Awoooooooo my loons!

Doge Pound Shiba Inu Awoo

Alt: Doge Pound Shiba Inu goes Awoo

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This is frighteningly accurate

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 6d ago

Increasingly, Soylent Green serves as one of the best metaphors for AI -- it's taking all that we are, as people, chumming it up, and feeding the slurry back to us. We're told that we need it, it's nutritious, it'll save the world, even as it damns it and us.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Last Unicorn Schmendrick

Alt: Gif from the Last Unicorn: Molly (a woman with unruly brown hair wearing a red shawl) and Schmendrick (man wearing a blue pointed hat and blue cloak) are walking through a dark cave. Schmendrick says to Molly "There are no happy endings, because nothing ends."

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Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · 6d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

So according to our air filter app, the indoor air quality is shit, but the outdoor quality is temu apocalypse. Awesome. Me and my Covid-damaged asthmatic lungs will be over here having a nice old time. Stay safe everyone!

Shout-out to all my fellow spoonies crashing today after #CVG2026! Treat yourself kindly if possible. I still haven't washed the green out of my hair.....

Minnesota if you're not looking at the moon, you should be! Forgive my shit camera

Shout-out to anybody else whose day started with the fire alarm going off

Xcel what are we doing here? I'll just be over here waiting for you to get your act together I guess

Mendeia@mendeia.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anybody else in the Twin Cities metro without electricity right now? Anybody know why? I started to ask "anybody without power?" But that's a loaded question and I do not have the energy to be philosophical about it right now.

Anybody else in the Twin Cities metro without electricity right now? Anybody know why? I started to ask "anybody without power?" But that's a loaded question and I do not have the energy to be philosophical about it right now.

THIS!!-->>> I had this EXACT reaction! Why is it so easy for the Feds to charge for #Stalking when someone follows someone in a car, nothing else other than maybe some curse words said but a victim of repeated domestic violence & real stalking can't even get law enforcement to take a report!

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Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is impossibly hard to get an indictment for stalking when the stalker is an abusive ex. It makes my blood boil that the DOJ indicted Minnesotans for observing ICE as a form of stalking. These laws do not protect us. But they can be weaponized against us.

I had stuff to do today and now I mostly want to curl up, turn off every device, and nap until it all goes away. Which is what they want us to feel. It's okay to be exhausted and dispirited. It's okay to just cope. We all heal these wounds in our own time. Then we get up and fight again tomorrow

I think this is true, and I know we will prevail, but GODS DAMNIT we should not have to live with this rage and fear. I had not missed the choking weight of it all. Everyone be kind to yourself today and be very safe. Shout if you need help -- we're in this together to the end.

Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 2mo ago

What's starting in Minneapolis today is going to be just like the Broadview 6 case. A desperate attempt at a show trial pursued by dumb, vicious prosecutors performing for an audience of one. An attempt to discourage and scare people from fighting back. It's not going to work.

happy pride to all my buddies who are too tired to create anything for pride and are just focusing on existing

Don't be this person. Don't. If you fuck around and kid like this, you are doing harm punching down to trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and many other people. Pronouns are not user pics. They are not cute online names. They are IDENTITY. RESPECT THEM.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fellow cis people: Making up “cutesy” pronouns for yourself is literally making a game and a joke out of people’s identities. It’s so fucking disrespectful and dismissive. Take pronouns seriously.

Endless fucking bullshit. But they will never stop us from protecting our neighbors and ourselves

C. Robert Cargill@crobertcargill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICE observers in Minneapolis have begun receiving visits from FBI agents sent to intimidate them. A close friend-combat vet, mother, no criminal record-who was a volunteer observer during the ICE crisis, had a visit and was threatened for taking photos and videoed, claiming that filming was illegal.

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This is literally because of Anti-Blackness, like so many supremely fucked up things about the US

Zeroisanumber@zeroisanumber.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Because of racism. Once Black folks could use them they suddenly stopped being a priority for municipalities all over the country. I am not exaggerating.

Shout-out to everyone whose first instinct in a time of weather, traffic, or unrest is to head to the Twin Cities Bluesky for updates, commentary, and commiseration. These are my people!

Welp, this was a fun way to find out one of our bedroom windows doesn't seat right in the sill anymore. At least I got it to latch a little more. Otherwise I was looking for ways to hold it in so I could go back to bed. Leaning a desk chair was my top option. Weather adventures are less fun at 3am

It would be an unorthodox but effective way to protect the boundary waters from US gov fuckery

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Joe Kernen says he's ready to trade Minnesota to Canada

I think this is a big part of why I've been struggling to write lately. I have 2 WIPs and both involve an antagonist who is too much like the assholes enshittifying the world. I'm TIRED of selfish, cruel, powerful people causing harm and it makes me tired even to write about kicking their butts.

Bruce Coville@brucecoville.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I am so stressed out by the world situation & the horrors of the Trump administration that I am contemplating writing a 600 page epic to be called THE TRANQUILIAD. It will be set in a cozy forest glen with a babbling brook and friendly animals, and nothing bad will happen for the entire 600 pages.

Spy Game I watched this movie in an actual college class on espionage because of the accuracy of how it portrayed agency culture/politics, recruitment of assets, etc. The class was taught by a former NSA agent who "spent time" with the CIA so that tells you how good it is. Runner up: SpyXFamily

Spy X Family: Intense Glare

Alt: Spy X Family: Intense Glare A blond man wearing a trench coat and hat turns slowly, his eyes wide. You can sense his utter dread as if his soul is about to flee his body in panicked despair

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Name your fav spy movie (that isn’t James Bond or Mission: Impossible).

Add at least one more and pass it on: Trans women are women. Ace is beautiful, not broken.

Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜@lynnemthomas.com · 2mo ago

It’s the first of June, the beginning of Pride month. Stonewall was a riot. Trans rights are human rights. No one gets to erase us from history. Fight back against book bans. Fuck anybody who thinks we don’t deserve love or bodily autonomy. They don’t get to steal our joy.

This is my wreath for midsummer. I change the wreath every 6 weeks, centered on the wheel of the year. So this is the wreath for the 3 weeks before and after the equinox. Represents the full glory of the sun in summer. I'm really proud of this one!

Mendeia@mendeia.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Little known fact - I love to make wreaths. Often I get one pre-made from the clearance rack (RIP JoAnn Fabrics) and fix it up with other bits and blooms until I'm happy with it. It's a really different form of art and I get to see it every day! I hang 9 in sequence throughout the year. The newest:

Co fucking signed 🤬

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2mo ago

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

The only thing people hate more than AI are the sociopaths shoving it down our throats.

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

This thread is good and terrifying but this single piece of it made me cry. Trans people need our help and protection. Help, support, donate, advocate. Whatever you can do, do it and keep doing it. It literally saves lives.

Pride at the Pier 🏳️‍🌈🤝⚧️ he/she/they/xe @prideatthepier.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And of course, the deaths are real, too - while suicide records are notoriously underreported due to a crisis of misgendering by coroners and medical examiners, we know that at least 1 in 5 trans youth attempted suicide in 2024, up from 1 in 10 just a few years ago. 11/15

If you want to know why so many people are AI skeptics it's because things that used to work like Google Advanced Search went all-in on AI and now do not fucking work. IT DOES NOT FUCKING WORK ANYMORE