Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.
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A little weird to have "GIFT" atop an article about Trojan Horses
TBT to me at 19, doing my work-study at my university's library. I get assigned to shelve books in like the second basement level, where the light flickers occasionally and I am the only person (or so I think). Suddenly the stacks start moving.
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterdayi don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
The Fae: so we’re going to take you away from here and— Me: I accept! The Fae: and you won’t remember anything and you will not return for a century— Me: I ACCEPT HARDER
Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/
I be real tired of folks acting like we waiting for the fascist crisis to come. They keep their heads in the future like it's on the horizon to stay paralyzed about how it's right here, right now. We're not waiting for this to be a dictatorship or authoritarianism. You live the disaster now.
"It's so hard having ethics," I say self-pityingly just because I can't watch a few shows I really want to watch on account of them being only on Amazon Prime, which I don't want to support.
You know how when the pandemic happened people talked about how after the 1918 flu pandemic people seemed to have memory holed the whole thing and barely talked about it. It's weird to see that same thing happening in real time as people slowly start minimizing the whole thing.
The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 6d ago“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.
I love how Europop songs are always like "I am literally incapable of not dancing. Dance has kidnapped my children, and if I stop dancing for even a moment, they will be executed. This all began when I had a very sexual affair with the god of dance. Peace and love worldwide!"
What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
Can somebody explain to me, a 5-year old who doesn’t have the mental energy to do the research, what exactly is going wrong with this reboot. It’s about an awesome kickboxing vampire FFS
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 5d agoMahershala Ali says he will no longer star as Blade. He trained for a year to prepare for ‘Blade’ so he used the sword training for his next action film ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’. (Source: www.gq.com/story/mahers...)
I’m currently hate-watching a show where I find literally every side character more interesting than the main characters. I don’t ask for my mains to be likable, but I do need them to not be so boring that I spend more time thinking about spin-offs with the side characters than the actual plot
Deleted last post because I wasn’t trying to put anyone on blast. just pointing out that, once upon a time (and in some places still), left-handedness was considered a “choice” or “habit” the way right-wingers these days think neurodivergence is a choice. Fascists in diff clothes are still fascists.
Wait did we ever find out who was behind the Louvre heist?
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 6d agoWhat's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
What's your personal great white whale of an unsolved mystery? The thing you desperately hope is solved before you die because you need to know the answer? Mine is the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum heist. Where the hell are the Rembrandts. I need the full story
“According to SDHS, through July 27, the organization averaged 663 adult dogs in care each day -- more than 50 dogs above the previous July record of 612 set in 2024. At the same time, adoptions have declined. Adding puppies, the organization currently has 792 canines in care.”
Dozens of Yorkies, huskies rescued add to San Diego Humane Society shelter crowding
San Diego Humane Society leadership announced two large-scale surrenders of Yorkies and huskies, further increasing the organization's record number of dogs in its care.
10news.com
These California lawmakers want a confidential database for immigrants in ICE custody to report medical abuse The “Stop ICE’s Medical Neglect Act” would allow detained immigrants to confidentially file complaints of medical neglect or mistreatment.
These California lawmakers want a confidential database for immigrants in ICE custody to report medical abuse
The “Stop ICE’s Medical Neglect Act” would allow detained immigrants to confidentially file complaints of medical neglect or mistreatment.
lapublicpress.org
Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.
Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 6d agoICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests
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“Has the Me Too movement gone too far?”
Yell In a War@jelenawoehr.bsky.social · last wk.It is 2005. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2012. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2018. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations.. It is 2025. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allegations. It is 2026. Jared Leto faces sexual misconduct allega--
I’ll be careful how I phrase this, but a girl in my high school (this was in the late 90s) alleged that her friend alleged she saw Leto on the subway and then he hit on her for the entire ride
Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.New BBC investigation. Four women accuse Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nearly all concentration camp regimes involve the government making what were previously simple tasks of daily life unlawful or impossible for the group they’ve targeted for detention, bit by bit eradicating any possibility of public existence.
ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.
nytimes.com
Homer could’ve saved us all these debates about which translation of the Odyssey is the best if he’d just written it in English in the first place
Well here's a crisis we can almost all do something about, so that's a silver lining
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last wk."On Monday, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis for the second time ever in its history."
To doubt your own abilities, you have to first be aware there are people out there better than you. The Greek-tragedy-level irony of the situation is that, because of Dunning-Kruger, the asshats out there don't have that awareness.
John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · last wk.All the wrong people have impostor syndrome.
DO NOT DO THIS. Congressional software literally checks if you're in the district or not. If you're not in the district/state, you're clogging up lines. If you want to help, as someone you know who lives in those states to call.
Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7!@sallydeal4.bsky.social · last wk.I was able to leave a message for Sen John Cornyn, but not for Thom Tillis. If you're unsuccessful via phone, please do try their websites & contact them that way. Your comments won't carry the same weight as if you lived in their state, but it's worth a shot. 3/4 www.tillis.senate.gov/email-me
I dunno how to break it to people but if you’re upset about the White Terror then you should also be upset about the idea of the CCP invading Taiwan. Also all you (probably white) asses never considered maybe the indigenous peoples of Taiwan might have an opinion about this? Y’all gross as fuck.
You’re telling me that grasshoppers have a Super Saiyan mode
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 2w agoTIL grasshoppers transform into locusts within hours (like, change color and shit) when they gather closely while feeding and brush into sensitive hairs on one another’s bodies. They then go into a mating, migrating and feeding frenzy. So basically the biggest, most terrifying orgies in the world.