Grace Moore-bid

Shards of Reflection A newly made vampire searches for the vampire who made her while unable to trust her new senses and memories.

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Surely all the people who are extremely upset about a Black mermaid or Black gay Doctor Who or Black woman holographic matrix or gay Klingon or Black Helen are EQUALLY upset about a white Heathcliff, right? Because realism is so very important to them, right? Right?

Gentle reminder that sometimes I don't comment on The Hot Topics Of The Day because I'm not equipped to do so in a nuanced or thoughtful way. Knowing your limitations doesn't mean not caring or not paying attention. It means not taking up space that needs to be occupied by more informed voices.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

Shards of Reflection A newly made vampire searches for the vampire who made her while unable to trust her new senses and memories.

Gather close, o seekers of stories and followers of werewolf tales, for the glorious @kelmcdonald.bsky.social has brought before us yet another stirring urban fantasy adventure! Kickstarting now!

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The local power company has started up a thing where they challenge people on forecasted cold days to "use less" and then ranks people in the area after on how bad they did. Late stage capitalism is baffling

Your regular reminder that Palantir started out as a way to expose sex workers to police violence, then expanded to allow cops to spy on anyone they pointed at while barfing out the word "gang".

Fascists *created* Palantir, but useful idiots approved of everything done to grow it.

it is very easy to say "fandom is bad" and a lot harder to say "fandom is shaped by the platforms it inhabits, which often incentivize violent reactionary behavior and a cannibalistic bad-faith rat race among a small group of arbitrary figureheads desperate to seem more important than they are"

So wait, how many humans could we be feeding instead of powering ai? Let’s do that instead.

The Sunday Guardian headline: Big Tech Loses $1.3 Trillion in 2026 as AI Spending Fears Trigger Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia Stock Plunge—What’s Happening? Follow-up says: Big Tech loses $1.3 trillion in 2026 as AI spending fears hit Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Apple and Alphabet. Investors demand profit visibility. TSMC, Samsung, Walmart gain. The article is written by Prakriti Parul and was last updated yesterday morning.

genAI is dying repost to make it die faster

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

🎶 it’s been a long road / getting from there to here 🎶

I think about how when they sang La Marseillaise they were still in the midst of a war they did not know they were going to win.

Shifts survived!

At the very least not berating service workers because they didn't bother to plan ahead

Just a reminder, people in the food service industry are going through it today

Astrotrain saying "I choo-choo choose you"

It's that time again!
Art by me.

Me, waiting for all that half-priced chocolate on February 15th.

This has been stuck in my head for over a week now

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

We could literally have, like, healthcare instead of this. And roads and education and strong infrastructure. And commerce, actual jobs doing stuff and making things because people would be able to afford to buy them. And maybe putting cute little hearts on lattes for happy tourists who feel safe.

The guy is a letterboxd legend

swan boy is one of the GOAT webcomics but branson’s reviews of all the star trek movies are some of his finest work. describing bones as “dressed like the inventor of cocaine” in the first TOS movie lives rent free in my head

“NEAR THIS SPOT CAPT. JAMES COOK MET HIS DEATH FEBRUARY 14, 1779” — A brick laid in the waters of Kealakekua Bay, Kona district, Hawaiʻi

Happy Death of James Cook day to those who celebrate. On 14 February 1779 British explorer Captain James Cook was killed as he attempted to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the ruling chief (aliʻi nui) of the island of Hawaii, and hold him hostage for the return of a cutter which Hawaiians had stolen.

Study: Shooting People With Arrows Does Not Make Them Fall in Love With You A groundbreaking study released just in time for Valentine’s Day showed that shooting people with arrows does not make them fall in love.

Study: Shooting People With Arrows Does Not Make Them Fall in Love With You
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You ever think about the fact that there had to have been a first time in the production of a James Bond movie when someone said "I dunno about this. It comes off a little...goofy"

Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸 @Tamer_Alnoaizy The Bluesky platform has truly become a strange and deeply frustrating experience for me. At 3 a.m., I received an email on my official address from them explaining that what happened was merely a technical error, and that my account had been closed due to a platform glitch after the tweet spread very widely and created significant pressure on their system. I was genuinely happy when I read the message. I thought the issue had finally been resolved and that I would regain access to my account normally. But the moment I logged in, I was shocked to find that my account had been suspended again. It was extremely painful… like a door that opened for a brief moment only to be shut harshly once more. Honestly, I no longer feel any desire to use this platform. It feels like there is no real freedom of expression, and that our voices are only allowed to exist as long as they don’t disturb anyone. [the poster uploaded two screenshots, one of an email telling him that bluesky reviewed their decision and restored his account. the second screenshot shows his account has been suspended again] 11:42 AM · Feb 12, 2026 https://twitter.com/Tamer_Alnoaizy/status/2021912820057509913

somehow there's an update... and it's not a great look. it shouldn't be the case that the admin react when there's an outcry then just don't change whatever system they've got in place anyway.

Hell yeah buddy!!!!

"Hey watch, wanna give me a reason??"

Right?!?