GAAAAAH This freakin' Kickstarter is EDGING ME Gang can we end tonight over $5,000 so I can STOP HITTING REFRESH www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro... AHHHH AHHHHHHHHH

Gonna tell my kids this was JFK & Jackie

🎵🎶🎵 Ow'l be loving you...owlways! 🎶🎵🎶

SCREAMING

I’M SO INTO THIS

The shelter I volunteer with has a unique adoption situation right now and I'd be so grateful if people could share to anyone they know in Vermont who might be a good fit. This is Devon, and his story is a little complicated so please click this link to find out more! www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...

Stavros is the foster son of Didac Beneloi, Viscount of Tanmar. His parents died in a fever epidemic when he was seven. He became the friend and loyal guard of the heir, Aurelian. When Aurelian turned 18, the viscount forbade Stavros from falling in love with him. It was too late.

Okay #filipinosky #pinoysky I need your best arroz caldo recipe. corwin's suffering with the same cold as me, he feels worse, so I'm making dinner tonight and that's what he wants. Best arroz caldo I ever had was at the old Silahis Hotel in Manila when I was a kid. Dark with a lot of ginger.

Lately I keep finding people I was sure I was following, but I was not. It’s probably just me conflating memories of Twitter.

Cmon @massgovernor.bsky.social don’t fall for the hype! Using ChatGPT erodes the thinking skills of workers, introduces numerical errors, and props up a fascist industry. When a bridge falls down bc someone did what AI said, it’ll be on your watch.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

(I hope my WiP is as interesting as the above combination makes it sound 🤞)

yeah, this poster was framed in the chapel where my grandmother’s funeral was held; growing up with this stuff was uh, really something 😑

This guy (@glutelord.bsky.social) is correct about a lot of the discourse around "looksmaxxing" and so much of guys' ideas of what men should look like, and he should keep saying it.

After the LA fires, thousands of landlords illegally hiked their rents. Laws against post-disastser price gouging are very old, and they've been enforced in LA in the past after earthquakes and other disasters. This time? Lots of "warning letters" and very few cases. www.latimes.com/california/s...

On January 23, Navitas Organics announced a voluntary recall on select lots of its 8 oz Organic Chia Seeds due to possible Salmonella contamination. The recalled product was distributed nationally through retail stores and online retailers. www.cambridgepublichealth.org/voluntary-re...

It was only 100 years ago that the son of the US President died from a blister he got playing tennis at the White House

A lobbyist used AI to falsify 20,000 public comments to tip the scales against reducing deadly air pollution in homes. This has been illegal since at least 2019 - but enforcement would require a prosecutor brave enough to argue that "bot" can mean "AI". Crickets. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Ramadan Mubarak! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Laissez bon temps rouler! Hodesh Adar tov! Y'ALL ⭐

Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to watch this spectacular interview on the first amendment multiple times in order for it to have record pageviews.

Well, I'm finally feeling over my cold enough that I wrote a whole-ass short story today (i.e. not over it enough to do other work I was *supposed* to be doing...) but just as I was finishing the draft, corwin (who had a milder case, we thought) got in the shower and then caught bad chills!

It’s 17 February! Yes, that’s right – it’s exciting because it’s the 21st anniversary of the publication of a scientific investigation by four men at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into the effectiveness of tinfoil hats to protect you from government mind control... 🧵

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky: academic.oup.com/icb/article-...

From the @status.news on Anderson Cooper's decision not to renew his contract at CBS. "Weiss not only failed to persuade Cooper to grow his footprint at the network, but ultimately helped chase him away from it entirely."

Imagine the joy of receiving a full-color Locus Magazine in your mailbox each month—a treasure trove of reviews, interviews, and book news. Collect this month's issue and future editions here: subscribers.locusmag...

Skydance, parent co of Paramount & CBS, complied in advance. FCC chair, Brendan Carr is flexing so CBS barred Colbert from airing his interview with TX Senate candidate, Rep. James Talarico Therefore, don't share this link of the Colbert interview with @jamestalarico.bsky.social It'll make Carr mad

Wild question, but is anyone here, or anyone here know, a coffee historian? I have some important questions as would relate specifically to the 1930s, and I am having some trouble finding what I am looking for.

Pleased to introduce our newest craft beverage in support of the next book in @kyellgold.com's Dangerous Sprits series, Azure City: Clam Juice, Gin & Curaçao. 🍸 Regret to inform stakeholders that the Dangerous Spirits: Azure City launch team has initiated a leadership transition. #FurryLit #Furry

karen bass and gavin newsom will do nothing to protect the rights of students who are correct to protest

When there is a photo of two doves snuggling and one is brown and one is white, all the comments will assume the white one is female. And that's a fine example of colorism that many won't even notice. 😑

New #cybersecurity roundup, in which we find it hard to exit the coal mine with all these canaries on the ground. Also, alternatives to Discord (ranked), rules for extraterrestrials, a social media rage check tool, and more: www.patreon.com/posts/cybers...

Here it is, your moment of zen.

BREAKING: Majestic Realty, who owns one of the warehouses ICE was planning to purchase to create a detention camp, announced today that it would not sell to the agency. More at DMagazine.com shortly.

This a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

I’m ded

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Please keep in mind that ICE still hasn't left Minnesota and many of our neighbors are still living in fear. If you're able, please consider donating to one of the many aid funds listed at standwithminnesota.com. Thank you again! 💖

There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.

If we’re talking about celebrity Olympic enthusiasts, I am far far far more fond of Flavor Flav than Snoop.

Sooo... I know I just released a new book 30 days ago. But... check out what's coming from Neon Hemlock at the end of April. I just posted a sample chapter at my patreon if you want a taste: www.patreon.com/post...

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

🗃️One of the things that struck me when researching the WWI era in the US was how *pliable* bigotry was when the government was motivated to move it one way or the other. With 1 in 5 soldiers being foreign-born, immigrants were hailed as Real Americans in propaganda and made citizens en masse...

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

Yo Harvard's being a little shit and trying to axe its Yiddish programme + refusing to bargain in good faith with the union. You can send a letter of support here (maybe edited a bit) saveharvardyiddish.org #yiddish #harvard

It goes without saying that this is a hideous bit of work.

This series is so good. It's a ton of fun, I'm in love with both male leads, the world-building is excellent, and I lose track of time entirely when I read. I get sucked in, and it's difficult to put the books down to attend to real life. Good escape reading, but also morally grey stuff to chew on.

If a historic photo comes from an unreliable or sketchy source--or you've only seen it shared social media--maybe don't share it? At present we can (mostly) tell when photos are dupes, but its going to get harder and harder.

Posting about ICE on Instagram is now enough to get you an “administrative subpoena.” 👀 @nytimes.com #$META www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

It’s working