This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

Live now! A make-up birthday stream set at twitch.tv/voxsinistra and testing on TikTok 👯‍♀️

John Waters with his parents, 1979 Photographer: Thornton Daniels, courtesy of John Waters mitchipedia.tumblr.com/post/8198883...

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There are genuinely useful things that this tech can do and the reflexive belief that this is all inherently bad or has absolutely no use is one that is going to result in the unilateral disarmament of the left in technology spaces. It's a force multiplier when you know what you're doing.

Appliance companies, call me when you have the courage to build The Cassette Futurism Kitchen of Tomorrow. The young people have never experienced the satisfying snap of these oven buttons, never felt the glorious friction on their fingers as they push in. They will feel ALIVE.

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

Known variously as Esteban de Dorantes, Esteban the Moor or – most commonly – Estevanico, this enigmatic individual was one of the first documented Africans, Arabic speakers and Muslims to step foot in what is now the United States, arriving nearly 40 years before the first European settlement.

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

No matter who you are, if you are running a platform or a making a product that collects user data, you need to have a plan for what happens when the government shows up and asks for it, you need to share that policy with that users, and publish a transparency report.

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.

This scared the shit out of me until it was explained that it only crawls out late at night.

We Need A More Serious Discussion About Suicide And AI Chatbots As someone who thinks a lot about AI and suicide, I was disappointed with John Oliver’s recent episode of Last Week Tonight on “AI Chatbots.” The segment boiled down to this: chatbots exploit vulnerable people, drive them toward…

Bitcoin Depot, the US' largest crypto ATM operator, is shutting down citing anti-fraud measures it had to roll out ...and now you know why these things existed in the first place www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

can't wait to be in our cyberpunk dystopia, eating my Synth-beef

"In Praise of Vultures" - another brilliant essay by Cory Doctorow

Hill gets it. Stop saying "kompromat," it's simpler than that.

the biggest lie in american history that goes unchallenged in the public eye is the myth of the cowboy as a proxy for rugged individualism we have fetishized survivorship bias and don't record the stories of those whose graves are unmarked the cost of the american dream is uncalculable

Speaker Johnson’s introduction of yet another mass surveillance bill masquerading as reform is all the encouragement we need to keep pushing for a warrant requirement in Section 702 of FISA.

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

*OSINT alert* 1st image is from today, showing a 'swarm' of small boats at speed in Straits of Hormuz This is typical behavour of Iranian fishing vessels in that area Other 3 images from same area, same time of year but 2024 & 25 (dates at top) First rule of #OSINT... know what normal looks like

"I exist in a near-perpetual state of anxious misery, as Trump and his chud army ... pursue a program of gleeful genocide. But at the very same time, ... Trump is (inadvertently) dismantling many of the worst aspects of the old order in favor of something decidedly better." -- Cory Doctorow

More Vintage Computing museums should rent out cloud access to their rare hardware.

 SDF (Super Dimension Fortress) does it, and it’s freaking awesome.

 I’m literally logged into a Sun SPARCstation…anyone can do this for free, right now. Just SSH in.

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

In the middle of the night, Republican leadership tried to jam through legislation that allows the government to spy on Americans without a warrant. I voted NO. We need serious privacy reform to protect the American people.

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Posts like this are why we have the Internet.

My oncologist broke up with me. She said my cancer is gone so we really don’t have anything in common any more. I beat inoperable, incurable cancer. I kicked it down the stairs, took its lunch money, & threw rocks at it as it ran away crying. Yeah, cancer, you *better* run.

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Trump was unelectable until the Democrats found a way to nominate two candidates who couldn't beat him

Trump was beatable, always has been, but the Democratic coalition has been unreliable and easily fractured - and tends to stay home. Hillary could have won if Democrats and Indies had just clenched their teeth and pulled that lever instead of Jill Stein and Gary what's his name

one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"

holy shit he actually conceded folks, they tell you they’re invincible they tell you they’re inevitable they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting and absolutely none of that is true

I just wish everyone would stop treating "getting lots of likes and shares" as either a way to confirm that a statement is true or a permission slip to not care if it's true. Everyone does it across the spectrum, not just MAGA, and it's going to destroy our country.

There is a reasonable path back. Everything doesn't have to be all existential all the time. 👴🏻"If we even have elections!🤡" We are having elections. 👴🏻"The GOP is going to try dirty tricks!🤡" So? The GOP always tries dirty tricks. Always. There has never been a modern election where they didn't.

Fair point, also true of Tusk in Poland in 2023, and good recommendation!

I'd like to impress upon Americans that the Hungarian people removed Orban and his fascist party from power... By VOTING. That's the real "they don't want you to know this...". They don't want you to figure out that voting is powerful, and that we the people hold that power - unless we give it up

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

The absurdly beautiful @genuineporcelain.bsky.social performing with the Devil's Advocates

Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

welp unfortunately it looks like the world actually is a complicated place that requires us to put smart people in charge, hate to say it but sometimes shit matters and its not all a troll

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I hope all the people who voted against Genocide Joe are feeling good this morning