1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Virginia's Senate Majority Leader confirms to Bolts that Virginia Democrats intend to move the constitutional amendment that'd allow for a mid-decade gerrymander in January. Says it is “going to be one of the first orders of business."

Got my flu shot today. Arm is a bit ouchy, but as a teacher forced to be in roomsful of coughing, sniffling uni students every day, the pain is a pleasure. (Covid shot won’t be until Feb, due to having caught covid a week before my appt to get the shot last month.)

I've TWO of these beautiful 'Witch & Hare' original linocuts by my mum, Jo, to give away to my Bluesky followers. The print is from my recently republished book, Help The Witch. All you have to do to enter is repost this story from the book (maybe give it a read too?) www.tom-cox.com/robot-2/

I find it kind of beautiful that we're seeing the next iteration of Apocalypse World's DIY art. Two of the biggest names in indie roleplaying games show, once again, that it's not about spectacle or expense. It's about using the skills you have and the skills you can develop to make it how you can.

Lovecraft: by the way, who won? Lovecraft: some nice clean-cut anglo saxon protestant, i presume? Barker: oh howard ha ha Barker: let me tell him Poe: now clive Barker: fuck you edgar, let me tell him! Barker: give me this one!

When we win, this is going to require its own JDPON special tribunal just to deal with everyone who made it happen

Anybody, no matter how rich, should be ashamed to spend $1000 on a cup of coffee when they could buy one for $20 that’s maybe 1% less amazing, and give the other $980 to charity.

"Rockstar, Rockstar, you're disgusting, we charge you with union busting," the protesters declared.

NYC, come out 11/7 and say: Billionaires out of our classrooms! Stand with @aaup.org @aft.org @debtcollective.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org @uupinfo.bsky.social. @higheredlabor.bsky.social @nysut.bsky.social @fordhamaaup.bsky.social @aaupcu.bsky.social, NYU AAUP, SDS, & many more

There are no words for how evil this is

When the shakedowns just start happening in public. $NVO

the name: Tal (male form of Talia, which means "dew of god"; i simply dethroned god to make a new name) pronouns: he/him, not they/them hair: short arms: gettin swole

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

Too real

I mean, do you understand how much the dems are dancing hearing him talk like this? Their "Strategy" is to tell people to stop whining and that costs aren't actually going up and they fixed everything.

You’d be lucky to go to prison, Steve. It would save you from Mussolini’s exit.

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

“Sadly for Jamaica, I have every reason to believe that when accounting for direct and indirect fatalities as well as long-lasting morbidity and mental health impacts, the human toll reported so far from Hurricane Melissa is only the tip of the iceberg.” www.nbcmiami.com/weather/hurr...

If they tried to ban Joe Camel today conservatives would riot. Elon Musk would live stream his toddler chain smoking cowboy killers. MAHA would say cigarettes are actually healthy if smoked the right way, etc. etc. Anything to hurt people.

Aviation analysts said the reductions would most likely hit the country’s busiest hubs, including the Los Angeles and San Francisco regions that serve as major gateways for Hawaii passengers. #Honolulu International is on the #FAA’s reduction list, meaning Hawaiʻi travelers may face limits.

i'm happy to see someone speaking up against these soapmedicalists trying to say that dishwashing is only valid if the soap comes in a pod. say it LOUDER for the people in the back that YOU DON'T NEED A PRESCRIPTION for how much detergent to use!!! you can just try using soap and see what happens!!!

At a museum conference and it’s amazing how much this piece is unheeded/still needed in a lot of museum work.

“The destruction of U.S.A.I.D. [caused] public man-made death. And the cruelty and lethality will only grow as the Administration expands its rollback of public-health advances to the homeland.” www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Seems unlikely he’ll be able to hit those robot sales targets.

Remember when he promised to end world hunger from the spare change in his pocket? And then didn’t even try? As someone pointed out, his pay package could fully fund SNAP for 10 years.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

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Jackson's dissent, joined by Sotomayor and Kagan, says the evidence showed that gender-incongruent passports led to humiliating, invasive searches of trans Americans (including strip searches) since their gender marker didn't align with their appearance. The policy is both cruel and irrational.

Today a D.C. jury found the man who threw a sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol officer not guilty on a misdemeanor assault charge. @mollyroberts.bsky.social was in the courtroom for the trial and reports on the proceedings that led to the acquittal:

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History asked me to explain in 1000 words why the American jury is so important to our democracy for their civic education project. Here it is: www.gilderlehrman.org/community-co...

There are a lot of different reasons to publish, and continue publishing, a magazine, but this is the one joy of it that never gets old.

Every couple of weeks I get a post that's meant for Chuck Schumer, but I am not Chuck Schumer

Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...

The thing I want to stress to people: Authors (and other artists you admire) don't *expect* you to be scintillating when you meet us, so don't worry about being clever. What *is* appreciated is if you're nice. Just be nice! Nice is good!

"It wasn’t just part of her platform; she talked about it all the time, spending a quarter of her ad money on the issue."

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The dramatic repudiation of Trump this week wrecks a number of absurd narratives the media has pushed lately. In the runup to the election, NYT pieces kept telling us Dems were overly obsessed with attacking Trump. That dumb idea now lies in ruins. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2027...

In a world full of terrible role models for young people, I’m so glad there are also smart, joyful and empathetic people like Ms Rachel and Mychal Threets.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

What was designed to keep workplaces orderly can just as easily be used to keep them silent. Within Japan’s deeply vertical social structure, 縦社会 (tate shakai), the rule to “report upward” functions smoothly only when those above act in good faith. buff.ly/lsjdygS

When you're actively worse then the Tories when supporting poor families...

Pomme chilling out

Holy crap. MAGA diehard Danielle Jurinsky lost her city council seat in Aurora, Colorado. She more than anyone is responsible for ginning up the false claim that Tren de Aragua had "taken over" the city. She also repeatedly tried to dissolve the city's groundbreaking public defender office.

Everyone okay Wellington? That was a big one and I still hear it

That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today

Stop sharing AI slop. It's one thing if you don't know or just made a mistake. No need to breathe down someones neck b/c its harder to tell nowadays. But if you do know (ESPECIALLY IF YOU DO KNOW) even if you're posting it to make fun of it or sharing it unironically... consider not doing that.

“The call center is expected to receive and process 6,000 to 7,000 calls per day.” if everyone calls and reports an I.C. Weiner, or Amanda Hugnkiss I bet we could help them with their quota, no problem

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.