I feel a little bad whenever I see an AI "artist" talking about having their AI prompts stolen, because the rocket full of people I'm going to shoot into the sun is already packed WAY over cargo capacity.

Bubble & Squeak. Undated postcard from my collection.

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

The fact that this person thinks letting AI read and summarize a contract is a good use of the tech is a great data point on how little they understand why and how it sucks.

Think how many millions of public school students have created glorious holiday art with their own minds and hands this month. Weingarten could be sharing actual art and celebrating actual human kids whom the @aft.org is supposed to be serving. But no. She's sharing "A.i." garbage based on theft.

Be vigilant in checking your voter registration status BETWEEN elections.

If you’re waking up today and making the choice to memorialize Brigitte Bardot — I’d read this first. www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/1...

I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

the esophagus is a sort of chimney

Happy Christmas Eve! #kidlitart #watercolor #gouache

Going to celebrate Christmas in the traditional manner this year: campanelle and Gremlins.

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

An advent calendar for every month besides December, where you get a little treat each day because life is hard

Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻‍♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻‍♂️

Hey MSTies, we TRAINED for this… this is a high quality version of the 60 minutes segment that got pulled last night. You know what to do… archive.org/details/ceco...

Whenever someone’s talking about their North Star or what your North Star should be or how they’re seeking their North Star, you can know they’re on about some bull shit.

Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus Censorship. Bari Weiss

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Every syllabus should now be written by Ai and submitted in 8 point white font with language that the political body of the university requires this centralized surveillance. Let them hash it out with the students directly. I just work here.

I love to see ancient glasswork. It feels whimsical and modern in a way the pottery never does.

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

Very disappointed in the new Nebula Award eligibility information from SFWA that allows partially-generated works to be on the ballot. See 9.11.2. www.sfwa.org/complete-neb... This shouldn't be difficult. #noAI

Walz: "It's very clear that the entire federal government is weaponized against Minnesota. They're threatening us. And this is what happens when you have a floundering presidency and it's about those ballrooms. Now we're back on transgender folks."

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

WaPo reports they're raiding housing funds for the $1,776 bonus. cc @mikeblack114.bsky.social

Petition link in replies. Reasons I stopped reading ProPublica & didn't donate, when they began to make clear the AI usage a few months ago. The staff deserves better, they're too good at what they do.

1/ At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content.

As measles rages in S Carolina notice that those responding to this outbreak on the frontlines are pediatricians, family med practitioners, nurses and local public health officials. Not the wellness influencers and podscasters who discourage vaccination. Arsonists NEVER put out fires they start

My desire to enjoy books, games, movies, and anime of the past isn't nostaglia, but a way to avoid AI nonsense.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.

Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.

🚨 BREAKING: Oversight Dems received 95,000 new photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate. These disturbing images raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. Time to end this White House cover-up. Release the files!

Days after FIFA awarded Trump a fake peace prize, DOJ moves to drop charges in FIFA corruption case www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/n...

Stuff with the US and Venezuela is bad and likely to get worse, but this seized tanker is reportedly owned by a Russian oligarch, and was sanctioned by the US Treasury in 2022 due to suspected involvement in illegal oil smuggling with Iran. Plus breaking maritime law re: flags. Not piracy. Not war.

The US is now just the drunk crank at the end of the bar waving a gun around

every other publisher needs to pay attention to this when i hit a link to a paywalled article, paying $2 to read it is exactly what i want not a subscription, not your mailing list; just let me pay you a reasonable amount of money to read a single article!

“If we allow Russia to come out of this conflict as a victor, we have all lost” - very important and timely words from Czech President Petr Pavel. The cost to stop a growing evil today will always be lower than the cost to stop it tomorrow. And not just in money.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

Per the ACIP website, this is the vote language on the HepB business: "For infants born to HBsAg-negative women: ACIP recommends individual-based decision-making, in consultation with a health care provider, for parents deciding when or if to give the HBV vaccine, including the birth dose."

It's time to talk to you about my cat.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

Democracy is a group project & a lot of you motherfuckers let everybody else do the work & then complain about the fucking grade.

Pardon?

I'm just blocking any news/reporters interviewing Nuzzi. Stop rewarding corruption and attention-seeking tactics with more attention.

The garum zipper pouch!