Your periodic reminder that @radiofreetom.bsky.social who many of you like to follow, and who writes for the Atlantic, was pushing the great replacement theory before Trump and has never apologized for it. He's part of what got us here.

Solid line up, I might give the windscribe one a try. Bit of a reminder though to folks, since it wasn't mentioned, is that while the proton ecosystem IS well known, and they do seem determined to not have backdoors to their encryption, the CEO is uh...Well, he's a tech CEO alright.

The weirdest thing about modern life is that it's now technically easier to make a vegan stuffing with sausage than an omnivore one. I mean this is a half truth. If I wasn't buying ethically sourced ground meat over of prefab sausage, it would be easy...but hey cooking is an adventure.

Dear Google. The break up is slow and difficult. It will still happen. You keep pretending to care, as if I'm unaware of your domestic abuses. Mass unemployment (AI), partnering with gangs (ICE), destroying our shared home (data centers). It will be your empty home.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

One of the oddest things I just realized is that "creepy" art is no longer actually creepy. There's an attempt, but certain very popular art styles inherently soften the creepiness or are so grotesque that they go into humorous absurdity. It explains why popular horror lost its luster for me.

Did I need to check the ABV of the family stuffing with white wine before I brought it to the daycare? Probably not. Did I do it anyway? Yes. In ~7.6 lbs (3,500 g) of stuffing, there's ~0.18% ABV just after cooking. I think I'm okay. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxqA...

Jon Gaines (Gainsec), the offensive security researcher who was featured in my recent video, lost employment today. Jon discovered the vast majority of the vulnerabilities with Flock Safety (among many other things) on his own time, which I believe will ultimately result in Americans being safer. 🧵

Past is prologue. In 1933, during the Great Depression, a group of wealthy businessmen tried to overthrow the US government and install a fascist dictator to protect their own interests. And everything that led to it feels way too familiar right now. This is not a history lesson, it’s a warning.

Our new paper led by @manusaunders.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... takes stock of the evidence-base for global insect declines 🦋🐝🪳🪰🦗 and how uncertainty is being leveraged by science denialists to undermine efforts to reverse biodiversity loss 🌍🧪.

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

So we have the absolutely lovely game of Silk Song, but now that we're looking at another decade away from the next release, I'm going to propose Salk Song, a game of vaccination.

Mechanical mishaps in TTRPGs: Be careful how broadly you define means by which a transformation occurs. "Eating the flesh of your species turns you into a ghoul!" Technically, making out with someone involves an exchange of shed cells. Oops all ghouls?

Democrats blinked. Again. Six weeks into a GOP-made shutdown, they folded without securing ACA subsidies. Republicans saw the collapse coming and instantly pivoted to abortion. Now they're trying to extend Hyde to private insurance. My latest:

Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

Fun fact for world builders: The Paizo/Pathfinder bloatmage is actually less scientifically plausible in their description than if they'd said the mage grafted a whole new organ system into their bodies. Excess fluid throughout the body is a very, very, very bad thing.

This podcast from @radleybalko.bsky.social is timely and essential. The stories recount leeway for corrupt, oppressive overreaching policing that trapped people vulnerable to pressure. We'll see these behaviors/ practices resurge in this policing-first climate. theintercept.com/2025/10/01/c...

Put on a soothing bit of music will inevitably cause my daughter to realize she's being encouraged to sleep and rebel. Put on a video that's just academic enough she's interested, but quiet and technical, and she's out. So I guess thanks @scholagladiatoria.bsky.social?

Happy 40th birthday to Bill Waterson’s ‘Calvin and Hobbes’. A work of consummate, stubborn, human, and more-than-human art.

Gen AI, a proper redefinition: Generalized Accepted Ignorance

Jamaica more or less out of the news entirely just a few weeks after Melissa hit. It shouldn't be. "Hurricane Melissa changed the life of every Jamaican in less than 24 hours."

Dear center-left parties (Labour, Democrats, etc.): EMBRACING XENOPHOBIA DOESN'T WIN YOU RIGHT WING VOTERS. It just further empowers bigots. The bigots will continue to vote for the more right-wing parties! bsky.app/profile/nadi...

Hey, friendly reminder that Scott Cawthon's donations to the GOP literally contributed to SNAP suspension and you shouldn't buy or stream Five Nights at Freddy's anything.

From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re saying “We Ain’t Buying It” and asking Americans to hit pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=ind_wabi

My grandfather died in the Athena, Georgia, jail in 1965 from drinking bad moonshine. Fermentation naturally produces methanol, and distilling concentrates it. If you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s quite possible to inadvertently consume a dangerous — even lethal — dose. TL;DR don’t do this.

Kiddo finally got her COVID vax, and gets a day home to recover. Of course this means Ms Shirleys, medical mystery videos, and a cat nap cuddled with Dad and the actual cat. Note: I adore my local cafe, but they're closed on Mondays. Plus, it's good to get into Baltimore proper more often.

This has technically been making the rounds already, but I really need to point to the proper article with the morphosource link in it. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... www.morphosource.org/projects/000... #Artists practicing dinosaurs, this is absolutely a gold mine.

Remember, Trump can be impeached or submit to Alzheimer's, but his cabinet is still the same old evil. The entire White House, half of Congress, and most of the Supreme Court are all guilty of helping him in his corruption. It won't be justice until they're all tried in a court of true law.

Controversial topic: Fantasy, fandom, slurs, and other out-group language. As I've noted before, modern fantasy pulls a lot of its roots from the "progenitor" writers of the space. Much of that fantasy, as with Tolkien, was based on prior myth that involved bigotry. How do we handle that today?

Into the bin, Ubisoft!

Ceqara isn't all science, it has room for whimsy just the same as any system. Case in point, the Chaibat Chateau. A small portable terrarium with a tiny, semi-aquatic wombat like creatures that enjoys swimming in and eating tea leaves, consuming excessive bitterants and the leaves (and spices).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We've really known this for decades, but it hasn't actually been properly pushed to the forefront of pop culture because it's hard to break through the Hollywood (and wellness industry) marketing of catharsis. Simply put, rage helps no one.

I think there’s a preference difference here in which no one’s necessarily wrong. If you’re doing something bad to me, and I tell you to stop, I don’t want to hear why you did it. I want you to tell me that you won’t do it any more. Explanations suggest you’re going to keep doing it.

Last night, I had a conversation with my 16yo and her friend about setting boundaries, and what wasn't okay about a situation that the friend was going through (with another *male* friend). A thread...

I'm honestly very moved by the patients' power to keep going. And I'm sure the article also links to great work. BUT Bill Gates wants to automate p hacking: "AI's ability to take large amounts of data and find meaning in that data means that this research is going to go a lot faster." Stop it FFS

How in the hell do I constantly forget words everyone uses regularly, but, without batting an eye, remember and readily look up estradiol for use in MTF medical procedures and how it can change hormonal odor profiles? It's great that I know it, but I like remembering the word for hash browns too.

What started as a crude joke and TTRPG scenario about what would happen if Ms. Frizzle went into an "alternate" lifestyle instead of teaching has somehow lead to an invite to a real life club of the same style. "Take chances, make mistakes, get messy." Research she'd approve of???

"Eww you eat raw beef!" Kibbeh nayyeh has been a cherished Levantine dish for centuries without issue. If you know your local butcher and how carefully they source their meat, you'll be fine. meathaccp.wisc.edu/validation/a... today.lorientlejour.com/article/1349...

Spoilers for Eberron: Today I learned about @keith-baker.com's "Daelkyr rewriting reality" plot point, and I'm starting to see how many authors all silently started building something I noticed at about the same time. You need an in-world story mechanic to retcon things that are problematic.

Yesterday I forgot to bring my daughter's show and tell toy with us before daycare. So, instead, she asked me about squid and octopus biology in the car. Today I learned that bioluminescent is still not a common word, even for adults. This explains a lot about my life.

not mine! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptog...

"Bernie Sanders endorses..." oh crap it's another Na... Wait not a Nazi or Russian plant? A decent person?! A Native American! Hopefully Lt. Gov. Flanagan has been fully vetted (I assume so at her current level).

phys.org/news/2025-11... Insect olfaction, bacterial odors, and tree decline. It makes sense, and yet it's a wonderfully (if ecologically damaging) interesting chain that gives us a better sense of how infection isn't the only cause of ecological decline.

I'd like to propose a new word or phrase (based on a very old joke): To "Uweboll" (phonetically uvabol) a film or situation is to take what should be a fantastic premise and make everyone want to pay you to delete it from existence lest it contaminate the fun of others.

Ethiopia has announced its first outbreak of Marburg -- a cluster of nine cases, genetically similar to other East African outbreaks, in the southern part of the country.

Heat waves consist of 5 or more consecutive days of dangerous heat. Our elected officials must intervene to stop abuses and cruelty being inflicted in ICE facilities.

If you really want to understand the horror of [LLM] AI ghosts, understand that someone will bring assholes back too, both as catharsis to be tried in abstenia and because they have cult followings (see serial killer fans). Imagine the evil of Harvey Weinstein's digital ghast on the Internet.

I also think GenAI summaries of conversations and personal emails are fucking wack and disrespectful Either you have time to genuinely engage with what someone said or you don’t

So I did the thing before I chickened out (or came to my senses) and threw up a GFM as a stop gap measure. I hate doing it more than anyone will hate seeing another fund raiser. gofund.me/f5615787f

you do realize that a website of any size without mods will become 80% CSAM and hyper-gore within about 5 minutes, whereupon it will then be shut down by the government, right