The shutting down of vaccine research scares the shit out of me tbh

“Is that a bribe?” She can’t help a smile. It does sound like a bribe, just a little. “Depends. Will it work?” “I don’t know. I never had a bribe before.”

Well. I've thought of it. Now I want it. STAR TREK: THE LOST GENERATION. Following the stories of the soldiers on all sides of the Dominion War, after the war is over and all that's left are the nightmares.

"McConnell, 83, is the only Republican who voted against Kennedy’s confirmation. He recently spent a week in the hospital for flu-like symptoms, and is not running for re-election this year. Cassidy is 68 and he is running, but he shouldn’t be."

Polaris the Bear combines the magic of raku with the feeling of first snow on a starry night: crisp air, soft light, and that moment winter asks you to slow down. A small reminder to breathe, wander, and let the season settle in, for soon spring will come. #art #pottery #gaybear #furryart

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New algorithm watercolor, YOU ARE SMARTER THAN AI artologica.etsy.com/listing/4458... #sciart

Huge announcement: Girl Scouts on our trans girl scout cookies list have sold 250,000!!!!!! Boxes of girl scout cookies, a record for EITM's trans girl scout cookie drive. Some have only sold 20 boxes though. I put those at the top of the list. Lets close out this season and make their day! :)

I am so glad I had to buy a new work computer last summer instead of now. I'm not sure I could afford it.

Everyone: What's your five year plan? Me: I am neurologically incapable of imagining anything farther away than the end of the week

Right-wing media is never held to any level of accountability because 90% of its audience doesn’t believe it’s right-wing media

Fellows Dems, it is time make @bsky.app our primary social media link and posting place and leave X behind. It is time now.

I can't nom or vote the Hugos, because for two years straight they've held WorldCon in one of the most dangerous countries on this here planet and just no. But if you're a nommer/voter, please consider Bone-Eater Earth, published by @unchartedmag.bsky.social. www.unchartedmag.com/stories/bone...

I’m gonna vote for whoever the Dem presidential nominee is in the general election but it would be cool if whoever it is doesn’t suck.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

I was told by more than one voter that they didn't want to vote for Kamala Harris because she seemed kinda stupid, & this sort of deliberate coverage is exactly how people got that impression.

My god do we need UBI “Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“

I watched the Starfleet Academy episode about SAM and Sisko, and the ending was very [REDAXTED].

To digress, a difference between current oligarchs and the robber barons is that these guys can easily look up their relative wealth rankings and don’t need to build museums and foundations to compete with one another

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

The amount of loathing I have for videos in online courses is limitless. (I know they work for some folks, but there should be a "text and diagram" option alongside every stupid video)

Two warmup sketches from last night: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and a Cowboy of the Forty-Five States

pretty stunning chart

It is absolutely a choice.

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN. They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

do you know what would help!!!!!!!! living in a society that lets people experiment with their gender without treating it like the most important thing in the world!!!!!!! letting people get it right or wrong without politicising their decisions!!!!!!! just being chilled about gender!!!!!! aaahhhhhh

Soft-launching this today, because Michaels has some exceptionally good weekend coupons - Help me rebuild the arts & crafts room at Park Slope Women's Shelter! www.thingstogetme.com/2169641a9c163

Speaking of Martha Wells, I also covered season 1 of Murderbot, where I dug into queerness, neurodivergence, and the limits of allyship. reactormag.com/tv-review-mu... 9/

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

Yeah, this is pretty much exactly what I thought about when I saw Musk's stupid racist tweet: Minnesotans have spent the last month and a half saying we will die to defend our multicultural community.

Billionaires evaded over $168 billion in taxes while undocumented immigrants paid over $100 billion in taxes while receiving no benefits. I know who should be deported.

Wyrms are sightless beasts. They use ultrasonic clicks to read the echoes and map entire areas in seconds. They never roar. Not like that. They chirp like a muffled cricket. You barely hear it, even when your ears bleed. Concept art for the fomorian wyrm. fomoria.com #fomoria #ttrpg

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

I'm terrible at plugging my Instagram. It's my "professional" IG, but since it's been so long since I had something new coming out, it's turned into me reposting weird art, film, comics, kinetic sculpture, and other weird, neat stuff. www.instagram.com/thewriter.br...

This scheme to make passports harder to obtain comes as Republicans are trying to make passports one of the few documents that can be presented in order to be permitted to register to vote.

Recently in one of the education sessions the doctors I work with run, they brought up how many children used to die from measles each year. 2 million. 2 MILLION children used to die every year, worldwide, from measles. That is the world anti-vaxxers want, and it is evil.

Year of the Fire Horse 1 of 3 February Patreon #art

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.

(5/11) Walmart, Whole Foods, and Kohls are switching to electronic shelf labels that can display dynamic prices. Kroger deployed them with Microsoft AI—a setup a 2024 Senate inquiry warned could enable “surge pricing” via facial recognition. (Kroger claims it will only lower prices.)

(6/11) Uber tracks battery life. Former exec Keith Chen noted in 2016 that users with low battery are statistically more likely to accept surge pricing. Uber says it doesn’t use that data to set prices, but the correlation remains a point of regulatory scrutiny. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

if you want schumer out, you might consider donating to stratton's campaign. she is cash poor, and the leader with all the money is a centrist asshole who I think would legit be worse than Durbin.

Even if you fully intend to vote for whoever the Democratic nominee ends up being, there’s a huge difference between doing that quietly in November 2028 and loudly announcing it years in advance with zero conditions attached.

Filmmakers! You need a poster. I make posters. We should talk! #filmsky

We have your backs. You're not alone.

The President of the United States most likely raped girls along with his best friend Epstein. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

(11/11) In this new normal, costs are individually adjusted to a consumer’s maximum threshold and wages to a worker’s minimum floor. The next time you see a price, know that it may not reflect what the item is worth—but what the algorithm believes *you* are worth.

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

"average person wuthers 3 heights a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person wuthers 0 heights per year. Heights Georg, who lives in cave & wuthers over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted