This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

🇬🇧 Per GGEC: "Any attack or interference with the 'Madleen' [would constitute] a violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), an affront to UK sovereignty, and a breach of international humanitarian law." UK Foreign Office P: 02070085000 E: [email protected]

“No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that.” - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

Just reupping the helpful little song

they did not just send that frenchman out with a baguette 😭

This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.

J.K. Rowling is using her wealth attained from the "Harry Potter" series to create an organization dedicated to removing transgender people's rights "in the workplace, in public life, and in protected female spaces.” 🔗: bit.ly/3ZBRxYk

I think about this comic all the time.

They plop their massive, polluting data centers into black neighborhoods They have to underpay, overwork, and exploit workers in Africa just to get it to function The “training data” is stolen work of creatives and academics That data is then used to steal opportunities from those same people

The two parties who couldn't form government together now reckon they can do it without each other. Read more: chaser.com.au/national/bre...

at first you think "ah the dog is passively having fun" and then you realize the dog knows how to steer the skateboard and THEN you learn the dog knows how to PROPEL the skateboard

i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything

your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow

Whether Israel come 1st or last doesn’t matter. The issue is that they’re given a platform and allowed to participate. Them not winning is not a victory. This is no reason to celebrate. They bombed Gaza and killed more innocent civilians today. EVU refuse to be accountable. #Eurovision

there is a food vending machine for cats in Turkey, the seagulls meow pretending to be cats

I’m sorry but I refuse to take you seriously as an advocate for Palestine if you live post Eurovision and claim to support Palestine in any kind of way. BDS have asked us to boycott Eurovision this year, as they have done every year.

Without downloading any pics where are you mentally?

Friends, there;s no good way to give you this news (and I still so much watt to believe it's a terrible nightmare: but it's not.) Briefly: gone now, untimely, unexpectedly, and already so very much missed: @peter.petermorwood.com www.tumblr.com/dduane/78306...

My son sent me this and now I can't breathe.

Remove a letter and ruin a film: Shaun of the DEA

#auspol #thechaser

I think a lot of Liberals will be working from home

#auspol #peterdutton

If you haven't already ditched Duolingo, now is the time to do so.

The Mystic Nine in a nutshell: #dmbj #laojiumen #mysticnine

I'd like to share with y'all a project I've poured my heart and soul into over the last couple of years: a database cataloguing every single older (pre-21st century) LGBT science fiction book I've managed to track down - currently just over 200 titles 🚀 LINK: tinyurl.com/oldgaySF

With alt text. The kicker comes at the end and it takes a bit to get there, but I tried to describe the rather dry layout leading up to it very clearly because the contrast of dryness to horror is very important to how the image lands for me.

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. ("Hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

Vilified by the Assad regime, these Nobel-nominated first responders operated only in rebel areas. Now their founder is in the new government and they're extending their reach to all of Syria.

Solving mysteries while running a restaurant

you're not allowed to use any REAL science when writing sci-fi, it's called science fiction not science fact

The funny thing is? If a company came out aggressively against enshittifying their products with AI and firmly committed to a “no AI, ever” policy, people would surely flock to them in droves and would enthusiastically recommend that company to everyone they know.

Every morning my phone shows me some new absurdity. "Oh, Harvard's joined the resistance? Didn't see that one coming. Anyway, coffee time. Did I buy milk?"

How the fuck do we live in a world where the Constitution of the United States has just been torn up in real time by their President and every single citizen isn’t rioting in the fucking streets? #NewsCorpse

Petition to ask Australia to grant asylum to LGBTQIA+ refugees from the US: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

Columbia was craven. They don't LOOK craven, they ARE craven.

They know what will happen if anyone else gets hold of the levers of power, and they don't care. They're certain they won't face consequences. Which means they aren't letting go of them. Ever.

a reminder: generative AI has NO place in any fandom space. I don't care what the excuse is, this is a space for human creativity and expression. beyond being horrible for the environment and unavoidably based on stolen work(1), it fully misses the point of creative community.

I'd like to add that it's not just that she's a bad person with horrible views, it's that she uses any interest in her work as confirmation that you support her views, and is using her money and influence to make things materially worse for trans people in the uk and beyond

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Post a movie from the year you turned 18.

I’m working with data comparing relationship desires of aromantic and non-aromantic (aka alloromantic) people. Both groups want long term relationships that provide emotional intimacy, longevity, and stability. Aromantic people don’t assume those things have to come from romantic relationships.

I am resisting my manager's continued suggestions that we use ChatGPT for *curriculum development* and *creating assessments* so damn hard

stop worrying about your novel being “too unrealistic” have you seen the shit that happens in real life

#peterhegseth #warthunder #whiskileaks #signalgate

Also I want a fucking refund for all the movies I've seen with heroic narratives of Americans defending global freedom.

It's inspiring how Neil Gaiman fans let out a collective ugh and then stopped being Neil Gaiman fans.

Very Serious People:: The military is entirely on Trump's side, they can't wait to crush the country beneath his heel, it's going to be marital law-- The actual military: