"I'm so, so tired of ads for Ozempic, Viagra, and AI garbage, please give me something else" A finger on the monkey's paw curls "Draft Kings is your number one destination for every sport!"

Friends, can I ask a favour. Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy 1/🧵

Back in February, I finally watched Cats (2019). icosahedron.website/@bstacey/114...

"You ever get to thinking about the end-credits alter egos of Daria characters, misremember the Cenobite Priest drawing as having been of Jane instead of Trent, and have a whole story just unfold for you? No, then, that's only me? Well." archiveofourown.org/works/609779...

#BOSTON: Queer & trans youth, parents & orgs will testify at the Boston City Council hearing on Protecting Life-Saving Online Resources for Marginalized Communities in response to censorship bills like KOSA & attacks on Section 230. RSVP: FFTF.Link/BostonHearing #LGBTQ #KOSA #Section230

How much lead do you have to ingest to think you can sell voters on your victory of creating new convoluted HSAs to replace (and, likely, be less than) what used to be a couple button clicks on the ACA marketplace website? Nobody asked for this and nobody will like it. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office. If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

OK, because I was stuck inside due to crummy weather, I wrote 2200 words of amicus brief. @fightforthefuture.org @eff.org @cdt.org @ericgoldman.bsky.social @jmiers230.bsky.social

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An older lady at this hotel just mistook me for the pool’s towel girl. I AM standing near the towels. I am also soaking wet, wearing a wetsuit, standing next to a surfboard, and guzzling water. I handed her a towel & then asked where my tip is. She laughed & wandered off.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

Meanwhile, my school is actually ENCOURAGING us to use it. They want me to use it for lesson planning. They want me to use it for WRITING NARRATIVE COMMENTS on report cards! How insulting that I would use the cheatbot because I can't reflect on my students' progress and provide individual feedback.

I know this is an "old man yells at cloud" moment, but compared to the work I was getting a few years ago, my students are producing mush, and their ability to apply facts to new problems is much worse. Even with search engines, you had to actually process the info. I want out.

Generative AI is ruining my motivation to teach. It is not a bold new era of information that I'm excited to see my students explore. It's a cheat that prevents them from thinking. It lets them avoid even a moment of confusion and struggle, necessary to process new ideas.

Every public health and healthcare worker's worst nightmare.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

(Rod Serling) Submitted for your ranked choice the case of one Andrew M. Cuomo, smarting scion of suburbia dethroned over workplace boundaries, unwilling to relax his wandering grip on power, and doomed to repeat humiliating attempts at return upon that most brittle boundary of all—the twilight zone

Is anyone other than @techfreedom.org filing an amicus brief in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Meta (SJC-13747)? It looks like there's 1 week before the deadline. As a MA resident, I'd cosign a brief urging the Court not to create a regulatory regime that Meta can survive but small sites can't

I spent a year in government in a civil law enforcement capacity and there is nothing on this Earth that has come close to the experience of being the guy who gets to say "I'm from the government and we think what happened to you is really fucked up, would you like to testify against the bastards?"

CC @fightforthefuture.org @eff.org @cdt.org @ericgoldman.bsky.social @jmiers230.bsky.social

Is anyone other than @techfreedom.org filing an amicus brief in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Meta (SJC-13747)? It looks like there's 1 week before the deadline. As a MA resident, I'd cosign a brief urging the Court not to create a regulatory regime that Meta can survive but small sites can't

School officials in Arkansas have banned an adaptation of Little Women which reimagines Jo as queer. A parent complained that allowing children to read about LGBTQ+ characters was "grooming." The school agreed and removed the book.

"I am seeing a tool that’s going to be used for censorship... It’s going to be used to remove books from that are about queerness or sexuality or race or history. But institutions are going to buy this product because they have a mandate from state legislatures to do this”

This year, the Roberts majority has let states ban medical care for trans kids, and let Trump expel trans troops and make trans people erase themselves to travel abroad. And Roberts et al aren't done: they're gonna strike down states' conversion therapy bans and uphold states' trans athlete bans.

Russia says it will mandate age and identity verification for every internet user, claiming its necessary to protect children and purge bots. Every internet user will be registered with a specific identifier that will allow or deny access to certain materials. And, of course, track them.

This is terrible news. Transgender Americans need the ability to travel without being outed by government document. The Supreme Court supports efforts by the Trump administration to make us second class citizens.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation. The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent. More to come: www.lawdork.com

So the thing about the Bluesky "Rude" label is that this single label has two different semantics, one of which is useful for content labeling, one of which is not: - "This user chronically responds to other people's posts with negativity." - "This user opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq"

Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology

A Tennessee county is temporarily shutting down two of it libraries, ostensibly so that it can purge them of LGBTQ+ books without public oversight.

Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn. She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C. www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-san...

if the internet can't make sure this guy gets a lifetime supply of sandwiches what are we even doing

the return of Lombrosio physiognomy

Hi friends, enemies, and casually contemptuous acquaintances! I'm looking for an astronomer/planetary scientist who studies late-stage evolution in planetary systems around low-mass stars. In particular, examining the question of whether Sun-like stars nom their planets up, Cookie Monster-style. 🧪🔭

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

wrote about ai real estate listings for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...

the depressing AF thing is that this will be used to advocate for laws that Facebook is rich enough to survive, but Bluesky/Reddit/Wikipedia/Mastodon aren't www.reuters.com/investigatio...

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

Tune into @TexasStandard now to hear about how Texas schools are using AI to screen library books for content banned under a new state law, SB 13. Talked with them about my recent story: www.statesman.com/politics/art...

The UK report behind the new porn ban blames it for being a major cause of violence against women, yet can't cite a single academic study showing a link. Their proof? "Anecdotal evidence submitted to this review” with a single footnote to a BBC interview with a quote from a school teacher.

The Complaint Filed By Republicans Against the Maps Created by California’s Prop 50 Raising Racial Gerrymandering and Intentional Discrimination Claims Faces an Uphill Battle, Especially Given 2026 Timing electionlawblog.org?p=152920

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

The #OTW is monitoring new laws around the world and working to ensure #AO3 remains a safe, open space for creative expression. OTW Legal addresses concerns about current and proposed legislation on age verification, privacy, and freedom of expression. Read more at: otw-news.org/y8sxsp6v

Don't trust a New York Times reporter. Don't talk to a New York Times reporter. They are the most ambitious journalists on the planet and will do anything to get the story their editor wants. The truth doesn't matter to them, only getting the story their editor wants so they can move up.

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

Fellow Seattle people the mayor race looks like it might be so fucking close it comes down to "did your ballot not count because you fucked up your signature" So make sure your ballot counted!! info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/... We could have our own mamdani, our own cool mayor!!!!

ICE abducted 9 documented workers at a car wash in Allston & denied them the chance to retrieve their documents — this is cruel & harrowing. My office is in touch with the families and working with them to track down their loved ones & connect them with legal counsel.

KOSA UPDATE: House lawmakers are considering removing duty of care & KOSA is currently in limbo since the House & Senate versions will differ. BUT the threat of Bad Internet Bills still looms as the House considers age verification in new kids safety package... www.theverge.com/policy/81087...