I’ve got only gender neutral toilets in my house. How does the new ruling affect me? If I have to build individual new assigned male / female at birth toilets, in case I’m visited by any billionaire fantasy authors, which is the best room to put them in, from a plumbing / hygiene standpoint?

Let me share this wee bit of hope❤️. Went for a walk after just a brutal visit to read about what's going on in the world/news. I looked down somewhere along the path and saw this. It's old. It's weathered. But smiles and hearts 😍. Hang in there, You 💕

What a genius.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h ago

Trump: "We will pass the Great Healthcare Plan. It's called the Great Healthcare Plan."

Just going through trending GIFs on Klipy for some reason, and man, there are some weird ones... I mean, WTF?????

Cat Fish Catfish Fishcat Cat In Aquarium

Alt: Cat Fish Catfish Fishcat Cat In Aquarium

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I always try to photograph these old cast-iron mile-markers whenever I spot them. This one was on the road back from Helensburgh today. Cont./ #glasgow #milemarker #castiron #helensburgh #dumbarton

A matter of Life and Gazebos.

An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog@hugobookclub.bsky.social · 6h ago

Replace one word in a movie title with the word “Gazebo.”

Myrna Loy & William Powell in THE THIN MAN (1934)

Even though the HWA have apologised and reinforced their stance against AI in fiction and put out a statement, @chuckwendig.bsky.social nails it on the head in his blog. "Anyway. Have a great day. And fuck AI, amen."

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 9h ago

Professional writer organizations should not send out pro-AI propaganda in the form of tantrum-having "essays" to their members, and I don't think that's controversial.

28 Gazebos Later.

An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog@hugobookclub.bsky.social · 6h ago

Replace one word in a movie title with the word “Gazebo.”

When instagram scammers don't understand your account.

Jesus christ. What don't the advocates for this shit understand? They are conning us with their crap they are pushing on us and claiming it is 'for our good'. Burn these snake oil companies down.

Anthropic AI created fake profiles to deceive people in attempted hack

The UK's AI Safety Institute said recent behaviour from Anthropic and OpenAI models was malicious and unprecedented.

bbc.co.uk

Hahahahahaha I wanted to type something here but I'm laughing too hard "could you still get through an entire workday" what the fuck, man, you just sharpied "I am incompetent" on your forehead.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 15h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Pubic Service Announcement The Vagina Museum is trans inclusive. Always has been, always will be. Today the new EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect. Let us be clear, the guidance changes nothing about how we operate.

There a million things wrong with the EHRC guidance, as you all know, but for me the weirdest thing about it all is that its authors don't even seem to be aware of the possibility that someone asked to leave a "single sex" facility might refuse.

Someone once told me that it's "classist" to advocate for people to have indoor cats because you need to buy them lots of expensive toys. Marcel has been playing with the discarded stem of a fresh green bean for 20 minutes. 🤷‍♀️

Yet again, @everyscififilm.bsky.social knocks it out of the park with this one. Destroy all Monsters the end of an era... well, sort of. 58 years later, Gojira is still going strong.

@gailsimone.bsky.social is a true hero. Always speaking up for others and telling it from the heart.

Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 2d ago

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

@ifiweremagneto.bsky.social happy birthday. May the bluebird of happiness fly up your nose. 😀 Following you because of Gail and your story. All the power to you!

Good to be back from our important research trip exploring the balls of other libraries.

A plaque on Montrose Street in Glasgow (near its corner with Ingram Street) marking the original location of the Glasgow School of Art. Cont./ #glasgow #glasgowcitycouncil #glasgowschoolofart #glasgowhistory

It’s a box o ‘ wine kind of night.

@gailsimone.bsky.social... Gail?

Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social · 2d ago

Photo from my collection, the back says “Gail and landlord’s cat”. No other info/date.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

This is exactly it.

Wiggling@intense.wiggling.me · 2d ago

Chuds could have their own bubble here too if they want. But they don't, because what they want is to force their garbage takes in everyone else's face.

Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve wearing a "Trans Kids Belong" shirt while her team played against (and beat) Sophie Cunningham and the Indiana Fever is such a big "hell yeah fuck you TERFs" moment.

Myrna Loy by Clarence Sinclair Bull for The Wet Parade (1932). (Thread) #botd

Oh dear. Such a shame. Oh well.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 5d ago

Musk’s wealth, which peaked at about $1.33 trillion on June 16, now stands at $684 billion.

UPDATED STORY! Google has paused a tool that allowed users to briefly create deepfake AI satellite images with the click of a button. www.npr.org/2026/07/31/n...

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

Journalists, human rights advocates and open source analysts recoiled in horror at the initial decision: "The opportunities for abuse and disinfo are literally boundless," said one.

npr.org

Adele and Fred Astaire by James Abbe, 1926.