AI (ab)users are such snowflakes. If you want to argue in favour of workers, please don’t use the plagiarism machine for your illustrations. It’s that simple

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Hello, police? This bag of crisps is telling me that I can win tickets to some World Cup match in the US and I feel threatened. Please put together a task force.

Er zijn nu ondertussen wel een aantal verhalen van mijn hand verschenen, in boek- en webvorm, maar niet zoveel dat het niet nog altijd bijzonder voelt. Toch zijn sommige verhalen net een tikje bijzonderder dan andere.

One for me is Peter Jurasik as Londo from Babylon 5. I remember on one of the commentary tracks hearing that to warm up for an episode shoot, Peter would pace around his trailer a few times bellowing "My dear Mister Garibaldi" and then that's it, it would all snap into place and he'd be Londo.

This is a dance off. if you see this, repost with a dance or be eliminated.

best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

What's the perfect GIF for your Bluesky persona?

William Butler Yeats gazing in the direction of Bethlehem:

name a performer you're always happy to see in a film or series

“The biggest movie of the year you turn 16 is how your year is going to go” I mean, it could be worse…

Let’s frame this news like the way Western media frame Iranian actions: “ The ayatollah of capitalism Donald Trump put a fatwa on Iranian government officials”

The Dow is under 48k. Has someone informed Pam Bondi yet?

En alsof dat nog niet genoeg was, mijn verhaal met @finnaudenaert.bsky.social, 'De wimpel' is nu ook in papieren vorm verkrijgbaar, in een bundel van veertig verhalen die elk een eigen draai en einde geven aan Finns opening. #amwriting #fantasy publishnl.bookmundo.com/site/userweb...

NIEUW VERHAAL! Droomdieven, in de bundel Zandmannetjes van Godijn Publishing. Wat doe je als je merkt dat je dromen in je slaap worden gestolen, en niet alleen die van jou, maar die van iedereen? Nu in de betere boekhandels! #amwriting #fantasy

Pokémon Pokopia seems like an awesome game. A crying shame that they’re only releasing it digitally and on game key card. Therefore I won’t be picking it up unless it’s for less than 20 bucks

Who could have seen coming that “peace candidate” Trump would bomb 8 countries in his first year back as president? 🙄

Snapped from a (Commodore) Amiga Format CD from 1996: A Babylon 5 Starfury animation created in Lightwave3D.

The terror states strike again. Two fascist states out of control. I stand with the people of Iran, who have been tirelessly resisting the regime the US is also responsible for.

I’m glad I’m part of the 17%

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Share an actual fight scene with actual humans made by actual humans. youtu.be/rhr3TzEknzY?...

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

This past weekend at brunch my friends apologized for not taking Gamergate more seriously when it was happening and admitted that I was right. I've never wanted to not be right more.

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

«When you jackhammer into the sewer, you get covered in shit. That’s what the Epstein Files are: shit. Unredacted to antagonize the victims; redacted to protect the perpetrators» sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...

Elon Musk, the patron saint of Stans.

Having a Dutch politician as NATO bigwig evokes mixed emotions--that's exactly the slimy kind of guy who can succesfully appease homicidal toddlers... but that's still appeasing homicidal toddlers.

Microsoft is the grim reaper of talented studios

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

72 procent van de giften aan PVV, FvD, JA21 en BVNL komt uit het clubje van Quote 500-leden. Extreem-rijk ❤️ Extreem-rechts

Ik heb me nog nooit zo erg een auteur gevoeld! Niet alleen ben ik sinds deze maand lid van de Auteursbond en is het dus officieel, maar nu sta ik ook nog weer eens op de longlist van de Godijn Publishing fantasywedstrijd van dit jaar! #amwriting

The absolute accuracy of this.

I remember saying months ago that the reason you don't see Proud Boys anymore is because they're all ICE agents now and I had a bunch of people poo-poo me and say I was reaching. And now the leader of the Proud Boys is in the list of ICE agents that a whistleblower just leaked.

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

Just a reminder that George Conway is not fundraising right now to run against a MAGA republican. He is fundraising to run against progressive Democrats.

Post a famous bathroom scene

Amen.

Democrats aren’t going to save the US. You’re upset over Venezuela? —> Obama bombed six sovereign nations and ousted Gaddafi without confessional approval. You’re upset about ICE —> Biden expanded funding to ICE to record level. Are they better? Yes. Are they good enough? Far from it.

For all those Democrat “vote blue no matter who” liberals who are now clutching their pearls at the war crimes committed in Venezuela, please hold Obama accountable in the same way. He bombed six countries without congressional approval.

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

This is nothing like Iraq. That was a catastrophe and moral atrocity, but also, Bush was incredibly popular, spent a year securing broad public support, received congressional authorization. Trump is very unpopular, has not bothered to build any case, and is doing this illegally and unilaterally.

Please put the US under sanctions. Cancel the LA Olympics. No international conferences.

Hey MAGA, how’s that “peace president” of yours doing?

I’ve always been a gamer l, so when the camping site we stayed at in 1992 had a small arcade, including a brand spanking new Street Fighter 2 cabinet. My 12 year old mind was blown 🤯 And now, 33 years later I get to relive it a little bit with this beautiful barcade. Can’t wait to try it out!

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.