two of my favs, courtesy of California

🧿kika🧿@the17thqueen.bsky.social · 19h ago

These were unexpectedly wonderful, only found them in PA, wish they were generally available stateside

oh, look at me, i’m a tiger.. haha, just kidding, it’s me😹

honestly, having someone tell me I write like I'm the decisive voice on culture has me kind of

them: you're the worst writer I've ever heard of me:

Jack Sparrow: But You Have Heard Of Me

Alt: Jack Sparrow: But You Have Heard Of Me

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Sarah Sunfire@sarahsunfire.bsky.social · yesterday

no like LITERALLY CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG but if I'm the cockiest writer you've ever read on the internet I think maybe you haven't read a lot of writing on the internet?

no like LITERALLY CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG but if I'm the cockiest writer you've ever read on the internet I think maybe you haven't read a lot of writing on the internet?

Stop saying "log into a portal." Sounds way too cool for what's happening.

I've had the Watch Duty desktop app bookmarked since January 2025 when I was worried for loved ones in and with ties to Los Angeles. I haven't even been able to talk about Washington, where I lived from 2012-2015, but this is terrifying

AI users are a broken link on a chain that stretches all the way back to this kid and their impulse to create (and likely even before that). Creativity is a flame that has burned for over 700 generations and anyone who uses AI is helping to extinguish it.

Dr. Abigail Desmond@abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 3d ago

15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.

Your honor, Jerry is a repeat trespasser and habitual violator of my client’s private space. He cannot have a reasonable expectation of security given how he frequently involves other tenants in disagreements rather than alerting authorities. We submit a countersuit and a restraining order.

𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐨 & 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧@quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 4d ago

Jerry the mouse is suing Tom the cat for harassment, aggregated assault and more. You are defending Tom the cat in a court. What’s your defense?

I work in tech, and I can tell you now - the powers that be don't care if you're mocking it or sharing ironically, or what. Sharing GenAI lop is proof of engagement for them. And they are DESPERATE for that because it keeps the money flowing. You're just ensuring it gets more investments.

Jessalyn Matthews 🏳️‍⚧️@hulkied.myatproto.social · 3d ago

No. I am not boosting the Peanuts AI slop, not even for a quote dunk. Charles M. Schulz’s work is the pinnacle of *human* creativity. It is an insult to human art in general if you ask the machine to plagiarize it. It’s as bad as a slur, IMO.

I don't think theres some larger conspiracy here to prevent us addressing them or anything, just that if we actually all pull together for really short periods of time, thats all it will actually take. We cannot allow a handful of greedy assholes to hold back our whole species

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

It’s cute listening to the life guards using the radio to call around at all the beaches to say good night to each other.

new Oscar category JUST FOR HIM let's gooooo

Danielle Kurtzleben@titonka.bsky.social · 4d ago

I have seen the Odyssey and my main takeaway is that it’s time to give John Leguizamo an award for not only being great but singlehandedly improving EVERY FILM HE IS IN.

Somebody DO something!!!!!!!!

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 4d ago

Do y’all understand this means that next month is SEPTEMBER???????

you could say that if I'm listening to Duran Duran's "notorious," I've already lost, because the line "don't monkey with my business" is INEXCUSABLE but it really is THE song to blast when you get hate from anywhere so it was in my workout mix today and now appears to be FIXED in my head 😔

got asked to think of things I have in common with ppl I don't like rather than what separates us so I started thinking about what Elon Musk and I have in common and it is that neither of us is a trillionaire

oh BY THE WAY why aren't people framing Jimothy as a disability activist?!? as a creature whose short-spine syndrome does nothing to impede his rich, full life, he's a once-in-a-millennium mascot, come on

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.

Uncle Fuzzzy 🦆@unclefuzzzy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Funny, that’s what we thought about pocket calculators in 1974

I'll be in Seattle for a conference in November. If I see Jimothy, I might never leave

Jimothy the Raccoon@jimothythe-raccoon.bsky.social · last wk.

HD Jimothy photos #jimothy #seattle #jimothyraccoon

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Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 7d ago

32 years ago today, Selena released “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom.”

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

Victoria De Capua@victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 7d ago

If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

seriously. you can't bring up history as your defense when destruction in the name of LLM-training is something that can ONLY happen *right now*

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 7d ago

The posters saying "wait till you hear how many books the librarians shred" are being disingenuous. The destruction of books is not by itself what's causing outrage. It's in combination with many other factors, chief among them AI companies' history of unethical and even blatantly illegal actions.

Hire Evangeline for all your illustration needs! or commission a project you don't strictly *need* that will GREATLY ENHANCE YOUR LIFE, like I did with this portrait of Delirium Reclaimed:

Evangeline Gallagher@egallagher.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some of the prints I have available 🫶 these are often on sale and they're on sale now too! and if you don't see the piece you're looking for here I'm happy to list it www.inprnt.com/gallery/evan...

No spoilers, but if you're a woman, trans, or nonbinary comics creator, please reply to this skeet with a link to your online portfolio *with a listed email address*, thanks!

my search history gets questionable after midnight but I'm really happy for Gloria Estefan and her still-thriving career ALSO I somehow missed that in 2020 she parodied her OWN SONG "Get On Your Feet" with a covid-safety version called "Put On Your Mask" LEGENDARY QUEEN