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In honour of Hayao Miyazaki I've implemented the biggest update to the GenAI mute/block list in a few months. Clear your feed.

Let me know of any missed accounts and any false positive I might have swept up. I'm not perfect and happy to review mistakes.

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Got to wonder how many of their "read" counts are AIs reading their AI-written books.

Of course! It's awesome!

hilarieburton The sweetest man. I played @valkilmerofficial 's girlfriend in a movie back in 2009. The script called for us to have a fairly rowdy love scene that got interrupted by a phone call. I'd just come off of OTH where I was always put in some kind of compromising position....so it was just work as usual. But then I got to set the day we were going to be shooting that scene and there was a scramble happening. "Val wants to change the scene." Huh? "It's not interesting," he said. A gratuitous sex scene with a younger woman didn't service the story or the character. It said nothing about the relationship and why either of our characters were in it. Instead, Val sent someone out to a local restaurant to pick up a huge tub of ribs. And so, as the camera panned up from the floor, our moans were those of two people, comfortable and indulgent, tangled up in bed and unfettered by the mess, elbows deep in North Carolina's finest bbq

It was infinitely more interesting and I felt so safe and cared for by that man. It would have been easy to phone it in and just go with the stereotypical way women have been seen in film. Rather than the scene playing on my naked back, he turned me toward the camera. He made the scene about us instead of using me as a prop. That one day at work rewired my brain. Val was kind to me. A thoughtful artist. I bought some of his paintings a few years back. I hope every young actor has a Val in their life. That movie was a magical experience. #bloodworth

This is such a lovely tribute to Val Kilmer from Hilarie Burton ❤️

The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language.

The results tell us a lot!

Extracts below... 🧵

Skittles sales will skyrocket

Fascism started to take hold in the 80s when republicans cast off the fairness doctrine…and aligned fully with Rupert Murdoch, NRA, and the Heritage Foundation.

Walz: "I think we have to assume the very worst in everything this administration does, and we need to prepare for it."

There is a LOT of reporting on IMLS right now, but it's being done by people who know what it is. The DOE being dismantled is overshadowing this and that's being done INTENTIONALLY.

But anyway, DOGE is in the IMLS offices right now destroying it.

Say goodbye to interlibrary loans + more.

You'd think the Pentagon would have a sense of self-preservation.

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts.

The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Not enough people know that Orwell was a dedicated anti-fascist socialist who would punch half the people who use the word “Orwellian” in the face if they gave him the chance.

Gary Trudeau is REALLY on a roll this year: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/03/16

Hey if you're a Californian Padilla's DC office is not set up to take voice mail but you can leave a (polite, and the more compelling the better) message for Senator Schiff at (202) 224-3841 asking him to vote no on clôture and the budget.

House Dems voting unanimously against the CR (except Golden who doesn’t count because he’s consistently dumpster juice) only to be betrayed by the Democratic leader of the branch that actually HAS LEVERAGE TO STOP IT is going to have some serious ripple effects. House of Lords is in danger.

People Get Ready Even though large tracts of America and many old and famous red States have fallen or may fall into the grip of DOGE-MAGA and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall...

We live in what has been an exceptionally stable country, but it's just been destabilized. In that instability is possibility--not to return to the world of January 19th, 2025, but to something other than this rampage of hate and destruction, this oligarchs against everything coup. If we seize it.

A Right-Wing International? Social conservatives have been focusing on the family for a long time, and Russians have frequently been at the forefront of the fight for “traditional” values. In more recent times, Russian conservat...

Yeah, I published a thoroughly researched policy article about Russia and the Western Right (esp. the American Christian Right) in 2016

politicalresearch.org/2016/02/16/r...

I feel like part of the problem is not criticising the fact that ai agents do not exist in this form and do not do this and that perhaps the tech industry needs to stop talking about things that don't exist like they do

BREAKING: Entire Human Race Flagged By DEI Purge Because of “Homo” in “Homo Sapiens”

I am FURIOUS with my governor.

The biggest heist in the history of the world is happening before our eyes.

Everything they are doing is to enrich themselves at the expense of the American people.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Huzzah! Environmentally-friendly confetti 🎊!

Counteroffer: we nationalize SpaceX and you go to prison

Please do.

Good of them to gather together to give us a simple list for the primary challenges.

Representative Crockett, succinct and awesome, as usual.

This is one of the FIRST (Rose and Thorn) and BEST artists I have worked with. No one draws pretty better, but she can do brutal, funny, sexy, dramatic, anything.

I love @adrianamelo.bsky.social and if you have seen her art, you should too. This is her first kickstarter!

If you are represented by a Republican Senator or Congressman and are absolutely disgusted, repulsed and outraged by how Donald Trump and JD Vance just treated Zelensky at the White House, call them and let them know.

🚨(202) 224-3121🚨