you can't stop progress, you can only delay it, and you look like a dingus for doing so

I got the Lubbock Book Festival the other day and popped onto their website to double check. Sure enough, they had a banner warning people of the scam.

You have two days left to eat at the taquería that survived a drive-by in the 90s and is beloved by Brad Pitt and Johnny Knoxville. We sat down with the owners to go down memory lane. The full story: lataco.com/cactus-tacos... By Jake Hook

*screaming into a pillow*

lol jesus

TAKE 5 🎬 #SagAftraMember creators, learn about the ownership of content in this episode of #Take5SagAftra with SAG-AFTRA's Shaine Griffin and actor and content creator Gabrielle Byndloss.

this is a direct attack on american liberal jews and their social influence in israel waged by christian extremists in the u.s. government on behalf of the israeli right

Nebulous Sloth Commission 2026

so are we finally getting to the point of no return RE: OpenAI and its ilk being branded literal thieves who offer nothing of value, or?

fridge magnets i made :-)

We also need to stop framing this conversation around which platforms are implementing this and which aren't. The only reason this is happening is because US and EU laws are being passed. This is going to happen to the entire internet if more people don't mobilize against the KIDS act and KOSA

Suits btw big corps often don't have clear good guys and bad guys. But what's alleged here certainly sounds v on brand for what i understnad of the internal culture of OpenAI www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/t...

I do still paint occasionally btw. here's a distraught borb WIP. #watercolor #sketchbook

Fun fact: they don’t let Bibi come to their annual memorial reunion.

if one person thinks they're having sex and the other participant does not think it's sex, then it isn't and wasn't sex, hope this helps. it's not some mystical question. when people don't want to have sex, if they verbally/nonverbally say no or aren't actively participating, it's not sex.

If anyone is getting smacked with this - just use deer.social or another alternate client. Bsky is just an AT Protocol Client, and your Bsky account is an AT Protocol account - you can use your same Bsky account thru another AT Protocol Client, no migration or loss necessary. Could not be easier.

if a company can get you to pay a higher price, then they will pull a "it's what the market can bear" and never lower the price again. they will do this every time unless they're literally blocked from doing it.

A quick note that Black folk can move to a Blacksky server to avoid the age verification surveillance rolling out. Non-Black folk can move their account to a myatproto server—maintained by Blacksky!—to preserve your anonymity & independence. @gregpak.net offers a helpful guide.

Chris Rabb is who the white dudes wanted Platner to be. I don't see them lusting after Rabb though.

death is a reality of existence and refusing to appropriately face or deal with it is very dangerous place to be, psychologically. I have extended family that keep my grandmother's sweater vest on her chair at the table and still "eat with her" on Sundays. they're not well about it.

KEY: all three witnesses are being detained apart, and their story is consistent. They say that there were agents along the side of the vehicle but none in front. When you add the videos showing a lack of evidence of damage to the front despite ICE's ramming claim, ICE's story is falling apart.

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

they tried SO HARD to find legitimate dirt on this man and they've got absolutely nothing lol

Every so often I get to think of something that is not awful. I interviewed Henry freaking Rollins about his quest with Ian MacKaye and a few other schemers to revive Vengeance Records, The Cramps’ record label: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"I thought I was terrible at everything and I'd lost the juice but turns out I was on my period" should be studied in a lab tbh

not that I go to Florida often or anything but I will guarantee you I will never fly in or out of this airport while it bears his name

used to work in the specialty coffee industry and wait until I tell you about US Roaster Corp

man this just fucking sucks, and from everything I’ve ever see Clark wants none of this and is just being used by a bunch of assholes who give zero shits about women’s basketball and just want to use it as one more front in the Forever Culture War

lol sure, why not, thanks Denver (sincere) www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/07/09/i...

oh this is... good? a good thing! sort of!

also getting a remedial course in "flashbacks to your own experience as a victim of sexual violence" and "realizing yet again that the society you live in is designed to optimize sexual violence and punish its victims"

Continuing to implore people to not take a post saying “I like this thing” as an invitation to talk about why you didn’t like it, or liked something else more, you really and truly can just keep on scrolling, it’s fine

Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

TAPPING THE SIGN I need to mute this discourse lol This isn't about "omg how dare you ask for my drafts" This is about how AI author(s) are being caught by a bunch of anthology editors: their inability to engage in the editing process. THEN they were asked for proof of writing.

what do we have to do to get people to understand that a person who is shitty to a solid half of the population cannot be a good leader for the population. but here we are, still finding ways to say belittling/harassing/harming women is just life and men can still be good leaders while doing it.

I've mentioned this before, but: this isn't just Nintendo. When most large Japanese companies in the public eye underperform, most (if not all) of the c-suite will go so far as the relinquish as much as 100% of that year's salary in an act of contrition.

“Creators deserve credit, compensation, and consent. If that's not on the table, the crawlers can stay the fuck off Patreon," CEO Jack Conte wrote on Thursday.

Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.

Yup. This has been incredibly gaslighting and frustrating to (leftist!) Jews who’ve been trying to say: hey, the online left sure is adopting a lot of Nazi memes and rhetoric about Jews and get told “you’re lying/Zionists because bigotry is incompatible with leftism.” It’s giving “real Christians”

GOOD. ALWAYS CONDITION THEIR GODDAMN MONEY ON FOLLOWING LOCAL LAW.

I don't know how much louder we all have to scream WE TRIED THAT EIGHT TIMES ALREADY AND IT DID NOT WORK, WE WANT SOMETHING DIFFERENT

there is a "working class" that people who haven't been a part of assume is all uneducated hicks and tough guys, and then there is the actual working class, which is a massive blend of peoples and skillsets

Appreciated this broad-scale overview of El Niño's effects on the fishing industry; it's so variable, depending on where you are, and there are so many cascading factors!

like not to put too fine a point on it but there's actually a reason you shouldn't run an aggressive jackass who clearly has issues being told no and won't even pretend to take accountability

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

"[3 witnesses to the shooting] were detained by ICE during the encounter, and we haven’t heard from them publicly about what happened." Instead, they are being pressured to agree to self-deport. Not suspicious at all.

I think so much lately about all the ways girls and women are humiliated and abused on a daily basis and asked to just swallow it and keep going above and beyond. My body isn't my body. My mind isn't my mind. My desires aren't my desires. My work isn't my work. I basically don't exist.

Thinking a lot lately about how, no matter what, men are always centered in these things. As @jackiantonovich.bsky.social says, the point was how pervasive sexual violence is, but it's long since become a thing that happens to men w/o agency with women/girls wholly removed, as in "he got MeToo'ed"