People should be free to select from any source book especially third party sources (which are always well balanced) to maximise their power regardless of theme or flavour.

AbyssalBrews | Weekly Magic Items for D&D and PF2E@abyssalbrews.com · 14h ago

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We have a housing, childcare, and healthcare crises in NH while too many lawmakers are serving their donors, and NOT the people. Let’s come together, win the election on Sept 8, and reclaim our power 💪

Thats not important. No one said thats important. What is this cop shit?

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.

I've worked in politics in one realm or another for 35 yrs and I've got a bold professional take: We actually need *less* political analysis, as a society. Millions of people parsing over polls, bickering over horse races, speculating on cabinet shuffles, reading between lines...

i think about this image more than i care to admit

Every time I see an academia is uniquely bad essay I think about my 10 years in government.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d ago

Every time I read a “academia is uniquely bad” essay I think about my wife’s twenty years in corporate America.

The word 'hallucinated' is inappropriate. A more appropriate word would be 'fabricated'. A senior judge accused the Home Office of relying on *fabricated information* to refuse an asylum claim

Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · 3w ago

“A senior judge has accused the Home Office of relying on ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse an asylum claim.” It’s disturbing to see how governments use “artificial intelligence” to make decisions about a person’s right to safety.

I'm really happy that there is now a job opening for a Lecturer in Discourse Studies at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social. Closing date 4 September, interviews 21 September. This is a great opportunity for an early-career researcher, so get your application ready! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Discourse Studies

Linguistics and English Language, School of Social Sciences, Lancaster University (Full-time, indefinite post) Linguistics and English Language within the School of Social Sciences at Lancaster Univer...

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Karishma is for the people 🫶🏻 #nhpolitics

Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"

Savage.

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Indie publisher Devolver Digital is looking to once again become a private company later this year www.gamesindustry.biz/devolver-dig...

The next time someone argues that the Aborigines “did nothing with the country for 65,000 years”, instead of arguing back I will keep my answer simple: “Unlike the white fella, they looked after the place.” theaimn.net/what-if-the-...

What if the highest achievement of a civilisation is not what it leaves behind, but what it leaves intact?

Every so often – very often – someone declares that Aborigines “did nothing for 65,000 years.” Usually it is presented as an indisputable fact, as though it settles the argument. It doesn’t. It merely...

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if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · last wk.

It keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.

Deontics.

cmrn knzlmn@ckunzelman.bsky.social · 2w ago

a second common comment is: the piece critiques XYZ field of study for not engaging in ABC argument, but actually what the piece is doing is obliterating many years of research on this exact thing because somehow you did not find it or engage deeper than the biggest sources in the subfield

There are more people who've parlayed middling athletic prospects into profitable careers decrying the inclusion of trans women in sports than there are trans women in sports.

I'm talking about arendt most weeks now.

Dr. Damien P. Williams is just… so tired.@wolven.blacksky.app · 2w ago

"On Bullshit Engines' Politics" (2026) [Frames the Winner connection] "Fascist Bullshit: Countering the Disinformation, Misinformation, & Authoritarianism of 'Generative AI,'" (Forthcoming) [Connects the above with, e.g., Arendt, W. Benjamin, PH Collins, Eco, Fanon, Freire, etc.]

The problem most companies struggle with is that they're "terminally bad at running software projects effectively." Adding AI to the mix doesn't solve this problem - it just adds a whole new range of ways that software deployment can fail. 28/

Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?

"we only used a little feces in our project" Thats still too much "the shits been really improving over the years" i dont care "well everyones going to be using shit soon so better accept it" guess i wont be eating out then

Ive got a joke about Perseus, on reflection it's a killer.

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a joke about Hermes but you’d have to be pretty quick to get it.

Most of the land in most farm counties is owned by 1-5 families. They run the place like their own personal kingdoms. There is SO much resentment and straight-up fury about this in rural areas. The fact that no political party's even really trying to speak to it is wild.

a propos of that statement... Books are ABSOLUTELY NOT just a delivery mechanism for information. This hyperfocus on "information" is the root of the whole problem really.

Africa is smashing all the solar records. The continent installed more grid-connected solar in the first half of 2026 than in all of 2025, and with projects under construction the year could finish at triple the previous record. buff.ly/NirgzLn #ShareGoodNewsToo

African 2026 on-grid solar additions surpass those of 2025 | African Energy

The latest analysis from African Energy Live Data shows despite a slow 2025, solar capacity additions in 2026 have already surpassed each previous year. Falling costs and several recent agreements…

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For real, what makes you feel more focused, more energized, more aroused and shake all night in a good way for real?

So AI is a djinn in the classical sense, a lying trickster spirit who appears to grant wishes that are empty and hollow and the wish's failure is a lesson.

Return of the Cmonmacques@cmonmaque.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Is small talk really meaningless? This article by Jessica Robles reframes small talk as a form of social technology: a set of familiar, low-effort conversational routines that help us open interactions, establish rapport and signal connection. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4jtj87jz 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics

Small talk acts like social glue – here’s how to get better at it

Maybe think of small talk as a technology: a human invention for accomplishing social goals.

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So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Aboriginal rangers have wiped invasive fire ants off an Australian island. After 22 years, the Tiwi Rangers have eradicated tropical fire ants from Melville Island, hunting and baiting nests one by one. The ants had been eating turtle hatchlings and nesting birds. buff.ly/MYFv9ok #ShareGoodNewsToo

Tiwi rangers eradicate invasive tropical fire ants in Australia’s Melville Island

DERBY, Australia — While Spanish sailors packed in dirt to stabilize the bottom of ships sailing from the Americas in the 16th century, they were unaware that they were also helping tiny stowaways…

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