Recently read a skeet on here that was like "It's theorized men are more vulnerable to LLMs/chatbots because women are more thoroughly socially conditioned to be instantly suspicious of fawning, complimentary, compliant attention," and. Thinkin' about that, tonight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtvI...

The Hank Green Situation is Weird and Sad

YouTube video by Regular Eyepatch Wolf

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Jesus fuck help it's so fucking hot. 16 degrees C difference between min and max temp but those are 24°C and 40°C respectively. I went out on a run at 4AM in shorts and a sports bra and I felt like I was melting. 35°C at 10AM. 40 by 12. Help.

SkyGlobe 3.6 Mark A Haney 1993 The solar eclipse next week as seen from London

i love these posts because it imagines like none of us can remember a time before this tech. we all remember 2023! the only people who don't remember 2023 are literally six years old!

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 15h ago

I have one answer.

Literally a full third of this article is not about the TdFF but about Pogacar winning the men's Tour. Journalists literally can't help themselves making something that's supposed to be about women about men instead. www.independent.co.uk/sport/cyclin...

Padded bra row erupts with Tour de France Femmes riders to face extra clothing checks

Teams have reportedly raised concerns over the use of padded bras at this year’s Tour

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One of the bigger problems the 2025 ruling has introduced is establishing that, instead of resolving equality cases based on trying to as best as possible integrate everyone's right to be treated humanely, we use philosophical debates about what someone's true legal essence is to decide rights.

Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 10h ago

web.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

I just got a mail saying that from September Google Assistant won't be available any more and will be replaced by Gemini and no. No, I'm not going to use Gemini. Fuck off. Even Google Assistant I only used for hands free phone calls and texts as I was driving, from now on I will just not. Fuck off.

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

Micah@rincewind.run · 4d ago

Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight

This 1899 clip of a little girl and her cat is the oldest surviving cat footage on film, just 4 years after the Lumiere brothers invented cinema. Now colorized and speed corrected.

This is what happens when you tolerate intolerance.

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Uploaded 15 years ago. Still correct, still relevant. I transitioned 25 years ago. It was just as relevant then, too. Is it any wonder that women my age, with all these transitioned years under our belts, are so fucking done?

Katra Ariello, Golden Apple Audio 🏳️‍⚧️@katrafiy.bsky.social · yesterday

this video is nearly 20 years old and it's as relevant today as it was back then www.youtube.com/watch?v=te7d...

Main Span xkcd.com/3279/

The long awaited sequel. #art #comic #sphynx #sphinx #mythicalcreature #kaijufluffsart

KaijuFluffs | Kaiju VTuber@kaijufluffs.bsky.social · last mo.

She's being so big and brave. #art #comic #sphynx #mythicalcreature #kaijufluffsart

Continuing to work through my backlog one treadmill workout at a time tonight with the first few chapters of "Up and Down the Corporate Ladder" by @zoestorm.bsky.social!

Roasted Garlic & Herb Paoli@huhhowdoibluethis.bsky.social · 2w ago

All caught up on Alyson chapters somehow, so let's knock out a little bit of my backlog on the treadmill tonight. I've loved everything of Dani's that I read so far, especially their previous Incorporated States story "User Not Found," so this seems like a really good choice.

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

Just your regular reminder that: 1) Almost everyone has an underlying health issue if you look hard enough 2) People with underlying health issues don't deserve to die for eating lettuce 3) We should be strengthening, not weakening our regulatory processes. And properly funding them.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Amid the growing scandal at the Ryme City Police Department, the allegations of type-based profiling by star Detective Pikachu continue to pile up. paletteswap.site/dif...

Never forgot the time when they tampered with miners' strike footage to make it look like the miners attacked the police (it was the other way around)

alyson “end journalism” greaves@badambulist.bsky.social · 3d ago

I don’t care if you like its cultural output. The BBC has been a major player in the immiseration of this country, in the persecution of trans people, immigrants, muslims, travellers and disabled people, in the spread of dangerous rhetoric about climate change and vaccines. It must be dismantled.

Just so. Scottish Labour is absolutely fucked because its purpose isn’t to represent the public or win anything. Much like the UK party, its actual purpose is expanding the status, clout and earning potential of a tiny number of repulsive swine.

RDCK98@comradekenobi.bsky.social · 4d ago

There is no world in which you win from the position of -Unionist but pro-Indyref 2 -Corbynite on the economy -Rowlingite on LGBT+ rights Congratulations, you have managed to annoy *everyone* in Scotland

Remember when it came out that Jeffrey Epstein and his billionaire rapist pals had deliberately manufactured modern movement transphobia to make us easier to exploit sexually and no one but us cared?

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3mo ago

all of contemporary transphobia feels so manufactured and fake and it's hard to explain how and why to people who haven't felt it happen at them but like people used to not like Really Care; there were shitty people but like no one built their life around being transphobic

I remember my SIL nurse crying in rage on the phone when this was announced. Yes, she got COVID in her ward. She lost a baby. Fuck these people.

Nate O@nateo.bsky.social · 4d ago

The PM killed an untold number of people during a pandemic and burnt £850 million and he was depicted in state media as our benevolent saviour, I think that drove me mad and I never recovered, the state literally convinced people to willingly be culled en masse by an infectious disease

what boys think girls want: Clavicular or some other looksmaxxer what girls really want: Miles O'Brien, Chief Engineer of Deep Space Nine

The big problem is that this result can lead to two majorities: lab + snp + ldm or rfm + con + ldm. Given the libdem's track record, I think the latter is more probable than the former.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk · 3d ago

General Election Nowcast - 02/08/26: LAB: 213 (-198) | 24.1% (113 Short) RFM: 152 (+147) | 24.0% CON: 104 (-17) | 19.7% LDM: 76 (+4) | 11.0% SNP: 42 (+33) | 2.8% GRN: 20 (+16) | 11.4% PLC: 16 (+12) | 1.3% RES: 1 (+1) | 2.7% Oth: 7 (+2) | 3.0% electionmaps.uk/nowcast

I don’t care if you like its cultural output. The BBC has been a major player in the immiseration of this country, in the persecution of trans people, immigrants, muslims, travellers and disabled people, in the spread of dangerous rhetoric about climate change and vaccines. It must be dismantled.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 02,1955