Rupert wanted to smell the flexicube, but stole my new hex fidget! @mostlybree.kitrocha.com

This one hurts. www.bbc.com/news/article...

CVS pharmacy tech over here trying to overcharge me $110 because "they didn't think the discount card would work". I read them the text of the discount card. They shrug in a "humoring the crazy customer" sort of way, looked mad that it worked, and made me wait 15 minutes while they reprinted label.

"... she had so many amazing old purses! Like so many 2000's coach..." overheard at the ice cream shop. And I mean, I *know* but...

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Name a song with "girl in the title but replace girl with squirrel: Not a Pretty Squirrel

"A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication." arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/i...

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

“AI is here, so we have no choice but to accept it” so are immigrants and trans people, but I guess that’s a skill issue

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.) This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

I may not have time to immediately make an owl bear club, but I think it's important that I immediately order the means to make an owl bear club. (The gelatinous cube is also adorable.)

This is delightful!

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

"No," the swordmaster said. "One does not refuse the king," the herald said. "I do. I will not train his soldiers or officers, I will not tell my students to join his army, I will not support his unjust war." "You will regret this!" "No," the swordmaster said.

Hey all, we still have a limited number of these charming stickers left over from our last Romancing the Vote. In honor of SCOTUS fuckery on today, the Trans Day of Visibility, we'd like to offer you the chance to get one. (Thread continues.)

Y'know what, I'm still with it "War don't sex" that's right brother, peace fucks

I got to see @tkingfisher.com tonight! She's delightful.

This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private www.404media.co/this-company...

In my mail today! @kbspangler.com @alepresser.com (from bookshop.org.)

A story in four parts. 😭

The 3 genders

Just realized "There's a clown in the attic" scans perfectly as a replacement for "There's a hole in the bucket." Dear Liza, dear Liza

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Tonight is the night. Place your clock on the altar. Light the black candle and say the words that bring the wolf that eats the hour.

This was a lot of fun! Consider watching and/or donating.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

Hey a very great maker of plastic for 3d printers has set up a thing where you pay $20 and they ship a spool of filament to members of our printing crew. One spool makes 500 whistles or more. Help out! proto-pasta.com/products/the...

Obviously this is who we have always been, that is a given... but the fact that people who did not know that are out here, protesting for the first time, in actual tears? They have lost complete control of this narrative, man.

Look, I don't know why I'm stuck on recreating pizza hut meals, but there are far less productive coping mechanisms. (And I haven't caved and bought red cups.)

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump. A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges. Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.

I wanted to know the backstory of the executive order that defined "man" and "woman"—the foundation for the Trump admin's targeting of trans people. So I took a deep dive into the conservative strategy & distorted feminism behind it. And I talked to the author. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I forget how good the pizza hut / book-it vibes are, so it's been way too long since I made the king arthur pan pizza. (I use a 7" pan and thus get to have pizzas on two consecutive nights.)

This is great! Fellow scholars, volunteer to guest lecture for Minnesota faculty struggling to teach during shutdown!

King: boy those Epstein emails King: it's really sobering to see how money and power allowed sex predators to operate Neil Gaiman: hello everyone Gaiman: i'm back Barker: oh boy Barker: oh boy you sure picked a time

These two episodes are good listening.

Okay, so I was at this table with my friend the bubble letterer, who wrote “Free” in their PROFESSIONAL-grade bubble letters. It made someone big mad. So bubble person and I made some #popupleftistsupplydepot merch. Proceeds to MIRAC MN. Popupsupplies.printful.me

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

Here is my experience and opinion. PEOPLE GENERALLY WANT TO HELP But most of the time, people don't know how to help, or what to do. This is why people say things like 'most people are sheep' it's not ...it's not really an insult. It's the reality. This is something people CAN DO.

Had a good long cry this evening listening to @socialistdogmom.bsky.social (complimentary).

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Imagine hearing fuck ICE from one of these

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

"The thing Dr. [Kingdoms] is absolutely the best at is drawing calendars on the board."