It was about midnight when they noticed Limu was out of his cage and it was an hour after when they found him with his beak stained red and eyes glossy and distant beyond his own sight with flecks of yellow fur and death. Biberty was an affront to god and man but he didn't deserve this, the man said
Last month I caught a fishhook to the shoulder and so I hit a tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis vaccine. Friday I got this year’s influenza and COVID boosters. Today my doctor gave me a pneumococcal vaccine bc I have asthma. Now I’m invincible. it’s time for me to find RFK, Jr and bite him
Overhead husband earnestly lecturing the children: you see this is why you learn Latin and Greek, so one day you too will be able to explain all the dinosaur names.
Once again, Mamdani excels at the politics of confidence rather than fear. He's so clear and consistent about his principles that he can be a decent human—funny even—with his political opponents without creating alarm that he's engaged in some kind of waffling sellout.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 6d agoSliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap
look no hate intended, but: the people making the environmentally catastrophic mass plagiarism job killing antihuman hallucinations Clippy are calling AI sentient, capable of feelings, actually alive, and literal gods; I don't think it's the people who think it sucks that are out of touch. also,
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 6d agofeels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does
rt if your mind is not, in fact, boggled
Semafor@semafor.com · last wk.Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
This may be true, but I'm banking on financial reality popping the AI bubble before I have to care
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · 6d agofeels like there is a group of smart and well-intentioned people who long ago made up their minds that AI Is Bad, swore off using it, and now get all their info about AI from each other. not saying they're wrong that ai is bad! but i think they're gradually losing touch with what it is and does
Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
Schnitza Fars@schnitzafars.bsky.social · last wk.did you know that we get the word "cockamamie" from a bastardization of a term ("decalcomania") for a period in the 1930s after temporary tattoos were invented by the French and kids were running around putting them on fucking everything?! 🐦🐦🐦
No no please give me AI written slop sex scene. "Jesse looked longingly at Clara and said I see you have some concerns about the way I removed my trousers. I'm sorry about that. Let me try again. Would you like to input some workarounds?"
Jack Smith: need to meet and coordinate our phony takedowns of Trump Fani Willis: ok. security says airplane hangar or an abandoned loading dock is best Smith: no, too public, our faces are all over the news, no one can see us together. How about courtside at an Atlanta Hawks game Willis: perfect
Starting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose
so some lady around here runs an lgbt nonprofit, and they recently announced that they don't tell the truth about where any of their money goes. nevertheless they were included in some official statistics printed yesterday: i spied her gay org, which is an out liar and should not have been counted.
Whenever I haven’t eaten in a while, like a long overnight or an extra long span of hours, the first bite of food makes me sneeze Regardless of what type of food it is Looking for anyone in the known universe this also happens to
Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Direct translation is "A bola não mente" But to achieve the same energy, we have: "A bola pune" - the ball punishes
I have heard of the song, but only because it was in @shadowtodd.bsky.social best of 2025 list youtu.be/ic_8M3OBPfs?...
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This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
Hope For The Planet@h4tp.bsky.social · 2w agoWe now have rigorous pooled data showing that even without active restoration efforts, cleared rainforest can rebound to 75% of their former species composition and 90% of species diversity within just thirty years. #goodnews
I've never used my life insurance.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoAssistant AG for Fraud Colin McDonald: "Apparently 35% of people have never even used their Obamacare account for any health services. That is a statistical impossibility and it's because these are not real people seeking real care. These are fraudsters."
“It was an accident, but now that I think back on it, fuck that guy.”
A fun thing about hooking up the text generator to the command line is that it's now even harder to tell if you're looking at a real or extruded artifact
ve, the ghost of info past@vortexegg.com · 2w agoIncredible scenes from Meta. Apparently you can prompt inject their Muse agent into giving you a root shell on the box it's running on by roleplaying that you are actually the Muse agent itself.
This would also be awesome as a physical Lunar Lander game.
Bart⚓️@bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.