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I love the things I find randomly on Bluesky. This is an excellent article on the categorisation and taxonomy of dragons (and other fantastical beings) from @typebarmagazine.bsky.social

An interesting side note to this story: According to this, this incident went viral because the kid who got punched was wearing Meta smart glasses at school, for which he (1) also got suspended and (2) made himself rather awkwardly famous.

2026 has my atheist ass out here going "Man, the Pope is on fire lately"

“I got Claude to” BLOCK
“I asked ChaptGPT” BLOCK
“I used Gemini to” BLOCK

Horrifyingly familiar. It is clear to me now that being soulless & cruel is, for millions of people, their default factory setting. Only imposing strong laws, unbending norms, & personal consequences will hold their worse impulses in check.

And then we risk becoming monsters ourselves.

You probably guessed where this is going: the entire "anti-woke moral panic of the last five years is an absolutely *textbook* example of how horrors happen. It was never going to stop with bathrooms or sports or HR policies.

This thread is great, but this piece sticks out. When trying to prevent another “never again” moment, we have to push back early, on the small things, when it’s not yet cool, still cringe even. If we wait until the tanks are already rolling, the detention facilities full, then it’s too late.

Just to be clear (because I've had questions):

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At some point we have to face the sad truth that this array of Administration miscreants are living their HS fantasies. Under what other circumstances would a group of athletes welcome this guy into a locker room celebration?

Threads is great. There are all kinds of silly accounts on there that post fun things. They have the tariffed penguins, the bear in the woods, RFK, junior’s brain worm. It’s fun. Now there is an account called the constitution. The constitution called out Chuck Schumer.

Twitter is owned by a fascist who deliberately manipulates the algorithms to promote far right messages. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.

What sucks about our current era is upon witnessing this truly magnificent footage I first had to spend several minutes just trying to figure out if it’s a buncha slop AI bullshit.

me needing romantacy audiobooks to survive the horrors puts my grandma's soap operas in a whole new light lol

SINNERS is a genuinely special movie. I don't care what people's 2025 rankings were; that film is special.

And from before it opened, through Warner Bros vengeance to box office skewed reporting to slurs, the message sent to its makers is "you want to be a success? We'll make you suffer for it."

every time the X vs. Bluesky discourse comes up the conversation eventually gets here and i'm amazed that it finds a way to continue afterwards

Enter the year if the Fire Horse
A new painting I did to celebrate boldness and strength. I'm wishing you all a brilliant year!

"You have to change the way you write because it might look like AI wrote it!"
I'm not adjusting shit. I write how I write, get out of my fucking face with your LLM bullshit. Not my problem if you rot your brain with that garbage.

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My freelance site domain now points to Payhip (switched to make my life easier). Closed to new work but premade covers remain for sale and can be customized within a week for those on a budget who need a cover: indigochickdesigns.com

eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor is it known unto the human heart, the magnitude of hate Pope Leo has for JD Vance specifically

This is why I'm tired of the endless "but you have to understand where they're coming from" pieces. I do understand. I grew up with them, they're my neighbors, they got online to try to get me fired after a school board meeting. The only consistancy is power and the willingness to wield it.

Also do you know how much lawyers cost?? 🤣

I had publisher in breach for $6k owed and NO LAWYER EVEN WANTED TO TALK TO ME for amounts that small.

Reality is that unless you have money to sue them, publishers, like governments, can do whatever they want. I have a publisher in breach right now!

There are a lot of evil-stupid Americans and Trump owns them.

If America actually regenerates each of these stories will be millions in reparations.

For now, do not go to America

So much that’s good in this, but clipped out this in particular. Yes, yes, yes: it’s a losers’ ideology, demonstrably, historically so. It’s stupid and pointless and wearying, and, as he says, it ends up eating itself. It’s who it takes with it on the way down the shitter that’s the tragedy.

Just seen that “AI is punk” take and… gosh. Was not aware that “counter-culture” in 2026 meant participating in a trillion dollar industry pushed by the world’s most valuable companies and the world’s most powerful nation.

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The book scam emails are getting better. I know this is AI but it feels so exactly like a *real* absolutely massive knob-end emailing me nonsense, so close to a *human* pretentious bullshit extruder wasting my time. Marvellous how we've created Artificial Intolerability.

CBC article on this. It's appalling.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

fellow leftists: when someone says to a politician "why are you not keeping to your campaign promises?" it doesn't help to go "lol did you really expect them to?" bc often the answer is no. they didn't. they're just trying to invoke some public accountability. stop being jerks.

BTW the best parts of this are "inefficient" in an economic sense. Someone says "hey I want trans-themed whistles, can you do that" and someone else is like "I love that, I wanna do it!" or someone says "can I have some to pass out at my wedding" and we're like "sure, what are your colors?"

I keep thinking about this because I have an ultramarathoner husband, and the thing I think about is that people are dying at here-to-fore uncontemplated rates in the Italian alps in part because they are asking ChatGPT for advice.

(Source: www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...)

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...