Walked into Target to discover a full-on Transformers: The Movie 40th anniversary display. I was literally rendered speechless. My wife says my reaction was hilarious.

This sounds like my personal hell. But I used to share a wall with a college student concert pianist who would also blast classical music at home and in car at absolute death metal volume. Yet she complained to our landlord when she once heard me warm up at home (voice & acoustic guitar) for a gig.

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · last mo.

A jazz saxophonist has moved in next door and it's heaven. Every day is like the soundtrack of a slice-of-life romcom.

Very funny to me when these bookclub scammers just plug my responses into ChatGPT and come up with the most obsequious responses

Yup "It has become outright dangerous to even raise the possibility that AI might not be the solution to a problem, let alone be the sole focus of a company’s entire strategy." ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mani...

Here’s the thing about Y2K, the ozone layer, etc. The most leftist—in the sense of *valuing labor*—thing you can do is reject the brainwashing that tells you that heroism is running into a burning building and not the slow, patient, boring, unglamorous work of *preventing* disaster.

Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think a lot of people would have died without the work of people like you. The power grid could have gone down, air traffic control, supply chains, medical equipment, water infrastructure… You prevented a disaster. That is heroism. Heroism doesn’t always have to be running into a burning building

there's this sense that every opinion exists along the spectrum of a political alignment chart so there's genuine stakes involved in having one, and i think partly that's because the microblog medium actively resists conversations any more complex than that

There’s no justifying this. There’s no forgiving this.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

I also want to add that every single time ICE has physically hurt me, they have grabbed me by my chest. Most of my femme friends have said the same. I will not be surprised if / when we find out about twisted sexual assaults conducted by ICE agents with these gloves.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

For about 5 years, my wife sold and shipped out nerdy crafts. She got her supplies from ULine because she knew them from her job in small business operations. Then one day we looked at the front matter of their catalog and were like "uh, these folks are FUCKED UP"

ProPublica@propublica.org · 2mo ago

That cardboard box in your home is fueling election denial... A boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country. (Published 2022)

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Sitting at a restaurant, a pair of college-aged girls in the booth behind me. One of them has, cheerfully, used the term “fuckass” in their conversation more times than I’d previously heard collectively, ever. This is what you miss when wearing headphones. This is the music of the people.

Some future US president, and really every one of us, should travel the world begging forgiveness for these unpardonable sins, and exacting righteous fire and brimstone vengeance upon their perpetrators.

This wasn't even something I thought about until we started looking to buy a house. I was walking about one, starting to comment on what I liked and disliked, and my agent shushed me, pointed to a camera, and said not to say a word until we were outside lest the sellers use it when negotiating.

"How thoughtful of God to arrange matters so that, wherever you happen to be born, the local religion always turns out to be the true one"

This article is great. It says it all. Read it and share.

Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“[AI] risks becoming an iron curtain that comes down between a young person and their potential for thinking… it risks halting learning before it can take flight.” Moving and important article by the great Katherine Rundell. Please read! www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Another AI casualty. 😕 An entire anthology was cancelled and *an entire imprint* was shut down because they were flooded with AI stories and couldn't fully verify which ones were written by humans. 😭 RIP, "Tales From Sherwood Forest." RIP, "Myths & Legends" imprint. 1/3 🧵

we should be telling more bluesky users "I don't think you should be talking to me or anyone else like that"

Happy 40th to Transformers: The Movie! A childhood favorite that still “hits like a truck.” Revisiting my old Criterion-style design from the Bendis Board era (IYKYK), with updated art from my archived 2021 TF: The Movie print called, “Negative Space.” Til all are one!

"You have no way of knowing how much your life and your actions mean to other people. It's one of life's mysteries that we go around helping and inspiring each other, often in ways we are totally unaware of. You also have no way of knowing what you will create or what your creations will lead to."

The Trandalorian@charliejaneanders.com · 2mo ago

I talk about reasons not to quit in the latest edition of Hanne Blank Boyd's awesome newsletter! rntq.substack.com/p/we-go-arou...

SPREAD FAR AND WIDE. Multiple calls lately, looking for scarce books. "The cheapest copy online is $200!" Book prices are artificially inflated now due to AI purchasing 🚨 An INDIE BOOKSHOP can tell you whether the current price is reasonable or whether you should wait for the market to stabilize.

For some reason all these "moderate" groups think after losing a primary they're in a position to issue demands.

upping this again because a few more of these slop accounts just followed me and I see that a lot of my mutuals follow them too, GUYYYYYS

Tess is Surviving the Horrors@mothmother.com · 2mo ago

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

One of the most true things printed here on Al Gore's internet.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 2mo ago

there are two types of fans of things- those who treat it like a hobby and understand it's ok to laugh at things you enjoy and those who use it to replace church or whatever in their lives and are very vigilant against Blasphemy

Generative AI psychosis and delusion is a real thing, as is the degradation of analytical skills. This increasingly makes conversations difficult with those who have "converted" to using it. Along with the clickbait-ification of everything and the adoption of predatory logarithms. Stay vigilant.

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

I saw someone on IG say that the appeal of the political right to dipshit men is that, if you get on board, "you get to be 14 forever." I can kind of see that now. It's an even more toxic version of Peter Pan.

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

The U.S. publisher has been taken private in a deal worth $55 billion.

gamedeveloper.com

HERE'S WHAT AI IS BRINGING TO OUR FUTURE🤯

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank