I’m on Ditch Diggers with Mur Lafferty on Twitch right now!

it took four hours and emails across three agencies to determine if a simple, polite email invitation was legitimate, in case you're wondering whether AI has improved efficiency in my field

I am shoes now. Photo from my collection, 1976.

Joelle was tortured and murdered by the very people meant to heal her. The UK government is murdering trans + people to appease wealthy transphobes. This is beyond sick and obscene cruelty. She was a young woman. Killed because she was trans 😥😥😥

This is straightforward systemic murder. 🧵

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · 14h ago

a 27 year old trans woman died after being refused entry to either the male or female cancer wards & made to wait for a (rare) side room www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...

Now is the time to care about everyone, not “once we win” The time to care about everyone is always always always now

This was unpinned for a month while I was doing my birthday fundraiser, but don't forget my starter pack of bluesky cat accounts run by real people who use ALT text! go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

I've known Shep long enough to have some idea how difficult it is for him to ask; please help if you're able, share if you're so moved, and hold him up however your practice leads you.

Shepherd@neolithicsheep.bsky.social · yesterday

Hey y'all. So normally I am a reasonably private person despite appearances which makes this sort of humiliating. My life is more or less in the process of burning down. There's a family wedding coming up in 3 weeks. I'd like to go.

Hey y'all. So normally I am a reasonably private person despite appearances which makes this sort of humiliating. My life is more or less in the process of burning down. There's a family wedding coming up in 3 weeks. I'd like to go.

Remember folks: INT and WIS are different stats and maxing one often means dumping the other!

👻 Saavik ‘Spooky Season’ Ford 🎃@saavikford.bsky.social · 2d ago

One of my workplaces is staffed entirely by PhDs. The office kitchen has a sign by the toaster. It reads: Please do not butter bread before placing in toaster. Lemme tell you. Signs like that don’t happen because ONE person did it ONE time.

One of my workplaces is staffed entirely by PhDs. The office kitchen has a sign by the toaster. It reads: Please do not butter bread before placing in toaster. Lemme tell you. Signs like that don’t happen because ONE person did it ONE time.

Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 2d ago

my ex is a literal rocket scientist and when i tell you intelligence doesn't translate you just have to trust me

Is this your notebook?? It mysteriously appeared in my tote bag. No personal info but the owner seems to live in Brooklyn and is outlining/researching a novel — I’d love to return it to you!

when some gen Zer tries to cite tumblr discourse at me

There are so, so many verified diaries of white Union soldiers at the beginning of the war saying "I don't know about this, I condemn the deplorable violence" and then they get down there and see slavery with their own eyes and immediately go "John Brown was right we gotta kill these motherfuckers"

Erik Loomis@erikloomis.bsky.social · 3d ago

And we can certainly condemn his violence. But let’s step back and remember just how horrible slavery was. On December 20, 1858, Brown, who had briefly returned to Kansas, led a party into Missouri to free slaves.

finally had the "we can't buy Harry Potter merch for our son because JK Rowling funds trans genocide" convo with my very offline wife and her immediate response was "okay, no problem. why can't she just mind her business?" because my wife is an amazing human being.

If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.

this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved

AmeriKraut@inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 4d ago

y'all... 🤭😭

Yesterday: Gamers are immature and shouldn’t get to vote. Today: Look how rad this Hot Wheel created by the world’s richest white nationalist is.

one of the advantages of writing code by hand is that it forces you to examine your assumptions, to flesh out details, to make your mental model concrete. if you delegate those minutiae to your LLM, you have to do the extra work of understanding them so that you can communicate them.

Who decided to let me be a whole ass adult and what the hell were they smoking?

Your occasional reminder that polls don't mean shit, you have to show up and vote, preferably early and in person if you can

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 5d ago

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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Before accessing the free wifi on this flight I had to watch an ad for a company called "LGT Wealth Management." I was like, "Well, I don't approve of bisexual erasure, but at least they kept the T."

I’m telling you, part of what makes us human is the persistent urge to draw a little guy.

@pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 5d ago

Small Bowl with Mice, 100-500 CE, Ceramic with white and black Slip Glaze

What if we just didn't make fun of what people looked like (or their size, or ability, or hair or clothes or makeup or plastic surgery even or any of that shit) Because actually what matters is what you say and what you do words and actions and their impact on other people

Le Snooze. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

it turns out that “optimize for engagement” and “optimize for societal best outcomes” are opposing goals and if you look at the entire history of the tech industry you can see which of those two wins out

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · last wk.

Facebook back in 2021 temporarily turned off the “drive people insane” setting and it completely changed what people were seeing. They turned it back on when engagement dipped by like 1 percent.

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent