I recall being at House Full of Toys & Stevie Wonder, who is actually very funny, just naturally hilarious. Told a story involving him using the internet. That in itself got a big laugh. I don’t remember his exact words. It was long ago. But he basically, in a serious tone said, “We’re people too.”

🥹

"It can't rain all the time."

I need more encouraging news than this.

A politically-motivated focus on pandemic learning loss obscured longer-term trends: "It underscores that many districts have experienced a long-term slump in student achievement, not just a blip during the pandemic."

🧵as I read this piece. My first thought: Teachers and professors have long been sounding alarms about declines in student skills, knowledge, and behavior. But test scores are all political and school leaders attend to. This attention cuts all ways, as I'll come back to. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

Apollo gift of prophecy dodgeball dot meme bsky.app/profile/wolv...

⚠️ Costco and Walmart reportedly are expecting motor oil inventory shortages in the coming weeks. This guy owns a commercial lube franchise:

Well. Fuck.

Every good thing this society half-assedly started due to COVID should've been not just continued but constantly improved upon; but too many of y'all have The Fear, & those programs remind you of the thing that scared you. So instead you burn down your house 'cause your basement made spooky shadows

the discourse of the day is funny because I’m quite sure my presence here has influenced political events, just not in the way those people mean

a cool thing about building community is that it has ripple effects you’ll mostly never see but they’re there, and they matter

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I can’t believe I’m asking this, but: a parcel for me has allegedly been delivered to Middlesex University. I don’t suppose anyone here knows someone in admin there who might know whether it’s possible to find it?

Last week, the Trump administration explicitly stated its intention to "neutralize" - its word, not mine - US trans people. Since then I can count on one hand the number of cis people who have even mentioned it. A whole bunch of cis people have talked about trans people demanding too much though.

One thing I’ve confirmed after multiple visits to Japan is that its reputation for having cleaner public spaces is not entirely because people are just littering less in public spaces. They litter less. But they still litter plenty. It’s primarily because someone is paying people to clean up.

In a historic moment, I was interviewed by fellow Black woman particle physicist Dr. Katrina Miller. Few people can understand my journey the way she does. We talked about my new book, why poetry matters, and yes, how the *fact* of non-trinary neutrinos challenges anti-trans rhetoric. #GiftLink

My daughter's pithy summation: "Covid reminded people they lived in a society; and they hated it."

This is actually true, imo. And also, COVID reminded people of their own vulnerability, the porosity of their own skins and bodies, their mortality and they HATED it. They still hate it. Thats why they scream about masks, about COVID and any reminder of that vulnerability.

Someone looking for international children's rights experts to discuss the practice and implications of "forced Germanization."

If Labour had just put people in place that liked trans people, none of this would be happening. It's not that trans people are powerful, it's that people who hate trans people tend to hate loads of others as well, and prefer making things worse than doing anything to help.

Working hand in glove with the tech bros, the Trump administration is working hard to silence all scientific research into the social and human harms that result from their manipulation of social media feeds. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

"Has Bluesky Become Too Influential?"

if the midterms are a blowout, will we hear about how this is the only app worth being on? Will we hear that you HAVE TO BE HERE to persuade us of their views? no, definitely not

public sentiment is much better aligned with this app than any of the others, feels silly to argue otherwise

its just bizarre to me to say that bluesky is a siloed off bubble detached from real debate when everyone over here hates the president with a 30% approval and everyone over there thinks things are going so well that we have entered a 1000 year conservative reign

Chris Krebs on CNBC this morning; China-US tech/chip war, but also AI stuff. Emphasis on enterprises cleaning up their estate and narrowing attack surface in prep for AI rather than sitting on their laurels about patching because they expect some magical AI answer. www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...

Would be good if performers, musicians, writers, and other creative workers insisted on organisers not using genAI for advertising festivals, shows and events they're taking part in, in solidarity with visual artists, because it's absolutely everywhere at the moment. We need to stick together!

Stevie Wonder got the nerve to be one of the best musicians along with being one of the best singers and songwriters ever

Aye, Georgia, early voting ends on Friday and the primary is on Tuesday. The Supreme Court election is on this ballot. It is not a primary, the winners are installed as judges. Go. Vote.

…are people out here seriously not using alt text on the pictures of Stevie Wonder they're posting to wish Stevie Wonder happy birthday?

People on the left should post on X more. It's the only site where you can be sure your content will never be seen by anyone except for Nazi pedophiles.

And as @wheresmycow.bsky.social noted, here comes the articles of impeachment against VP Sara Duterte. That's got to be the worst courier job in town tonight

A gunfire occurred or in the Philippine Senate, where Sen. Ronald dela Rosa has stayed in protective custody by allied senators as Philippine authorities tried to arrest him and possibly turn him over later to the ICC.

Guys, my country Philippines is in chaos. ICC is arresting those who are involved in the War on Drugs. Duterte is currently in The Hague. Gunshots in the Senate. Running. Rallies. Pure chaos. They will do everything to get away. It's intense here.

Pushing for these positions is also helping him bc he can say look how much support there is for this we have to do it

He actually expects it and told the electorate as much during his campaign.

Some gigantic news: our study of soil toxicity following the 2025 LA wildfires has been published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... The work was led by @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social and a team at Duke U. I'll summarize the project and our findings below

It really is somewhere in between hilarious and deeply (if not at all surprisingly) embarrassing that book publishers still haven’t figured out that Bluesky is The Premiere Social Media Platform for People Who Actually Buy Lots of Books.

Part of the problem is when he calls a reporter a name he goes to the next reporter for a question and they give him one. If they all kept quiet when he disrespects a reporter, he might get the point or maybe stop having media sessions. We don't need either.

…are people out here seriously not using alt text on the pictures of Stevie Wonder they're posting to wish Stevie Wonder happy birthday?

Everyone knows Hollywood is fucked, but most people don't actually know why. The studios used the strikes as cover to cancel a full 1/3rd of TV production across the board. 1/3 of TV cast & crew are out of work. Fully. There just aren't jobs for them. Many are people who made your favorite shows.

sorry to add to the discourse but I think the "everyone should have stayed on twitter" mindset is at least partially based on the misapprehension that 1) arguing on the internet is praxis and 2) leftists are obligated to spend their time doing this

Hell that's life

A £1M house…WITH CASH? That’s pretty classic money laundering right there.

Since I'm not on any panels, I want to become a street preacher, set up on a corner and shout indie TTRPG takes at passersby. "HAVE YOU HEARD OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR, MYTHY-B?"

Enten: "It's not just one poll. The five worst polls ever for any president on inflation, they all belong to Donald Trump and they have all occurred in the last month. What we're talking about here is the worst numbers ever. Joe Biden isn't in there. Jimmy Carter isn't in there."

I suggest everyone get off of X in order not to support a fascist, racist billionaire and subject themselves to fascist, racist propaganda. At the VERY least, you should not be paying a fascist, racist billionaire for a fucking blue check on X. You are paying him to hate you.

All the developers 404 Media talked to were excited to try using LLMs at work at first, or were at least curious about them. Their feelings about the tools, based on their personal experience, are now overwhelmingly negative. AI is rotting their brains www.404media.co/software-dev...