And for the really bad news? They've put a target on VPNs. Sites are required to identify (and age-verify) any US citizen, regardless of whether they're using a VPN. In fact, the default is to get the ID and biometrics of EVERYONE unless you can somehow prove their not a US citizen.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d ago

"VPNs are a privacy and security tool used by millions of internet users every day, and their use should not be treated as suspect. It is particularly galling that the SCREEN Act forces users who intentionally take steps to protect their privacy to identify themselves."

dopamine. oxytocin. adrenaline. cortisol. long ago, the four hormones lived together in harmony

Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 2d ago

I see a lot of you talking about "dopamine" and I wish you'd go back to talking about your astrological signs because at least then you wouldn't be confusing yourself about a real thing

Not a big fan of the "sick, elderly and/or disabled people don't count" discourse that appears to follow public health disasters these days.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

Y'all, only the full length pic of Celeborn standing is from Empire. The two holding the sword are genAi. The pic of him holding the sword, while another sword is still in the scabbard. C'mon now. @empiremagazine.bsky.social y'all might want to see who's sticking your logo on these genAi pics

We Geek Girls@wegeekgirls.bsky.social · 6d ago

New look at Jamie Campbell Bower as Celeborn in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 3. [📷 via Empire Magazine] #LOTR #TheRingsOfPower

"Why do we need government." To monitor for pathogens that cause explosive diarrhea.

Jamie Campbell Bower as Celeborn 🥹

EXCLUSIVE💘 Jamie Campbell Bower’s role in The Rings Of Power Season 3 is confirmed: he plays Celeborn. The Elf lord is a “lover-boy”, Bower tells Empire, teasing a romance with Galadriel. “This idea of longing and yearning is so pervasive.” READ MORE: www.empireonline.com/tv/new...

I have seen AI described as a "technology founded on a lack of consent" and it has been echoing in my head since then

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

blair@blairaf.com · 2mo ago

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

Jimothyyyyyy 🦝

happy national ice cream day. I have an oddly specific question related to ice cream I have yet to find an answer to: Why is sorbet from gelato places so much creamier/softer than regular sorbet? Is it their machines? How much air is churned into it?

Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 2w ago

It’s national ice cream day 😋 🍦

The fantasy, the dream, of a man who loves you well enough to try again, to adjust his own behavior, after taking the effort to imagine what might have broken your heart so as to cut him so deeply when he tried to grasp its jagged edges before 😭😭😭😭😭

The ability to be the worst version of yourself without fear of social sanction was a material benefit trump offered and delivered to his supporters send tweet

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4w ago

I’ve said before, many times, that basically every stripe of American politics believes that everyone else is just deluded or acting against their interest for some reason, instead of having genuinely held principles to the same degree as their own ones

First Mitch McConnell, now Lindsey Graham???

Evergreen Intel@vcdgf555.bsky.social · 4w ago

Senator Lindsey Graham is dead.

Me Too did not go far enough.

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

If you're a man and you ever feel the urge to justify a sexual predator by pointing to other prevalent sexual predators, I'd like to offer a forceful recommendation that you don't do that and that you, instead, shut tf up.

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Look at you. Worrying about the gay agenda. Meanwhile this entire time your car has had a trans mission.

We finally made it to the "Galadriel defending lesbians" shot and it's June. Timing! 🌈

ROP 💍 Screencaps@ringsofpowercaps.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Season 3 has officially set an 11 November Prime Video release date — and revealed an ominous new look at Sauron's return. Read more: www.empireonline.com/tv/new...

Woke up so sad about the people who couldn't get into Celebration and so furious about the consequence-free venality of the resellers who took their spots. I understand there have always been and always will be secondary markets, but for years it's felt so out of balance, so subject to manipulation.

i say this as elfsucker69 but when people are like “fantasy is so popular right now, huh? weird.” i’m like…….i mean. medievalism that was for all intents and purposes fantasy previously heralded the rise of the nationalism that would ultimately produce both world wars. so politically that checks out

Je n'aurais jamais pensé que les léopards me mangeraient le visage

Rumaan Alam@rumaan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“The experience stunned Ms. Ross-Mahé, who previously considered herself a supporter of President Trump and so admired his policy to deport illegal immigrants that she thought it should be adopted in France.” Uh Ok

No concern will be shown, of course, for Palestinian Christians blocked from Easter at the Holy Sepulchre for another year, for Lebanese Christians whose churches have been bombed and desecrated, for churches and synagogues in Iran bombed by US strikes, for Armenian churches destroyed in Karabakh.

It really does change my understanding of this story that she had been enthusiastic about what happened to her happening to brown people and…just hadn’t realized it would apply to her and might not be pleasant

Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · 3mo ago

The 85-year-old widow “was chained by her wrists and ankles to other inmates and loaded onto buses and a plane ‘like a potato sack.’ After two weeks in detention in Alabama and Louisiana, she said, she feared she might die.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

The child’s mom, a university professor, “suspects her daughter was flagged by the teacher’s AI detection tools because she used terms such as ‘the titular character.’”