I can't believe people are literally like "the trans woman was already getting harassed a bunch, therefore it was totally fine for people to throw more fuel on the fire at that point."

I do, unfortunately, think it's quite funny that the term "dogpile" keeps getting thrown around in the discourse about the cartoon dog boobs incident

体の小ささでキクイタダキとはりあうけど、声はめちゃくちゃでかいミソサザイ。 The wren is the king of birds, small but with a very loud song. #BirdArt

I'm always saying this, I've watched the space evolve over the past decade and it's been the result of deliberate choices, some of which were not easy or popular at the time. You can foster diversity and inclusion in your spaces. It works.

Dan Floyd@danfloydplus.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The extent to which Games Done Quick has helped to steer the larger speedrunning community - one of the most hardcore video game enthusiast subcultures there is - into becoming something so welcoming, inclusive and supportive astonishes me

Hey, maybe turning Google into a libel machine was a mistake.

josh o'kane@joshokane.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

Is there a blocklist where I can never seen anything from anyone with a .moe domain again please, thanks

he “picked” her? she’s the VP. she’s next in the line of succession whether he likes it or not. what is this framing?

I just want everyone to step back and realize how often it's a trans woman getting bullied off social media.

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

This is dumb. Why is everything so dumb. Stop being so dumb, all the things!!!!

vx-underground (automated mirror)@vxundergroundre.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Microsoft is so fucking stupid. Microsoft renamed Microsoft Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot App I'm not joking

Personally I do think it’s very cool when you spend 2 years working on a project about a sport you love and then some guy takes the transcripts of it to spit out an AI script for himself to read over a YouTube video for money. Thanks David!!!!!

Wanna Hear Some Halo Lore?@stefanheck.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Love seeing my friend @johncullen.bsky.social’s hard work on Broomgate get chewed up and shit out into some dickhead’s video essay for morons. But hey at least he linked to the podcast he stole in the description!

We have published the following update to our article following an email response from the New York Times. Trans News Network has a policy against platforming bigotry. As such, we have declined to publish the Times' statement which included blatant transphobia.

Trans News Network@transnews.network · 11mo ago

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

The death toll from the attack on Venezuela is now at 80, per Venezuelan officials. That includes civilians. Every article about the attack, or how the US somehow claims it will run the country, should mention the fact that, you know, people died, including civilians. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Live Updates: As Venezuela Projects Defiance, Rubio Says U.S. Will Use ‘Leverage’ to Advance Its Interests

nytimes.com

J is for Johannesteijsmannia

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Bluesky not really making the case that there‘s such a thing as good social media.

interesting

I think the AI angle of this is obscurant. It doesn’t matter that grok is “an AI” whatever you take that to mean. Suppose X hired a team of guys to photoshop the clothes off of women and children whenever anyone asks. That’s functionally identical what happening here. It’s not complicated.

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

Just finished reading Annihilation by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social There aren't really words to describe it, but here are some recent pictures from my camera roll that seem to approximate the feeling of it.

The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.

Two Aliens Looking At Bluesky

i saved this before Everything Happened and god has it come true

literally every time anyone is talking about anything on this website i am thinking about this post

Every story about this

a man wearing a red hat is standing in front of a spinning wheel that says cvx on it

ALT: a man wearing a red hat is standing in front of a spinning wheel that says cvx on it

media.tenor.com

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 10mo ago

BREAKING: The U.S. won’t govern Venezuela, but will press changes through an oil blockade, Rubio says, after Trump claims of running the country.

A major use-case for AI is reality destabilization.

Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro. But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.