It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality

I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild: Grizzly bear American Badger Bighorn sheep Orca Thirteen-lined ground squirrel

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

“Be realistic.” I refuse to live in your limited notion of what kind of hope, justice and love is possible in this world. There is a key to let us all out of this cage but it cannot be found until we all agree it exists.

My favourite year in review!

10/10. Highly recommend.

tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

Artists & Art lovers! Time to get geared up for the biggest art event of the year on Bluesky! Last year we had close to 1500 artists from 25 countries posting original work daily from December 1-24

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Canadian government survives boring crisis, leaving Americans unaware

If you want there to be a certain kind of art in ten years, you gotta pay for that art now. You gotta make sure small time artists can survive the next ten years. If you can't afford to, then tell people about the art and artists you love. Gush about them. Help others find them.

"To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention." Ursula K. LeGuin

AI is like the gift shop at the end of the tour - you don't want anything, you definitely don't need anything, but you're forced into it and you end up with a bag of unnecessary plastic objects.

I wrote about some of my favourite nature books. www.thiswildcuriosity.com/2025/11/14/6...

Blondie was the sassiest diva and I miss her very much.

"The moment you allow AI to write a sentence for you, you lose your voice." Francesca Barbini @lunapress.bsky.social nailing it in her guest of honour interview with @megintransition.bsky.social. #pictcon

I see James Watson has died. What did Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin's lab notes. Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.

your energy bills are rising because they're forcing you to use millions-years-old sunlight instead of today's

If there was thoughtful consideration of how AI, data science, and automation might reshape the labor force as the technologies and techniques mature, we wouldn't see "manual labor will replace desk jobs" as an inevitable and desirable outcome.

They literally ruin everything they touch

Good.

Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦 Alberta is #ForeverCanadian

Yes please

If other unions stand up for the teachers, then every Albertan—parents with school children, university students, seniors, Forever Canadians, minorities, immigrants—should all stand up with them. 1/ #Canada #Alberta #CanadaSky #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg #ForeverCanadian

I’m just a Canadian, looking at her fellow Canadians, begging them to connect the dots between rising anti immigrant sentiment and what is happening in the states.

AI is like that time I woke up and found a U2 album I didn't ask for on my iPod. I don't want it. I didn't ask for it. Leave me alone.

Remember how mad everyone got when we burned it down 200 years ago?

Same problem in publishing and film. Everyone gets paid long before the writer, and then it's pennies on the dollar, if we're lucky. People can't create like this. We shouldn't have to create like this. There's no product without us, yet we get told it's more important to pay everyone else.

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

Maybe today is the day I throw my computer into the sea.

Trying to get the phone company to cancel an account and it's like they've never considered the idea that such a thing might be possible, let alone desirable.

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

Unsolicited Schitt pic

Toronto might win it all this year because of this game lol

You don't become an artist who's any good if you don't love the work itself. Even the parts that are a struggle. What we don't love is the marketing, promo, admin, etc. When you start, you don't think you're signing up to be a wildly underpaid arts admin, but 80% of professional art time is this.

“Fraser said it would be "unimaginable" for a federal government to steer clear of a case affecting Charter rights that will have lasting impacts and suggested the premiers' argument is "untenable."” Hard agree.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Shout this from the fucking rooftops, people!! #fuckAI

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

I know everyone thinks this is the best thing about the Canadian Supreme Court, but the best thing is actually that I don’t know any of them by name.