To quote a friend who saw another photo of this-- As I came home last Friday night As drunk as drunk could be I saw a car upon the tracks Where no car oughta be

Cure. 🧛

Totalitarianism: That which is not compulsory is forbidden. Hypercapitalism: That which is not monetizable is punished.

When you hear certain people loudly and persistently describing some new thing as "Inevitable", while shoving it down our throats, the clearer it becomes that it's not. If these things were truly inevitable, their boosters would not need to force them on us, because they'd be, you know, inevitable.

Agreed. This is just more shill-speak. Generative AI slop is none of these things, and less.

Please keep creating, even if you think you suck at it, please keep going. What you're doing matters so much more than you realize in a world that is actively trying to suck out creativity and heart from the world for the sake profit and greed Be the heart the world needs

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

"Don't give the fascists more ammunition against us," is BS. Stop saying this. It doesn't matter what we do, or how passive and "perfect" we act. They want us dead and gone. They want an easy scapegoat for their problems. They will make up and believe any lie that's convenient and useful for them.

I’m going to hold your hand while I say this. If a marginalized person asks you to do something differently, the response is not to blow up and ask them why they’re riding your back when those guys aren’t even trying to do better. They’re asking you because they think you’re somewhat open-minded.

In your gloomiest moods, in your loneliest moments, when you feel unseen and unheard and unable to make the slightest impact on the world, just remember that you are someone else's sleep paralysis demon, haunting their dreams. Let that thought drive you to keep going through the darkest times.

Welp, the Needling just lost me as a subscriber right there. Imagine denigrating the most sublime culinary majesty that is the Seattle dog; truly a masterpiece of the gustatory arts. Damn, now wish there was somewhere nearby still open so I could get one.

I'm not really going to dictate to people what streaming services they should or should not use (because they all suck in some way); but holy fuck I cannot imagine how to justify giving these assholes money or permission to stream my music.

if there was any actual benefit to learning about/with AI we'd be reading about how private schools are incorporating it to prepare rich kids for the brave new world of an AI-powered future while the rest of us can make do with boring-old regular education

Despite what AI bros want us to believe, LLMs and Image Generators are not tools. Tools are entirely subject to the will and skill of the user. This is not true of GenAI, which actively deskills users, making them less intelligent. GenAI is not a tool, it's a weapon disguised as a vending machine.

Anyone still using genAI, this is the sort of thievery you're supporting. These tools are built on theft, the owners will take everything they want, while never caring who they hurt; and no one with the power to do so will push back hard enough against them. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

It'd save our blood pressure if we recognised that most of the media are not neutral reporters but anti-leftist partisans: they are a player, not the referee. Expecting them to do honest reporting is like expecting an opposing football team to score own goals.

Bluesky is funny because a lot of people over here will call twitter the "nazi website" and then fully and unironically spend days making excuses for racism and anti blackness. Some people seem genuinely incapable of calling out racism when it comes from someone who isn't a far right conservative.

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

The fundamental character of genAI slop is narcissism, inducing and promoting narcissism, because it's been designed and built by narcissists.

Interesting that after the WHDC incident, all anyone is talking about is the ballroom; and not the fact that the White House press secretary just declared they're going to criminalize any criticism of the president. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Evangelical Christian Preachers: God wants you (me) to be rich! The Bible: "For the love of money is the root of all evil" 1 Timothy 6:10 "You cannot serve two masters...G-D and wealth" Matthew 6:24

Please, for the love of all things holy, if you ever learn that something you posted is fake, delete it. Do not counter with "but it feels true" or "it's an exaggeration but people will know that" or any other garbage. Delete fake images and articles. We need to be able to trust reality.

Some of the best, most balanced, and hardest reporting I've seen so far. Mainstream journalism has really dropped the ball on Epstein's conspirators and clients; so it's nice to see sensible people doing the job right. youtu.be/j7XCIBeyTUg?...

Happy 420 Day for all who celebrate it!

Unfortunately, "Bluesky DDOSed Itself Because of Vibecoded Slop" is about the least unexpected headline so far this year.

This year, I am once again participating in the Discovery Art Fair Cologne. This time, I am sharing a booth with Guil Zekri. Save the date: 23. - 26. April 2026 www.facebook.com/events/79941...

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u #transdayofvisibility #tdov

Just a reminder, the Venn diagram of AI bros, crypto/NFT bagholders, and age-of-consent-obsessed right-libertarian creeps is practically a flat circle.

Me in the kitchen.

Bsky: You have new followers! Me: Cool! *goes to check* Bsky: New followers are all outrage farmers and repost bots. Me: Fuck's sake. *blocks*

I am up to date on my Covid and Flu vaccinations, mask up whenever I'm outside, and wash my hands carefully each time I go out. And I still managed to pick up a virus. One mistake, one lapse, is all it takes. Oh well, at least this one is merely annoying instead of potentially fatal or disabling.

And if you are in the Seattle, WA area, mask up _and_ wash your hands early and often (with soap! for the full scrubby time!) there’s a nasty noro-virus going around (3 of 5 in my house got it, 2 dodged thanks to masking, washing, & isolating as much as possible by all 5 of us). Stay safe out there!

There are furry artists that are so skilled and talented that I’ll be like, “Wow, what a masterful command of form, texture, space, color, and light,” completely forgetting that I am, in fact, probably looking at the horniest thing anyone has ever seen in the history of mankind

NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.

Exactly this. It's classic abuser behaviour: bluster and threaten; violent outburst; excuses, retraction, gaslighting; and manipulative calm before the cycle starts again. And as they repeat the cycle, escalating degrees of violence and reduced periods of reconciliation and calm.

I mean, we already knew this was a scam; but holy shit. Dead Internet Theory is only the beginning. youtu.be/ucRTW4rgrbU?...

I knew that there had been issues with the Southern Poverty Law Center for some years now, but it looks like they're no longer reliable or useful. Management more interested in money than activism. michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/what-happe...

Now for a low monthly subscription, you too can experience the soul-destroying empathy-killing effects of paid sycophancy; a service previously only available to the obscenely wealthy and powerful. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My most woke opinion is that I cannot post my most woke opinions on Bsky, because the hypercapitalists who own this platform will not permit discussions of the most effective ways to oppose fascism and overturn capitalism.

You don’t have to explicitly become a fascist to have your brain warped by fascist media. People on Twitter who think they’re hovering above it are becoming more callous, cruel, etc specifically BECAUSE they think they’re immune to propaganda and thus have permission to swim around in it all day

we see a lot of news stories about AI data centers ruining cities, noise, pollution, etc, so i'd really like to see some positive stories about AI, like someone burning down a data center, or a data center falling into a sinkhole. something that brings us together to laugh

So tired of the way people use this phrase to justify being thoughtless consumers of problematic content and supporters of terrible people.

Kitsch is the foundational core aesthetic of Fascism. In this essay I will

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn't Indiana Jones.

Five authors I’ve read at least five books by: JRR Tolkien Ray Bradbury Ursula K LeGuin John Gribbin (nothing says it has to be fiction) Robert Anton Wilson

And we already know who they want to put in the camps and why. People immediately point to the Nazis; but Americans have been doing this for our entire history. Where do you think the Nazis got their ideas from?

Happy Friday the 13th to all who celebrate it!

It's already over 2 inches on the Eastside, and showing no signs of slowing down or stopping. Screws up my plans for the weekend; but it's desperately needed, so I can't complain too loudly.