Uh-oh, I don’t want to know what this is, do I.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · yesterday

Ok how do I turn off Liked By

When I am king, these are on the ban list.

tigard-stripes.bsky.social@tigard-stripes.bsky.social · 2h ago

Saw this person getting into their ridiculously oversized single occupancy pickup truck. The hood is taller than the driver! Wildfire smoke in the air made worse by burning fossil fuels for transportation is the chef's kiss. 🛻🌍🔥😘

This is, in fact, damn interesting: bacteria and archaea might have *evolved independently* from a LUCA that itself relied on geochemistry and so wasn’t yet “alive”. Genesis might have happened twice.

Damn Interesting@damninteresting.bsky.social · 4h ago

A New Study Points to Two Origins of Life on Earth by Tracing Early Chemical Reactions in Single-Celled Organisms www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

great thread by a great writer.

M H Ayinde 🍉 Preorder A DANCE OF BURNING BLADES!@mhayinde.bsky.social · 11h ago

There is a lot of pressure as a BIPOC writer to “perform” your culture, even in fantasy. Black people are not a monolith. My perspective as a Londoner, a Yoruba person, a child of an immigrant, and a person of mixed heritage is not the same as the next Black writer’s.

There's a lot of discussion in code circles right now about cognitive debt - the idea that something goes wrong on prod and nobody knows how to fix it because nobody has a real mental model of how everything fits together. It's almost like doing the deep thinking and the grunt work is important 👀

Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter)@deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 6h ago

Lord have mercy a video on here telling writers that AI can be used as a tool for: - building character lists - organizing ideas - drafting outlines - brainstorming structure - and more Dawg that's all a part of the writing process.

Update:

🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈@haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 23h ago

I love how there's "what, are we in grade school?" preceded and followed by juvenile raving to stop being divisive by caving to slop. The author who wrote this also has a slop "writing coach" she developed, so this is just use the newsletter as advertising for her grift. Waste of email space.

The setup for the season in the premiere of Ted Lasso is ridiculous and inexplicable and entirely unsupported by anything in the actual text of the episode itself, and if they don’t provide more it’s already misfiring.

It started off with the cat bringing in birds but now it’s got completely out of hand…

I am gonna say something truly depressing here. I am glad I am getting older to the point of "Won't need to see where a lot of this lands because it makes me too sad to be anything but grateful for mortality."

Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲@jodyhouser.bsky.social · 2d ago

"By asking them to read, professors are arbitrarily withholding information from students by forcing them to get it through this more difficult medium." Your depressing read for the day (gift article). That quote is about students at HARVARD, by the way. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Is there stuff in this book that makes you wince? For sure. Is it true that “nothing happens”? No. It is “badly written”? No. Are you required to like it? No. Should you read it? Not if you don’t want to. But to say there‘s nothing to it, or nothing in it, is a lie. I’ll just leave it there.

Bix F.@slow.dog · 7d ago

Thank god I don’t blog and can’t get sucked into The Catcher in the Rye discourse.

Lots chatter in these social media streets bout Children of Blood and Bone. ALL BLACK EVERYTHING flick got ALL BLACK DRAMA. But this blog ain't bout none of that. Instead, I tackle another related controversy about the joys, rewards, perils, and pitfalls of writing African-inspired fantasy.

Africa, Fantasy, and Worldbuilding

Movie still featuring royal family in film adaptation of Children of Blood and Bone Over the past few weeks there’s been a lot of discourse about the film adaptation of Nigerian-American writ…

disgruntledharadrim.com

What, no AR-15? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | The 25 Objects That Explain America

Want to understand this country? Look at our stuff.

nytimes.com

Holy hell. One of these things is not like the others, Andrew Schwartz. What a self-damning thing to print in the newspaper.

Willamette Week@wweek.com · 9h ago

Seven months later, the Trump administration has retreated from its own most provocative allegations.

Just read about this on The Conversation.

Monkeys keep pets too - animal specialist on the world of interspecies friendship

It’s not just humans who enjoy interacting with other animal species.

theconversation.com

Cyril C. Grueter@cyrilgrueter.bsky.social · 6d ago

New paper! We explore cases of non-human primates carrying, grooming and forming bonds with individuals of other species and what this might reveal about the evolution of pet-keeping. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @oxford-anthro.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxfordhumsci.bsky.social

Don’t make me edit the meme, Dan.

Rockom Sockom NoBots@rockom.bsky.social · 10h ago

Dan Ryan just entered the chamber with a giant foam finger. I have a finger for him too.

It’s like the sky is a sheet of construction paper and someone somewhere bright poked a hole through it. #PDXTST

Finished re-reading The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Started reading What the Dead Know by @nghivo.bsky.social. #AmReading #Fiction #Books

I feel like I sometimes have to explain that in 1994 you could have a movie where the main character is so consumed by inner pain that he does himself up like a goth mime, climbs to the top of a warehouse, plays a sick guitar solo at sunset, and smashes the guitar with zero irony

There’s little transparency about who has access to deeply personal medical data or how companies handle it.

Clinicians ask ‘do you mind if I use AI?’ Perhaps you should

theconversation.com

NEW: Big new feature from me about offshore wind farms as anchors for wildlife! For example: seals swimming *into* turbine towers to, apparently, hunt fish - and scour protection at the base of turbines used by sea creatures as a dwelling place. atmos.earth/science-and-...

The Sea Life Making a Home in Offshore Wind Farms | Atmos

Offshore wind farms can pose risks to birds and marine life. But their foundations also serve as artificial reefs, offering essential habit.

atmos.earth

Everyone who rolled their eyes at the folks “whining” about the ice rink should read this.

Willamette Week@wweek.com · yesterday

Generations of figure skaters grew up on the mall’s ice, the only public rink within city limits. Now they’re looking for what’s next.

Now that I’ve read this, it seems like the author is stuck in three traps: (1) this is about Meta apps, (2) this is probably confirmation bias, and (3) poor feed curation.

New York Magazine@nymag.com · yesterday

On social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?

Trail Blazers "I don't think our public answers will be well-received." kind of says it all right there

Over the years I have read about treesits being used for a lot of different purposes—to save forests and halt pipelines and block new highways and stop coal mining. But using it to stop construction of the border wall is a first! ✊ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’

Demonstrators stage ‘tree sit’ in Arizona town to stop felling of ancient cottonwood grove to make way for border wall

theguardian.com

Humorous to me how, when a Dem candidate is a centrist, the narrative is about how leftists have to grow up and support them. When the candidate is a leftist, the question is whether they can rally adequate support. So some people are responsible for running a winning campaign, you say? Interesting.

As always I would be thrilled for people to pick up WICKHILLS, a weird city fantaspionage (??) about a government agent assigned to look after a defector who... wait WHAT did he steal?? us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Wickhills

In the dangerous magical city of Wickhills, a streetwise secret agent is tasked with protecting a foreign defector from his pursuers... even at the threat of...

us.macmillan.com

Nino Cipri@ninocipri.bsky.social · 4w ago

authors you should absolutely quote post this with your fall releases, I am finding out about so many cool titles that I hadn't heard about

One of these days Kazoo’s going to get that dastardly tail.

No big deal just the corner of a face manifesting above the door.

BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide

A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.

bloomberg.com

Everything’s coming up Milhouse^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H #RedSox.

Mac Cerullo@maccerullo.bsky.social · yesterday

Make that seven batters up and six runs in. Jarren Duran goes back-to-back with Durbin and the Red Sox now lead 6-0 in the first.