Today is the day the story There Will Come Soft Rain is set. An amazing and heartbreaking work of fiction for our modern age. Read it here:
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · yesterdayDrSinBin
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Biophysicist turned data scientist. #datafam Yinzer science outreach.🌈 🧪🌱 Sic Semper Tyrannis Fandoms include: Trek, Discworld, D&D/TTRPGs, Harley/Ivy, Murderbot
a wooly man without a face@jojororo.bsky.social · yesterday
“You broke your daughter’s bones” “Well hes gayyyyy” These are not equivalent things
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdaywhoa -- Max Miller on CNN threatens Sen. Bernie Moreno with "exposing a deeply and personal embarrassing matter" after Moreno called for his resignation
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
oh shit you can currently watch The Repair Shop for free on Tubi and the Roku Channel! Let me please take this opportunity to encourage everyone here to watch The Repair Shop! people come with their Old Items, and a bunch of highly skilled craftspeople fix the Items
thingswithwings@thingswithwings.bsky.social · 2d agonot enough people are out here talking about The Repair Shop!!! what about the sacred quality of objects that humans invest with their own history and emotions! what about the value of handcrafting processes that go back generations! what about the rich interconnections between craft and carework 😭
Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce
Reuters@reuters.com · 2d agoMichigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E
Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
Imagine being a 12 year-old girl, forced to allow a male sports doctor to "examine" your genitals to determine whether you can play softball. Horrifying.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
if gender was more binary or less permeable or easier to measure this whole issue would be shaped very differently but it turns out it’s actually a huge pain in the ass to either define or locate the Gender Quantum
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
They already fired all the people whose job it was to have these ideas.
Exclusive: US military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to punish Iran | CNN Politics
The request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas.
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Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d agoThey're gonna send pizzas to the Ayatollahs house and ring and run at 3am
next dem president absolutely must rescind this by executive order on day one
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
So in the last two weeks EIC of Science and a famous science communicator have lost massive amounts of credibility because of their reliance on LLMs... Some examples of how to lose trust with your audience to share with my students I guess.
[Homer sits backwards on a chair] let me tell you about ANOTHER giant brute who was being beaten by Nobody
personal works I've drawn this year to force myself out of burnout 😮💨
Recommended viewing even if you think you're not particularly interested in what it's like to intern at the NE Ohio Regional Sewer District.
NE Ohio Regional Sewer District@neorsd.org · 6d agofor an intern's POV, we decided to ask AI: Actual interns.
imagine getting dunked on by Playboy for being weird about women’s bodies
Playboy@playboy.com · 6d agoWhat are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...
i don't believe anyone has "good-faith" concerns about trans women in sports in 2026. there's been too much time to hear the actual evidence, the actual people affected, and the role the debate plays in attempts to purge trans people from American life. anybody picking that side has made a choice
victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 6d agoenough of this shit
*whispers* seize it under the Defense Production Act and pack the Supreme Court until the court acquiesces to nationalization and overturns/hollows out Youngstown
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last wk.And it arrived
Despite all the accusations of crimes and cover-ups, the Trump admin has never actually prosecuted or jailed anyone. The supposed stolen 2020 election, Jan 6 deep state, Dr Fauci, etc. All of its is just theater for the base, revving them up. In the end, will undermine faith in gov and institutions.
We really should have gone to greater lengths to be loudly disgusted by anyone who acted like getting a shot or wearing a mask to prevent the spread of a pandemic virus was worse than being conscripted into the First World War
Techno-Fascism: AI, Accelerationism and the New Far Right
Techno-Fascism: AI, Accelerationism and the New Far Right - Politics Today
The world is facing a new form of terrorism threat and fascism: it is called Accelerationism and it is supported by influncial figures.
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Another day, another reminder that, no matter how carefully you craft your arguments, how precisely you choose your words, how meticulously you rearrange & reorder paragraph after paragraph after paragraph, some people will bring to & take away from your work only exactly what they want & intend to.
My two cents People are going to get so fucking sick and not know why. Some people are going to die.
Paul Bleicher@pbleic.bsky.social · 2w agoAstonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.
They’re coming for the whole damn BLT! 🥪
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · last wk.Over 12,000 pounds of bacon recalled. See affected products
Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them.
Jon of The North@krauza.bsky.social · last wk.Turns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.