Beeswax baby can write.

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

"As horrific as this summer has been, it is not some 'new normal' — the misleading catchphrase in so many dispatches that attempt some climate change context. It is, in fact, 'just the beginning…'"

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · yesterday

One of the clearest descriptions of climate dynamics for laypeople that you’ll ever hear: “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse.”

Let the oppressive noise of mowing, trimming, and leaf blowing radicalize you.

What we want is irrelevant, because Ontario has been post-democracy for quite some time now. If you understand Bill 5, there is no other conclusion to make. We bankroll all this, but have no say in all this.

The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 7d ago

SCOOP: The Doug Ford government received 98.98% opposition to its plan to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act with weaker legislation, according to an internal analysis viewed by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social. The bill passed anyway. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...

[gravely] amazon cut the fuckin

film-authority.com@film-authority.bsky.social · 6d ago

Amazon Prime are cutting scenes from films they stream; another reason to get your hands on Second Sight's lush 4K UHD version of The Name of the Rose. Umberto Eco's whodunnit gets a literate treatment here; it's all about censorship... Out Aug 10, 2026. 5 out of 5 film-authority.com/2026/07/31/t...

We're in the era of incompetence & cybercrimes headlined as "unprecedented model capabilities gone rogue." So OpenAI & Anthropic are trying to one up each other with such incompetence because the "press release as a service" performing media & clueless politicians parrot pre IPO CEO talking points.

On the computer, every Brian starts as a Brain.

Don't forget to bring up how bureaucratic processes drain and overwhelm one's natural motivations and sense of being effective in one's own work at the next stand-up so that we can get it in the prioritization queue for a future sprint.

Not going to backtrack for another skull key when there's idspispopd

GIFS GALORE@gifs-bot.bsky.social · last wk.

FANTASY/SF_TW21.GIF

I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance.

Totally vegan burger—only used some lard for flavour.

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · last wk.

shot, chaser

Kids were calling him "vacation Chewbacca."

Always a sign you’re on the right side of morality and history.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Soup to nuts is only safe if it’s gazpacho, though still pretty shocking.

Five years ago, I ran across a piece of stock footage that defied all conventions. It was beautiful and textured. It was *memorable*. But what can this single video tell us, in context of an entire industry designed to be generic? youtu.be/k3bkCTy9rLk

Pirate’s famous Banana Breakfasts more possible than ever before.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 2w ago

Banana trees are now bearing fruit in south-east England thanks to climate change: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg8edqq5g5o

Watching my kids getting more writing done on my word processor today than I did and not feeling any envy at all. Not one bit.

"New College—the focal point of the Florida GOP’s pedagogical interventions—has failed to establish a 'classical' core curriculum of any kind, save a 6-week course on the Odyssey that requires no essay writing. It's mostly accomplished a variety of construction projects" harpers.org/archive/2026...

Republican Machines, by Ann Manov

Can the GOP save the humanities?

harpers.org

Beautiful dirt, sweat, dust, and shit: almost every frame is full of texture and smell.

Gaijin Rando@gaijinrando.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hard to Be a God (2013) A gorgeous and grotesque sci fi head trip set on a planet whose culture bears a striking resemblance to that of medieval Europe Directed and co-written by Aleksei German - BOTD in 1938

God tells jokes economically…

"What about the productivity loss if people don't engage with AI???" they keep asking me.

Abilu Tangwa.@abilutangwa.bsky.social · 2w ago

What they don't teach you about heatwaves: It's not just heat. It's: • Your crops dying • Your river drying (Rhine is low again, disrupting shipping) • Your lungs burning from wildfire smoke • Your power grid collapsing It's everything at once.

People look at me crazy when I said COVID to me was actually a time of hope; politics were getting more radical, we were de-atomizing and creating new communities. As a general misanthrope I had more hope for humanity than I ever had; then we decided again that profits are more important than lives.

Coronavirus lockdown provides vivid picture of how environment recovers without people

"I think there are some big-picture lessons here that could be very useful," one scientist said.

nbcnews.com

Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 3w ago

I can’t stop thinking about how at the very start when people stayed home during the pandemic, the air was demonstrably cleaner within a few months or so. We had tangible proof that this was a solvable problem and thought “well, we’re obviously not doing that though”

Out of the frying pan and into…

Evangeline Sorrel@forestoath.bsky.social · 2w ago

When we hear about video game devs quitting to pursue published writing thats when we know the video game industry is dead.