A memorial for Gloria Steinem In 1963, Gloria Steinem put on a fake name, a fake age, a satin corset, and took a job as a Playboy Bunny. Then she took the ears off, went home, and spent the next sixty years telling the world what it means to work in the sex industry.
Stef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen
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Ph.D. in AI. Sr. Foresight Analyst, Horizons. Coder, numbers whiz, foresight expert. Sworn to use Evil powers only for Good. He/they. @wikisteff@mastodon.social
(incidentally, the far superior series of 'young adult books about being a British magician' is Jonathan Stroud's Bartimeaus books, and as a bonus the author isn't an aspiring genocidaire.)
The Asahi Linux project now officially supports Macs with an M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max chip, bringing the operating system to more Apple Silicon desktops.
Asahi Linux rolls out support for M3 Apple Silicon
The Asahi Linux project now officially supports Macs with an M3, M3 Pro, or M3 Max chip, bringing the operating system to more Apple Silicon desktops.
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I don't need to hear geopolitics hot takes from this guy
🤡 Kushner: "There is no such thing in the world as forever enemies or forever allies."
Caolan: 'I asked Steve Witkoff how on earth he can still believe Putin wants peace. Russia attacked the airport he was meant to land at. Yesterday, it bombed the very street where he is standing today. Putin has literally tried to derail his trip to Kyiv' @caolanrob.bsky.social
The latest in the Lindsay Clancy trial: The judge denied the defense's motion to remove the one juror who appears to be a hold-out vote. Per a note from the jury, the vote is 11-1 and based on reporting, the holdout juror has acknowledged doubt about the case, but refuses to follow the law.
Actress Susan Sarandon says she continues to be shut out of Hollywood and has “had movies taken away recently” for her views on Palestine but is happy that the world is waking up to the reality of what’s happening there.
Bad Bunny Wins First Primetime Emmy for 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show
Bad Bunny Wins First Primetime Emmy for 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show
Bad Bunny won his first Primetime Emmy on Saturday (Sept. 5), winning outstanding variety special (live) for the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
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It's so hilarious that we're getting NFL football in The National Divorce, along with Jack Reacher and Cracker Barrel
Bad Bunny Wins First Primetime Emmy for 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show
Hogwarts also had an unrealistically low level of homoerotic violence
Ro Khanna on why Speaker Johnson sent the House home early: He doesn’t want Epstein to become the issue before the midterms, and he doesn’t want votes on the Iran war to become the issue.
I used this insane compression tool made by this ubergeek in 2016 to make a compression/decompression pathway for text that is denser than 7-Zip **after being Base64 coded back into text**.
Okay, like, I get that Grandpa is on a map kick these days, but what did New Mexico do to him?
Everything is just impossibly dumb
"Why would anyone put 15 ranks into Profession (cook)?"
Ninja chef skills.
Alt text: An Italian church with a giant inflatable stag beetle balloon on the ground. It is about 8 feet wide and maybe 20 feet long.
Today’s Italy update: we went in a church and there was a big inflatable bug
Pyrococcus furiosus sounds like the most metal archaeon possible.
Dolly Parton charts three songs in the top 10 on the UK singles chart this week, with “9 to 5” becoming her highest-peaking song ever: #5: 9 to 5 #6: Jolene #9: Islands In The Stream
I don't like that LeBron partnership with Polymarket, at all. I didn't like Giannis partnering with Kalshi either. Matter of fact, I don't like athletes, past or present, partnering with gambling sites, period.
Nope
ALT: Nope
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Probably less often than I think about how they have a magic surveillance state and use mind erasure as a disciplinary measure
remember the part where Hermione tries to free the race of house elves enslaved by magic wizard school and everyone treats her like an idiot because some races are simply born to be slaves. remember the bank goblins
She's usually very savvy but this betrays a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of what MAHA represents. I've had my own experiences with the left-adjacent seeming ones and @aoc.bsky.social, inviting these folks into the tent is functionally inviting eugenics into the tent
WOOF no thank you
Well, I found some amazing Brazilian accounts to follow at least!
I was pleased to see that a Brazilian bird account was ranked pretty high yesterday. I for one welcome our new Brazilian overlords
I am glad to see Brazil retains enough of a presence here to put English language bluesky in a dumpster on our own silly contest well played everyone
We have a new #1, congrats to @moara.bsky.social for surpassing all of the largest accounts on Bluesky! Vote here: bsky38.com
This is exactly how people talk to Jeffrey Epstein in the Files, by the way.
Witkoff: “President Putin, thank you so much for having us. “We were sitting outside just now, me, Jared, Kirill, Yuri, and we were talking about, when we retire, we will have all these incredible stories and memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all.” 1/2
Occasional reminder that there is an ICC arrest warrant against Putin for war crimes in connection with the mass abduction of Ukrainian children.
Witkoff: “President Putin, thank you so much for having us. “We were sitting outside just now, me, Jared, Kirill, Yuri, and we were talking about, when we retire, we will have all these incredible stories and memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all.” 1/2