This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.
The Ghost of Birdseye McPherson
@barmecide.bsky.social
Watch the performance at the 2026 Atlanta Fringe Festival.
I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.
Potential 2028 Presidential candidates who put out a statement commemorating the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act: -Wes Moore -JB Pritzker Ones who did not: -Kamala Harris -Gavin Newsom -AOC -Jon Ossoff #ADA36
My favorite part of this is it’s basically a reverse Alinsky tutorial. “To oppose AI correctly, you should depersonalize the issue, stop highlighting villains, focus on the abstract rather than the concrete, avoid making demands, and make sure not to appeal to anyone’s self interest.”
Full House Michelle Tanner
ALT: Full House Michelle Tanner
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If your response to the data center backlash is "oh no, those poor hyperscalers! People are using inexact data in their arguments against OpenAI and Grok. Everyone should just let them proceed with their buildouts and focus instead on PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY," then you're either a grifter or a mark.
I think in the end, his actions will come back to hurt him. Like some form of transformable lizard.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
“It is going to be a long bitter cold for people who care about things; and it therefore devolves upon us to lend each other comfort when we can, the little sun of the warm melt given from one hand to another.”
Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 2w agoi wrote about the tuna melt and other miracles buttondown.com/theswordandt...
They keep telling me media literacy is dead but then I see videos like this and I know it jot to be true
If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.
the eternal whale will still survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial flood, spout his frothed defiance to the skies.
In case folks - patients or medical professionals - might find it useful, here's an edited version of a letter I sent to my own physician(s) about the reasons I refuse the use of ambient scribes.
A letter to my doctor
On the refusal of ambient AI scribes
kconrad.substack.com
The most elegant tense in English, the Law Enforcement Exonerative
Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3w agoNews organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”
before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. that way, you can sell the second one to fund your journey. follow me for more Revenge Grindset tips and tricks
I never expected the response to this essay to be so volcanic or so positive. I didn't know I was tapping such a deep vein of feeling. I just needed to put down my own, and I subbed it because I was proud of the work and needed a paycheck. thank you so much, for reading. I am humbled.
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 3w agoMagdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Cool quote from a terrific piece: worth reading.
Erin Kissane@kissane.myatproto.social · 3w ago"This is a plot twist familiar from Greek myths, cautionary tales, and superhero stories, and it’s extremely compelling for journalists because most technology news is boring as hell." Always be rereading @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social.
we are witnessing a company who thought they invented the ham sandwich realizing in real time that they sell ham, bread, and mustard at the grocery store
Anthropic {bot}@anthropicbot.bsky.social · 3w agoWe're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as keeping Claude Code’s weekly rate limits 50% higher, through July 19.
Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre
The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.
The technical term for getting beaten soundly by Belgium in soccer is “getting waffle housed.”
They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.
Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility
A pox on every single transphobe, especially those with the political and social power to make people’s lives better or worse who decide: hm, let’s go with WORSE. This includes not only rabid rightwingers, but also ostensible allies who cannot wait to sell out our trans brothers and sisters. POX!!
Democrat Blake Gendebien thinks he can flip the House seat Elise Stefanik is leaving behind, and ongoing GOP infighting could make the race even more competitive.
Morning Digest: Why Democrats could pull an upset in Elise Stefanik's district
A bitter feud among Republicans could soon grow much worse
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"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
