One of my greatest career achievements was persuading a Director of Marketing that carousels are bad UX and don't work.

Only managed it once. And like all Directors of Marketing they left within a year.

But i still remember that day. I felt so alive.

Another evening spent yelling at people in period dramas to use their words and practice good communication skills.

Journals, and academia in general, need to start holding fraud through Ai the same as fraud through any other means. If your paper cites nonexistent references, makes false authorship claims, or fabricates data, that should be enough to get the humans involved barred + censured.

KC @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social organizers have been fighting this battle for more than a year now. A lot of people i am very proud to know built and painted benches for each bus stop, i even got to paint flowers on one!!

www.kctv5.com/2025/11/16/a...

Imagine making AI bird slop when the Magnificent Frigatebird exists.

Timberdoodles (Bogsuckers) Mentioned.

It’s not #EarthDay

It’s #PaleBlueDot day.

The Earth is our spaceship:

Its forests, its prairies and grasslands are our life support system.

The Forest Service is charged with sustaining the health, productivity, and diversity of a big part of that life support system 🌎

#SaveUSFS
#SaveTheEarth

Sydney business body calls for complete overhaul of homelessness response after ‘disturbingly lonely and tragic death’ Bikram Lama’s body lay undiscovered for up to a week in one of city’s busiest parks, prompting business lobby to call for greater welfare monitoring

A total societal attitude shift towards the homeless might help as well.

yeah this was honestly a huge thing for me and I'm super annoyed. if I wanted to be on IG I'd be on IG

I bet any morning stand up meetings the bluesky team has starts with a prayer about how they hope horrible things happen to their users. There's probably a group zoom call once a week where they just get off their chests how much they fucking hate all of us.

Wait, is this what the big tub of beef tallow thing was about earlier? From The Onion?

there was one, I can't remember which one, who basically said "I understand I will not have a seat at the table to make any policy demands of a Dem admin. all I ask is that you let me join so I can have my revenge" and I think those are people who would be useful to have in a pro-democracy coalition

I thought this was legit good stuff. No wishy washy "I'm still a conservative, I just blah blah". Flat out support.

Has anyone done like a big interview with him to find out what flipped, besides hating Trump?

Most of them aren't all-in like this though

bsky.app/profile/bill...

The existence of women's sports is a historical one that was reinforced at regular intervals by patriarchal assumptions that women are more fragile and need to be "protected"
It doesn't reflect any statistical truth
(1/2)

🎶 “ #LearningJapanese, I think I’m learning Japanese, I really think so…” 🎶

I don't know how to explain to people this that is completely unremarkable for evangelicals. If you think of them as just regular people who happen to have some bad ideas, please understand: they live completely in a different reality, a fantasy land with little in common with reality as you know it

Haven't talked gender with trans masc folk and not aware of knowing many, but had similar issues in grade school. Didn't like 'boy activities' - too rough and tumble - hung out with the girls. Got called a girl (but knew I wasn't) and gay (very much liked girls) and took a while to settle in to me.

a small black and white mouse is being held in a person 's hand . Alt: a small black and white mouse is being held in a person 's hand .

Daily Cute for @oakborn.bsky.social

it was so cool when they invented "co-morbidities" to basically blame people for dying from covid. RFKj's favorite kind of eugenics has been all the rage way before that though, pretty much every time they tried to repeal the ACA I learned how much we should all die to unburden everyone else

I want to see a show set in the Star Wars universe centered around a comic book store in which everyone who works there loves Star Trek.

Lessons in Magic and Disaster - YouTube A playlist for thé book by Charlie Jane Anders

Somehow I missed that someone had created a playlist of all the music that I recommend in the acknowledgements of Lessons in Magic and Disaster!

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This is a lot of what I listened to as I wrote the book, and it's a great accompaniment to reading it.... <3

I... kind of think doing hard time in the retail service industry should be a pre-req for any kind of public service position. I'm not even kidding.

Extremely Large Telescope - Wikipedia

Reminder that this is going to happen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme...

A circular enamel pin with a red border text reading LET'S EAT TRASH AND GET HIT BY A CAR, surrounding a spinning grey possum making rock hand signs.

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Let's Eat Trash And Get Hit By A Car pin. In this economy, it's as good a retirement plan as any.
collabs.shop/gttkno

republicans: LET THE VOTERS DECIDE wait not like that

Weird that they would fire the navy secretary who’s been overseeing a war we’ve won at least five times.

I'm very happy with these. The second I saw the kit in my neighbor's garage, I knew it had to be done. Now I just have to move them around to a couple different spaces to see where they feel like they want to be.

A screen shot of a skeet from Merriam-Webster that reads - ‘SWIMS’ upside down is still ‘SWIMS’. With a reply that reads - if you love geometric fonts where this would be true so much then why don't you use them in your body copy? no? not readable? go FUCK yourself; dictionary. they should call you hypocrictionary

I’m sorry, but bluesky is THRIVING…

a r2d2 robot from star wars is standing next to a statue of a man in a suit . ALT: a r2d2 robot from star wars is standing next to a statue of a man in a suit .

I’ve now started the STAR WARS prequel trilogy. It’s so far not as horrible as I recall. It’s also making me fall in love with R2. I love that he is the saviour in every film.