Recording software. Music that used to take a studio, professional engineers, and many thousands of dollars can now be produced by a 16-year-old in their bedroom in an afternoon.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

I couldn't resist going to find it since it's also one of my faves

Driving past the ballot drop box an hour before final pickup tonight was wild. Like a block party for procrastinators.

Organic snack foods are always named things like HARMLESS GODDESS'S LEAVE-NO-TRACE EARTH LOVIN' HAPPY THOUGHTS and it's like ma'am, these are Cheetos.

You don't need my recommendation to know you should read Robert's new book, but you've got it anyway. Robert books are insta-buys for me.

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An 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

I feel like all our problems with tech billionaires and intentionally shitty software started with whichever exec first decided that printers shouldn't print black and white if the color ink is out. We should have publicly shamed that dude, and the fact that we didn't got us here.

Cersei Lannister's Walk of Shame

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That's my secret, Cap. I'm always thirsty.

Dark Sun is coming back! www.polygon.com/dnd-dark-sun...

D&D finally goes back to its most hardcore setting with new 'mature' product line

Dark Sun returns, and D&D is pulling no punches

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Me at 18: This Queen song is so dumb. Why would you sing about this? Me at 42 (openly weeping): I DO! I *DO* WANT TO RIDE MY BICYCLE!

One of my writing teachers told me she used to be in a writing group where everyone else was a better writer than she was, and none of them had careers, and she did, because they stopped, and she didn’t. It’s like one of the only parts we can control!

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Just learned that skunks can spray in either a 30-foot line or a 15-foot-diameter area of effect centered on them, and I don't think I've ever heard of an animal more obviously operating by tabletop RPG rules. (Thanks to @davekellett.bsky.social on @comiclab.bsky.social for the education.)

The fact that the mass shooting in Seattle yesterday now looks to be several teens shooting at each other is an even greater indictment of American gun culture. This isn't about dedicated murderers or terrorists. This is about having so many guns around that 15-year-old dipshits can get them easily.

AI, please summarize all this information. Now summarize the summary. Shorter. No, shorter. Can you just give me a 👍 or 👎? Okay, perfect. Please let the judge know we're ready to start opening arguments.

Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.

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A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.

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A Chilean salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays. Ecoportal buff.ly/CwczkbP #ShareGoodNewsToo

An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home

An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home and were all thriving.

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Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great Wednesday. Just wanted to make sure everyone knows what a baby heron looks like. Ok bye see you later www.instagram.com/p/DateeyJCE3Y/

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

I need a time-lapse video of my writing process, so that when somebody inevitably accuses me of using AI for my novels I can give them a screening of "Six Hours of James Agonizing Over a One-Sentence Dick Joke."

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The tell with all of this is your kids can be taught by sex bots dressed up like John Oliver, but the tech barons send their kids to schools where they don't allow phones and there is an art AND music teacher.

Mashable@mashable.com · 3w ago

AI company Realbotix is piloting STEM robots for rural schools.

Warming my cucumbers to 160 degrees and googling “diarrhea near me” as I salute the flag of my great nation

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

THIS. It drives me nuts when I see a public playground that says "no unsupervised minors." We've created a society that wants to pretend children don't exist.

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Y'all don't want teens to go to the beach, ride the bus, or go to the mall. But y'all also don't want them staying home and playing video games or being on their phones or social media. So what do y'all expect teens to do? Sit silently and stare at the wall? Come the fuck on.

Just learned from a friend in the industry that if you're currently roasting because your power is out during a heat wave, there's good odds that it's because the utility tried to build out to meet increased demand due to climate change, but conservative state legislators said no. 🙃

"Separate yourself from your profession. That's what I do, not what I am." Some of the best career advice out there for writers (and everyone else).

Daniel Benneworth-Gray@danielgray.com · 3w ago

Sam Neill on tackling depression and imposter syndrome when you’re between jobs.

In my experience (and talking to friends who are much bigger names), people who follow you for reasons unrelated to your work don't do that much for your career. Posting stuff related to your work can mean slower growth, but those followers you get are much more passionate and helpful.

If a character action is an emotional response, you often don't need to name the emotion (unless it's different than what you'd expect from context). So "his shoulders hunched defensively" can probably just be "his shoulders hunched." "Gritted her teeth in pain" probably doesn't need "in pain."

When someone tells you it has always been this bad, the correct response is to point out that the Voting Rights Act passed with 98 votes in the Senate in 2006 and its main sponsor was a Republican who worked with the ACLU to build a comprehensive record in defense of its most “controversial” parts

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 4w ago

There’s such a tendency for people to say “oh it’s always been that bad” to people who are vastly more informed and are saying things have changed. It’s like pointing to the smoldering ashes of a city and being informed that buildings have always caught fire