Watching Dark Matter (AppleTV) right after finishing reading the novel. I’m enjoying some of the adaptation changes, but still groaning at the trope of “movie prof gets annoyed that class ends in middle of his lecture even tho it’s obvious he’s done this boring lecture lots of times.”

The person I know at FEMA (not saying more than that to protect their ID from the govt) says they might get a 90-day contract extension now, though that will run out FIVE DAYS short of retirement. Also, their boss wrote them & others excellent reviews, but the Trump-appointed boss above them...

I guarantee if all of you parents out there arrive to the dinner table tonight talking about how you jestermaxxed frame at the office today before bonesmashing your aura, it’ll be over in a week.

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

I think this is true. But I also think that our friends need to push us to make some major changes, so that it will be near-impossible for something like this to happen again. We're going to need Constitutional amendments, if not a whole new Constitution.

Yes, why?

'Epstein talked about going to Paris with Woody Allen, calling it "les pedophiles convention." Woody Allen, who was accused of molesting his six-year-old step-daughter Dylan, has his name in the Epstein files over 7000 times.' Surely they were all about how much they like his early funny films.

Aw man, now I'm really missing my friend Ken Scroggins (the Man in Black). He lived in Hawaii and loved this kind of joke.

I got a shoulder massager thing because my shoulders were sore and I've used it so much now they are more sore

For posting things like this, I get put on lists like "LuddAItes" and "Butlerian Jihad" and "Technopessimists." I'm actually a bigtime believer that we can make a truly advanced society with amazing tech that serves everyone. I just don't buy the Anthropic/OpenAI/Musk bs.

This is how your fugly genAI pictures and plagiarized articles are made: illegal massively polluting carcinogenic data centers built in poor neighborhoods. #genAI #AI #artificalIntelligence #LLM #environment #Musk www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I won’t even share Substack links to writers I really like, like Heather Cox Richardson or Law Dork. Nor will I be a paid subscriber. But when people leave Substack and relaunch on Ghost or Medium or another more ethical site, I often subscribe, like when Tom Cox left Substack recently.

Once again: Why I won’t subscribe to your Substack or even share it, even if I like it. But I will celebrate when you move off Substack, @hcrichardson.bsky.social @lawdorknews.bsky.social and others.

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold. In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.

Aww! I just saw an announcement on my university's message board that they're providing ¥200 ($1.31) meals to students over the break from classes between now and mid-March. That's really nice!

Quick dragon flow.

Tawny wrote a whole emotional Insta post about her and Cirroc and everyone working so hard to make sure that it felt like it did justice to Avery and being in regular communication with him to ensure that it had his blessing, people really think a Black Trekkie writer is fucking around with that???

We also call one dollar coins loonies and two dollar coins toonies

Dune, the original far superior David Lynch version. I watched that movie at least weekly for over a decade. In fact, amongst my circle of friends who knew of my obsession, I only communicated in quotes from the movie, usually while off my ass on gin.

I love this sketch! My dog is like this, well, a lot of the time. Like anytime I'm moving around, staring at me like I might just, out of nowhere, decide to attack her. She's actually doing way better now after 5 years of gently working on getting her to trust me.

me: Donnie did you miss us while we were gone to dinner Donnie:

Honestly, those are the only two subjects where I defer to his expertise

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

At one point, I could probably rattle off the entire script of Highlander from memory and describe every scene in detail for the visually impaired. Now, I'm hard pressed to remember whether I took my asthma meds, sometimes resulting in mild tachycardia from taking them twice.

Politicians, especially Republicans, who stand against Trump know that we are entering the "dictator's critic mysteriously fell out of a window" phase of this authoritarian takeover.

Roses are red My socks are hole-y Armadillidium AKA roly-poly 👋jazz hands👋

I dearly love the hoverfly, more than any other fly. Don't be fooled, it's not a bee, though quite adept at mimicry!

literally "Republican politicians only do this when they're very stressed" lol

Due to the picture/headline combo, I thought this was a joke, but nope, it's real. If you have a tattoo and persistent conjunctivitis, get it checked out. Your doctor may not have ever heard of this and thus may not make the connection.

I have an in-law who told me that AOC is "a dumb bartender." I replied, "I've watched her question witnesses before Congress with more skill than most lawyers in courtrooms. Stop watching Fox News. It is filling your head with porridge. Oh, and I thought you people were FOR people having jobs."

we had to do the whole 'concentration camps and death camps are different and concentration camps are *very very bad*' thing eight years ago with the mass detention of Uighurs. discourse just keeps depressingly repeating.

You know how we keep saying "It's a death cult!" That is not exaggeration. They seriously think "anyone who is weak as I define weak is better off dead." (All fertilized eggs are required to be carried to term, though, even if it kills the mother.)

WHAT????

the extremely talented @sketchesbyannie.bsky.social was kind enough to sketch our sweet little man and send us the sketch and I love it so much I cried a little when I opened it!!! (pictured here with the model)

#amquerying Am open to be represented by the right agent for me. Need literary representation again so bad. Universe help! How I've cried to you & begged.

I feel physically sick

I’m currently writing a book about the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie in 1977. This is indistinguishable from how American Nazis talked in public.

Why I don't subscribe or even read posts on Ars Technica. How can you rely on news sites that uncritically publish ai-generated articles?

let's stay together

the closer kids are to teenagers the more effective this is try saying "6-7" to a 13 year old and watch them wither and die inside

While Trump’s second term has been defined by attacks on democracy, it’s also seen an obliteration of reproductive rights led heedlessly by the GOP. And Republicans will not stop, because they're dead set on controlling all freedoms, Planned Parenthood’s Lauren Blauvelt writes.

In my elementary-school years, we moved around a lot and I made few to no friends in school before moving again. Later, I had a small circle of nerdy friends but I was already really into reading. I leaned hard into "books are the gateway to a thousand worlds." Still that way: happy to just read.

I was an only child of a busy single parent who lived in a neighborhood with no other children within several blocks. I was just lonely. For years. Very very lonely. Rarely bored tho. I had an active imagination, lots of toys and dolls, an endless supply of books, and (when I was about 12) cable TV.

I'd like to take this excellent point in a slightly different direction as “War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin.” Imagine what happens when what @disabilitystor1.bsky.social describes works its way up the chain of command. 1/

It's not even a "now shifting" thing. He's *always* been like this. In CA he's pretty widely disliked by both the right and the left. The only folks behind him are the Vote Blue No Matter Who crowd and centrists.

I have a new website! It's simple, but I exist online again, with a new domain. I have no plans to add my writing and art to this new website. What I do plan to do, is make more ebooks and zines of my favorite articles, art and photography from my old website. saimihanma.com

The SAVE Act will not reduce voter fraud (which is miniscule and mostly committed by Republicans voting in 2 states) but it will disenfranchise millions of US citizens and make it easier for Republicans to hold onto power. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

This is the pet project of one rich AF Jewish nepo baby white lady who lives on the upper east side and claims to speak for all Jews and throws her money around to control the messaging and it is a fucking nightmare

I’m also kind of surprised that anyone would expect Arundhati Roy, of all people, to take an ‘apolitical’ stance on…anything

Anybody proposing data centers in space is telling you they are deeply unserious and ignorant about space without telling you they are deeply unserious and ignorant about space. Don't give them any money or decision-making responsibility.