Darcy Conaty

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

Everyone PLEASE keep track of the voter registration deadline in your state!

Check your registration before EVERY ELECTION so you can reregister if necessary.

Find/order ID documents NOW so you have them if you need them.

This is even more important with new 2026 registration requirements.

I want this convo:

Republican: “Why are yall always annoyingly putting everything to votes you will lose? It’s annoying.”

Dem: “Because I want you on the record for the trial, mfer.”

Lots of people making fun of this, but as someone who showers a disabled person, this is a goddamn dream.

This all began with a concerned mutual reaching out to me, stating that they saw a notification that pointed at me using the Meta AI app and asking if my stance on generative AI had changed. That’s when I learnt that Meta has been quietly using random people’s accounts to promote their app. The catch is… these people never actually downloaded the app. Including myself. I just wanted to make this post to warn people. If you see a notification like that - know that it’s a lie, I never downloaded any AI app and never will. I’m an artist who values hard work and human effort, and generative AI repulses me to an unimaginable degree.

If you follow me on Instagram and you receive a notification about me joining or downloading Meta AI well, IT'S A FUCKING LIE. Meta is blatantly lying to us in order to make us download that fucking sludge-generator. I would never touch GenAI with a 10 foot pole.

OP www.instagram.com/p/DVN3Ac2DG9p/

There’s no excuse for your random cis friends and family not to understand this as an obsessive hate campaign by lying bigots. Whatever anyone’s opinion on trans people, even the most ardent lunatic cannot deny the existence of people who transitioned decades ago and have yet to ‘get over it’.

Is Convicted Felon Donald Trump’s super-duper secure SCIF with soft banquet-hall curtains, open air top, unsecured electronic devices, and roving guests located next to the bathroom where the classified documents are stored?

The mental equivalent of castor oil?

Bear with me if you can as I attempt to use HPV vaccines to demonstrate why many can’t see the danger of RFK Jr.

TLDR: Disease prevention takes time and discipline. Not discipline of an individual, but the ability to invest in public health when the benefits may not be immediately clear.

Can State Law Remedy Constitutional Violations by Federal Officers? So-called converse 1983 statutes are percolating in statehouses across the country and could fill a critical constitutional gap.

As ICE operations expand in cities across the country, state legislators have turned to so-called converse 1983 statutes which would authorize suits against federal officials if they violate constitutional rights. @harrisonstark.bsky.social explains how these statutes would work in practice.

Thank you for sending me down a (relatively shallow) rabbit hole on the word "fibula" being used for both a leg bone & a clothing fastener.

Iran Things that Got Memory Holed, Including the So-Called Negotiators, Steve and Jared - emptywheel There are a number of facts about Iran that are being memory holed by significant swaths of the public. There’s the fact that Iran’s conflict with the west doesn’t just go back 47 years, to 1979, when...

Iran Things that Got Memory Holed, Including the So-Called Negotiators, Steve and Jared

emptywheel.net/iran-things-...

Check your voter registration. Yes, AGAIN.

We need to check and KEEP checking, especially as we get closer to election days.

Vote by drop box/mail or early voting if at all possible. Don't wait until Election Day.

I'm checking regularly, & I'm a GD poll worker!

Once again, in actual democracies, people do not need to engage in permanent litigation & political mobilization to retain the basic right to vote, because none of the major political parties make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform. We also don't have to live like this.

Texas' Big Bend braces for border wall in national park, worrying local Republicans and Democrats Locals say the rugged land is enough of a barrier and they're concerned about the impact on the environment and homeowners as the Department of Homeland Security forges ahead.

I want to do my part in raising awareness. Texas's Big Bend is set to receive new border security infrastructure, including >100 mi of border wall cutting through Big Bend National Park. Kristi Noem just waived 28 environmental protection laws and regulations to expedite this construction. 🧵 1/4

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Until I see some actual backbone from party leaders, I'll continue deleting their emails unread.

Time to Fight: H.R. 7661 Call To Action

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them.

Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

WARNING: Illinois Is About to Elect a MAGA-Aligned Senator But it's not too late -- here's what we need to do to prevent a catastrophic failure and instead elect someone whose record aligns with our values

IL is on the verge of electing a Senator far more aligned with Trump, MAGA power brokers & ICE infrastructure expansion than the values of a deep-blue state.

Here’s what Raja Krishnamoorthi hopes you don’t know about him & how we elect someone better.

When I was in Indiana in the late 1970s, the local phone book - an actual physical book - had a listing for "Fone Company".

It didn't say "See Indiana Bell". It just provided the number.

Tomorrow is the last day of early voting in Texas. My sis, Cardi B, said GO VOTE for me as your next US Senator! Let’s gooooooo!!!!

🧵 It would be easy to say something cynical/clever about right wing Jews failing to see that the movement that spurned Somalians, trans people, immigrants would eventually turn on them, but more than anything I find the "how could you" narrative of right wing Jews deeply sad and even tragic. 1/??

Getting frustrated by the many types of data files you can download from US satellites (proposal: what if they all used the same coordinate system or file type?)

But then my sister texted me "why do chickens hate mustard?" and now I'm gleefully down a rabbithole about chicken TRAP1 receptors

Unfortunately the reality is that cops have a history of killing people by dropping them off in inhospitable places. In Canada it’s called a “starlight tour” when cops detain an Indigenous person and then drop them off miles from home in the wilderness, sometimes causing them to freeze to death

And an important question when buying a house is whether there's enough wall space for all the bookcases.

Federal prison officials face civil contempt hearing, as ICE is threatened with criminal contempt Orders from two Republican judicial appointees Thursday show greater willingness to push back with increasingly harsh tools in the face of continued Trump admin lawlessness.

NEW: Federal prison officials face civil contempt hearing, as ICE is threatened with criminal contempt.

Thursday orders from two Republican judicial appointees show greater willingness to push back with increasingly harsh tools in the face of continued Trump admin lawlessness.

Tonight at Law Dork:

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

I've seen a metric fuckton of videos about Punch the monkey and you probably have too. There's a lot of weird shit people have opinions on. And some are 'experts' who are not experts in Japanese snow macaques.

Anyway what few are saying is this. Punch is suffering now to have a better life.

The 75 Elections to Watch This March - Bolts The 2026 midterms really are starting. Five states hold all of their primaries for federal and state offices in March, and voters there face high-profile choices. They’ll decide which Democrat... Read More

A busy election month is upon us: It’s the first supreme court race of 2026. Democrats are looking to flip legislative seats in four states. Voters will decide transit and minimum wage measures.

Explore our guide to 75 contests to watch in March: