von Explaino

Jesus.

I was just thinking yesterday, when People was putting Trump on blast, how Teen Vogue also was one of those magazines that wasn’t created to do hard-hitting politics but really rose to the moment back in Trump 1, unlike almost all other ones that should have.

This is a real legit blow.

Noticed by Sempai?

Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.

Thread. 😡 FFS leave YA for teens and kids! Read books for adults so this ridiculous trend dies. And if you do read YA, understand *it's YA* & stop asking for "TV teens" played by 20-somethings to "feel better" about reading fictional teen romances.

cartoon: A Laugh In homage of monsters popping out of the backdrop to trade jokes.

From my Larchives :)

It's nice to see God branching out into some new plagues.

Characters from Cassiopeia Quinn dressed up as members of the Scooby gang, engaging in wholly inappropriate snuggling and ogling. cassiopeiaquinn.com

How would you describe that worldview? My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: “Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.” It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it. In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

Son has decided there needs to be a counter agency called NICE (Not ICE) that wears big, fake, honkable noses and mustaches. Going around making things better. The higher your rank, the more elaborate the propellers on your hat are.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

A tweet from Samantha reads, “harry potter tattoos have a significantly higher regret rate than any gender affirming surgeries.” Below it is an image of J.K. Rowling with text that says: “Laser Clinic Offers Discount on Harry Potter Tattoo Removals in Support of Trans Rights,” credited to Andy Lalwani via gayety.

At first I was disappointed with her. Now I’m just appalled.

If you use Spotify for your podcast listening, may I recommend Pocket Casts instead? It has an excellent desktop player that will sync to your phone, just like Spotify!

Is it unfortunate in the fact we can't put out a pentagram of cupcakes and first-novels and summon you for tea and a chat?

I would delight if the new device was named The Torment Nexus

This from the company that made so many advancements in user interfaces and device design. Boggles the mind.

Now's the time to call up Visa/MC to ask 'hey, how come you guys will pay for ChatGPT and Twitter subs but I can't buy certain games off of Steam?' Because I frankly would LOVE an answer to that...

-iphone upgrades to liquid glass-

I must now formally apologise to the art directors of all the movies with ridiculously difficult to use yet cool looking computer displays for saying that they were being very silly and nobody would be foisting such things on their users.

Starting an LLM Jeer-leaders group to counter the AI rahrah.

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Australia’s 2025 Bird of the Year the Tawny Frogmouth - BirdLife Australia After three years placing runner-up, the Tawny Frogmouth has finally claimed the title as the country's 2025 Bird of the Year, earing the adoration (and votes) of bird lovers across the country.

@mousethedj.bsky.social Got you some good news birdlife.org.au/news/austral...

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Bees! A cartoon guide to a lot of bees. Spelling bee: a bee is holding scrabble tiles spelling bee. Long Division Bee: a professorial bee teaches math at a chalkboard. Carpenter Bee: a bee carries some wood and tools. Karen Carpenter Bee: a 1970s girl bee plays the drums. 2Bee: a been with a pencil nib head and an eraser butt. To Bee Or Not Too Bee: a bee in a ruff holds a skull aloft. Cardi Bee: a cosy bee in a big cardigan knitting a honeycomb scarf. Mr Blobbee: a round inflatable bee coloured like Mr Blobby with his bow tie for wings. Bumblebee: a bee swiping on a dating app. Fumblebee: a bee trips dropping all their dishes and glasses of honey. Humblebee: a cute shy bee blushes. Wannabee: a wanted poster for Beelly the kid, a cowboy bee. Beeline: a long flat bee. Furbee: a hybrid of furby and bee. Beefcake: a hunky muscle bound bee man. Herbee: the talking car Herbie but he is a bee now. Herbee Fully Loaded: the same as Herbee but covered in cheese and bacon. Beelittle: a little bee. Busy Bee: an exhausted bee drinking two mugs of hot honey. Bussy Bee: a bee with a big ass. Bee Arthur: a bee that looks like Bea Arthur. Arthur Bee: a bee that looks like PBS's Arthur. TBee: a sickly bee with tuberculosis coughing up blood. USBee: a USB shaped like a bee. U.S. Bee: a bee with red and white stripes, blue wings with stars on, and saluting, three arms to his heart. Beeyoncé: a bee in a leotard doing the single ladies pose. Beetwicé: two bees in leotards doing the single ladies pose. Plan Bee: a box of EllaHoney morning after pills shaped liked bees. Gumbee: if Gumbee were a bee. Bee Bee King: two bees sharing a crown. Beelated: a bee panickedly looking at their watch as they rush off. Bee Gee: a disco bee. Bee Gee Gee: a horse bee. He Bee Gee Bee: a bee dressed as a ghost. She Bee Gee Bee: the same as before but with a pink bow. Baybee: a baby bee. Michael Bay Bee: a bee in sunglasses running from an explosion. To Bee Continued: a half-drawn bee.

#Inktober eleven was "sting" and maybe I should have been drawing bees this whole time! It turns out I can draw bees!

Thinking about the @lindsayellis.bsky.social video where she noted how white nationalists co-opted American history X and all these other “strong” critiques but can’t handle “Springtime for Hitler” because of how ridiculous it makes them look

Considering who are in the graves surrounding Marilyn's grave, expecting anything close to respect or consent is too much.

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

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