Glad that Julia's here with us in this timeline to shine a light... "Writing is thinking."

Julia Serano@juliaserano.bsky.social · yesterday

I hate this timeline & that I had to write this essay. I hate AI companies & LLMs & the randos who are now using "AI detectors" (also AI!) to smear authors they dislike: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-em-dashes... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-em-dash...

I refuse to serve our marine brethren such tainted food Or let innocent hermit crabs use his wretched accessories as homes

it used to be so hard to watch anime. I was going over to my neighbor’s house just in case I could catch half an episode of sailor moon. Now?? Riches.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 17h ago

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

this man simply must be thrown into the sea.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 22h ago

I somehow do not think "my ex-wife is the bad guy because she took the kid to the emergency room for a broken collarbone" is gonna go the way he thinks.

amazing how so few of the gazillion think pieces criticizing women for not dating straight men fail to mention the whole “many of them literally don’t wash their asses” thing:

Nikolaj Bill@nikolajbill.bsky.social · 19h ago

I remember a coworker in her late twenties saying this on how dating was so difficult. I was not surprised by her first two complaints: general anger issues and having few outside hobbies. I WAS surprised at her mention of how many men apparently don’t wash their hair or butts.

it's not why *everything* sucks, but having all three branches of the federal government captured by thieves, abusers, bigots, and cowards is definitely why a lot of things suck

Your regular reminder that normal pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform, & the fact that we tolerate this authoritarian behavior as a permanent feature of 🇺🇸 politics is a sign of just how deeply broken our democracy is.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · yesterday

Texas Republicans know this is the year they lose unless they take active measures to suppress the vote. So that's what they're doing.

it’s truly wild and also going to be seen as a huge turning point in the future. and we have no idea all the ways it could turn out.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterday

We blew through all the long-range weapons we'd use to, say, protect Taiwan from invasion, in order to fight a war that did nothing but make Iran vastly more influential? I feel like I'm going crazy when I even describe it. How is DC not melting down over this world-historical strategic catastrophe

this would be why all the natsec and military knowers in my orbit are losing their minds 100% of the time

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterday

I have zero knowledge about military stuff. So correct me if I'm wrong: Basically we spent decades building up a big stockpile of advanced weapons so we could be ready for any potential conflict with China or Russia? And then Trump used ALL OF THEM in a literally aimless war with Iran?

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

WE HAVE REAL CAMPS YOU CAN BE OUTRAGED ABOUT

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

pleased to announce that I've been hired by The New York Times. my job is to commission articles written by right-wing politicians, activists, and billionaires where they describe their activities in whatever way they see fit. it's nice because I don't have to edit or fact check anything

The Experience Machine – fascinating read on the power of expectation and how the mind renders reality www.themarginalian.org/2023/06/20/t...

The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality

“We are never simply seeing what’s ‘really there,’ stripped bare of our own anticipations or insulated from our own past experiences. Instead, all human experience is part phantom…

themarginalian.org

the obsession with trans women in sports is, apart from the abject bigotry, a symptom of how we take amateur sports participation way too seriously in this country.

I think this is a really important op-ed from the Mellon Foundation today, doubling down on their philanthropic commitment to humanities research and encouraging universities and other foundations to do the same. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

With Humanities at Risk, How Mellon Sees Its Role (opinion)

Some may disagree with our emphasis on broadening who shapes the humanities. The real challenge to the field is the decline in overall support.

insidehighered.com

I find it amusing that this - ?late C19th - was too hot for the French, when Scottish spinster Jane Hume Clapperton was freely advancing her views on reformed relations of the sexes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Cl... However, fiction perhaps rather different from advancing theoretical considerations!

tekla 💜✨@tekla.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Her book was too extreme for even the French, and a society of Paris women instituted court proceedings which ended in suspension of publication of the work. Mlle. Ventoine advanced the theory of non-marriage…the ideas of the authoress were, it was thought, rather too radical for healthy minds.”

One struggled to have sympathy for people who so obviously failed to grasp the fundamental nature of Trump.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2

Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

nytimes.com

this guy gets it

MHMMM. People at the time were always calling it this!!

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fascinating -- I did not know any of this www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

the most annoying thing about the What We Should Have Done With COVID discourse is that the actual viable option to accept more health risk in exchange for less disruption was not to rawdog the plague, it was to push the vaccine wide earlier with worse trial data

I want to be like when they finally called it for Biden and we went downtown and almost everyone was smiling and greeting each other, and a boat full of drunk girls flying a Biden flag came up to the dock blasting music and I ran up and danced with them and we were all suffused in relief and joy

Emma Evans@trance.bsky.social · 3d ago

you know what's sad is that when it happens, it will be like a national holiday, people actually in the streets...rejoicing. It will happen and to my memory while in the US there's been plenty of people we've been more or less nationally glad were dead, I've never seen a full scale celebration

the power of women!!!!!

Irma@eckslibris.northsky.social · 3d ago

This warms the cockles of my heart. Went to the WPBL website to shop for merch and keep seeing SOLD OUT on everything 😆🙌🏻 (I know @tekla.bsky.social will appreciate this)

The girls the girls the beautiful wonderful powerful amazing giiiiiiiiiiils

I really do love baseball in fact

“And now we learn that Max Miller threatened to reveal something about Bernie Moreno—in a text to him—that would allow people to “get to know you better than your wife does” after Emily Moreno accused Miller, per court filings, of abuse against her and their daughter.“

Michelangelo Signorile@msignorile.bsky.social · 6d ago

“Moreno won’t call for the resignation of Miller, his son-in-law, accused by Moreno’s daughter of domestic abuse. Is it MAGA loyalty, or is it Miller’s threat to uncover something about the senator?” www.signorile.com/p/is-rep-max...

Inshallah I can stop hearing about Haley Stevens soon 🙂‍↕️

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 5d ago

Wow, you got us! Arabs say Inshallah!

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 164001: If you want to beat AI, write using your human voice, from your human perspective. Write about feelings; sensations; dreams. Be you, in all your uniqueness. AI is generic; bland; acceptable. Dare to be different; subversive; real. That's how we stay human.