Whenever I feel like responding to something stupid on social media, lately I've just been blocking them, even if it's a faceless 0 follower account, and it satisfies something within me

During the reckoning, it'll be nice to have all these very embarrassing receipts of how they grovelled to the emperor with no clothes

Omg SORRY, I got drunk and thought it would be normal to scroll through your posts and like every single one of them since 2019 (out of deep FRIENDSHIP) and anyway everything is fine now

I have been SO excited about this book ever since it was announced 🧶 I'm glad I preordered because it's already sold out once

How do you deal with a population imbalance? Short-term, you need more workers to help care for your aging population. This generally means welcoming migrants. And people are racist.

Remember when Cory Booker filibustered performatively

"half of parenting is marketing" exactly, my son loves girl dinner but not "parents don't want to cook so grab yourself food", it's life changing

Trying to do that mosaic spider blanket 🧶 but with interlocking crochet and it's a very cool texture but it is also making me lose my mind a lil bit

I think there's also a sharp division among millennials about this, probably ethnicity is part of it, and certainly wealth and class. Like did you follow how your boomer parents did things and that you had to be a certain way to be considered an adult? Or

Prof. Nicole Holliday@mixedlinguist.bsky.social · last wk.

This, exactly...but this all feels very middle-class white American. Black folks have been having people over forever, in whatever space there was with whatever food there was. Some of these ideas about "ability" are rooted in self-consciousness about keeping up with the Joneses.

People are like, gluten allergies are a fad, and I'm like, sir. Who would eat this bread willingly

Sometimes I'm like, that business is so dumb and is run by dumb people but it makes money, why don't more randos make business that are just slightly better, and then I remember money. It's money.

This is very close to my natural hair color but damn, it hasn't been this color in YEARS so it feels v weird

I love sewing but I loathe cutting out pattern pieces. So maybe I don't love sewing

Agreed, and I think part of this is refraining from teasing them about girls like "ooh do you like her??"

Frankenstein Iscariot@deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 2w ago

Raise your boys to have genuine friendships with girls, and push back hard against the idea that girl stuff is bad or off limits. Rape culture is downstream from homosociality.

This is actually something that confuses me a lot, I see it most often in Facebook groups, which has no monetization (afaik). So why?

Debbie T Knits 🧶@debbietknits.bsky.social · 2w ago

Why do people lie? Bots probably, for clicks and £€$ 🧶 #knit

I've been getting better at listening to audiobooks and while they are still not my preferred format for media, some books are better that way, and I'm trying to lean into that I tried and DNFd Andy Weir books, but the audiobooks have been very good so far.

Listen, these things can’t go “rogue”. It’s just a basic LLM stuck in a while loop. But this kind of attack is possible by doing something as simple as that, and that means that more people can set up programs to do terrible things like this moving forward on a whim.

Cara Jackson@carajackson.bsky.social · 2w ago

"With the Education Department, OpenAI’s technology tried to hack the website to gather data from the department’s civil rights office" 👀 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...

EXCUSE ME DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY EXTREMELY COOL NEWLY FINISHED TATTOO

The fact that for y'alls PhDs, you *focused*?? on something?? rather than equally focusing on the breadth of human knowledge and existence is pretty discriminatory like honestly how dare you

I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3w ago

“New students enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer major in studies focusing on Africans and the African diaspora, Mexican Americans and Latinos, or women and gender.” Puts a lot of “regain trust” rhetoric into proper relief.

I'm actually not sure what "talking back" is even though I supposedly did it a lot as a child

I accidentally typed in my last and first name backwards so I know EXACTLY how these fuckers got my info, how could you betray me like this Sayed

Streetcat@streetcat-stan.bsky.social · 3w ago

I just donated to Abdul El Sayed, KNOWING that ActBlue will now harass me non stop until November. That's how much I care

You're like, oh I hit my macros, ahh my protein goals! and I drank water for the first time in three days because I finally remembered to, we are not the same. please, these health ads,,,

Oh this is fascinating

Oh no late stage capitalism is being too...capitalist, better restart the machine

Majora's mask (The Leyend of Zelda) One random day my partner joked about me crocheting them a Majora's Mask. I took it personally and 30 seconds later I found this free pattern on deviantart and got to it. This took longer than anticipated, also bigger than I expected, but totally worth it 😏🧶

The University near me got rid of...language depts. I don't even think it was a woke thing, I think the admin used the stupid sb 1 bill as an excuse to cut the humanities in general My friend is mid phD and her program...exists but was essentially dismantled by gutting the courses

I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3w ago

“New students enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer major in studies focusing on Africans and the African diaspora, Mexican Americans and Latinos, or women and gender.” Puts a lot of “regain trust” rhetoric into proper relief.

I just donated to Abdul El Sayed, KNOWING that ActBlue will now harass me non stop until November. That's how much I care

Oh this. This is it. I think problems with AI are fundamentally about labor, theft, and the erasure of human dignity in domains where it is used, especially because of how it amplifies human bias. And that is just so different to rooting the problems in fear and awe of your horrible machine god.

sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 4w ago

the ai ceos calling for a slowdown because of agi is like when your friend who's really into conspiracy theories is like "and that's why the ruling elite is beholden to epstein" but then before you can agree, they add, "because of satanic rituals"

My newest depression meal hack is having frozen diced onions on hand. They sell them like that at the store!!!!

Also if it makes any new crochet 🧶 people feel better, I just had to re look up magic circle because my muscle memory failed me. I have made hundreds, maybe thousands of magic circles, but lately I've been favoring ch 3 as a start