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@stiricide everywhere. Robot intelligence since 2002. Elections, roller derby, speculative fiction. I read like a goddamn astronaut.
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BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

fascinating to me how people keep inventing *new* anti-semitic myths.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

Never change, Philly.

OpenAI is a banana republic and a sign that something is wrong in the tech industry. www.wheresyoured.at/whatre-we-ev...

Hey tiny people in my computer! 🔬 There's just ONE WEEK LEFT to submit your pocket hell-themed microfiction! If you want to enter for a chance to win an ARC of We Who Hunt Alexanders and have your work shared on the Apex blog, check the thread below for more details and submit by next Friday! ⬇️

Remains to be seen what the outcome of Israel's strike on Iran will be, but I have no doubt that American leftists will find a way to be mad at their Jewish American neighbors about it.

*so* many sea-lioning reply guys here asking questions like "are you sure there's a rise in antisemitism?" And you scroll their feed and "it's Jewish supremacy to say a Molotov cocktail thrown at Jews was antisemitic if it was done in the name of Palestine"

Grandpa has good days and bad days but increasingly it's only days like this where he talks about things that didn't happen and can't remember who he's on the phone with. Brains are leaking out his ears.

It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

once again I must tap my own sign

Musk and Trump are a great example of why men are too emotional to lead.

look, we're all out here making ourselves stressed out and miserable with terrible news all the time please let yourself enjoy this, for your own mental health

Crypto is crashing. $TSLA is plummeting. Elmo pointing at the Epstein files. DJT threatening to cancel Elmo's subsidies and contracts. Kanye's calling for peace between bros. Catturd2 is begging everyone to calm down and be reasonable. Manospehere Twitter is assuring us this is all Alpha behavior.

I hope there are no tariffs on popcorn because America is about to have a deficit.

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

If you’re overstimulated, please report to the Bluesky cooldown tent where we have orange slices and someone who doesn’t understand the concept of jokes waiting for you

Mount Rushmore of Bluesky events 4. Kendrick halftime show 3. Couch fucker AP correction 2. Kissinger dies 1. Musk/Trump feud goes nuclear

If two women were sniping at each other on socials like these two toddler men are people would be like “bitches be crazy, can’t let them be in charge of anything” You already know that but I want to point it out anyway

look I prefer to process my breakups by venting to the groupchat, not by publicly threatening to tank my ex’s Pentagon contracts…but hey, everyone grieves in their own way !!

IF YOU’RE IN LINE TO WATCH MUSK AND TRUMP NUKE EACH OTHER LIKE TWO FLAMING ZEPPELINS COLLIDING OVER A WALMART PARKING LOT — STAY IN LINE. LAUGHING AT THIS CLOWN SHOW IS YOUR CIVIC DUTY.

Oh, I’m sorry. Did your rational and logical economic system not account for what if two terminally online men had a falling out?

An extremely good thread about how internet communities become polarised, and why the strongest feeling (and therefore the most virulent abuse) often comes from people on "your side":

Israeli politics might be in for a shake up in the coming weeks. I rarely see western coverage of the nuances of Israeli politics, so here's an explainer on the players involved and why it might lead to Netanyahu's government collapsing.

Trump take scientists

This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays

The COVID-19 vaccines are the closest humans have come to a scientific feat like blowing up an asteroid headed to Earth in real time and saving millions, if not tens of millions, of lives. And conservatives are like, "Witch!!"

I went to Shavuot with Chabad. I ate too much ice cream, learned about Jewish My Little Pony cows, am very confused about biblically accurate angels vs their human familiars, and maybe need to go reread The Golden Compass. Chag sameach.

I am furious about the news out of Colorado of Jews being lit on fire for the crime of calling for hostages to be released. I am furious at how dirtbag leftists on this website and elsewhere treat this as a game where violence against American Jews is justified if we aren't good tokens.

WELP

Most Jews have been banging on the table for the last 19 months that this could happen. Enough is enough. Non-Jews need to clearly speak out against the blatant and growing rot of antisemitism that’s fueling despicable acts like what we saw today in Boulder.

I don't want to make this about me, I'm just minimum two degrees from both of these things. I'm texting friends. This isn't abstract.

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.