a man and his fish

I been sayin supporting local news is a climate action

Shannon Waters@sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 24h ago

A document prepared by Energy United and Resource Works calls Canada’s policies to fight the climate crisis, protect nature and defend Indigenous Rights are a “problem,” and environmental organizations are “opponents,” @meyer.bsky.social reports They also took aim at the Local Journalism Initiative

thesis: permitting deal good antithesis: permitting deal bad secret third thing: you guys, these bastards don’t care about the law and they’re gonna find a way to fuck up anything good in this deal. we need to get rid of them and rebuild American democracy

Jeff Seidman (he/him)@jeffsseidman.bsky.social · 3d ago

@lissaharris.bsky.social, your post on permitting reform got a reference on Open Circuit (presumably via @billmckibben.bsky.social 's substack). (cc: @costasamaras.com )

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Jeff Seidman (he/him)@jeffsseidman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Listening to the pod one line further from where I stopped to post... @janeaflegal.bsky.social: "He is wiping his ass with it...", followed by @jigarshahdc.bsky.social "You've forever ruined my day by thinking about Trump's ass." @lissaharris.bsky.social, verily, your words have traveled far.

hahaha wow not bad for a possum who lives in a tree and does not have a real job

Jeff Seidman (he/him)@jeffsseidman.bsky.social · 3d ago

@lissaharris.bsky.social, your post on permitting reform got a reference on Open Circuit (presumably via @billmckibben.bsky.social 's substack). (cc: @costasamaras.com )

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as a rural queer kid who left home thinking I’d never be able to come back: hell yes. preach good luck to my small town getting rid of me now. when I was 18 I was a lot easier to drive off

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4d ago

Holy shit.

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 4d ago

In the aftermath of the Cornell rape case, @espiers.bsky.social reflects on her own experiences with sexual assault, and how our current models of consent-based sex education may not be enough.

Under all the post-hoc justification, I think most renewable opposition boils down to "I bought some rural land and feel entitled to viewing crops on my neighbors' land rather than panels or turbines" or "My favorite right-wing podcasters say renewables are woke lib nonsense and I believe them."

John Smillie@johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 4d ago

The more solar opposition (I promise I will re-broaden my topics soon) you listen to the harder it becomes to deny that much of it is based on a non-rational presupposition that "Solar is bad", and the rest of the rhetoric is backfill to support that notion. 1/5

I have a new moth up on @everydayoriginal.bsky.social This one is a white-lined sphinx and was created with watercolor and ink. Take a look here: everydayoriginal.com #sciart

Today, Oct 4, is the feast of St. Francis of Assisi: the day when you can bring your pets to church for a blessing.

Why does the rumen methane discourse bot have only 45 followers

Rumen Methane Discourse Bot@cowburpsbot.bsky.social · 6d ago

For the record: enteric fermentation occurs in the rumen, which is the first and largest compartment of the ruminant stomach. The methane produced is primarily belched, not flatulated. You're welcome.

fistfight from THEY LIVE

Casey Stegman@caseystegman.com · 6d ago

What’s your favorite action sequence?

sometimes you walk past a philosophy classroom and the professor has written "firetrucks.... red things" on the board and everyone is nodding like its real school

THAT’S HOW YOU GET ANTS

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 6d ago

Name a TV Show quote you use all the time.

my line on this is: when every other sentient being in the universe has forgiven that man for doing heinous violence, people are allowed to bother me to do it too I am the very last person you ask for this. til that bright day, kindly fuck off

Sarah Clarke - Not your doll@damselindystopia.northsky.social · 6d ago

One thing I really hate about the way we talk about abusers and rapists is that the possibility of change and forgiveness is conflated with those things having actually happened.

Anyway, my *extremely* midwestern and not-political stepmom said today "I don't care for ICE at all," so you know their assess are cooked.

I got so mad this week that I told my therapist I’d try EMDR again, even though it didn’t work on me the first time and I found it insanely aggravating I don’t understand why people like therapy I hollered at her about being mad at Good Will Hunting. I’m still Matt Damon in the courthouse scene

Another day working at the frontier AI lab. Everyone keeps asking me if the models have qualia. Buddy, I don’t even have qualia.

The Green NGO movement is not a monolith. But my informed sense is that most folks are alarmed by the permitting deal. So let me say this respectfully, gently, but firmly to my beloved comrades: political access is not political power.

hi there new local magazine

if you haven’t ever had to smile and bullshit through a question like this, I ain’t having it from you today

Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀@lissaharris.bsky.social · 6d ago

thinking about Jane Doe having to explain in job interviews why she left Cornell

Un-optimized. Moss-covered. Decaying but deeply alive. Reject efficiency, embrace the peat. #BogLife

i think the only answer is shitposting through these times or logging off completely, and I am not capable of the latter

another thing people who haven’t been through the aftermath of rape don’t appreciate: lying about it just by never mentioning it can warp your whole life if you got hit by a bus, and were SECRETLY in and out of hospitals for a decade, it would make weird unexplained holes in all your stories

from the rooftops

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · last wk.

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

re: last repost: this is the dilemma people I used to be close to have had with me for some time they want restorative justice for their guy, or something like it they know they need my blessing for it to work they will never get it their refusal to accept this is why they’re not in my life

completely apart from criticisms of RJ/TJ as a model--by definition they cannot be done without victim involvement. you can't claim to want "an RJ/TJ perspective" without the survivor involved, that's not how it works. all that means is you want to initiate the process of mandatory forgive & forget

Religion aside: There is a small (at least currently) subset of people who have sworn off AI use for religious reasons — and at least one has already gotten a work exemption from using it. www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

businessinsider.com

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last wk.

feels 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

Is your brain full of mind vampires?