Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"

An awful, awful example of what happens when you use AI scribe systems in healthcare without any meaningful form of redress for their erroneous output. Setting a "compliance" policy that doesn't allow clinical staff to change AI generated fields without intervention is definitely a money decision.

Achievement unlocked: got a "your account may be permanently suspended if you don't visit (URL redacted) within 24 hours" Bluesky phishing scam chat request. Reported and deleted.

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.

Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

Survivors Have Spoken – Now It’s Time for Action - https://tikatangata.org.nz/news/survivors-have-spoken-now-its-time-for-action - Details and more news at: https://nzccl.org.nz/news

AUTHORS!! Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON? Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen. More here:

I did not realize that AI was going to make security verifications this much worse. Fuck you, AI.

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www.scotusblog.com/2025/11/supr... Oh good.

Watson was deeply influential to me as a genomicist, but not how you may assume From stealing Rosalind Franklin's lab notes to his frequent sexist & racist bioessentialist comments later in life, he showed how the scientific community would still worship a terrible person Don't idolize bad people

I experience delayed emotional processing. I don't have live access to many of my feelings. I figure them out bit by bit. I was 33 years old when I learned feelings are called feelings because you feel them. In your body. And know what they mean.

In Georgia, it’s either a democracy, or an inherently anti-American, anti-European autocracy. That is because 🇬🇪 doesn't have resources for a self-sufficient dictatorship and must always rely on Russia/China/other dictatorships. Thus, an autocracy in 🇬🇪 is a geopolitical problem for the West. 1/2

Man on the platform (looking up from his book about mindfulness): Shit. I’ve missed my train.

Australia has made solar energy so abundant that electricity is now so cheap that they're giving it away rather than store it. "Build an infrastructure so we can give energy away for free" is not a business model which capitalism will support. This is a major milestone to a post-capitalist world.

If we could place a 2000km wide black disc on Mars, we could turn the whole thing into a giant poppy. Surely this is the incentive the British space industry needs?

Obviously this is ridiculous as a policy for employees but also as a customer my blanket preference from any people working in any store anywhere ever is “leave me the absolute fuck alone” Smiling?? Eye contact?? TALKING TO ME???? Absolutely not!!!!

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

Mamdani embodies a pro-Palestinian politics that truly distinguishes between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, and truly takes antisemitism seriously as its own problem. That makes him a threat to those who want to absolutely conflate antisemitism and anti-Zionism, whether the ADL or WoL.

Useful rule of conduct: "Do not meddle in the affairs of filkers, for they are unsubtle and will make your name scan to Greensleeves." (quoted from memory)

Norway earned €109bn in extra revenue by replacing Russia as Europe's gas supplier. Norwegian politicians now push Oslo to guarantee the EU's stalled €140bn Ukraine loan Opposition leaders call it "a moral obligation" given Norway's windfall from the war euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/07/p...

you can't just do your video game dailies, you need to do your life dailies too

Sigh. Once again, things you think are ridiculous or wasteful are often meant to or happen to help disabled people. Forearm pan holder? Not because people are lazy. Tide pods? Have you tried pouring detergent with a tremor? Don’t get me started on the damned pre-cut ingredients.

Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich

Influenza season is kicking off in the Northern Hemisphere! Your body can take up to two weeks to develop antibodies from the vaccine, so now’s the perfect time to protect yourself. Get your seasonal influenza (flu) vaccine so your immune system is ready to go!

Me pretending to not know your deep lore so I don’t seem like a creep

Trump goes to court to starve kids should be a headline everywhere today

This is very sweet.

An autistic person who has opted not to use alcohol as a social lubricant has reportedly discovered a new benefit to sobriety: enjoying unprecedented social success at a party full of drunk people.

Roman road network was twice as large as previously thought, new mapping project finds | Live Science www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America. I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA. To hack Americans. 1/

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

"In the real world no one will accommodate you" is trauma talking. It's true that people aren't falling over themselves to help me but my adult life is way more accommodating than my childhood was, because adults get to make choices. I'm accommodating myself.

I said this recently @pfrazee.com but it’s worth repeating. These auto-moderated replies are *putting people in danger*. When you’re someone who receives death threats (like me) or has a stalker (like @regretagarbo.rip), the site automatically hiding replies from us puts us at EXTREME risk.

you shouldn’t talk to a journalist about how people in need of abortions access them when abortions are outlawed, and this is no different. shutting the fuck up is free.

VICTORY: Federal court dismisses class action lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, filed by the “Center for American Rights” www.thefire.org/news/victory...

I'm seeing reports that "rude" is one of the labels that defaults not just to "warn" but to "hide", which is bonkers. Be sure to go through the immediately visible labels, the ones where you have to click the "Bluesky moderation" labeler, _and_ the special "adult content" checkbox.

Up- and down-thread. For me (and presumably others using the web interface), there's no "hamburger menu" and you should start with this step.

I have absolutely no interest in middle ground or compromise on any human rights, for roughly the same reasons that I have absolutely no interest in allowing a leopard to eat only *part* of my face.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Dems, You don’t have to throw trans people under the bus to win elections. Voters don’t hate trans people as much as Republicans have convinced you they do. They just don’t. So stop falling for this false dichotomy of either supporting trans 🏳️‍⚧️ rights & dignity or winning elections. You can do both.

From me: ‘EPA begins uranium cleanup at Lukachukai Superfund site on the Navajo Nation’

I'm seeing so many excellent memes and screencaps today missing their alt text! Please include *everyone* in your joy! Go to Settings > Accessibility, and turning on "Require alt text before posting." This way a reminder will pop up if you try to post an inaccessible image

I need to tell you about this teacher. I once watched him at a party hold an entire room full of drinking, partying adults *utterly* captivated as he recounted the plot of a children's book. He's an amazing teacher, and he needs support!

He eats rice with his hands; he calls a genocide a genocide; he gleefully mocks Islamophobes by calling them "habibi" (a particularly pointed choice: he's not Arab.) And this is ABSOLUTELY INFURIATING to people who are used to seeing Indians as their well-tamed pets in the game of white supremacy.

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

The EU fired an Italian reporter for asking if Israel would pay for the reconstruction of Gaza. As a citizen, I am disgusted and appalled. No question should be taboo, and for this specific topic being silent is being complicit with the genocide committed. www.eunews.it/en/2025/11/0...