Philip K Dick did not spend much of the sixties waiting until he had so little money he was reduced to eating cat food, spending everything he had on speed, and then writing a novel in a weekend to get more money, just for today's press to say ADHD is "made up".

Joanie's Post Post Feminist Phase@bettybitter.bsky.social · 11h ago

Hunter S Thompson did not go on week long speed binges to almost meet his deadlines just for today's press to say ADHD is "made up."

Mass Effect. Um...

Nina Marotta ☢️💙@mrschief7.bsky.social · 2d ago

You're offered $250,000,000 but to claim it you must enter the last video game you've played and stay there for a full year. How are y'all faring in this deal?

Not gonna lie, seeing this image tonight fucked me up a bit. I was a critic when this came out, and had to cover it, and really enjoyed both girls in it. Tragic neither saw 40. It's so weird having watched two little girls grow up into women on screen, only to be writing this after they are gone.

Electrical engineer Kitty O'Brien Joyner: 1st female engineer hired by NACA (precursor to NASA) in 1939. During her 3-decade+ career, her pioneering math & structural calculations directly advanced American aerospace technology through #WWII & the Cold War. She died #OTD in 1993. #WomenInSTEM

"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

nytimes.com

Yeah, but I also remember when the Republican Party, under Ronald Reagan, completely ignored the AIDS crisis to better pander to bigots like Jerry Falwell. So no applause.

The best diners are the ones that know that the best French toast is toasted Challah. Like, with all due respect to y'all's favorite bread, Jewish French Toast is just better. We popped off when we created Challah.

your Tesla supports mass child death

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 4d ago

Because of global cuts to foreign aid, the Gates Foundation has predicted that 2025 will be the first year this century where child deaths will increase.

IF WATER WORKED YOU WOULDN’T NEED TO KEEP DRINKING IT

ICE agents give contradictory orders on purpose. “You f*cking move I’ll f*cking tase you! Get out of the f*cking car!” It’s a no win situation. The person being violently accosted in this video is a disabled veteran. Imagine if the agents had been wearing shock gloves? Abolish & prosecute ICE

If Mass Effect came out today, Chuds online would claim Miranda has a "DEI Chin."

Reminder for those who might not remember that a scholar in my subfield was, c2013, credibly accused of plagiarism, found guilty by an independent committee, had the book revoked by the press—& was not fired or dragged in the press but (over objections from 13 of her own colleagues) made into a dean

After plagiarism allegations, prof. was named dean

Serving the Brown University community since 1891

browndailyherald.com

This fine man is simply a champion of the meritocracy, see www.varsity.co.uk/news/30360

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 5d ago

Well, well, well. Look who's over here, too

I mean, congrats to everyone in the UK media who followed this man into battle

Gregory Kohn@kohngregory.bsky.social · 5d ago

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

Just a gobsmackingly bad answer that will propel this story deeper into scandal. And the central thesis is this: Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are incompetent and don’t give a flying f*** about our troops.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Q: The family members of US service members are concerned about the conditions on the USS Lincoln TRUMP: No they're not Q: Has the deployment gone on too long? TRUMP: No no no. Not nearly long enough.

Had a really, really, literally shitty morning. So I'm ordering Jamaican food.

Every actor justifying their role in harry potter

Your work will be called "porn" the moment it is convenient to power to define it that way. Solidarity is our only useful option.

Bruno Dias@brunodias.dev · last wk.

if you are any kind of creative or artist or writer you *have* to understand sex workers and porn/erotica artists/authors as being members of the same class as us. to the extent society recognizes a difference between "legitimate" art and porn, it's only as a tenuous, convenient, temporary fiction.

Question, y'all: I keep seeing kids around my neighborhood on their bikes with no helmets. Am I being a Karen if I were to pull over and ask the kids to start wearing them? (Keep in mind I'm one of the few White people in a mostly Black neighborhood).

if i were a dem politician asked about hasan piker i would simply say “i will answer your question about the twitch streamer no one has heard of but first i would like to point out the president was best friends with the worlds most notorious child rapist and yall stopped asking him about that”

This is just so depressing to see. Readers deserve better than this.

Once they've made it impossible to read the article because of the stupid ads over everything, or even to use my laptop at all because they hang and crash it, nah. The selfishness and greed are all on their end. Start there.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.

everyone — consumers, publishers, writers — would wind up better off if web browser ad-blockers didn't exist and the rationalizations for using one are mostly clever justifications for what's just selfish behavior with obvious negative social consequences.

-Crimea Geography. Ports. Naked imperialism to gain warm water access. But NATO. Who can explain its popularity?? Joining Russia vs Joining NATO "We should have just let (insert name of mass murderer) do genocide rather let NATO even try to stop it. They are darker than us and anti imperialism".

Another thing for the "list of shit that we have to do, when this nightmare fair is over": No more vaccine exemptions, except for actual medical reasons. Signed off on by an actual doctor, not a fucking chiropractor. Fuck your "sincerely held beliefs."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya: "We shouldn't be keeping kids out of schools because their parents have made different decisions than other parents" (Note that Trump is asleep)

Lauren Boebert's son is a pedophile.

we're torturing the inventor of the cover letter later if you want to join in

Funnily enough: some of my new symptoms with being 8.5 months pregnant remind me of various period symptoms. And I haven't even had any Braxton-Hicks contractions yet.

Anyway, here's Wonder wall. (Chocolate tart with white chocolate peppermint filling topped with a chocolate ganache and peppermint cream)

Wendy Lavellan@wendynerd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Note to self: next time a recipe says it will take "1 and a half hours, plus cooling", that means the recipe will take at least 3 and a half hours.