Tomorrow isn't just Thanksgiving, it's also happens to be Millie's 12th birthday & she would greatly appreciate being acknowledged in any of your holiday toasts.

Thanking you in advance, Chelsea & Mar🐫

Someone spent a LOT of time working on this snowman's nipples. #HotFrosty

Why is this lady running a diner where she only serves chocolate chip pancakes on Sundays? #HotFrosty

*just* looking at HIV shows HUGE strides! When I came out in 1994, 1) people talked about WHEN not IF they got it and 2) it was still seen as a death sentence!

remove how this is insane on a tech side of things, they invented a pill one can buy that can basdically prevent you from getting HIV. there like ads for it and everything

📢 1.95 is rolling out now (4/6)

Thank you GitHub contributors auroursa, softastur, iyanuvieu, Juanpabl, surfdude29, ivanbea, jordimas, aryiu, mlocati, franciscomrtt, monty241, nandolawson, rshigg, airowe, kirillzyusko, LegendEffects, gonzaloriestra, claudiu-cristea, xurxogp, alexandregz, …

In the Settings screen, select “Content and media”

Next, select “Thread preferences”

You can still sort replies by recency, popularity, and randomly (“poster’s roulette”).

📢 1.95 is rolling out now (2/6)

With this release, you can now display replies by “hotness,” which weights liked replies that are more recent more heavily.

Bluesky 1.95. Improvements: New reply sorting option: "hotness." Improved localizations. Smoother feed scrolling. You can now swipe away informational "toasts". Fixes: Camera photos no longer get stretched. Newlines no longer get dropped on copypaste. Lots of other bug fixes and performance improvements.

📢 App Version 1.95 is rolling out now (1/6)

Lots of bugfixes and performance improvements in this one!

Right-wingers just found this reply that Trump’s Surgeon General nominee made to one of my posts in 2021 about the pandemic. They aren’t happy about it.

Photo of an adorable shiny black cat with green eyes standing on a green lawn.

Handsome T’Challa at @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social! If you need more cute animals in your life you should follow them ASAP. Cats, pigs, ponies, ducks, rabbits, and more! 🦃 🐴 🐖 🐇 🐓 🐐 🐈‍⬛ 🦆

You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???

Source: reddit, user: denise1025 A very alien white mushroom strands surrounded by green underbrush and mossy trees. The mushroom is white and almost like a triangle on a stem. On its underside, there are "teeth"-like projections. On its top, it is flat white, except there are beads of red droplets like blood.

Day 21 of posting cool mushrooms every day:

The Bleeding Tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii) has both teeth on its underside and "blood" on its top!

The "blood" is extracellular fluid, which is squeezed out when the fungus absorbs water, increasing pressure until the red fluid is squeezed out!

Screenshot of a news video of Dutch far right politician Geert Wilders. In the picture he has a sort of poufy peroxide blond pompadour situation going on. It is frankly alarming

Someone smart and funny should write about far right politicians and their bizarro hair issues. Boris Johnson. Trump. Elon. And pictured here, the Dutch contribution to the genre: Geert Wilders

Why do cows have hooves instead of feet???

Because they lactose

Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow, Ginni Thomas, Martha Alito, John Roberts, Sam Alito, and Clarence Thomas love it when you blame Garland and Biden for the fact that the Supreme Court stopped the cases against Trump.

I can’t for the life of me understand how some people feel the need to hunt or harm these beautiful creatures!

#FoxOfTheDay 🦊

🎦 Credit: Unknown

My amazing mother adopted an adult cat.

Happy Thanksgiving week, everyone. We’ve been spending the last few days addressing food insecurity across NYC.

Shout out to our supporters, small-dollar contributors, and volunteers who make all this happen and help us support similar efforts across the country.

I am really grateful. ♥️ Thank you

Remember new users are coming on daily, unsure of engagement. The more posts you like and reply to, the strong the platform becomes !

This is the exact reason I’ve decided to lean all the way in on the one team & sport I follow this season. I’m not just watching the games. I’m RESEARCHING. I’m watching HIGHLIGHTS. I bought a new SWEATSHIRT. I NEED THIS.

Bluesky is an open and public social network, much like websites on the Internet itself. Websites can specify whether they consent to outside companies crawling their data with a robots.txt file, and we’re investigating a similar practice here.

We recently shared Bluesky’s stance on user data and AI training, which has not changed. Bluesky will not train generative AI on user data. bsky.app/profile/bsky...

For example, this might look like a setting that allows Bluesky users to specify whether they consent to outside developers using their content in AI training datasets

Bluesky won’t be able to enforce this consent outside of our systems. It will be up to outside developers to respect these settings

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

Jesus was at Walgreen’s again.

Oh sure! I get that. I've been more in the content creation world for other things (as well as acting) and ... Let's just say it's not a meritocracy

Depends on what your goal is in the field. I study Actual Play, so yeah, there’s things people think are stuff you “climb” to that don’t work like that.

This is the tricky part of a newer form of labor (content creation) braided into an industry that itself is still propped up by hobbyist labor.