The people have spoken, and here it is: a chunk of concrete

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 4h ago

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

Wait are you fucking kidding me lol I kept myself up to almost 4am to write a ttrpg session for a group that doesn’t meet tomorrow I’m so dumb lmfao and I’m going the fuck to bed

I feel like at least 70% of the posts I see on Bluesky are someone describing themselves being bad at something or complaining about being bad at something

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 24h ago

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?

I think the rage directed at Wilson shows how hollow the "But he's getting people interested in the classics" line is. Like he probably is and Wilson, correctly, understands that as an academic studying classics this is a moment to talk about her specialism a bunch to a new audience.

🏴ᛏ Sigrún, hræfnes cwen ᚩ🏴@empress-trixana.bsky.social · 14h ago

mad fucking props to Dr Wilson for looking at the internet going absolutely stupid at her and going alright, fuck it, round two let's go bitches

People don’t hate ai enough imo.

The ability to find and make art: Like today you can see, read, play, listen, or make more and different kinds of art then you could have ever found or made in '86. Like imagine all the weird cool art that one person makes and throws up on the internet for anyone who comes across it

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots

The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.

on.wsj.com

Gaming is a bad influence on people. I got good at fighting all those bosses, but then I tried to fight my boss at work and I got fired. Terrible.

the battery on my phone isn’t holding a charge very well anymore so i’ll probably need to get a new phone soon. i’ll keep you all posted on the timetable. while i’m not an expert on spiritual matters, my best guess is that you’ll all be reincarnated

one thing I miss from the pre-genAI days is that there was no questioning that human nonsense was simply human nonsense. a dog piloting a plane? some silly human toiled over that in photoshop. now, when something is nonsensical, we question if it’s ai and don’t get to enjoy it the same way.

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

"Love reading fanfiction? How about creating your own?" is a *nuts* angle for an AI company, because you're notably *not* creating it yourself and it couldn't even be fanfiction because an AI can't be a fan!

I’m fascinated by people who say “I’m not Jewish and know nothing about Judaism but I think [extremely wrong opinion about Jews] and I don’t understand how anyone thinks otherwise” Like what possesses someone to that level of staggering incorrectness?

This is a barely changed quote from Hillel, from the Talmud. Moreover, I am not saying this is true to every Jew. This is what Judaism is, to me. Take a breath.

Dar Laufer@creepyfanboy.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Making the world a better place, tikkun olam -- that's the whole thing. That's Judaism. All the rest is commentary." Sorry, but this is just the inverse of "Only True Jews Are Zionist". It's "No True Scotsman" BS.

Finally saw The Odyssey, which is the consummate Christopher Nolan film in that it has moments of near-sublime spectacle that make you believe in Big Movies again mixed together with dialogue like, "Our Age of Bronze is ending."

LRP: those hard to read fonts are also hell for dyslexics a lot of the time

Small accessibility reminder: Using special fonts in your usernames and posts can fuck with screen readers. Similarly, using excessive emojis, or ASCII emotes 💜

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I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Would you cum on my tramp stamp? #nsfw

We report: we see half a dozen sunrises on the train. The sun emerges from behind the clouds, casting an orange glow across the whole sky, then the clouds swallow it back. Minutes later, another place, the shape of the clouds has changed, but it happens again the exact same way.

wouldn't surprise me one bit to see a couple teams wind up in the world series this year

deeply sad what zionist propaganda has done to the idea of being Jewish, even just within the community. Making the world a better place, tikkun olam -- that's the whole thing. That's Judaism. All the rest is commentary.

Just got sent this cartoon from @thankyoumoon on tumblr and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't cryin in the club a little right now

Alita bra strap m... nevermind.

But they will be

Steffen Rayburn-Maarup@rayburnmaarup.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

caveman: *hands me a card* me, playing my favorite rpg class: i dont... what is this? this seems like some kind of... minigame caveman: rogue... like deck builder? me: NO! ROGUE HATE DECKBUILDER

someone mind throwing this for chuck? i’ve been at it for 20 minutes

We report: we do let our eyes get used to the darkness for half an hour, and we remember to only use red lights. We do it the right way, but the moon is bright behind the trees, the sky is still full of smoke, and so it turns out that the crickets are much louder than the stars.

If you say “let me be clear” your amatonormativity is showing THE END