Hey babes! I'm back at @mostlymartha.bsky.social, at least until my smart mouth gets me in trouble again.

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s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2mo ago

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Just saw this dropped!! I used the recent Inde Navarette/Jeff S*eider discourse to write about Hollywood's long history of male entertainment journalists writing on women for @salon.com. www.salon.com/2026/09/17/h...

Hollywood's long history of men who think actresses owe them

Jeff Sneider's threats against Inde Navarrette fit a decades-old pattern in entertainment media.

salon.com

I thought this was INSANE but then I saw the quoted tweet 😭

Rob.(?)(!)@barackomamba.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

fuck this guy

CalMatters@calmatters.org · 2mo ago

Gov. Gavin Newsom held firm to his return-to-office mandate for California state workers and vetoed a union-supported bill that would have given state departments more authority to set their own telework policies. cal.news/3T8wAo7 📸 Jules Hotz

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

Dave Willner@dwillner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.

Everytime you think the writers have well and truly jumped the shark, they find another twist. The new Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research has published a case report on…. wait for it…. Leopards eating faces #ISYN www.joms.org/article/S027...

Head and neck injury from a leopard attack: case report and review of the literature

Animal bites are frequently encountered in a trauma center and result in injuries ranging from innocuous to life threatening. In the United States, more than 10,000 patients are hospitalized each year...

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“People familiar with Flock’s severance plan tell WIRED that some employees may take the offer amid speculation that the company, which has raised about $1.2 billion in venture capital, might resort to selling off parts or all of its business to stay afloat.” 💅🏾

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: Flock is offering employees "generous" buyouts as communities across the US push back against the surveillance camera network, @wired.com has learned. @peard33.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/flock-...

To be specific, family annihilations are committed by men more than 90% of the time and are committed roughly every five days in the US.

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 2mo ago

Plenty of women want to punish their peers, but the fact that men are on social media suggesting that a not guilty verdict means the 19th Amendment should be repealed— when men are more often family annihilators—is just too much

Tallinn, who led Anthropic's series A, funds METR, the "auditing institute" people took seriously 🙄 After criticism that METR was laughably NOT independent, Anthropic announces they'll pay Accenture to "audit" Accenture had acquired Tallinn firm which will be doing the "auditing" Full circle 🙄

Andrea Lathrop@cabernet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I cannot repeat this enough. I'm seeing "haha, starched shirt consultants" takes on the Anthropic announcement of the Accenture embed, BUT Accenture acquired 'Faculty' in January, which originated as 'ASI Data Science' founded with financial backing from Jaan Tallinn. Just as like-minded as METR.

And @erikawynn.bsky.social on how #MeToo birthed a fad for intimacy coordinators...and now, we're seeing the backlash.

Eight Years After #MeToo, the Intimacy Coordinator Backlash Has Arrived

Intimacy coordinators were supposed to make sets safer. Instead, they've become a flashpoint.

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referring some code as a she is even more offensive then when boats and machines and stuff get girl names

Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo ago

Tilly Norwood, a controversial AI “actor,” abruptly switched languages during an interview with Piers Morgan, though the company behind the AI creation denied she malfunctioned.

Being both an American History major, descendant of Chattle slavery, and Guyanese is beating my ass right now. there is NOTHING in the outsourcing of intelligence that we are seeing that isn’t replicated in primary source documents About plantation owners and members of the British Raj

Gabrielle Horton on Black woman in arts spaces, as patrons, visitors, curators, and more.

The Women Gather: Black Patrons Forge Deep Healing in Art Spaces

Museums are under attack, but Black women curators, artists, and patrons are still nourishing themselves and each other through the arts.

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This VERY POPULAR @judysquirrels.bsky.social feature on how ~ the discourse ~ is ruining film criticism.

The Discourse is Ruining Film Criticism

Can’t we just watch films on their own terms?

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FYI, this flowflex code should work through Sunday. Supposedly, you can use it more than once if you need to re-up again already.

Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA@michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 2mo ago

23 US states/territories have COVlD outbreaks. You can use this promo code to get 20% off FlowFlex rapid tests. That's the test my family uses and that I give to patients and staff because it has >98% sensitivity. Code: FLEX23 store.pharmalynk.com

Globally, abortion law has moved in a progressive direction over the past three decades. More than 60 countries and territories have liberalised their abortion laws, while only four have restricted them - United States, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Poland.

Europe Abortion Laws 2026: Europe in Global Context - Center for Reproductive Rights

Learn from the Center for Reproductive Rights about European abortion laws as compared to global trends in abortion rights.

reproductiverights.org

Landed in San Francisco! Oakland I'm almost home!

They're doing this couples thing on the jumbotron at the Valks game and every single couple they've found have been lesbians

Hi if you are in Minneapolis and are this 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog, get medical attention immediately!

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2mo ago

if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf

Oh yeah! Check this out if you are in the city.

That Mack@thatmc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Muni Heritage Weekend starts tomorrow! 10am-4pm. I will be there operating one of the vintage buses. OMG so excited.

Paying freelance writers and artists fair rates from the jump was never a question in a collective of current and former freelancers. No 'we can only pay $250 because we're new and anyway it's ~ exposure ~' at The Flytrap. We pay a minimum of $600 for art and $.50 a word for writers.

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classless broad seeks genteel narrow

xavier: the only way we can stop magneto is to suck his dick... but he's a hundred feet in the air! gloryhole, the mutant who can create small portals anywhere on earth but only next to human penises: it's ok, professor. i used to want to be normal, but now i see i was meant for more than that

This bit of garbage onion skin on my kitchen floor looks like a frog riding a snake to me. Happy Friday

Trying to get out of talking to Piers Mprgan is the most human thing this abomination has ever done.

Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo ago

Tilly Norwood, a controversial AI “actor,” abruptly switched languages during an interview with Piers Morgan, though the company behind the AI creation denied she malfunctioned.

also. the thing people hate is not ‘the technology’ it is the tech industry. they hate move fast and break things. they hate having everything they say tracked and processed while companies do whatever they want. they hate every single ideological value that animates silicon valley