This snake says trans rights

See also: AI and "productivity" in education

muscular baby jeb lund@mobute.bsky.social · 2d ago

you could make a lot of this mania vanish by making college free. the worst parents think they're working a new market inefficiency by making their kid out-hustle the "lazy" kids. but even chill parents are holding a psychological lotto ticket that their kid puts up numbers that end in scholarships

I somehow need to make this the theme of my 51st birthday party

Bryan Blessed@bryb.bsky.social · 3d ago

This picture of the Pope at his 40th birthday party is everything to me.x

My mother is a Dr Pepper addict, and when she was visiting me years ago in Japan, we couldn't really find it anywhere, but we never gave up, and I'll never forget the feeling when we ran across a vending machine in a park in the middle of nowhere that had not only regular Dr Pepper but also Diet!

✦ taikora@taikora.com · 3d ago

i hate to admit it but you Americans are on to something with dr pepper

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Book 154 of 2026: Animals Brag About Their Bottoms by Maki Saito, translated by Brian Bergstrom. What’s not to love about a #BoardBook about animal butts? My kids LOVE it and I suspect it will be on our shelves and reread through til my kids are adults. #KidLit #BookSky #WorldKidLitMonth

Animals Brag About Their Bottoms

Fans of Taro Gomi’s Everyone Poops and Matthew Van Flee…

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Butt mug realness

In the first profile about her, the writer highlighted that with her, you'd get to "see a virgin on-screen". So. www.thefp.com/p/my-favorit...

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human

Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable tweets, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI, writes Tyler Cowen.

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Hamza@hummusqueso.com · 5d ago

Boring question with an obvious answer but why is the first AI “actor” a woman

Gros bisous à @nouveauprojet.bsky.social for highlighting The Dilemmas of Working Women in their September issue!

Still going to queer lifting club 💪, still flexing like an idiot

Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT

another departure: the letter E has dropped out of the Ed Sheeran tour. it’s now just the d Shran tour

Too on the nose that the fabulous Catherine Ringer of Les Rita Mitsouko, whose most famous song is an exuberant tribute to a friend who died of cancer, has now died of cancer herself 😥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zWl...

Les Rita Mitsouko - Marcia Baïla (Clip Officiel)

YouTube video by Les Rita Mitsouko

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Closer #mcm #nsfw

Finished, finally, an overdue book translation today, so bought myself a treat: another butt mug

Someone telling me they're spending their Sunday cooking: Ooh, nice! What a cozy-sounding day! Someone telling me they're spending their Sunday "meal-prepping": Oh. I see. Have fun in your self-imposed gulag, tovarich.

I'm foolishly reading three books at once again, but one of them is the new Kōhei Saitō book, Capital From Zero, and so far, it's excellent. I love that he consistently references present-day concerns such as bubble tea and fast fashion.

Capital From Zero - Astra Publishing House

“Offers incisive interventions into pivotal political debates of our times.”— Ashley Dawson, Los Angeles Review of Books For readers of David Harvey and Thomas Piketty comes a new introduction to Marx...

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I ❤️ Butt #fcf #nsfw #peacesign #qialitymagazines

Mixing up Gorgons and Muses, smdh

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 2w ago

misogyny aside, does this sound like someone who is happy, whose life you'd want to have?

You're right, Bluesky moderation, withholding credit from translators IS offensive!

Brian Bergstrom@brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm teaching Okazaki Kyoko's manga this semester, and I'm glad the English versions by Vertical are still available, but I'll never get over how they credit everyone by name (including the cover designer!) except the translator/s, who aren't even listed in the copyright info! Completely erased

I'm teaching Okazaki Kyoko's manga this semester, and I'm glad the English versions by Vertical are still available, but I'll never get over how they credit everyone by name (including the cover designer!) except the translator/s, who aren't even listed in the copyright info! Completely erased

One dude looks like skeletor reanimated the other dude looks like a drag queen got stopped mid makeup routine but sure whatever normal.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

RNC Chair Joe Gruters on why he thinks Ken Paxton will win: "People want normal"

Belated appreciation post for the design of the NA paperback edition of Dilemmas of Working Women, complete with blurbs from the great Ichikawa Saou and from Madame Web herself, Dakota Johnson ✨ I also love that they included a photo of Yamamoto with her bio 🥰

One of those right-wing images that makes me think, "God, if only..."

big bleat from badsville@djepelgesh.bsky.social · 3w ago

thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time

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Recent crusts I've made

Re-upping this great interview with @koheisaito.bsky.social Really illuminating whether you're wondering if the book is for you, or if you've already read it and would like to have it framed and contextualized within his broader project

thesiseleven.bsky.social@thesiseleven.bsky.social · last mo.

“Digital capitalism intensifies reification by making the domination of capital appear as the objective functioning of technical systems” Marx in an Age of Breakdown: An Interview with @koheisaito.bsky.social 'Capital from Zero' published by Astra House Books thesiseleven.com/2026/07/10/m...

A nice appreciation (and a shout-out to Takahashi's "Hot Day" as a favorite! 🥰)

S. Hargrave@oldpaperandcats.bsky.social · 3w ago

📚🖊️ There’s a woman who carries her tiny husband around in a box. There’s a storm that is a metaphor for death and the world beyond and the ghosts stuck in between. These stories all take a strange turn. oldpaper.uglyporcelaincat.com/unusual-frag... #booksky #readingcommunity @twolinespress.com

Memo to people who use genAI to write Goodreads reviews: Just what on earth do you think you're doing?

As they say, Stevens County is the Montana of Washington