If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

this is exactly what's happening

You guys, is this a problem?

SFFH folks, what's your favorite speculative zine / journal that publishes interactive stories?

This is truly grotesque. Teachers should not be using this stuff. If a school was pushing it on teachers who work with kids I care about, I'd make a big effing stink until they stopped. We have to not give into this.

You gotta give ‘em hop.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

The mask has slipped!

War-ravaged Portland

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"

My kid reuben on character vs plot: "nobody cosplays as the plot of a story." 😮

The little-known last two words of the Gettysburg Address

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

oh man I heard archduke ferdinand got shot

These guys are simply not smart.

RFK Jr: It's gonna be the biggest infusion of federal dollar into rural healthcare in American history BERNIE SANDERS: Yeah. You know why? Because you're cutting $150b for rural hospitals, you're putting $50b back. That's not an infusion. That's a loss of $100b.

I know it's been done to death, but I'm sorry this is just peak "can you imagine if Obama had..."

Collective Bargaining is the third state of Collective Grief. Happy Labor Day! 🌹

"Trump is Dead" is the new "Elvis Lives"

Science fictioun ys more alyve than it hath evir been.

Apparently Trump is still alive, but I'm really into this meme of "no he's not".

Let me be the first to say WEEKEND AT DONNIE'S

Disgusting

Imagine getting shot by a National Guardsman because you dropped your ice cream cone on the ground

Germany gets 60% of its power from renewables and is shutting down its coal plants. No blackouts. No high bills. Every right wing lie about renewables has been proven false.

I for one am concerned.

People want magic in their lives so much they will invent an imaginary friend in their computer Reading literature performs a similar function on a way higher more satisfying level, I think

not even a week after Sandwich Guy caught a federal felony assault charge for the use of a sandwich

Video of Columbia Heights residents driving ICE agents out of their area. source: www.instagram.com/reel/DNjkvLQ...

We’re deeply disappointed negotiations for a global plastics treaty have ended without a final agreement. Over the past 3 years, the momentum has been undeniable. The world now understands, plastic is a full lifecycle problem that demands systemic solutions, & that its health impacts are profound.

Yall, I am so, so sorry

Believe the Science, People!

The White House is mobilizing red state military forces to occupy a Democratic stronghold and let me tell you: No one has ever pretended something isn't happening harder than Democratic leaders are pretending this isn't happening right now.

Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

So excited to get my author's copy of the 2025 Rhysling Anthology! Thanks so much @pixieb.bsky.social and @sfpoetry.bsky.social!

“A child offered a high five up high but then he offered one down low & pulled it away before I could make contact, informing me I was ‘too slow.’ Anyway, this is why I fully support extrajudicial killings.” - Every Conservative Today

I believe they call this "finding out" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Nailing it.

In my opinion, the proper takeaway from the Turing Test is not, "if a machine can fool humans into thinking it's intelligent, it must be intelligent", but rather, "if a machine can fool humans into thinking it's intelligent, *it no longer matters if it's intelligent*".

Posit: humans are much better at controlling other humans than at controlling our own technology. This is the main reason why lurching towards more powerful AI is a mistake. Already we can't stop hulked-out typeahead predictors from deleting our databases or making illicit copies of themselves.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.