genuinely life-changing trick for keeping mosquitoes away that I discovered by accident last summer: run a bubble machine.

So folks understand the problems with the New York Times didn’t just start under Trump. The Times was the top promoter of invading Iraq (far more influential than Fox News) and it forwarded smears of the Clintons and Al Gore. The Times even did PR for Adolf Hitler before WWII. The problem isn’t new.

Further, people don't understand that this is the New York Times' special position & power: attracting and keeping a devoted elite and highly educated liberal readership to which it sells chosen propaganda lines of conservative politics, pro-big business economics, and war mongering.

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)

she's finished 🥹 she's so beautiful (I had the great privilege of visiting her 26 years ago, very much in process)

I'd just like to mention that as a genealogist, particularly a Jewish genealogist, the following are all true: --birthright citizenship is important --immigration, ALL immigration, is a net positive for society --the ability to move freely between borders is an essential human right

THE one I thought of pretty much immediately... not every day you get to share Hole ... youtu.be/ngmhjiR3QOo?...

We made Laugh Track, a free visual novel where you are a sitcom writer and not at all part of some horrific eldritch hive mind! Why would you even think that? Just write the funny scripts and put the queer teenagers through shenanigans and it'll all be okay. store.steampowered.com/app/3765430/...

4”x6” cards with original drawings. for sale, let me know if you want one and make me an offer

This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.

There's no "right time" to raise salient issues in politics. You just have raise them and fight to win. There is no conductor to decide which order to bring up issues.

Weekend at Bernie’s should never be used for evil

I guess physical, verbal and emotional abuse do count as "being a bad boyfriend". I would probably describe it differently but I'm also not a stupid piece of shit like this guy

WOW. The New Jersey AG has charged an Essex County Prosecutor’s Office sergeant for allegedly stealing a photojournalist’s camera equipment while the journo was at a hospital being treated for injuries she suffered outside Delaney Hall. The bag had an air tag and was tracked to the cop's house.

The public needs to fully understand the repercussions of giving RFK Jr. access to identifiable medical records from 90% of the U.S. population. He is a eugenicist who wants to “reparent” Black childen, send people with mental illness to “wellness camps”, and to take away anti-depressants.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

The biggest skew in my professional life is how salaried, institutionally protected people - academics, nonprofit employees, the few commissioning editors left - just do. not. get. that the rest of us are wildly precarious, have fk all pension, can't afford to do what is to them basic stuff.

A STARRED REVIEW! My three-headed dragon book got a starred review in Booklist! www.booklistonline.com/products/982...

Friends, I would like to present to you the ÜBERSCHLONG, which will be heading off to auction with @romancingthevote.com to help secure voting rights.

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

i mean the answer seems pretty straightforward…they were drinking doodoo dairy

It's that time again! Catherine Lundoff @qospress.bsky.social and I have put together another queer-themed @storybundle.bsky.social to celebrate Pride! 16 books if you get the bonus! storybundle.com/pride

many people who would have lived longer will die because of this. he’s one of the most destructive people on the planet.

A reminder of Joshi's Workslop Postulate

This one hurts. I've really enjoyed Tim's work in the past But let's just be totally bloody clear here: every single person using a text fabrication engine to replace their work, research and writing skills: THIS MOMENT IS COMING FOR YOU TOO It is truly just a matter of time. It's inevitable ⏱️

Anyway, I'm honestly kind of sick of this mustachioed drag queen popping up in the news every few months to complain about how they clearly infringed on a company's trademark while framing themself as the victim here.

We know for a fact that police are abusing surveillance tech to stalk people: ij.org/police-have-...

Little plug here: if you're a healthy adult between the ages of 18 and 35, why not consider joining a stem cell and bone marrow donor registry? If you do so and are matched with a patient in need, you can save the life of someone with blood cancer.

I would love for one (1) Democratic candidate to respond to this kind of bullshit by saying "My opponent is a panty-sniffing creep who wants to inspect your children's genitals."

Fraudsters are AI-mincing books and republishing them onto Amazon. This was done to The Isle in the Silver Sea - I assume in the hope people would accidentally click on it. It's been removed, but this is a warning of something to look out for, to my fellow authors.

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?