"Mysterious Spirit Dance" for Jasmine
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Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
There's no countervailing systemic force on Bluesky, it just shows you posts in the order that they're made. But understanding Twitter as a machine that explcitly hides certain opinions and promotes others, and that one of the hobbyhorses of the guy who runs the machine is anti-trans, is important.
In what context is this labeled graphic media
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Set phasers to CUTE ✨🥹💖💞 Happy Tuvok Tuesday, y'all 🖖
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Platner: Our taxpayer dollars can build schools and hospitals in America, not bombs to destroy them in Gaza.
Nice detailed essay about a couple of hugely popular new 2-D animated films in China ("Nobody") and Japan ("Infinity Castle"), with a look back at how Hollywood execs like Disney's Michael Eisner stupidly insisted decades ago that hand-drawn animation was over for good as they rushed into CGI.
nailing this to the door of Cetacean Ops after the Ops Ensign Skinnydipping Debacle
Preview of the announcement:
Hmm Indonesia today...who's next?
![A man in the crowd of the Baby of the Year contest in ITYSL, yelling “I hope you fucking die, [redacted].” In the actual show, the “redacted” is “Harley Jarvis”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mqew6mgb4zkydlf5bn7qty2h/bafkreihhc7xxjyqvfobvqcbqngpbhzxyc7ckseg3542k5bsc4pguwsfzde@jpeg "Click to view full size")
would a pious pharaoh just be self-centered?
Thinking about how the great Barbara Ehrenreich nailed one of the primary problems with modern journalism a full decade ago. “The real face of journalism today: not million dollar-a-year anchorpersons, but low-wage workers and downwardly spiraling professionals…“ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As right-wing oligarchs were buying up mainstream and social media, the mistake everyone else made was thinking that these purchases were based on a normal assessment of value. Remember when Elon Musk “overpayed” for Twitter? They understood that controlling the message and narrative is priceless.
One thing they’ve been very successful at is making it so when sober experts put their careers and reputations on the line to issue grave warnings, it gets mostly a shrug.
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
very direct evidence that video game piracy is important in the preservation of video games
I'm a marxist-blueskyist
The best historical artefacts are the accidental ones that freeze a moment in time forever. I thought I’d try to find all the times pets have ruined their owner's day and recorded that instant for all of history.
A thread-of-threads on my research into the ruined places of the world, the abandoned ruins of modernity, interesting historical knowledge I've come across, and strange parts of history I find fascinating.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
WORKING CLASS UNITE!
YOU CANT EVEN SEE HIM IN THE MIRROR smh
the problem with some really hot people is that they also look like aliens
i do think it would be great to see how Grand Nagus Nog and First Clerk Leeta enact their progressive reforms of Ferenginar and work to join the Federation, especially considering Nog is the first Ferengi to found a workers' union. THAT'S a Star Trek political show I would watch
Happy Labor Day, comrades 🫡
If bsky was dying why do we have fbi agents making long threads about how the fbi isnt bad? Huh?
going to see one movie costs $20-$50 nowadays, I don't need Stephen King to tell me that
there's a special place in hell for bad pet owners
Love to be working overtime on Labor Day 🙃
As is tradition:
A reminder that UN signatories have a legal obligation to prevent genocide, up to and including military action, which is one of the main reasons so many countries refuse to call it a genocide
Who's the worst cartoon character? I vote Henry, the dad from Dennis the Menace. He's a mask deliberately invented to whitewash the identity of his creator, Hank Ketcham, one of the worst men to ever make comics. It's gonna take a thread.
damn Mafalda
Did you repot it? What kind of soil did you use?
Finally finished drawing Faye on wplace - 49, 152 pixels total
Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
One must imagine Kaji happy
Yeah I like folk music
there's a special place in hell for bad pet owners
wild how we're at the point of "here's 10 ways Trump could abolish suffrage before the midterms" and Dems are saying we need to reach across the aisle
Quote with some femme fatale #art 💋🖤
can we stop using she/her pronouns for a killer who said in no uncertain terms "i know i am not a woman"? he talks about his gender identity in his journal and he's simply not fucking trans, in his own words, the only thing trans about him is his long hair.
Every evil act this man engages in was enabled by Democrats.
The far right succeeded in this country in large part because adult men were angry about this supposed theft, and the Nazis learned to channel that rage. "[Marginalized group] stole your sex mommy!" is quite literally their rallying cry a lot of the time.
permission to go absolutely feral?
manifesting it
rule of 3, how is Musk almost dying today
grindset brain is the dumbest shit i've ever seen. "i've discovered this foolproof way to make me rich. it hasn't worked yet and i'm still not rich. but you should take me seriously anyway"
dick AND balls?
no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say rudy giuliani died from driving his car into a wall painted to look like a tunnel and all his clothes flew off in the crash and then a sixteen wheeler semi truck ran over his dick and balls. don’t say stuff like that
why do broligarchs always name their shit after evil Lord of the Rings stuff and not evil Star Trek stuff. Why hasn't some rich nerd founded the Landru Foundation or something
NEW: Judge Sooknanan now orders the govt to explain why it has failed to meet her 4 p.m. ET deadline to give a status update on the Guatemalan children who are supposed to be removed from planes and returned to Office of Refugee Resettlement custody.
The thing that keeps me coming back to the Newsom stuff is that Democrats who object to our saying we'd never vote for him are refusing to treat us as ordinary voters who need to be won over, like any other demographic.
twinks aren't allowed
Worlds Beyond Number is probably the best lets play podcast made so far, and I'm including the Balance and Amnesty arcs of TAZ in that list
honestly the raw critical role podcasts are a hard listen because they're not edited for brevity, so each episode is literally 4 hours long and there's a million of them. CR abridged tried to mend this, idk how it ended up. Dimension 20 is good to just listen to, you dont have to watch it
right but if you look at it from the lens of "Israel is an American colony" their bid for regional hegemony becomes our bid for regional hegemony and that makes a lot more sense
I was doing something super heroic and cool before I got in a car accident, please do not look into this any further
Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting
Artists, qrp your favourite portrait you've drawn! #art
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
A cool thing about the Dems being absolutely useless institution-fuckers is that if they did gain control again, they'll look at the mutilated, broken remnants of the FDA and NSF and such as sacred and reject out of hand any suggestion they need to be changed.
What is coming, in QAnon lore, is the Storm. The orgy of bloodletting in which Trump will liquidate his political enemies. That’s what he’s playing with.
Workin on something
BREAKING: At least 63 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, including 32 aid seekers, medical sources told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ukxcfz
This would be a clear violation of the US’s obligations as host country under the UN Headquarters Agreement.
you know, just the first lady taking a casual tour of walter reed hospital last thursday— NOTHING TO SEE HERE PEOPLE
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
1) Johnson's EO is not a mask ban. It's a strongly worded suggestion. 2) CPD are always allowed to mask "for medical reasons" (despite vehemently fighting vax requirements). 3) They've always been required to display badges unless undercover. 3) Here's the FOP tonight mocking the entire order.
Happy 'greatest correction ever' day to all who celebrate
FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
Activists, personalities and social movements from 44 countries leave for Gaza from Barcelona with the aim of opening a humanitarian corridor to the Strip and defying the naval blockade imposed by Israel. The genocide must be stopped !!
Well, time to go and face the day! *throws self down stairs*
New egret/heron solo emo project just dropped 🪶
The more Trump talks shit about other cities the more cities have each others back. Like I'm a New Yorker defending LA. If he has me defending Boston I'm quitting and moving to Montreal.
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
Everyone cheer for the apple boar, bringing fall fun!! :) (the fun is apples)
Hmm had a dream last night where I did nothing but cry the whole time in a big open space. It's probably nothing
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Whatever the accuracy and value of “Democracy Indices”, this is truly remarkable and again shows the striking disconnect between the U.S. legacy media and U.S. political reality.
“They advocate the removal of almost all public officials and services, increasing the numbers of the armed forces and police, building up the capacity for repression by the powers that be, no longer public, but corporate and business. [DOGE and militia-style police (ICE)] is a trial run of this.”
right: king! left: no king! centrist: half a king! or a very small king! maybe we just have a prince for now?!
If you see this, quote post a spherical borb 🪶
I like this Executive Order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
