Massive new study confirms there is NO LINK between the MMR vaccine and autism. Meanwhile, US measles infections are skyrocketing due to vaccine disinformation. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
Andy Diggle
@andydiggle.bsky.social
Writer of Batman: Gotham By Gaslight, James Bond, The Expanse, The Losers, Green Arrow: Year One, Daredevil, Hellblazer, Swamp Thing and more. Recovering Tharg / former editor of @2000ad.bsky.social #ADHD
So, I did a thing. It started with a series of blog posts, that was supposed to turn into a 20 page how to guide and instead became a full sized book because I realise that no one ever talks about how you do this stuff properly and so many small presses manage by trial and error
I’ve just remembered an awful joke that literally came to me in a dream: “Why did the ziggurat go to bed? Because it was tiered.”
It’s a sad day when a good person is taken before their time, isn’t it? Today is a lovely day.
That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
“Anthropic CEO reportedly concerned to discover that employees are not cultists.”
Max P III@blackballer.bsky.social · 2d agoIts embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.
There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.
Ah yes, the epic tale of Odysseus, from whom we get the word "odyssey" - and Telemachus, from whom we get the word "telemarketing."
Damn... 300% higher yields for peppers 200% for tomatoes. 65% lower water use for jalapenos. #agsky #agrivoltaics ,🌱🌞🔌..
hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 3d ago*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…
Martha Wells’ novel Queen Demon features omnivorous horses and this is pretty much how I imagine them looking.
Adam P Knave@adampknave.com · 3y agoI don’t do intro posts but every now and then I repost the greatest images ever: HORSES WITH DOG MOUTHS.
Heads up, new term for perv goggles just dropped.
Steve Hyett@stevehyett.bsky.social · 5d agoSpecs offenders.
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
theguardian.com
“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”
Minority report: FBI seeks AI for political watch list
Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watchlist's focus moves toward domestic dissent.
reason.com
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 7d ago"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
yeah I think all of us need to be aware of this, I don't think this is false or a misrepresentation. I think this is true I know that lib-baiting trolls pretending to be marginalized voices that the left listens to, who then doompost or trojan horse conversative talking points are very common here
Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 7d ago*Standing up on the plane* You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying! If tomorrow I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all part of the plan
Christopher Bird@mightygodking.com · 6d ago*standing up on the plane* Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen
The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.
Amazon spent a gajillion dollars making The Rings of Power, and then they ruin it with the most crassly abrasive ad break placements imaginable. No fade out, just mid-scene WHAM straight into some idiot screaming in your face to BUY FEBREZE or whatever. Fuck sake.
Oh man, I mis-recognize someone pretty much every time I go to a comic con, and it's a 50/50 toss-up whether they'll get all offended about it. Face blindness sucks (and is pretty common with ADHD).
Elizabeth Bear@matociquala.bsky.social · 2mo agoAs a faceblind person, I found this explainer for the face-sighted on what faceblindness is like very useful. tl;dr if you come up to me out of context and I do not recognize you please don't be offended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcj-...
"But why didn't the giant eagles just fly them all to Mordor?!" *sigh* Because the eagles rightly feared the Nazgûl and their "fell beasts" -- which were "apt to evil" and "grew beyond the measure of all other things that fly." Cool? Can we put this one to bed now?
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Okay, Emily Wilson, you pulled me in! I'm reading your translation of the ODYSSEY, first time I've read this poem since college. Let's see how it goes...