This is helpful today.

I got to do the baby elephant experience at the Columbus Zoo on Monday, and it was one of the best things I’ve ever done, along with the NASA field trip and that time I got to swim with dolphins.

Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now. Prepare now.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Challenge accepted

I'm so tired of working through the apocalypse.

It's time to start making your plans! Romancing the Vote returns July 1st - July 5th, 2026! * authors, start annotating those books * artists, start making that art * experts, start plotting your consultations Stay updated: updates.romancingthevote.com

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

"A tattoo on a woman is like putting a bumper sticker on a classic car." If you've never seen an illuminated manuscript, just say so. If you've never gently touched vellum in an act of worship, you can just say that! I was down at the scriptorium and nobody knew your sorry ass!

Picard sanity tip: If there are four lights, say there are four lights.

Scientists stop saying “AI” when you mean a specific type of model challenge.

Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.

everyone please stop what you're doing untense your shoulders take a deep breath in exhale slowly while saying "fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck" carry on

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

As we stood outside waiting in the cold a young man in shorts walked by and my work friend said: “some people just don’t know how to dress for the season,” and as a coughing man walked by I looked from his unmasked face to my work friend’s unmasked face and said: you’re right.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Hey y’all: if you use Libby and you hate them allowing generative AI content and incorporating it in other ways you can go to your profile, scroll down to “help and support”, and take a survey to tell them that you hate it

Having some real “we fight for what we love” feelings on this Battle of the Two Rivers rewatch. #WheelOfTime

The Ohio Department of Health has warned residents about a new outbreak of measles identified in Cuyahoga County ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/12/m...

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

Here are my top 10 dogs and their grandparents!

The Heated Rivalry guys #GoldenGlobes

Chatgpt! Is! Not! Confidential! Do! Not! Do! This! For! Fuck's! Sake!

I really need some of y'all to stop fat shaming the nazis and focus on nazi shaming them.

If you’re feeling hopeless right now, the answer is to get involved in direct action. It’s hard to think things can get better if you’re primarily waiting for *other* people to take action. But if you’re seeing the benefits of everything you’re doing? There’s hope everywhere.

I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but crying is okay and normal and you’re allowed to do it.

You want to watch this. And you want the sound on. Trust me on this.

Discord is trying to add new AI features to their platform. They're asking people to fill out a survey on how they feel about AI and what "value" it would add to their platform. Please take a few minutes to fill it out and tell them to fuck off with AI. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Also, if you’re having trouble concentrating you’re not alone. BOSS, THE FASCISM

Given obvious markets for Black horror (Sinners, Get Out, Nope, Candyman) and stylish Neo-noir action (John Wick, Nobody, Monkey Man) it's incredible that Marvel couldn't piece together the cinematic concept of letting a handsome two-time Oscar winner dice up vampires in a nightclub for 100 minutes.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

This is important: go to a queer place. Find a real world queer space and be around our people. It's absolutely revelatory. The way in which being at a gay bar or a rave or a club or a party makes me feel *normal* and *accepted* is absolutely magical. Find your local queers.

I watched this last night. The top two women's skaters in the US are queer women, with pride flags waving in the audience in support. That really meant something to me in this moment.

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

Like there’s a ton of individual issues but the broader problem is that there’s an assault on giving a shit about anyone besides yourself, nihilism that tells people the only way to prevent getting hurt is to hurt enough other people and that sickness is filtering into the bones of everything.

important message to all bluesky users

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

The neighbors across the street have a bay window and a huge TV. The neighbors across the street are watching porn. A) get some B) big screen TVs give everyone kaiju dicks

Get your flu shot and mask up!

Still mad about the #WheelOfTime cancellation

You don't need ChatGPT artologica.etsy.com/listing/4425...

living in the 2020’s

* knitting pattern

Every time I see a news article about ChatGPT pushing vulnerable people to harm themselves and others, I want to know how the universities who have eagerly proclaimed their partnerships with this company intend to account for the increasing evidence of the harms of this tech

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.