Coyote vs Acme is a Looney Tunes masterpiece, full stop. Funny, nostalgic, heartfelt, just all around great! I MISS this kind of movie! Anyone who thought this movie should be canned is beyond foolish and should not be a position of power to make these decisions (cough cough)

This is a long one, so bear with me. As a computer scientist, I do not use LLMs for code gen/learning topics, because I find the ethical issues around data centers, copyright theft/devaluation of labor, and the monopolization of data by large corporations abhorrent. 🧵

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

Who you gonna call? 😎

There's a woman in the Met on a business(?) call that's about Texas politics. She's been on this call for almost an hour. Full speaker, no headphones, I can hear the whole thing and I'm sitting at least 10-15 feet away. Very rude and foolish thing to do for several reasons.

Taking a moment to sing the praises of passenger rail tonight. Air travel was such a disaster today but I was able to pivot to taking the train (my preferred mode of transportation) after 10 hours in PHL, getting on and off planes, etc.

RIP to two of the best to ever do it

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

tim curry keeping up the bit twenty years after the fact by writing in his memoir that he and miss piggy had an affair during the filming of muppet treasure island is just so good and funny

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

First thought : FUCK, Tim Curry on the same day FUCK Second thought which made me crack up (as Tim and Dolly would surely have liked): “Someone go check on Miss Piggy, she just lost her frenemy and her ex lover”

There are two good ways to act with the Muppets. Either you take the Michael Cain approach and pretend you are working with a professional troupe from the West End. Or the Tim Curry approach where you pretend you yourself are also a Muppet. RIP

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In honor of Dolly and her commitment to getting books to kids, tell me about a book you read as a child that changed your life. I’ll start: so many, but tonight maybe I’ll say A WRINKLE IN TIME, a book that taught me anger wasn’t wrong.

with alt text. this is so beautiful 💕

Joel@itsjoels.bsky.social · last wk.

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · last wk.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

Honestly heartbroken and shocked -- I'm sorry if you're hearing it from me the Parton family just announced Dolly Parton's passing. No I'm not making this up, but I am an extremely hot mess. www.instagram.com/reels/DceNXg...

Dolly Parton on Instagram: "A message from the family of Dolly Parton."

38K likes, 3,435 comments - dollyparton on August 25, 2026: "A message from the family of Dolly Parton.".

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Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Just saw a mouse in my apartment and rather than doing something about it, my cat is just SLEEPING. So I broke the golden rule: I woke up my cat. She's a good mouser, and this problem will be quickly fixed...as soon as she realises what's happening.

i want to get vulnerable for a sec and talk about my experience with the GLP-1 as someone who had an alcohol addiction. now, at the time i started taking it, i didn't really get cravings anymore except under extreme stress (even then they were very brief). the GLP-1 eliminated my cravings 100%. BUT

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · last wk.

Unexpected GLP-1 side effect? Studies show the meds may help people with addictions thehill.com/policy/healt...

Northeast US (and maybe southeast Canadian?) friends, if anyone has an opening for two middle-aged cats who tragically lost their human to cancer, please look at this thread.

Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · last wk.

ORPHANED CATS NEED FOREVER HOME IN NORTHEAST (PLEASE READ *ENTIRE* THREAD) My wife's childhood friend died Thursday, leaving his two *mildly* special-needs cats. The elder, Wally, is about 13. ABSOLUTELY affectionate cat; GLORIOUSLY dim. His only issue is that he poops in bathtubs if given a chance

ORPHANED CATS NEED FOREVER HOME IN NORTHEAST (PLEASE READ *ENTIRE* THREAD) My wife's childhood friend died Thursday, leaving his two *mildly* special-needs cats. The elder, Wally, is about 13. ABSOLUTELY affectionate cat; GLORIOUSLY dim. His only issue is that he poops in bathtubs if given a chance

I love this book, HIGHLY recommend jumping on this deal while you can!

Emily J. Edwards@msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 2w ago

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PLEASE RE-POST! The eBook for VIVIANA VALENTINE & THE TICKING CLOCK is $2.99 for TODAY ONLY at all major retailers. Get it now! Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/vivi... B&N: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/viviana-va... Amzn: a.co/d/044EwJ7P

PSA: if you're saving precious voicemails from beloved deceased family members, please remember that voicemail boxes are not a long-term storage device and you need to save those files in a more permanent way if you want to keep them

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

When you support Harry Potter related media now, this is what you enable, in case that wasn't clear. It's wrong.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w ago

I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.

It's always funny (not actually) when men try to scam me when it comes to taking care of my car. As if I am completely clueless because I'm a woman, when, in fact, my dad treated me like the son he never had. Got my state inspection taken care of though!

Amazing. Alt text: graph of Chinese kids’ exam scores vs homework scores showing that kids who do poorly on homework (with or without ai assist) do poorly on tests, but those who do well on homework with ai do much worse than avg on tests and those who do well without it do better than avg on tests

Henry Mance@henrymance.ft.com · 2w ago

Woah.

wow who could have anticipated Meta’s pervert glasses would be used to ruthlessly harass women and girls, except for literally everyone smarter than paste

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...