Kit Stubbs, Ph.D. (they/them)

Hey San Francisco pals! My book tour starts tomorrow afternoon with a launch right here in the city! Details for that, plus all the other cities right here www.automaticnoodle.website/blog/2025-bo...

slurpee machine with one crashed screen

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

“Are you any good at troubleshooting CSS?” with misaligned answer options

postit found at our team offsite

A lot of 12 year olds are going to learn the phrase "op sec" in the next few years.

"Are those burner shoes?"
"I didn't think --"
"You're not SUPPOSED to fucking THINK, Skylar, you're supposed to follow FUCKING PROTOCOL."

I have taken
the pamphlets
that were in
the plum box

and which
you were probably
saving
to give with plums

Forgive me
they were fascinating
so radicalizing
and I'm allergic to plums

Piss off the worst people AND get a great read for 25% off: UK friends, how can you say no?

Maybe 10 years ago: Technology is great and makes my life easier in many ways
Now (holding a big caveman club): We must destroy machine

"I can take your card when you're ready", the server says.

She takes the card I hand her absentmindedly, only to hesitate and do a double take. "Is this a—"

"an Uno Reverse card, yes," I reply already on the move to the kitchen as I pull an apron and foil covered casserole dish from a duffel.

I wish the US would just adopt Japan's system of letting people pay by QR code + anonymous cash at any random convenience store / post office. Cut out the credit reporting & payment processing companies altogether; there isn't really any need for a third-party to know that you're buying porn.

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about:

Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

Gowron from Stark Trek, but he's Mr. Rogers, and he says "Glory to you... and your neighborhood."

Love it! So cute! ^^

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

Reading every day about "AI" everything is exhausting, on top of all the other dire, more important news wearing us down daily. People say "AI is here, we have to deal with it." Or we could just not use it except where it can actually contribute in a meaningful way to people's lives and livelihoods.

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.

Whenever these LLM guys say they think AGI/artificial superintelligence is in the works it's like hearing someone say that their next toaster is going to break the land speed record

I have never seen anyone explain human behaviour using “evolutionary psychology” that wasn’t also trying to justify the worst, most violent, most oppressive elements of human society as if they were naturally occurring. Every single time. Skull measurers, the whole lot of them.

You MUST listen to RFC 2119 It turns out you can just pay people to do things.

i guarantee this is the best voice-acting of a fundamental internet RFC that you'll ever hear

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I obviously wish the breaking point would be something like destroying USAID and causing mass starvation and death from disease, or building concentration camps, and it does not speak well of us that it isn’t those things. But also whatever it fucking takes

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

"kids are too young to make that kind of decision" an endogenous puberty is now also a decision, with grave consequences. that you don't see that and take it seriously is literally just transphobia

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

No offence, but if you think the people most qualified to craft a strategy to defeat fascists are the liberal centrists who allowed them to grab power, and not like…committed antifascists who’ve been raising the alarm for decades, you might need to do some serious self evaluation.

Not allowing minors to talk about sexual assault and periods?

That's the polar opposite of keeping kids safe. Once again, nobody listened to the actual experts, and a bill aimed at protecting children ended up harming them.

Infernal Relations: Heaven and Hell Hardbacks Forbidden office romance between a shy Demon just trying to be bad at his job, and an Angel who knows a good thing when he sees it.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/kha...

👁️👁️👁️👁️ Be not afraid! 👁️👁️👁️👁️

The Infernal Relations Kickstarter is now live until Aug 21st

A Trans-m/m angel/demon forbidden office romance in hellish hardback, plus a special 18+ heavenly edition with 70 extra spicy comic pages 😈

People always act like they’d know Clark Kent was Superman but Tony Hawk is out here flying under the radar every day

vaguely homoerotic Grape-Nuts ad from the early 20th century, showing a cereal box with muscular arms and legs and gladiator sandals holding the shoulders of a young man in business attire. The copy reads "steadies a man"

I love old cereal ads

A Norwegian friend told me some months ago something to the effect of, look, American friend, you have never had to walk this dark path before. We have walked a very dark path ourselves. We understand. It will be very hard for you, but it is survivable. We are here when you are ready to rebuild.

The Codenames: Back to Hogwarts announcement, which has very few likes and lots of replies and quote tweets

Since Codenames (/publisher Czech Games Edition) has decided to side with money and against human rights, im going to make a thread of five board games you could play instead of Codenames

I've been thinking about this thread and I want people to know that if you feel safe to, it IS good to argue back.

The girl she spoke to thought she had the gotchas, the logic. Was taught these arguments. She clearly never heard a real counter.

I've read blogs by walkaways where hearing real...