Man, I love that you can still read (and respond to) 20-year-old posts in hobbyist forums that are active to this day. Compare that to the “knowledge bases” that tech companies cultivate to replace actual tech support, but then break every time they migrate to a new server architecture.

Important PSA re: the way content about trans people is often incorrectly flagged as sexual or pornographic, worth considering as you choose your settings.

bsky.app/profile/vill...

Remember that people do abuse these tags to keep you from seeing content they don't like. You may think you don't want to see threats but conservatives flag anything hostile toward their Great Leader as threats, for example. Keep that in mind as you pick your filters.

Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

"My T-shirt with the entire text Of Borges' theoretical Library of Babel is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt, somewhere." - a tumblr post by sufficientlylargen

BREAKING: Lucy vows to hold football steady for Charlie Brown

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

I wonder how much of the financial underpinnings of the AI boom are entirely based on the fact Microsoft and Google did stuff like this with their legacy products to aggressive juice the number of users of their AI products

*hugs* hope you feel better soon.

increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

The biggest reason for longer waits is staffing shortages, which are driven by more people leaving healthcare practice than entering, esp nursing, due to bad management practices (often related to private equity).

This administration’s immigration policies will significantly worsen these shortages.

A recent photo portrait of Jane Goodall

Young Jane with a chimpanzee

Goodbye, DR JANE GOODALL, you made this planet we live on better and we will never thank you enough for it. Rest easy. 💚💚💚💚💚🖤

New feature will kick you in the crotch, hard. If you want a softer kick, you'll have to pay a subscription.

I'm a big fan of the regime's "neither bread nor circuses, just die" strategy for controlling the masses

STOP. MAKING. NECROMANCY. BORING. AND. RUDE.

STOP IT.

PUT DOWN THE CORPSES.

ten black cats of varying coats and sizes: bam, bagheera, big fat bernie gaykle, audrey,celebrity birthdays, enoby dark’ness, beaker, little big fat, good stuff leo and jiji

Voids we have known

i think it’s wild how many people are fine with leaving their children a totally uninhabitable world that’s inevitably pitched in constant bloody conflict over who gets the last resources so they can have copilot email tone rewriting and slop memes of trump as a taco with a drooping fold.

This shouldn't be an earth-shattering revelation, but our media is right wing and is tickled pink to advance narratives reflecting their ideology. The general reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk is just the latest data point supporting this observation.

NO ONE:

ABSOLUTELY NO ONE:

NOT ONE PERSON:

THE CITY OF CHICAGO: cheese popcorn and caramel popcorn should be in the same bowl

Nice of the Disney folks to expedite that Hall of Presidents loaner.

So like just after we published this, the 4th Circuit held a hearing where a bunch of judges (including famously conservative ones) are just going out and out with "wtf is wrong with the supreme court, why are they doing this nonsense to us?")

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

If only the useless Merrick Garland hadn’t been AG for four years, we could have tried to do something similar here. Instead we’re stuck with Trump and MAGA and this assault on democracy and free speech and free elections.

Grocery prices rise at the fastest pace since 2022 as Trump tariffs bite On the campaign trail, Trump promised lower grocery prices.

This is the biggest story in America right now.

Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year

Steaks up 16.6%

Apples up 9.6%

Bananas, 6.6%.

www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

To the "political violence is always wrong" crowd:

Some of y'all need to expand your concept of "political violence" to include "pushing or enacting policies that it is known will result in deaths."

And until you do, I won't be sharing my thoughts or otherwise conversing with you.

Quote from man stabbed. What are you gonna do stab me?

Live by the sword, die by the sword and all that.

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

I miss when AI meant adobe illustrator

Btw I also hate adobe illustrator