Man goes to the doctor, says his achievements are meaningless and lost in the sands of time. Doctor says, “You should go see the ruined statue of Oxymandias, king of kings! Look upon his works, ye mighty, and despair!” Man despairs, shaking sand out of his vast, trunkless legs, “But doctor...”

Turnip lanterns were still standard down our way (Scotland) in the '80s. Maybe it's nostalgia but I'll always reckon they looked more sinister than pumpkins. Heck of a job to hollow out, though. [Image cribbed from BBC. Image description in quoted post: turnip with weird skull/Grey alien carving]

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

My mum: You're not autistic! Also my mum: Why is the inside of tomatoes /like that/ 🫠 Also my mum: if anyone scrapes their knife and fork together I will literally die Also my mum: let's meet at this place and time every week and always order the exact same thing 🥰

dunk on bad people's actions, not lack of intelligence many good people were never going to be scholars. we exist in a distribution, do our best with what we got. people may wish they were smart. don't be mad if you had an easier time in school, more options. if you're tall, help people reach stuff

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed. THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

Realize that you are only now starting to become who you really are, and make peace with that, because it's actually a fucking beautiful thing.

If you are a weirdo muppet dude and you like to interrupt pink creatures minding their own business singing thats called Manamanasplaining

the best answer i got for this:

Word of the Day: BLOBBERY - a garden made of shrubs and bushes shorn to look like blobs. (📷: Paolo)

This make so much sense always follow the money. Because everyone was confused on why this raid took place. #Chicago

Younger kid has just finished playing Roki. She's young enough that she'd forgotten most of the plot from when Chris played and is swearing it's the best game she's ever played or seen. I don't blame her in the least. Phenomenal game. Thanks @kanaratron.bsky.social !

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well. youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

If you want to email Keir Starmer telling him, politely, what you think of his plan for digital ID cards we've made it super easy for you: goodlawproject.org/campaign/kei...

Not a drill! Ahhhhhh!!!

If you're as angry as I am about how our trans brothers & sisters were treated this week, remember that not all of them got the loving parents we did & end up on the streets. Maybe today is a great day to donate to a local shelter & give trans kids a roof over their heads and the love they deserve.

If any one of us called for Brian Kilmeade to be killed by lethal injection, for any reason, we'd be rightly excoriated. Yet he can go on national television, casually call for the extrajudicial murder of an entire group of people, and it'll be forgotten before the coffee gets cold. Fuck this.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

We’re hearing that EHRC’s updated Code is now with the Minister for Equalities. Now, more than ever, it’s critical to write to your MP to get them to pressure her for a debate & vote in Parliament, not for this Code to become statutory automatically. Please do write; template letter linked below 🙏

BREAKING 🚨 The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared. It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating. But politicians still have time to stop this.

Lord Byron was so annoying that every woman he ever met was spurred on to great success out of sheer spite for this man

🚨Regarding the #Pentagon and #SpaceForce announcements: Reps @rokhanna.bsky.social (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) are holding a press conference tomorrow, 9/3, 10:30am, with ten victims of Epstein’s sex trafficking. Link to watch live: youtube.com/live/q6fUosr... 🗣️ Release the Epstein files

It has taken a lot of work from Greens, trade unions and regular rail users to get to this point. We need to build on it with a focus on more and better connections and the best possible services across our country if we are to encourage people out of their cars and onto rail.

I admit I still haven't read it, because I just wanted to have one more unread Pratchett book in reserve. But that's me told, I guess! Thanks Rob.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

French and Canadian researchers have shown that faulty mitochondria directly drive memory loss in dementia. Using a new tool to boost mitochondrial activity in mice, they restored memory performance, proving cause and effect for the first time. buff.ly/2REM0fd #ShareGoodNewsToo

Sure, Mastercard... Let's look at the 2022 study "The Impact of Mastercard's Adult Content Policy on Adult Content Creators" www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Can't wait to read this. :) I have my copy, I just need the brain fog to lift. Come on brain, I have gothic sapphic literature to read! (Also can confirm that cupcake was frikking delicious in addition to looking great)

Good article. Great to see SU&SD being VERY vocal about this. Good stuff!

A blood transfusion saved my life. If you're able to donate, please do!

The Phantom of the Paradise circa. 2022

Motherfucking wind farms…

Ad blocking is an accessibility issue. Until all ads are a) static, b) inoffensive (inc. non-creepy, and also not for obvious scams), and c) infrequent, I will continue to block the fuck out of most of them. Both because everyone who wants to should, and also because I do actually need to.

I love my adopted country so much.

Hi. Hello. I’ve seen this in less formal settings (looking at you, myriad of PhD programs) You know what happens? You get a bunch of people producing the same amount of work that they do in 30 or so hours a week, but they’re way more miserable and the quality is shit.

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

I absolutely do not want to be showing my face, and far far less my ID or bank card, to "prove my age" to any app. Internet anonymity has risks but also protects, and regardless there is no way I'm putting information that personal and potentially abuseable out there.

Also as an addition; sign this petition ASAP if you're someone in the UK. Rather than just sitting around and doing fuck all, we need to make it clear that this Bullshit OSA won't work. Ever. Nor do folk fucking want it. Contact your MPs about the bill too. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

honestly it's so much more than LGBT censorship, it's a ridiculously massive step forward for fascism as a whole

Are your em-dashes getting flagged as AI? Replace those U+2014 em dashes (—) with the visually equivalent U+2015 horizontal bar (―) Better yet, go big or go home with a two-em-dash (⸺) or three-em-dash (⸻)!

Polish painter Nespoon creates street art with lace patterns #WomensArt

This amendment vote will happen overnight. Your script for your senators:

You are not strength. You are not production. You are not labor. You are not defined only by what you can do for other people. You are a whole, complicated, complex person. With needs, desires and your own moments of vulnerability and fragility. Treat yourself with the grace and love you deserve.

As Pride Month comes to its annual conclusion, I've gone ahead and made some supplementary donations to @translifeline.org and Transgender Law Center, because now is certainly the time for that, isn't it. The world (and my personal world) is better for the trans folks who are in it. Simple as that.

In Utah, anti-trans lawmakers demanded a review of youth gender-affirming care. The review found it to be “safe, effective and fully in line with mainstream pediatric medical practice.” www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...