This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.

• “I didn’t watch it, but TikTok told me it’s problematic.” • “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.” • “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.” • “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”

🤷

"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'." "Okay, now don't be mad but..."

more winter vibes dimilix

no, I don't think that's the right name

bringing all the lesbingqiu enjoyers to my yard 🎋🪭 #svsss #bingqiu #myart

I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

If I could obliterate one person from all of history so they'd never have existed it would be Ronald fucking Reagan. Now THAT'S when we really entered The Bad Timeline.

Me, raised Catholic whenever a conservative Catholic starts trying to act like Republican and Catholic are the same thing

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

It's so funny being bisexual among straight women bc they'll inevitably go off about how terrible men are and how they wish they could date women and meanwhile all of your most traumatic romantic experiences that have you in therapy were with women.

Evergreen

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers

lbh: don’t worry shizun, i’ve bound my soul to yours so wherever yours goes, mine will follow sy: oh good i knew there would be a reasonable solution to our problem

american oligarchs uniformly abandoned a lifetime of democratic support because it was easier for them to believe that “based meme” accounts run by czechoslovakian teens were proof of a mass populist movement in service to elon musk than face the hard truth that most people hate their fucking guts

I have two things I would really like people to internalize about the fashion industry/garment manufacturing, and they are: 1. Mass manufactured clothes are only ever intended to fit "good enough," and; 2. Everything you wear was made by actual human people.

I'm going to be cooking something for a family interaction for the first time this Thanksgiving, and it's just spinach and artichoke dip but I'm still unreasonably worried I'm going to fuck it up, especially since it's the first time I'll have seen my uncle's family in like a decade

Durin illustration drawn in #procreate this time 😌

y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"

Donald trump meeting Zohran Mamdani:

no but this time I mean it: oh my God

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

I’m howling.

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Terrifying reminder that school standards in the United States are only MOSTLY standardized, and if you're in one of those states that isn't aligned with common core or homeschooled, folklore might not be a part of your education and you can miss subjects that are otherwise completely ubiquitous.

drew a lil Jester fanart as well ~ congrats to the team! hope you all enjoy the show💕 #themightynein

モーニング絵茶お疲れさまでした

you can judge the extent of a legal fuckup by the volume of audible laughter coming from the lawyers of bluesky and in this case I think we're at jet engine levels

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service

Art by • David Mattingly

Jeff Bezos calling his AI startup “Project Prometheus” feels like a detail that would feel too on the nose for a villain storyline in a scifi b-movie. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How fucking ghoulish is it that the answer to "Why aren't American politicians doing anything about the economic crisis?" is "because they're actively betting on what resources will be in demand if the environment goes to shit and are taking steps to monopolize it now?" youtu.be/RfzwLtWkVjg?...

Your increasingly frequent reminder that making absolutely everything digital is a f**king terrible idea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Seriously - if any of your social media companies informs you that stuff from your accounts has been turned over in compliance with a federal grand jury subpoena, SHUT THE FUCK UP IMMEDIATELY and stay shut up until you consult an attorney. Who will also tell you to stfu, but professionally.

I haven't lived so far north in over a decade, omfg, why is the sun only out during my work hours I'm gonna need to get a sun lamp like a fucking Icelander to keep from going insane

Full credit for the first line of the article, quoted in the link preview, being "no."