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.
That is so heartbreaking. When I taught 8 years ago, it was great for my students.
So much amazing detail!
I don't want to shoot videos
I don't want to post tutorials
I don't want to show my process
I don't want to pour varnish
I don't want to turn my canvas
I don't want to record my screen
I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships
I just want to make pictures and shitpost
🚪🔔🐟 Here’s your reminder, the Netherlands’ fish doorbell is live!
One of my favorite citizen science projects 🧪🌊
Taking off your clothes so your debate opponent's eyes pop out and they howl like a cartoon wolf is known as an ad homina homina hominem
Sllllaaaaadddddeeee
Poor Richard Hanania doesn’t seem to grasp that if you suck to begin with, the question is moot
If you don't live in a "swing state," your vote counts less. But we can reform the Electoral College and fix that.
Since we made this video, Maine and now Virginia have joined the National Popular Vote compact.
Here's what you need to know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXPwJqSdLfE
image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.
I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".
So to recap, Trump:
- Started a war for no reason on the belief that Iran would surrender immediately
- Killed thousands including over 100 elementary schoolgirls
- Threatened genocide up to and including nuclear war
- Then backed down in exchange for a worse position than the US had before
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There’s a reason why we treat threats of violence as antisocial behavior, even if they’re not carried out. If someone threatens to kill me, that can do harm even if they never pull a weapon.
And the same goes for the man who threatened genocide this morning. Impeach and remove him now.
My latest mini ttrpg (a hack of the Lasers & Feelings format) is about having magical academic adventures in the woods. Enjoy!
feathers-flowers.itch.io/leaves-n-les...
Hard to not go fucking insane in a world where they behave like fiction can hurt you while literally bombing schools. Hope all of these fascist fucks take a very long walk off of a very short pier.
This is well put. So *many* technologies are joyous and progressive. The web was invented in a PUBLICLY FUNDED UNIVERSITY! It is, in fact, an aberration that the fascist VCs think they're the default with their approach to tech. They were only ever supposed to be a tiny fraction of the ecosystem.
I completed this silly game for a 72-hour game jam. It was based on the theme "You are not supposed to be here."
feathers-flowers.itch.io/raccoons-lov...
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Hey y'all, I've started dabbling in writing some minimalist ttrpgs. Here's the first one I'm putting up online. Enjoy and don't let the Art Gremlin steal all your markers!
feathers-flowers.itch.io/the-good-mar...
They're up to at least three books of material at this point, so there are many species to choose from! I have the first two but haven't gotten to read or play yet.
Lines of academy cadets, one in command red seated but at attention while in a wheelchair.
I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them."
That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.
You should check out Humblewood! It's a set of supplements for D&D 5e that features anthro characters.
Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!
Thank you for all your work in scientific fields, and for being very relatable to those of us with mental health struggles and/or chronic illnesses.
Here’s a children’s book called “Tiny Dino”, in which a hummingbird attempts to convince its animal friends that it is indeed a dinosaur. It makes for a decent introduction to the concept of comparative anatomy!
dinodadreviews.com/2026/02/09/t...
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“Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe. And their guides, the writers of fantasy, should take their responsibilities seriously."
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie, Ursula K Le Guin
Since the "well Alaska voted for Trump so they deserve it" crowd is out in force today:
Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses? Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.
The mystery of medical diagnosis!
homer retreating into a bush captioned I saw nothing
every time a community tests ubi or free housing for the homeless the result is always "holy fuck this works incredibly well and costs less than existing solutions!" and then every politician alive does this
