As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

It is important to remember that these fascists are not invulnerable evil geniuses. They’re mostly evil nepo babies with unearned confidence, zero emotion regulation skills, fragile egos, deep cowardice, no loyalty, few loyalists, an old playbook, and a lot of money. And they can be defeated.

Being compared unfavourably to Stephen Harper is not a good look for you Mr. Prime Minister. #canpoli #canadasky #Carney #environment

OMF’s Melbourne ME/CFS Collaboration has made strides toward developing a diagnostic algorithm for ME/CFS. Read more about it, including the sensitivity and specificity of the algorithm in the paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43....

yeah Jared Leto is Skeletor in He-Man don't pay money to watch that shit. you might as well be grooming teens for him. It's not even art, you can't even argue that it has greater value than a few lousy women, it's a fucking cartoon made to sell toys www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

🧵 We tend to think the internet is permanent, but recent events remind us that our digital record is fragile & being shaped in real time. 📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters 📖 Download & read: archive.org/details/vani... 🛒 Purchase in print: www.betterworldbooks.com/product/deta...

Hey! Hey, you! Happy Friday! ❤️ Yolo

Today’s the International Awareness Day for #MECFS, #fibromyalgia, and other chronic neuro-immune diseases. After so many years, I’m not sure what else I can say to mark the occasion – so instead, I’m going to offer five things that allies can do to make a difference…

Our Emergency Department fundraising is on fire! Note: in order to make the best use of our $15k match, we need to raise $15k from other donors. We're so close! Can you get us a little closer? millionsmissing.funraise.org/fundraiser/m...

If you're in the Vancouver area, you can oppose the latest proposal for data centers in Mount Pleasant. It takes under a minute to let the city know you're against these projects. Spread the word :) www.shapeyourcity.ca/111-e-5

Today, May 12 is International ME Awareness Day. Wishing hope, support, comfort and ease for my fellow PwME everywhere. And most of all, effective treatments and a cure. It's not too much to ask for. 💙 #ME-CFS #MillionsMissing #disability #chronicillness

Look, I am not panicking, not saying you should panic, not saying you should even be worried. I am saying a well fitting respirator is a good idea, especially traveling, especially in crowds and hospitals. If you stopped, you can and should restart.

Share the last 4 TTRPGs you played: - Masks: A New Generation - The One Ring - Sentai & Sensibility - the Discworld RPG (I think?) Haven’t been playing much other than for @dungeonpunks.bsky.social lately. 😆

Canadian COVID Forecast: May 9 - May 22, 2026 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: AB HIGH: CAN, BC, MB, NL, North, SK MODERATE: NS, ON, PEI, QC About 1 in 188 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Friendly reminder to all AP producers 💚 YouTube doesn‘t care about the longterm storage. Post your show to the Internet Archive! Heres how! allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/iachecklist And a quicker version if you only have 30 mins! allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/iagettingsta...

My latest includes reflections on staying engaged without denying our limits, updates on ICE’s shifting tactics, and a new list of must-reads.

Read @althiaraj.bsky.social’s full piece here: www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

Althia Raj is doing some of the most important reporting out there right now, exposing how Carney is dismantling any semblance of Canada’s progressive values. Pharmacare, child care, now the environment… Please, pay attention. He’s eviscerating environmental laws worse than Harper. Than HARPER!!!

Precautionary Principle Stepping Down To Spend More Time With Family

Viruses don't just go away because the calendar has flipped over into another month. They stick around as long as their human hosts allow and enable it. "Understanding how often we're exposed is the first step to reducing it." #covid #flu #chronicillness #maskup

How to Stop an Epidemic: There are some answers in the past. In March 2003, one SARS patient showed up in a Vancouver emergency room and another went to a Toronto emergency room. But two very different sequences of events unfolded.

Publ*c health’s main job has become to tell people “don’t panic” and “trust us” without doing much to make those things possible and it’s really sad. But they won’t do better because too many people put saving face (and “the economy”) over saving lives.

Uncertainty is heavy, but it doesn’t have to be quiet. This May, for ME/CFS Awareness Month, we’re inviting you to share the questions you carry because of this illness. Big or small. Practical or existential. We want to hear yours. #MECFSis @openmedf.bsky.social @lowenergylounge.bsky.social

May the 4th be with all the animators and other workers fired by Disney so they can invest in GenAI for their future releases 🖖

If you're at all familiar with Pride & Prejudice, it probably won't surprise you to hear that my new game "In Want Of A Wife" is Jane Austen-inspired. It was a fun one to write, though it took me some time to work out the Houseguest/Single Man mechanic wording. maggiefrench.itch.io/in-want-of-a...

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It’s finally May! 🌷 Our 2026 Benefit + Awareness Month is now LIVE, honouring the International Awareness Month for #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis and #Fibromyalgia (ME & FM). Join us at Benefit.OperaMariposa.com in support of the #ChronicIllness community and @mefmsocietyofbc.bsky.social:

I have heard in honor of international workers’ day you should attend a rally. I have heard in honor of international workers’ day you should not work or shop. And I have heard in honor of international workers’ day you should wear a mask as Covid remains a labor issue.

Happy May Day! Covid is a workers rights issue.

Celebrate Caturday by submitting your game, comic, digital photo album, or experimental essay to the #CatJam!

ICYMI: Your weekend listen is here! We’ve heard a lot about the Hep B vaccine and the awful (now-cancelled) study on children in Guinea-Bissau. That vaccine increased the human lifespan and was shared widely. It also has a connection to medical colonialism and raises ethical questions of its own.

For anyone that is reading this and thinking it’s ridiculous… It’s the same justification most people are using to not wear masks/respies. Just sayin’.

Listen: on Earth Day (especially on Earth Day) you must understand that it is not that the world is ending, but that the world as we knew it has already ended.

Great. What could go wrong? Btw, the 1918 "Spanish flu" would more correctly be called the Kansas flu, having originated there in military camps before being spread abroad (by the military, initially) and killing 1/5 of the world's population. #flu #vaccines #USmilitary #pandemic

hey if you're going to make posts with fancy fonts, please provide alt text! Screen readers can't always read those fonts.

Many chronically ill people like not feeling worse, hence staying home, not that they liked being forced to have less IRL connections.

@catsofyore.bsky.social a friend is hosting this cat themed game jam on itch.io, which will be turned into a bundle to benefit a cat rescue. Would you mind reposting to help get it out there? bsky.app/profile/whim...

Ten days left of the Cat Jam for Charity! Open to all project types, new and existing, so long as they feature or are about CATS! Everything's getting bundled up for a cat rescue non-profit, so I'd love to see lots and lots of entries! #gamedev #comics #ttrpgs #catjam itch.io/jam/charity-...

Sanofi will be making Novavax available in Canada this fall — but it’s up to the provinces or territories to order this vaccine. Send an email to your health minister and your local representative to tell them why Novavax access is essential for many people: covidsociety.ca/news/nuvaxov...

Go Go Intergalactic Regency Rangers! Part 2 of our Sentai & Sensibility one-shot is out now! www.podcastsofdoom.com/dungeonpunks...

Earth day is coming up & teachers can build #corsirosenthalbox filters for #EarthDay to help the school community learn how to deal with #wildfire smoke

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - “In dark times, should the stars also go out?”

By the way, Covid is still contributing to the disability, death, and severe illness of people being held in concentration camps. If we won’t bother to stop it outside these places, it will continue to harm vulnerable people with no recourse inside.

While cold and flu season may have passed, we at The Sick Times know that COVID-19 spreads year-round. Register for our free webinar on April 28. We'll help you find data on pathogens in your area, and interpret those data to inform safety measures for you and your community. luma.com/5mthaudg

📣 Novavax now! Canadians need access to the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine ✉️ Use our online tool to send emails to health ministers stillcoviding.ca/en/take-acti... Please share! #NovavaxNow #COVID #CovidIsNotOver

BREAKING NEWS! The Novavax Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine is back in Canada - but it’s up to the Province whether BCians will be able to access Canada's only protein-based COVID vaccine option in fall/winter 2026/27. Join us to demand vaccine access & choice: donoharmbc.ca/bc-demands-n...

Our page appears frozen but *you can still pledge.* Please, please, please tell everyone you know that the Public Access campaign is still going, despite this catastrophic glitch. Please re-post. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

You can count on one hand the outlets taking Covid coverage seriously, or not pretending it's 'just the flu,' or a thing that happened to someone else, once. Covid is still reshaping our world, our healthcare systems, our families, and our futures. Get caught up: www.patreon.com/posts/covid-...

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.