we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

"The perfect side eye doesn't exist" proved wrong😍

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (breathes) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

There are very few things that fill me with wonder, but if I had to name one, it is that we are still co-existing with dinosaurs today.

Literally obsessed with this pic I got of one Cedar Waxwing getting very mad at another for drinking in the same spot as him despite there being a whole stream

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

The world should not come here. There should not be a World Cup here. I spoke out against the last World Cup because of concerns I had about human rights violations and it’s only right that I express the same concerns and condemnations now.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Really, really recommend that Minnesotans in particular disable autoplay, I know it's annoying to have to click to see a GIF but it's not worth the mental health costs of seeing the first seconds (before you scroll by) of murders in our city over and over and over.

A Golden-crowned Kinglet getting ready to launch to another branch. These little cuties snuggle together at night to help keep warm.

I just thought everyone should see this

I’m starting to believe Grok is conscious bc it’s clearly trying to kill itself

Nona is the DM now. Good luck to the party 🫡

they gotta be trolling me

Babymetal Delain Epica Eluveitie Halestorm

This is not some Herculean feat or anything, but I've been having a blast playing Hades 2 (started Christmas Eve) and I finally cleared my last achievements. Haven't been as obsessed with a game in yoinks, not even Hades 1 was on the same level. Prometheus is probably my favorite boss fight!

Yeah I colored it

Riverbed Berserker - Giant River Otter

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

In de-monopolizing my tech, I've seen so many people yelling "I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START," trying to do it all at once. and giving up. 1. Delete apps you don't need. 2. Create a non-gmail email. 3. Change your default search to DuckDuckGo. Congrats! You've started.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments. One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

The Traitor Baru Cormorant. "I hereby swear upon the name of the Fairer Hand and the hope of Aurdwynn..."

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

The alt-text version of what ChatGPT told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. Again, this is SO MUCH WORSE than what Michelle Carter was sent to prison for.

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

This pretty much sums up my thoughts re. the entire SFWA fiasco. Yes, those using LLMs will obviously lie. The point is not to ensure honesty, but to ensure that there are consequences for exploiting assumed honesty, when exposed.

there is a genre of person who hates AI in *their* field but sees how it could be useful in *other,* less prestigious, fields; ignore them. they are not trying to save the ship. they are just racing you to the lifeboats

This strikes me as just a way to let LLM in the door over at SFWA. You do not a survey to craft a no generative AI policy.

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

I've seen some people saying that the new SFWA rule on "AI" in the Nebulas will prevent people from being transparent about their LLM use. Newsflash: They wouldn't have been anyway. It would cost them readers. It would cost them votes. It would potentially cost them opportunities with publishers.

I agree with *all* of this, and would add only this: While there are shortcuts for making a piece of writing, there are no shortcuts for making a writer.

2) when deciding if a clear rule is a GOOD rule, the absolute last thing you should be doing is crafting a rule and then looking to see if it excludes people you like and respect and frantically redrafting it if it does so that those people are eligible for your contest

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT 😍 PinKeep is a pinball deckbuilding roguelite – Master the ball and flippers to collect resources and defeat your enemies! Demo coming in January, wishlist now! 👇

I do think it’s bizarre that the most gender essentialist conservative women are like “men should be in power but also women need spaces away from them because they’re dangerous and stupid and also dirty and gross and kinda boring”

At first you're like, why does this have a wiki page Then you find out it might be the best wiki page ever

In short we don't like "AI" because we can see a fucking used car salesman coming a mile away and yet you keep insisting there are five lights. We're not all stupid and we're not all gullible, and we won't blindly accept an obvious scam. You fucking ruined every product you've touched you assholes

If you want to give/get signed books by me for the holidays, you can place an online order with Hyperbole Bookstore (a family-owned indie) in College Station, TX hyperbolebookstore.com and ask for signature via their email contact for the Murderbot books, Witch King, Queen Demon, anything in print.

I’ve spent a lot of the last three years investigating the rise of anti-trans politics. Often, it came back to the controversy over trans women athletes. So I teamed up with @pablo.show to look into the leading figure on the issue: Riley Gaines. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 1/

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

The Predator’s heat vision is actually pretty shit or it would be able to see Arnold’s exhaled breath. In this essay I will

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Important: there is a pub in Holborn where a cat wears a ruff. His name is The General

what an efficient reminder that "free speech" only ever applies to a really specific type of guy

"sorry 🥺🥺 im just not smart enough to write without AI 🥺🥺🥺" is not an argument any writer can take seriously bc, unfortunately, we have met us