looks like CAMP DAMASCUS has returned once again to the USA TODAY BESTSELLER list this week. THANK YOU BUCKAROOS what an honor. (BTW the fan art background here is by @arfranklinstein.bsky.social SO AMAZING)

Oh noooo the Republicans might make a poster child of one of the most incredibly likable, optimistic young guys who hustles daily to keep his excellent promises nooooo

Block and move on. Don’t feed the trolls (they live on engagement).

Good morning! Women In Horror Year continues, with @eveharms.com atop the new wave of Bizarro. www.briankeene.com/algorithmzer...

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her? Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

This is really outrageous when you think about it. A jury found Trump sexually assaulted Carroll. News coverage often frames it like they’re political opponents.

Remember when Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan for free college for all Americans, and everyone said we can't afford it? We just spent more than that amount on Trump's war in Iran.

Flo Rida just hasn't checked his email he'll drop out too

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Did nobody tell Bozos that the first rule of class warfare is to pretend it doesn’t exist and keep the people fighting one another instead? Nice to see NBC carrying water for him, tho. Super classy.

Well there goes my plan. Last night I saw Demon Squad: Tooth and Claw on Tubi. Fun with a good story and score. It’s a sequel; the original (Demon Squad) is also on Tubi. Was going to watch it tonight. But Eldritch, USA was up. Decided to give it a couple minutes. Wait…it’s a musical? 👀

The decision for a patient to stop taking SSRIs should be between the patient and their doctor. End of story. @balint.house.gov and I are demanding that RFK Jr. stop this attack on the very medications that keep millions of Americans alive.

This album has something for everyone! May not all be entirely office appropriate. This tune shouldn’t get you fired, but may get you some odd looks if your co-workers lack imagination. theslowpoisoner.bandcamp.com/track/invoca...

Mike Johnson is a typical Christian Nationalist, full of ahistorical disinformation about the United States. "In God We Trust" was not a motto from this nation's founding. It was added in 1956, at the height of the Cold War, as a Christian Nationalist rebuke to the Soviet Union.

> see an ex-Bernie Campaign Staffer > ask Online Leftists if she’s an electoralist or a psyop > they don’t understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining the difference between what’s an electoralist & what’s a psyop > online left laughs & says “she’s a good leftist, sir” > look inside > psyop

This weekend is Bizarrocon in Portland, Oregon. It’s mainly got a prose focus, but Sunday is film-oriented. @paulnewton.bsky.social you might be interested! I’ll be down from BC for it. Bizarrocon.com

GROKIPEDIA REALLY SAID READ LUDICROUS LMFAOOOO grokipedia.com/page/Tesla_Inc

#Mood ✌🏾

Your occasional reminder that "AI" is shit: Every assertion in this "AI Overview" of the question "What coffee does John Scalzi drink" is wrong. I don't regularly drink coffee (and never black) I've never had black sesame jasmine cream tea, and I don't hang in coffee shops. Don't trust "AI" ever!

For those using Firefox Settings > AI controls > off

"The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room." www.wired.com/story/a-libr...

Host: When people hear "cap on Social Security benefits," people panic. Is this something the administration is actually considering? Trump's Social Security Commissioner: The president has committed to protect and preserve... Host: I'm going to take that as a yes.

So after reading a bunch of those diner interviews i finally met an actual reformed MAGA interesting conversation Young white man had been brought up as a conservative & his turn has brought acrimony to his family(good) For him this second term has been a nightmare It was ICE, Epstein files & war

Meta will begin keystroke logging US employees at work -- complete with mouse movements and periodic screenshots -- to train better AI agents. This comes after Boz posted about a future in which AI will "primarily do the work" at meta. It's a new era for tech labor. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

God bless whoever did this.

There wolf.

So far this week: - OpenAI killed video generation app Sora due to cost and legality - Open AI killed promised adult chat functionality due to legality - Disney killed their $1 billion deal with OpenAI - Wikipedia, a website more popular than Amazon, is banning AI-written articles More coming?

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

The biggest way this is like Covid is that Trump has no idea how bad he’s fucking up. And no one he’s listening to will even try to tell him.

Strata had trees trimmed last week, and some small branches got left on my patio. I can pretty much guarantee that this twig won’t root, but I’m not sad I put it in water. Now I know what to expect outside in a couple months! (Twig thinks it is spring, tree outside knows better.)

This should be a stage musical. It’s a tale as old as time. You saw enchanted, sentient objects in Beauty and the Beast, right? Think Beauty and the Beast meets Evil Dead. And BOTH were made into musicals. So there. This new B horror classic is Haunted House of Pancakes (2025, Tubi).

Roses are red Vice is inherent

Just got off the phone with the President of Antifa. They said they have a cell in Florida that set up a fake tailoring shop, where they created this custom garment to humiliate Michael Flynn.

i just wanna drive my truck mow this grass drink my beer dress like ass

Muppet Treasure Island. On 23rd Street in Manhattan.

Tag yourself. I bet more will say “I Require a Tug” than anything else

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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

God there is nothing goofier in politics online than listing your “reach” in your demands. Undermines the whole thing and makes you look like a doofus.

"Argentina's done it. Russia's done it. Turkey's done it. Venezuela's done it. And Zimbabwe's done it. It's a thing that tin pot dictators do... right before starting a hyperinflation and destroying their own economies."

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

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"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.) www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...

This will damage our country significantly. ‘The new American Dream is leaving America.’ Holly Baxter reports on parents, students, professors, and retirees, all of whom are planning to say goodbye to US in the near future www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

IS THIS YOUR KING?