Highlighting @atlpresscollective.com again: for Atlanta to be a major US city, we need this kind of reporting. Next post: their fundraiser. Tagging Atliens to sprd wd.! 1/2 @neonflag.bsky.social @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social @austinlouisray.bsky.social atlpresscollective.com/2026/07/28/f...

28,000 cameras and counting, but Atlanta's clearance rates aren't rising

Despite the eight-fold growth of surveillance cameras directly accessible by Atlanta PD officers, crime clearance rates haven't increased.

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i'm not ultra superstitious and i'm not the type to follow astrology but i do acknowledge the moon has lots of power mythologically, spiritually, naturally, and culturally. having space junk hit the moon is such a violation. i'm so upset.

starting a new group called the Moon Avengers

Mia Tsai is on hiatus@itsamia.bsky.social · 2h ago

he's polluting the MOON now?

he's polluting the MOON now?

If AI went away tomorrow I could live without it, but every waking second I'd want to scream for joy, and my thoughts would be full of happiness at its absence.

wondering randomly who has to clean up after the horses in the chinese imperial court. people be riding horses through the outer courtyards constantly and those courts stay clean. folks be wearing floor-length capes throughout. i got questions

mission success. fuck the phone.

Mia Tsai is on hiatus@itsamia.bsky.social · yesterday

spending money to get rid of/nullify a function of my phone because every day i get more and more irritated at being attached to it. might take 15 usd but i won't need my phone in the kitchen in the mornings.

From TV's "first interracial kiss" to Star Wars and Octavia Butler and through the current day, Briana N Cox traces the complex, evolving relationship between the Black and Asian diasporas as characters in and creators of speculative fiction:

Sinning, Boosting, & Bad Miracles: Black and Asian Solidarity in Speculative Fiction - Reactor

Exploring the past and present of Black and Asian representation in speculative stories, and what it means for the future...

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incredible. INCREDIBLE. i'm stunned.

Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · yesterday

It's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d ago

Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

king shit from kings of trip hop.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d ago

Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

auntie at the salon asked me if i was okay today while i was getting threaded and i answered yes but clearly i was not. and now i am shamed. because she has never asked me this before. i got soft.

spending money to get rid of/nullify a function of my phone because every day i get more and more irritated at being attached to it. might take 15 usd but i won't need my phone in the kitchen in the mornings.

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

sobbing as i do this a third time and prepare to do it a fourth time, like some sort of addict

Gabino Iglesias@gabino.bsky.social · 2d ago

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

gotta get offline again because i have much work to do but my heart's heavy again. maybe i'll go practice some more to lift my spirits. llms will never take this away from me. they will never threaten my work.

My god. I couldn't articulate it until this post. LLMs are the final form of expertise denial and devaluation. ChatGPT is the horseman of death - for the planet, for our expertise, for our selves.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d ago

Someone who has known me for decades (and is not a lawyer) recently told me his understanding of the birthright citizenship case is better than mine because I read it and many of the underlying historical sources with my own two lying eyes and HE had ChatGPT read it to him and so he's not biased

it's actually sad as hell to use AI for research when research is the fun part. you can just email people and call them on the phone and ask them questions about the thing that they have expertise in. you can read documents & learn cool shit. ok now i'm just talking about how being a reporter is fun

me practicing this solfege at a level that amounts to berklee prereqs it is wild at how vastly different yet incredibly similar our skill sets are between classical and jazz. i keep wondering if improv would be made easier if only we did more jazz keyboard harmony.

LRP: I've been asked if I feel any responsibility for books I've copyedited, content-wise. Aside from the usual sensitivity things, the answer is no. I did not build that house. Pressure washing the outside does not change what's inside.

Any and all joking aside (not that I necessarily was), no copy editor on earth can turn a bad manuscript into a good book, but a good copy editor can certainly pare away a lot of crap and help transform an irritating manuscript into a pleasing read.

Saw the new Spider-Man movie and I have to say, other than all the very spoilery stuff, my favorite part is its love letter to New York City and New Yorkers. What a fabulous choice by the director. New York Forever.

*sobbing* but i don't WANT to sightread and then realize the harmony in soprano clef!!!

One thing all marginalized people have in common is that under white supremacy, at any given time we are whatever beneficiaries of our status quo need us to be in order to advance their rhetoric but at no particular crucial point ever are we real actualized voice-having human beings.

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's especially galling that Haley Stevens is portraying herself as the great protector of the Jews in her campaign against a Muslim candidate, given that in 2022 she beat a wonderful Jewish Congressman in a costly primary in part by accusing him of being insufficiently pro-Israel.

Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d ago

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

okay horseradish lovers and @didichanoch.northsky.social especially, hear me out, this cherry horseradish sauce from cherry republic is legitimately good as hell. is cherry republic a bit gimmicky? yeah. is this horseradish sauce heaven sent? YEAH. www.cherryrepublic.com/products/che...

Cherry Horseradish Sauce | Cherry Republic

Add a burst of flavor with our Cherry Horseradish Sauce. This creamy, zesty blend pairs the bold heat of horseradish with a subtle touch of cherry sweetness.

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LRP: eating real wasabi is incredible and the spice is akin to a beautiful, painful windowpane clarity in your sinuses. you don't need much. the people should do what they want with their food. put wasabi in soy sauce, sure. the fake stuff? eat as much as you want. i've been known to eat it plain.

Wasabi, or "Japanese horseradish," is a plant native to Japan with a spicy kick that hits you in the back of the nose. Since it’s pricey to get outside Japan, many restaurants abroad use a fake "wasabi" that’s nothing more than horseradish and mustard with food coloring.

Is Putting Wasabi in Soy Sauce Rude? - Unseen Japan

A lot of people - both in and out of Japan - do it. But is it "rude"? A new manga on wasabi and soy sauce elicits strong reactions.

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Genre copyeditors, are we just . . . not doing chapter summaries anymore? Are we not keeping timelines or important dates in the style sheet? Did we all agree to stop doing this and no one told me?