Homosexual noncompliance

In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a "delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.

Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...

Might blame this one on the raw grief I'm in rn, tbh. Got that excuse in my pocket for the next few weeks.

YouTube video by Caroline Easom English Major Analyzes The Life of a Showgirl by Taylor Swift

I have never listened to a Taylor Swift album but apparently I am more than willing to watch to a 2+h lyric-by-lyric deconstruction of the latest album

m.youtube.com/watch?v=LhC1...

Because they're great.

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

#OtD 13 Oct 1947 the Soviet military govt in East Germany introduced measures to fight "slackers", including piecework pay and bigger wage differentials. But workers resisted: they shared food and goods, and did slowdowns and sabotage stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8524...

I hate all kings and queens, anyone who proclaims a divine right to rule.

It is an evil thing to claim and believe

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

Drop something devilish

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

“Everyday we wake up and collectively make a world together; but which one of us, left to our own devices, would ever decide they wanted to make a world like this one?” — David Graeber, “Bullshit Jobs: A Theory”

Yes.

This Halloween I’m going as the scariest thing of all, emotional intimacy!!! ha ha just kidding I’m prion disease

I’ve never wanted anything more than CONCLAVE: THE GAME

Sometime in the next few months I am going to have the most catastrophic (positive) shroom session

Completely agree with this - there is a lot of terrible policymaking where you can see the direct echo of “this guy played a lot of Civ as a child and teen”.

I really recommend browsing a reddit called "Is this AI?" for this purpose. people post questionable images and commenters weigh in on their validity, but are required to provide specifics as to their reasoning. once you start seeing the signs, it gets easier and easier over time

A print of Ursula's map of the Labyrinth of The Tombs of Atuan.

I went to see The Word For World Is Map and I would just like to observe that Ursula K. LeGuin was a gift to humanity in so many ways.

@aimod.social I can't reply directly to the original skeet Shaun is quoting but OP (Jenn Budd) might be a candidate for one of your AI imagery labels.

They're already on a similar list if that helps matters: bsky.app/profile/did:...

The cover of The Power Fantasy issue 12 featuring a young black boy in glasses playing with a toy tank and a toy robot

I don’t read many graphic novels - i have particular tastes that rarely run to marvel or DC. However, @kierongillen.bsky.social’s The Power Fantasy is just my jam and I’m betting it’s yours too. There’s a couple of trade collections out now so a good time to start.

go the fuck outside. find a goth club. go there on a kink / queer night. go even if you think “you won’t fit in” (cheat code: just wear black).

be friendly. give yourself time. repeat as necessary. you will make exceptional friends.

life is for the living. do it scared.

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stop thinking right now

Don't feel stupid, but also, if someone helpfully tells you "that's fake," the correct response is "oh shit, let me delete this" not doubling down and disabling comments.

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

Thiel summed up in four words:

he also said that 80% of antifa's members are landlords and if you lower the cost of housing, you basically starve the network of its financing

Write with left but honestly the world is made for right handers so I use scissors, knives, and mice with my right. Spoons and pipettes (I work in a lab) with my left.

I think all else being equal, I prefer left; but all else is rarely equal.

Just seen an event to celebrate what would have been Ursula LeGuin's 97th birthday - featuring communal pickle jars ❤

If my life was more normal rn I'd be tempted to go.

Cackling at Thiel deciding that Eliezer Yudkowsky might be the antichrist.