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We like to stereotype them as absurd, but the fact that French people give their government a healthy little full-scale riot reminder of the French Revolution every time they get pissed off is VERY effective.

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"I am the law." Hitler, 1942 "There is no law but the law of the people & the people are me." Gaddafi, 1975 "We have a constitution, but we must address the problems of the country first. The law is always behind when it comes to national survival." Bashar Al-Assad, 2011 Trump, 2025:

submitted 16 days ago • 59 comments

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

submitted 15 days ago • 74 comments

Zelda and Link designs

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 16 days ago • 413 comments

Honestly, it’d be worth it just for the health care, LEGOS, and those tins of butter cookies.

submitted 19 days ago • 59 comments

Flashback to 2020: CA official: "If we ignore the science and put our head in the sand... we're not going to succeed together protecting Californians." Trump: "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch." "I wish science agreed with you." Trump: "I don’t think science knows, actually."

submitted 52 days ago • 616 comments

I’m gonna need this tattooed on the inside of my eyelids

submitted 509 days ago • 44 comments

I'm involved in tech hiring. I've interviewed thousands of engineers. And I'd like to tell you about a disturbing trend I've seen in tech in the last 10 years 🧵

submitted 60 days ago • 11 comments

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

submitted 67 days ago • 219 comments

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

submitted 65 days ago • 338 comments

I’m in Japan right now so I’m obliged to remind the world — we don’t want AI. We want a robust rail system. We want trains. Metros. High speed. Locals. Cute trains. Efficient trains. Trains.

submitted 67 days ago • 73 comments

Gen ai is poisoning our power grid, stealing intellectual property, using precious water, and ruining the internet with unreliable information and garbage imagery. Don't use it, and don't normalize it, even for laughs.

submitted 66 days ago • 89 comments

Billionnaires stole your living. Not immigrants. Not minorities. Not people who follow a different religion. Billionnaires. Noone needs a billion to live. Billionnaires could easily give you the money you lack and not notice the loss. They do not. They never will.

submitted 73 days ago • 67 comments

The state of media for Americans is so completely broken

submitted 85 days ago • 356 comments

I see a lot of people talk about the environmental costs of AI. I don't see as much about the human exploitation behind it.

submitted 89 days ago • 81 comments

So a long long time, when I was very young, I got married to a guy after the second time I failed out of college, and we got along fine and didn’t have too many problems when he saw me as a dropout who was supporting him by working full time while he finished a college degree.

submitted 96 days ago • 32 comments

'Disrupt' is really the optimal word for what big tech is doing. It's not 'improve' or 'revolutionize' or 'positively contribute in any way.' It's 'disrupt' because all they do is f*ck up industries in ways like this: flooding a saturated market with trash that wastes time, energy, and money.

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I feel seen

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Bookshop is having its anti-Prime sale. Free shipping on everything. Go buy some books! bookshop.org

submitted 146 days ago • 17 comments

The one thing you can do right now: Delete your twitter account. If it's done en masse it will affect Musk's stock value. It's an easy protest. It's punishment. It'll destroy his reach and his access and ability to spread lies

submitted 117 days ago • 22 comments

Hey. Married queers. Get wills/power of attorney drawn up. If Obergefell falls, you'll need it. I say this as a widower whose husband died pre-Obergefell. (We married in MA in '04.) Having this documentation in place took one minor stressor away from an extremely horrible situation.

submitted 117 days ago • 29 comments

okay, so. i have bipolar disorder. we have a suicide rate of about 1/5. i've basically spent my entire teenage and adult life trying not to kill myself. so with that in mind, here are my tips on how to hang in there: 1) don't isolate. i know all the excuses. but don't do it

submitted 117 days ago • 166 comments

This may be helpful for you new followers. You can block every single person on these lists. Just click on the subscribe button and it will give you the option to block every one on it. Here’s the first: bsky.app/profile/did:...

submitted 117 days ago • 1581 comments

Ran into my former Black Panther neighbor on the way to pick up my pizza. He said, "Listen, we've been here before. It's nothing new. But everyone better keep an eye on that Elon Musk now that he can do whatever he wants." The old heads know you gotta eat the rich.

submitted 117 days ago • 16 comments

I see you, People Magazine, the day before the election. 👀

submitted 119 days ago • 48 comments

there's nothing like learning what's exactly happening in the brain to shake you out of a bad habit I can't exaggerate how much I needed to watch this www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwlX...

submitted 120 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 209 days ago • 11 comments

“It’s totally unfair to put the burden of opting out of AI training on the creator whose work is being trained on. If a government really thought this was a good thing for creators then it would create an opt-in scheme.” THIS 👆

submitted 132 days ago • 4 comments

Reminder: AI is theft. It's trained on stolen art. It's trained on stolen writing. There is no ethical AI. So, if you're profile photo is AI, change it. If you're thinking about messing around with ChatGPT, don't. For one thing, it's abhorrent. For another, it's bad for the environment.

submitted 134 days ago • 18 comments

Let’s do this Bluesky! Hi, I’m Karla Ortiz! I’m an artist in San Francisco. I work in films, games, MtG, books, fine art, and so on! In my free time I advocate for artists livelihoods and rights. I’m also a plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against GenAi companies (Andersen v Stability). Hi 👋

submitted 136 days ago • 55 comments

Those who forget history are doomed to die of dysentery.

submitted 139 days ago • 5 comments

A lot has been said about the collapse of google docs post-AI integration, but every day it finds a new way to surprise me. What is this suggestion? How does google docs not know the word "either"?

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one of many reasons I want to see Republicans wiped out in this election is that I want their attacks on trans people to be seen as a total electoral loser I want the people pushing this shit, including at the Times, humiliated, and I want to see Dems advocating for trans rights as a winning issue

submitted 145 days ago • 28 comments

Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves. Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.

submitted 145 days ago • 171 comments

Speaking of literary characters I love, here is Ged from the tales of earthsea.

submitted 145 days ago • 11 comments