I turn 40 next week, and I am counting down the days until I just suddenly get hot.

It’s a seismic disaster that “does the Constitution exist” is 5-4.

Republicans want to do this if: she's "too good" at sports, too tall, too broad-shouldered, her hair is too short, her voice is too low, her feet are too big, she's too muscular (the list goes on). Republicans want to go in the girls' locker room. Trans girls just want to go on the field.

The Girl of Lemongrab@mc-hesher.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"The Republican Party wants to pull YOUR teenage daughter's pants down in the middle of gym class if they think she's too good at lacrosse, this is vile and depraved and only the start of their intrusive government overreach" should be the party line and I don't think it's a heavy lift

On the left, our house circa 2009. On the right, today.

I come from a proud line of ancestors who said "the King isn't God" a little too loudly.

Mom Friend 64@momfriend64.northsky.social · 3mo ago

@craftlibrarian.bsky.social: "I still want to see the spot in Lichfield, England where my ancestor was burned at the stake." Me: "You're the daughter of the witches they COULD burn"

After developing my film, I learned that it's actually *worse* for it to go through the big x-ray machine for checked baggage. (As in, most of this roll was a wash.) I still love this photo, though.

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 4mo ago

Trying out a new metaphor: "A.i." = cocaine. Cocaine is inevitable! Cocaine can enhance your creativity! Cocaine can make us all faster and more efficient! If your kid doesn't learn how to use cocaine, they'll get left behind!

i can't stress enough that dems understand power perfectly and the disconnect comes from the widespread and increasingly unjustifiable belief that these two parties are seperate rival teams, rather than the offensive and defensive squads of a single one.

Joshua Erlich@joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 4mo ago

whole states have stopped their election processes faster than the Biden administration was able to respond to an opinion that had already been leaked months earlier. i don't mean this as a random jab; republicans just understand power in a way that dems do not.

"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought it is worse perhaps to be locked in." Virginia Woolfe

14 month update: Yes, yes, no, with great difficulty, also with great difficulty, Yes!, no, not very.

Mae Flowers@craftlibrarian.bsky.social · last yr.

Current concerns: will my hot trans wife's existence become illegal, are we going to flee, do I bother changing that lightbulb, how do I take four pets across the Atlantic, what about family heirlooms, will i get meet my new niece, will anyone hire me, how fast can i learn a new language?

"I done all the dids I can do." -Me, 2026

Re: Perimenopause "Nobody sits you down at 40 and says, 'Hey, estrogen was doing about 47 jobs you didn't know about and it's about to start quitting all of them.'"

Part of a larger journal page. I like this guy.

Recurring event in my life: I'll try to look up a quote from a favorite book, end up on Goodreads (ick), and see that it has a bunch of 1-3 star reviews saying the book has "no plot." This doesn't bother me, exactly, but it's a peculiar experience to keep having.

I didn't flee the country just to keep hearing John Mayer's "Daughters" at the grocery store.

Every new sparkle of gray in my hair is a reminder that there was once someone who loved me who is not here and I am not there, either.

"The planet is shaped by the sheer amazing force of human want, which has changed everything: the forests, the poles, the reservoirs, the glaciers, the rivers, the seas, the skies... a planet contoured and landscaped by human want." From Orbital, by Samantha Harvey

SAD: I can't take good pictures of my pets sleeping on the couch because we're a No Big Light household.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Today, on the 125th anniversary of his birth, I'm reminded that Langston Hughes wrote what for me is the most compelling response to the false dichotomy of patriotism vs the brutality of our national history.

Letting moderates claim they were always against this blurs history. It hides the many ways we got here, which is in part due to the fascists themselves — but in larger part due to the centrists who conceded to fascist rhetoric. We could have prevented all of this. We need to remember how we didn't.

The Alternate Historian@althistorian.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I mean it's great that the "elite consensus" is once again shifting ever so slowly to be anti-Trump, but we can't let these people rewrite history to pretend they were always against this otherwise ALL OF THIS WILL HAPPEN AGAIN.

A truth that should be more universally acknowledged: once you accept that *some people* deserve to be killed in broad daylight, you accept that *anyone* deserves that fate.

"Kelly Clarkson was the first person we as a country actually elected democratically, so she should be president."

We keep making Gestapo comparisons with regard to ICE, but the darker truth is that the Nazis were inspired by Jim Crow laws in the U.S.

One reason I need a job is so I can pay for redesigning our house to look like Sophie's Tacky Little Hatter (aka Howl's Moving Castle).

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

Samuel Horti@samuelhorti.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I had five fascinating conversations for this RPS piece, gathering perspectives on genAI chatbots in games, as seen in Where Winds Meet. Thanks to @meghna.bsky.social, @pyrofoux.bsky.social, @maxkreminski.bsky.social, and @chrisgardiner.bsky.social www.rockpapershotgun.com/horrible-bor...

The MurderBot books are my Sanctuary Moon. Should I watch the TV adaptation, or nah?

WHAT IS TIME [I made this several years ago, depending on which one you choose, I guess.] Feel free to make your own.

The starlings say, "Thanks for listening."