Bard & Death # 4 [1/2]

This interview with Melanie Buggey, who just swam across the Georgia Strait besting a 60-year world record, has me in absolute stitches. What an icon lolll www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

The Right didn't veer hard into Trans Panic because the Left overreacted to the workaday transphobia they were organically fomenting. The Right veered into transphobia in order to repurpose the infrastructure already in place from the Gay Panic industry. And Gay Panic production can resume any time.

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w ago

Rank and file Republicans are turning against LGBT acceptance and GOP politicians are leaning into bigotry in both rhetoric and policy. But it is you, the progressive queer or ally, who needs to open your mind and consider other people's feelings. news.gallup.com/poll/710810/...

I have a problem with trans people playing sports: There aren't nearly close to enough of them doing it, and we need to smash down the barriers preventing it, and generally preventing anyone trans from living their best, most fulfilling life. Fuck anyone who wants to stop, silence, or exclude them.

A dark day for human rights.

This is not a place of maxxing...no highly-esteemed gigachad is commemorated here... What is here mogged us...it mogged us in our time as it moggs you in yours...

The true self is reflected in the false self

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

Finally dug up my favorite Odyssey tweet ever

Instead of poisoning the ants, I let them discover that there's nothing for them here. They ate their fill, and over time a small sect came to realize that craving cannot be satiated. They now trail in and skillfully criticize my understanding of the Dharma. I place crumbs in their tiny wooden bowls

once again thinking about the best Lord of the Rings meme

Always been partial to this one

YES i recently did an essay on rainbow capitalism that also came to the same conclusion, based on the way the economy has tanked but companies standing by their DEI programs, and not bowing to the administration, are making more profit than ever www.tillystranstuesdays.com/2026/06/30/r...

Bluesky, would you *believe* some depraved individual stole our The Saturday Paper from the nature strip today?

Oil drilling and trucks are inherently feminine. Oil is extractive, relying on outside forces to provide her with free goods. Big trucks fulfill a woman’s desire to be safe and held. Solar and bikes are masculine. They rely on self-sufficiency and strength to meet one’s needs. The Jeffersonian ideal

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

(to the tune of country roads) cast explode, on penis to the place on the dong wizard hit ya, using mana on penis, cast explode

In Australia we have this election-time ritual called “Vote Compass” where the national broadcaster releases an online tool where everyone enters their preferred policy positions, finds out the party closest to them is the Greens, then doesn’t vote for them

McJulie@mcjulie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

2004 was when I read an article about how voters liked Kerry’s policy positions **much** more than GWB’s policy positions, but they thought, incorrectly, that GWB had those positions.

"The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!" Yes, chefkiss

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

important on LLMs for academics: 1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems 2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism 3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills 4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution 5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI 6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

My advice for dating is simple and foolproof: get a dog. Take the dog out to places. Meet people who like dogs. If you don't end up in a relationship after that, you still have a dog which is the most important part anyway.

I don’t understand what just happened. The team that deleted T1 from existence two games in a row just itself got deleted from existence?? #msi

Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.

Today in niche micro-drama: the moderators of the 40k Imperial Guard subreddit have made a stickied post denouncing The Art of War youtube channel and calling for a boycott because they released a tierlist with the Imperial Guard at "A tier" instead of something lower

I love that Stonehenge isn't a henge, even though that's where the word "henge" comes from. Like the word "gerrymander" is named after Mr. Gerry, who (a) despised the practice and (b) was pronounced with a hard "G". Nonetheless...

fucked up facts: - almost all classical depictions of The Labyrinth have a single path with no branches or dead ends - Stonehenge doesn't qualify for the technical definition of "henge" - the word "zenith" is from an error and should have been "zemth"