For the love of Jesus

I want to say these are sorely missing where I live. Especially at bus stops. Hardly any spots to put garbage, hardly any public washrooms, or benches anywhere but in designated parks. It's like city councils don't want people to be outdoors anywhere anymore.

This is so Wes Anderson, I can almost hear the affectless Jason Schwartzmann voiceover saying "My mother used to design undercover disguises for the Stasi"

What Will It Take to Get A.I. Out of Schools? “I find myself speaking with my kids about A.I. in the same terms that we might discuss a creepy neighbor who lives down the block,” Jessica Winter writes. Read her report on the push for A.I. in educ...

An outstanding, comprehensive rebuke of AI mania in K-12 by @winterjessica.bsky.social that rounds out by highlighting the growing coalition of parents, educators, and other concerned humans that is working fast and hard to tamp it down.

We would need to stage a prolonged general strike, nation wide, if this happened. Like, we'd have to bring our own economy to its knees

If we can do the Reformation again, surely doing Reconstruction again isn’t too big of an ask.

Incredibly weak shit not to at least do a 95 post thread of grievances

When the Pope has lost *checks notes* Protestants, you know he's gone too far.

I wonder what the ‘protest’ in Protestant is in reference to

Starting to get genuinely upset that I put “actual apocalypse” in my 2026 bingo but not “the Reformation for idea guys”

Is there any skeeters in Wittenberg who could post a picture of this tweet taped to this church's door so we can find a skeeter in Paris to put the picture in the Louvre? Asking for a historian friend.

In other news, Americans are increasingly fed up with the British Empire.

Oop!

Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman.

Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.

Republicans really REALLY want to lose the midterms, don't they?

Very proud of our leaders in Connecticut who made this happen

👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

A.I. ‘Hallucinations’ Created Errors in Court Filing, Top Law Firm Says

There's a lot of talk about how people will need to retrain to be able to use AI, but my sense is in many fields, there will be a premium on being able to demonstrate true mastery (or even competence), and that will largely be done through oral communication.

I recently had that one time I called out a local theater for using AI slop in a poster brought up in a context of “haha oh Ian you sure got a lot of people pissed at ya for coming after a local theater like that” but you know what I HAVEN’T seen in any theater promos since?

It really works! A year ago, I still had lots of FB friends posting AI "art". I was nicely talking to them about it at first, but nothing changed until I got mean about it. Zero AI in my feed now, and half those people have joined in being staunchly anti-AI. We gotta be mean!

It is always worth remembering--and some of you may not know--that what Bluesky is and what they wanted to be are VERY different things.

The devs created it as a tech bro, libertarian paradise. Then we broke in, yanked the steering wheel, and went offroad.

A war fought with skeets and Alf hog.

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

1) this is circular reasoning/tautology (people who die from disease are necessarily sick)
2) the entire point of 'health and human services' is providing care for sick people. quit your job if you don't want to do it

“Cancer is not a disease that kills people without cancer, it kills people with cancer.”

Am I doing this right?

1) Literally one of the first deaths I remember was a goddamn Broadway star with a fitness trainer wife.

2) This is once again literal Nazi shit as RFK essentially says it's actually good for a society to kill anyone whose health does not meet certain standards, and you know he means mentally too.

RFK, Jr: “This was merely a culling”

The absolute core of the entire anti-vax movement is just eugenics

this is a total tangent but rewatched Ferris Bueller the other day and was thinking about how it's a heist movie, they're stealing time and actually adulthood/respect/responsibility from a school/system that wastes their time and infantilizes them

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

Up to 56,000 people died from COVID-19 or RSV last year RSV was associated with 190,000 to 350,000 hospitalizations from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, as well as 10,000 to 23,000 deaths, according to new CDC data.

RFK Jr: I terminated the COVID vaccines because it didn’t make any sense. COVID is gone.

Note: From July 2024 to June 2025 in the US, COVID19 caused up to 450,000 hospitalizations and 53,000 deaths.

COVID ain’t gone, shitbird.