The dogma Immigrants = Bad became dogma over a period of years -- I'm glad there is at long last a little pushback in the centrist media. However don't let this become a new liberal argument for ignoring climate change & imperialism. Keep asking why thousands of people need to flee their homes.

Jonathan Liew@jonathanliew.bsky.social · 2d ago

column on ceuta and the new phenomenon of "border porn": migration as livestream spectacle, the frontier as computer game www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Watching "Soulm8te" just makes me want to watch "Companion" -- a film with far better acting and writing, driven by far fewer tired sexist tropes -- again

Elon Musk said lots of antisemitic things and shared lots of antisemitic posts written by antisemites and then sprinkled on some sugar with two nazi salutes on telly and Jonathan Greenblatt said "no he's alright, he isn't one" and now has spent over a year painting Zohran Mamdani as Hitler Part II.

It's weird living in the "just because someone is a nazi doesn't mean they're antisemitic, maybe YOU'RE antisemitic for pointing it out" era.

A lot of activism is indistinguishable from a grift "Imagine the smallest reform you can. We've focus-groupped a reform a fraction the size of that. "To ensure we never achieve it, we're using organizing methods proven to never work. "And we need YOU to volunteer your time and money for it!"

Careful now, last time someone posed this problem, parts of Wales got flooded.

Ruth Watson@ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 3d ago

England needs to find ways to store water while politicians wake up to the climate catastrophe.

i think most bundist romanticism only likes bundist aesthetics for antizionism without accepting it was primarily a labor union for eastern euro jewish cultural investment and autonomy and often worked with Labor zionists.

New Zealand wants to make English its official language. Maori people object. "Let me tell you why te reo Māori has a protected language status: because it was beaten out of Māori systematically.” mymodernmet.com/tabatha-paul...

Indigenous Politician Takes a Stand for Māori Amid Official Language Debate in New Zealand

Indigenous people have fought tirelessly to have te reo Māori recognized as an official language in New Zealand. They are, once again, fighting for visibility in the face of erasure.

mymodernmet.com

Literally what I was talking about yesterday

Heather McCulloch@hmcatjbi.bsky.social · 3d ago

AI outputs can reproduce the very exclusions that inclusive science communication exists to prevent. Read more in our new review: www.frontiersin.org/journals/com... #SciComm #HealthEquity @biancapilla.bsky.social

Had to run all over the city to find this perfectly mundane Thingy, because hardware and home improvement stores have all decided to cut back on actual hardware to make room for candy aisles and cheaply made pocket knives

Monument to the Conquerors of Space, (1977), Dzhezkazgan, Kazakh SSR. Artist: L. Pak, Architect: K. Turlybaev, Sculptor: N. Andreev

Hypothetical question: how long does a pair of these things have to be in a microwave to fry the electronics?

Josh Taylor@joshtaylor.bsky.social · 4d ago

Somewhat of a nightmare that Kmart's cheap perve glasses have sold out

A repost about Ceuta began, "immigration needs to be regulated, but..." Now just one minute. Rest of the post was about opposing imperialism. Sure. Good. What about how we didn't have immigration restrictions until we were centuries deep into this whole imperialism thing? At *least* examine that

Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 4d ago

Leftists support migrants because they believe a human being's worth should not be dependent on where they were born. Some people who consider themselves part of "the left" are actually just reactionary nationalists of the subaltern class, who would instantly be on the right if their side ever won.

Superficially this sounds great...but as with the "legitimate interest" clause in GDPR, the law actually gives its blessing to a lot of repugnant practices (eg using AI to evaluate asylum seekers' applications) as long as a vague quality standard is maintained when inspectors are looking

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 4d ago

🔹 AI-generated media, ‘deepfakes’ must be clearly labelled as such 🔸Chatbots and virtual agents must explicitly state they aren't human 🔹You must be told when AI is actively analysing you, like biometrics, emotion tracking → link.europa.eu/gTvhRX

The people who have been lobbying for years to gamble Social Security on the stock market, despite decades of evidence that this would be a deeply negligent and irrational thing to do, would absolutely give Grok control of the nuclear weapons fortune.com/2026/06/14/s...

Social Security faces steep cuts. These senators want to bet on stocks and $27 trillion in debt to save it—but 'the gamble does not always pay off' | Fortune

"As a result, the most likely outcome is that in the 75th year, the government will end up with a big pile of debt, requiring large interest payments."

fortune.com

But it's ok bc 4th century BCE Etruscan duck askos exists

can you tell the difference? i *think* gavin is the one with gray hair but i cannot be sure

same

anyone willing to give me a briefing on the practicalities of using samples of songs on a podcast? I have a podcast idea but it doesn't really work without being able to play some tracks where finding the licensing information might be a struggle.

It was going to bug me that the second half of the alphabet was missing.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6d ago

The Duck quaketh... The Wolf howleth" — from what many consider to be the first picture book for children, Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1658). www.tumblr.com/publicdomain...

#SNW

Alexander Rodchenko was a master of using simple geometric shapes and cut-out photographs to create inspiring and memorable posters. He had this aesthetic figured out a hundred years ago. AI won't make a good flyer. Your imagination, a pair of scissors, a ruler and a set of magic markers will.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 6d ago

'but AI is the only way i can afford to make an event flyer' notebook paper. sharpie. here is my event. photograph with phone. post. be less stupid in the future

butts

Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social · 2y ago

Fede Galizia, White Ceramic Bowl with Peaches and Red and Blue Plums, c. 1610, Oil on panel, 30 x 42 cm (Silvano Lodi Collection, Campione)

The term "Black Pharaohs" is a classic example of colonial racism in modern Egyptology No serious scholar would ever refer to the Ptolemaic dynasty as "White Pharaohs" Egypt had 5 foreign dynasties (Hyksos "Asiatics", Libyans, Kushites, Persians, Greeks), but only one of them is othered this way

Isaac Samuel@rhaplord.bsky.social · 7d ago

Ram's-head Amulet Third Intermediate Period, Kushite Period ca. 712–664 BCE

They claim the stories are hosted with author consent, but that seems to be a flat out lie. They also tell authors to contact them for removal, but there is no contact on the site, no email or form.

Beth Cato@bethcato.bsky.social · 6d ago

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

The genetic essentialism espoused by the makers of Strange New Worlds has the worrying implication that they see the Sundering, the Vulcan-Romulan split, as a race war of the kind seen in white supremacist fantasies #SNW

Motors have some weird lexical gaps. The two main bits are the rotor and the stator. The rotor rotates. The stator doesn't move. It is static, stationary. But if you say the stator statates, or that the rotor is rotic or rotionary, you sound like an axe murderer.

I was raised with the myth that the Eastern Bloc was devoid of culture. I'm always happy to see it disproved. This music video from 1972 Hungary would've fit in perfectly well with the contemporary UK scene. The lyrics are an environmentalist critique of urban sprawl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMni...

Illés 1972: Szemétdomb

YouTube video by Levente Kozari

youtube.com

Has anyone made any Winedarksky jokes yet