All I want in life is to persuade everyone, when encountering politics & culture, to ask, "why are we talking about this?" I mean that very literally: anything you encounter on your screens reflects a choice. Someone covered that, talked about that, rather than the many other things out there. Why?

-cease and desist -null and void -aid and abet -free and clear -ways and means Why is law stuff like this always two words? These are called ‘legal doublets’ and we can once again blame the Normans. 🧵⬇️

Just for the record, Anthropic has agreed to delete the entirety of the training data as a result of this lawsuit, and do not get a license to hold onto the work from it.

Artist Svetlana Petrova, who decided to add her big ginger cat to some iconic paintings to create some fun artworks #WomensArt

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

yeah. people love to think the world is as uncomplicated as their anger

Keith Leonard

Made a cute thing as part of my annual #PrideMonth tradition: start a new #Stardew save file and get gay married in-game by the end of June. (Romancing Haley this year with a flower-themed farm!)

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

Mark Scout post-Zufu be like like: #severance

If you’ve sent me a text and I didn’t respond please know that I didn’t forget you, you’ll live on in my subconscious as a vague sense of dread forever

Just finished rewriting the pilot episode of #Severance as though it was a Shakespearean play, complete with full iambic pentameter. Such a fun project, and I couldn't have asked for better source material! archiveofourown.org/works/642097... @benstiller.redhour.com

I hope I'm not the only one who says this in my head every time I open up a Blue Prince dartboard puzzle

live footage of me playing the blue prince game

Blue Prince is Outer Wild for girls who grew up playing Nancy Drew games on their family computer

happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day to all who celebrate

Spring Garden #NikkiWeeklyChallenge @infinnikichallenge.bsky.social

The entire thread is like this, nazis asking for a summary of their posts, the AI says "Well it sure as shit looks like you're a nazi", then they argue with each response and it just goes into more detail why they're nazis

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

Round sleepy baby #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

#Severance edit - love the parallels between Mark and Gemma here

One less obvious impact of ADHD & autism is how so many judgements we make about someone's morality or character rely on that person's capacity to remember, to direct attention, to complete tasks, & to correctly read & perform social cues. Let me give some quick examples.

Watching Columbo, ADHD chad. Found this: "This is not a guy who puts on a mask. This is a guy who’s unlocked god-tier levels of not masking. This is a guy who figured out how to stand there and let people see exactly who he is and weaponise their inevitable failure to get it." tinyurl.com/5efsv39p

Made an #InfinityNikki quiz! Good luck, have fun, lemme know what you think :) uquiz.com/cULJ7b

#NikkiWeeklyChallenge @infinnikichallenge.bsky.social

They should invent a not being exhausted

Fire and Ice #InfinityNikki

Reminder for Autistic people: we usually need more Sugar, Vitamin D, water and other nutrients because our brains use more energy per day than allistic people due to our sensory and social stresses 🤍

A few recent #InfinityNikki stylings

#Severance s2e8 - anybody else seeing the resemblance between this severance chip diagram and the computer program Miss Huang was running?

#NikkiWeeklyChallenge @infinitynikki.bsky.social

Poetry isn’t just what you think it is. 💙 ➡️ These 10 books will shatter your assumptions, expand your definition of poetry, and change the way you read and write in 2025. 📚 A thread 🧵👇

Happy new #Severance episode day for those who celebrate

Ooh, there's a #NikkiWeeklyChallenge now? Sign me up! @infinnikichallenge.bsky.social

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

Just finished The Starless Sea by @erinmorgenstern.bsky.social and oh my lord this has instantly become one of my favourite books of all time. My TBR pile is now crying; gotta start my first reread right away instead! What an absolutely gorgeous love letter to stories, myth, and metaphor. #BookSky

This is some absolutely unhinged #Severance tier corporate propaganda - just replace the IBM's with Lumon and the names with Kier

If you're a Severance fan, it's well worth following Lumen Industries on LinkedIn - the seriousness with which they are embracing the bit is pretty hilarious www.linkedin.com/posts/lumon-...

“It is time the stone made an effort to flower.” Love this poem and hearing it read! We’re so lucky to publish this timeless masterpiece. Can bet this would be read and cherished even decades from now.

what a disaster. if this decision is not reversed immediately, its damage on science & society will be unravelling in infinite nuanced ways for decades to come

Do you want to read more Ricken-isms? Because for whatever reason, I just wrote more Ricken-isms. #Severance archiveofourown.org/works/62676673

More Firework Isles appreciation #InfinityNikki

remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

Firework isles appreciation post #InfinityNikki

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

How it feels reading Americanized spellings of colour etc: For some liquid corage, I pored a doble shot of the Borbon I'd boght back in my home contry. Of corse, my hands were obviosly still shaking out of nervosness.