Edith is living her best life while her siblings are at daycare.

David Brooks should ride off into the sunset with James Carville

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · yesterday

David Brooks doesn't even know what they do at a goddamn Applebee's. He can kindly shut the fuck up about "what we do here in America."

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

terra firma, terra eterna 🚱🌉@kavi.bsky.social · last mo.

When I first heard about AI being used for menus and advertisements, my concern was largely that it would be used to idealize the food and make it look better than it actually was. At no point did I imagine that restaurants would willingly put out horrific looking images of their food on purpose

here's mine: trains are cool and you knew it when you were 5, why are you lying to yourself now

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2d ago

Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is.

This article offers half a dozen reasons why people have stopped having friends and family over, but it ignores the fact that the women who planned parties and kept homes tidy enough for unplanned guests are now working for pay full-time (usually more than 9-5). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’

It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it?

theguardian.com

Unpopular opinion but you can’t claim you’re autistic if you have never owned a pet you loved more than life itself. If you’re okay with everything dying on the planet you’re just a sociopath.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d ago

“‘There are basically two ways to know you have a future,’” Palantir CEO Alex Karp said. ‘One, you have some vocational training. Or two, you’re neurodivergent.’” 3/25/26 share.google/BSpEdevJ0wx9...

My daughter says they put one in jail for eating all the apples

Behind every leading man is a character actor who desperately wants to play a rat creature.

So, happy 89th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians—and someone concussed him with a brick

We bought Tilda a new pink Death bed and of course Bucky is the one who claims it.

Years ago I had a dream that I got attacked by a vampire with a German accent and someone asked me if it was Peter Theil and I didn’t know what he looked like and when I saw a picture of him I was like “Fuck, it was Peter Theil!”

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d ago

My man looks like Neo waking up in the goo pod

@dsoart.com For you.

Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writing & Narrative🔜 MCM Comic Con@rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 4d ago

Dressmaker is a masterpiece.

Lady Edith dragged a turd inside and spent a good ten minutes rubbing it all over her body. She is unhappy that I gave her a bath and washed away her smells. 🫩

Yes, Botstein had unilateral authority to determine outcomes in Title IX cases for years, and was widely rumored to routinely intervene on behalf of perpetrators. pod.link/1696774612/e...

Episode 123 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- The Botstein Files

Listen to Episode 123 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- The Botstein Files from In Bed With The Right wherever you get your podcasts!

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capitolhunters@capitolhunters.bsky.social · 5d ago

Ah, the NYT article says that Jamie Raskin alleged, and Bard confirmed, that Botstein had "unilateral decision-making authority" over Title IX investigations up to 2015. Which is not normal. How would Bard's lawyers ever have agreed to that?

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

I haven’t been doing my art for almost a year because of health issues. I am having trouble getting into a learning rhythm with my art the way I could with programming. I had books I could work through to learn code. I have videos that are boring for art that I have trouble paying attention to. 😭

With Unity further leaning into AI slop, a good time for #GameDev to check out godotengine.org

Godot Engine - Free and open source 2D and 3D game engine

Godot provides a huge set of common tools, so you can just focus on making your game without reinventing the wheel.

godotengine.org

I guess this is the week Bluesky answers this vital question

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · 6d ago

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

we imagined the ai would change society but it'll end up everywhere in a way that makes people way less rich than they all hope and way more annoyed than anyone thought, except PKD who knew.

I’m reading through the takes on the Maine senate debate and I’m realizing that election night next month is going to be torture around staying up all night to see if there’s a possibility we might not get fucked. 😭

We made these games and they're all on sale! 🍂🦊 Kitfox Fall Sale: store.steampowered.com/publisher/ki...

Celebrating October with chili and cornbread skulls.

I was going to make Cajun chicken pasta for dinner but the chicken went bad. We have ground beef so I am going to make chili with cornbread. I am going to dig up some molded bakeware I have been accumulating for years for the cornbread.

The defining quality of so many tech guys is completely missing the point of nearly every social or leisure activity

Mike Drucker@mikedrucker.bsky.social · last wk.

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

I got an invite to celebrate the 125th birthday of the college school newspaper I got fired from because I wouldn’t fabricate a story to take up space they had to be filled. I don’t think I will be going to that…

My man looks like Poochie the Rockin' Tech Support

Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal

Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts

theguardian.com

I picked up a Halloween cooking magazine at the magazine store and this will be my entire personality for the rest of the month.

I’m mildly irritated by the national media focus on just the Senate races in the midterms. We have a gubernatorial race that is pivotal to ensuring we can have free and fair elections and no one gives a shit.

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.