Bluesky outlasted the Cybertruck. Can't tell you how foundational Cybertruck posting was in the early days of this place. It was all we did for awhile.

WIRED@wired.com · 6d ago

The decision to halt production of Tesla’s polarizing polygonal pickup marks the end of an error.

The queen summoned the princess for a talk. "I read this article by a book reviewer," the queen said. "Yes?" "It concerned, among other things, the nature of the relationships some characters in books have with dragons." "Ah." The princess blushed. "So tell me, does your dragon have friends?"

I'm not going to say there are no material wins with the midterms, but remember that Palestinian genocide, ICE, concentration camps, and throwing trans kids under the bus have been and continue to be bipartisan ventures. You cannot become complacent because the imperial colors turned blue.

Washington state, what's up. You're one of the places that used to make fun of Texas and Georgia and the Carolinas and here you are, on a night they showed us the way, being a bunch of backwards-ass bigots mandating your daughters have genital inspections to play sports. What's up, WA?

Melody Schreiber@melodyschreiber.com · last wk.

All girls in Washington will undergo genital inspection or DNA testing to participate in sports

Texas State Sen. Nathan Johnson, who composed music for the English dub of Dragon Ball Z, is now the Democratic Texas Attorney General www.texastribune.org/2026/11/03/t...

AI is an attempt to hobble, if not outright destroy, the liberatory possibilities of information technologies—the ability to use voice, image, video, and text as authentic witness and testimony, in a globally accessible human archive that transcends distance and time, to easily contradict power

Hypervisible@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“As it stands, if people don’t like what they hear, they can simply turn something off; the system outlined by Microsoft describes an environment where people can instead adjust someone else’s speech to their personal taste.”

Dockworkers went on strike across 113 ports in 22 countries to disrupt the transport of weapons of war, in solidarity with the Palestinian people. New Yorkers stand with them. When working people unite in their power, we build a better world. Dockworkers do not work for war.

I don’t really think “not a politician” should be a selling point for a candidate. The job is politician. I want to elect someone who understands that job and is good at it and also is not a dirtbag. We have seen how catastrophic it is to make “not a politician” the priority over “not a dirtbag.”

Will someone PLEASE just set up an AI-free enterprise software suite w/email, word, powerpoint, excel, video meetings, etc and take my money.

governments all over the world are telling their citizens to get ready for disaster. Do they know something we don't? (spoiler: probably not. The things we all know are good enough reasons to get prepared). margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/government...

A new book on immunology for laypeople? Hm! "Your Immune System: The Amazing Science of Who You Are,” published Oct. 6 by Johns Hopkins University Press, Koretzky aims to demystify immunology for laypeople."

Your immune system is amazing. A physician-scientist wants you to know why | Cornell Chronicle

A new book, “Your Immune System,” written by Gary Koretzky ’78, vice provost for research and a professor emeritus of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, aims to demystify immunology for laypeople.

news.cornell.edu

*cries, sips my tea*

Micro SF/F by O. Westin@microsff.com · 2w ago

It was never properly explained - interference from Q was a common suggestion - but for a standard day, regardless of what drink you ordered from a replicator, on any Starfleet ship, it would serve the same thing: Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

You know what I find darkly funny? MMA chokeholds are entirely allowed over there. So is boxing. You can legally *actually hurt people badly* on video consensually. So "safety" isn't what this actually is about is it?

Left unsaid in all the tributes that I've seen, but very, very much implied, is that Patrick Stewart provided a model of masculinity that was anti-Hegseth. No posing, no false machismo, emphasizing careful thought over violence, full of joy, etc. It's why it feels like a loss for all society.

The God of Bad Art gets offerings from all over the world, but in Their temple, They sometimes appear. "Why bad art?" I ask. "It is brave", the God replies. "To try and fail?" "No," the God chuckles. "Any creative work is a defiance of entropy, of Death itself. If you create, you do not fail."

When a nobleman came in to the tavern and put a note on the board, the monster hunters went to check it out. Laughter erupted. "A gazebo? Quick, someone get Eric!" Then the bounty caught their attention. "That's a lot of gold. Why?" "This gazebo," the nobleman said, "was made by Baba Yaga."

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

KNIGHTS BOOK KNIGHTS BOOK KNIGHTSBOOK!

Vincent Knotley@vincentknotley.bsky.social · last mo.

There’s a new Black Library novel on the way. It’s called Throne Questoris. It features Imperial Knights. Oh and it’s written by the Deathworlder (one of my favourite recent novels’) author, @writervh.bsky.social Very hyped for this. www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

"I was told," said the princess, "that the point of fairy tales is not to tell children dragons exist, but that they can be killed." "Oh, absolutely!" said the dragon. "You agree?" "These rich, selfish, powerful, cruel beings that need killing, did you think they're literally dragons, princess?"

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

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Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

See now we're fucking talking One of the only weapons we wield in this fight is our money and attendance, and if everyone involved with an event says "I'm not going unless you stop using AI" there's only two outcomes: *No AI or No Convention* Conventions are made by and for the community

Fighting game legend SonicFox pulls out of gaming event over AI-generated art - Dexerto

The competitor was advertised as a special guest at Nexcon 2026, taking place November 14–15 in Norman, Oklahoma.

dexerto.com

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

GenAI is unethical across many axes including environmental, political, and because the industry is based on mass theft from authors and other creatives. It's also incredibly reputationally damaging for people who are being accused of its use. I don't think any publisher has the right to tarnish me.

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.

One car repair. One emergency room visit. One serious illness that cuts a paycheck in half. Gods forbid something like a surgery come up where you need to burn all your sick time and PTO recovering and still end up eating weeks of Can’t Work. Precarious is the Norm for too many.

Uncle K 🏳️‍🌈@unclek.bsky.social · 3w ago

We need to focus less on affordability and much more on *precarity*. People can be doing just fine, for now, while living with the knowledge that it could all come crashing down without warning. This is what the rosy stats consistently gloss over.

it's not the only problem in the world but it seems very clear to me that better ADHD support leads to better real-world outcomes, and that the delta between outcomes for the well-supported and unsupported is frequently enormous

Ina Hallström@killedbyproxy.bsky.social · 3w ago

Systematic review relevant to the discourse on diagnoses and meds. "ADHD was associated with increased all-cause mortality, suicide mortality, unintentional or intentional injury mortality, and natural-cause mortality, whereas ADHD medication use was associated with reduced all-cause mortality."