Every time a Dem politician complains about an division within an intersectional group being too loud in a space and turns to conservative talking points, it's because they aren't capable of handling their office, not because we're wrong for speaking up about being abused.

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On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from #$GEO #$CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving pair of sex traffickers

When you can talk about controversial topics with random friends across the world, you also get to learn about shit happening in real time. In the midst of D&D scheduling, an acquaintance is discussing their proximity to a protest against federal abuse. This is why we need to keep community.

Warning to users of R studio. Don't upgrade to Version 2026.07.0+139 (2026.07.0+139). It has a known bug that adds an irritating error message 'Error in .rs.exprMutatesPackageLibrary(part) : argument "part" is missing, with no default'. Apparently it'll be fixed soon, so worth waiting. #Rstudio

I think being anti AI is entering a more mainstream phase! While incredibly good at the same time we're finally meeting a low bar. This means: 1) more critical thinking is needed now as non-experts are making anti AI arguments so we could promote worse arguments overall — remember: 1/

Here’s a PSA for people like me who were raised not to waste food (perhaps rather aggressively) we are now dealing with an unreliable food safety system in the US. If something tastes weird or funny or off IN ANY WAY just throw it away.

Good morning. This is fascism. This is the US Govt creating thought crimes. It’s not about who they are arresting today, it’s about how this vague and threatening pursuit will be used against dissenters. ✨EVERY✨ fascist govt to date, has taken this step. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Get you a community who's creative and willing to tolerate your (and others) excessively long responses. World building for the chemistry of deep beer vs. peak beer and cultural adaptation to forced diaspora is absurd fun.

This entire week has been masking and heavy labor for me between blowing my roof, removing mouse nests from my overcrowded shed, and now moving a desk in this wildfire smoke. A reminder that good quality N95s can be used daily, even in harsh conditions. My back, however, hates me.

West Nile virus is officially in Toronto, as confirmed by Public Health. Wear long sleeves. Use mosquito deterrent. Avoid being outside when mosquitos are at their most active: www.toronto.ca/news/toronto...

Unfortunately now Google itself indexes pages with the ChatGPT tracking in them. I had a thread - bsky.app/profile/bogi...

"So you keep using revolutionary language, but never advocating for real revolution. You're a fraud!" Revolution is a tipping point, and can come in beautiful, peaceful marches or violent mobs. My goal is to avoid violence, not pretend it isn't going to occur. Self-defense is allowed.

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Imagine, if you will, a Nolan film that isn't just another attempt for him to fumble around with how time and perspective work. To put it another way, we can call it the "Gell-Mann Nolan Fallacy," where industry critic praise gives everyone amnesia as to the capability of a director.

ass out flower ate this is how i like pollinate

I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.

Would you like to play? You are blue and I am orange. Name the vertex you want to color, and I will make it happen. Game objective: 1st person who is forced to color two connected vertices the same color loses; the other wins.

While we've been arguing with each other in moralistic knots, the workers who harvest our food have nowhere to relieve themselves in the field - it would cost money to let them have longer breaks, so their bosses laugh all the way to the bank, and we have to eat shitty food. Yes, UK too now.

I’ve said this before privately and now I’m saying it on the record Go check the status of your voter registration and set a recurring reminder to do it again this time in two weeks. Do not let this lapse.

I can't believe I even have to say this, but: Insisting on the reader developing basic literacy and vocabulary improvement skills is not, nor has ever been, ableism. Encountering a word you do not understand is not gatekeeping. It's an invitation for you to learn a new word. FFS.

Today is something called AI Appreciation Day (wut) and I’m seeing apocalyptic photos across my timeline of wildfire smoke coloring the skies orange and gray, so here’s the Against AI and Its Environmental Harms library one more time:

Funnily enough ΤΗΣ / της is a valid article pronounced tis not ths

Timely reminder: Authoritarians lie to be repeated - to force us to have their conversation instead of our own. If you're debunking the claims, you're giving them airtime.

This isn’t vandalism, it’s art – and reminds me I must watch They Live again

This is quite literally why we had to create regulations for food safety. Bad faith actors (Taylor Farms) laundered their bad reputations through manipulation of the media while others (Taco Bell) were stuck with the waste. And no, I don't eat Taco Bell, but that's because I like actual Mexican.

Right. Taylor Farms supplies McDonalds, Wendy’s, Starbucks, Chipotle, Subway, Burger King, Walmart, Costco, Trader Joe’s, Aldi and so on. Any of them could have contaminated lettuce. Just because taco bell got unlucky and was traced first doesn’t mean all the headlines should refer to them by name.

So frustrating seeing wishy washy public health messaging like this. When air is at hazardous levels: AVOID outdoors USE air purifiers WEAR a mask Do or do not, there is no try!

When purine-nucleotide levels are low, PPAT remains active, enabling cells to produce more nucleotides. But when these levels rise, the nucleotides themselves drive assembly of the PPAT–NUDT5 complex, inhibiting PPAT and shutting down further production.'

There's two things to the cyclospora outbreak that people have talked about (lack of necessary Federal response and pseudoscience that occurs around it), but we haven't really talked much about a third, much more dangerous issue. The Billionaire Feudal Industrial Complex and farming.

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

I started a rabbit hole just trying to fix my radon pipe. Schedule 40 PVC connectors...But you know, while I'm dealing with shipping costs, I may as well look up food grade mineral purchases for coffee... 5am and I'm reading articles on sonication and food sterilization.

They just opened a cowardly short 14-day public comment period. Make your voices heard. PLEASE. Link Below 🔗👇🏽 eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

If you've spectacularly fucked up and no amount of remorse or restitution you show will fix it and restore your celebrity, a quick bit of advice...instead of becoming *more* evil, how about you try just building something instead? Literally, buy supplies and tools, then become a contractor.

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

Bets on how quickly kids abusing them or Southern Baptist parents are going to be screaming about "woke liberal cat litter is being forced in schools" is going to cause a stir?

In 79 AD, Mt. Vesuvius buried the Roman town of Herculaneum under ash. In a villa, a library of papyrus scrolls was buried. For 2,000 years they’ve been unreadable. Researchers with the Vesuvius Challenge have read an entire scroll without opening it. buff.ly/WSjPmXf #ShareGoodNewsToo

I always try to engage with cultures other than mine in a respectfully curious way, so it truly bothers me seeing snakes, spiders, and such being used as evil in a fantasy setting. Where are the evil rabbits in fantasy. Have we not seen what those little bastards did to Australia.

Every time one of us gets infected, we’re potentially contaminating the water supply to further spread and embed the parasite “like pythons in Florida.”

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

HEADS UP, GEN CON ATTENDEES! The Saturday of Gen Con, disgraced former Border Patrol Cmdr Greg Bovino is holding a rally 30 minutes from downtown Indianapolis. There may be some charged-up racists in the area before and after. Plan accordingly and exercise caution.

My wife and I may or may not be ready to auction a pre-cyclospora head of Costco romaine lettuce for charity. The only reason this is a joke is that we don't know which charity to raise money for. And yes, we did have to name the auction the "Truss Fund."

Meanwhile the actual Tolkien considered airplanes in the sky to be an offensive intrusion that he had not consented to endure.

Okay, this is cool. My nana used to always have a copy of TIME on her coffee table and I like to think she’d be proud that her grandson made it in. I’ll definitely be getting a physical copy when it comes out on Friday. Thank you Shanna Fisher for the great photo!

Happy International Nonbinary People's Day, punks.

the. the citizen kane of games is disco elysium. idk sorry 🤷

Notably, definition of algorithm (as opposed to e.g. heuristic) includes the property of 'guaranteed correctness'. A property also neglected these days

May I take this Bastille Day to inform you of the fun fact that the French do not and have never called it 'Bastille Day'. They just call it 'le quatorze juillet' Found this out recently and have not stopped telling anyone who is listening