Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

yeah, i remember connor and phil saying "watch the footwork" if you wanted to get started on fight analysis, and i was like, how?!

This image is completely joke-proof. There is nothing that can possibly be added to what the image already provides

Friend of mine got publicly harassed on a panel by a comics writer everyone knew was a creeper—to the extent that older female editors would carefully make sure no young women sat next to him in meetings.

When she wrote about her experience, even without naming the guy, she got death threats

A female kakapo on a nest facing the camera, with a young chick in front of her. Credit: Andrew Digby

This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record:
- 256 eggs (252 in 2019)
- 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019)
- 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019).
It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

"The thing that makes me female is the same thing that makes [J.K. Rowling] female: a sense of self, deeply rooted in neurology and experience. Being female is not an idea for me; it is a fact."

lithub.com/what-freudia...

on a scale of 1 to 100, my support for democracy and protecting everyone's right to vote is 99. but i admit it used to be 100 before reading some of your tweets

Things I have seen in the rubble of Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon in the past week. More here: www.instagram.com/p/DW9f6buDhW...

A woman wearing a brightly coloured top has her arms folded next to a quote that reads: “Targeting trans people whilst pretending to care about women's safety is classic patriarchy. It distracts from the 99% of sexual crime and 90% of violent crime committed by cis men and sets back equality for women by policing our bodies'”

We’re proud to include voices like @natashadevon.bsky.social MBE - journalist, campaigner, and long-time advocate for women and young people - in our growing movement of women speaking out in support of the trans+ community

ah, like amy winehouse. that one still hurts, too. also freddie mercury and river phoenix. (guess those two age me LOL)
imahara was brutal 😭

the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is me. im like really good at begging for my life

i don't know who the first two are but grant imahara will always hurt. not sure what that makes me 😜

CARL'S FIGHT BREAKDOWNS, EPISODE 179: THRONE OF ASH UFC 327: Prochazka vs Ulberg

"We spend so much time here discussing how the sport is depressing because of politics and matchmaking and corruption and malfeasance and it’s so terribly refreshing to be reminded that sometimes the sport can just be depressing on its own terms."

always a brilliant read 🔥

“But there has to be a path to redemption for people like Louis CK..”

Let me stop you right there: no there doesn’t. You made that up.

Imagine being such a loser you decide the eradication of trans people is your crusade. You could have chosen anything, and you chose picking on one of the most vulnerable and least protected minorities.

I say this as a pro wrestler - you know terfism is all fake, right? You’re not really fighting.

Invisigoth on the X-Files, badass hacker with eye shadow and everything, computers in the background

The world got worse when hackers on TV started wearing hoodies instead of eye shadow

Back to Beirut #lebanon

Comic. [Sign above four people. A person sits at a desk working on a laptop. A person with ponytail is talking to person with white hat. A person with short hair walks away.] SIGN: It has been [-0.00000000000000044] days since our last floating point error

Day Counter

xkcd.com/3228/

‘Deeply distressing for all of us’: families react to Girlguiding’s trans exclusion From September, trans girls, and young trans women who volunteer, will have to hand in their UK memberships

“This didn’t start in Girlguiding headquarters and it won’t finish in Girlguiding headquarters so we do want to make it clear to the government that they absolutely need to step in…

“…organisations that want to be inclusive are being attacked with legal threat after legal threat”

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

‘What will we do?’: Inside Lebanon’s displacement crisis as war shatters health care and daily life Aid agencies attempting to provide care against backdrop of death and hopelessness

Pregnant women without access to proper care , even sufficient water, cancer patients unable to access treatment...all trying to escape the Israeli onslaught.. @sallyhayd.bsky.social

Inside Lebanon’s displacement crisis as war shatters health care and daily life

www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

100% this

episode 038

The thing generative AI actually made accessible to everyone is the billionaire mental illness that manifests because everyone around you depends on your money and tells you whatever it takes to make you happy.

4-panel comic. (1) [Two people standing next to house with solar panels on roof. Person 2 has a black hat.] PERSON 1: Wait, you got solar panels? I thought you were against renewables. (2) PERSON 2: Oh, definitely. I hate the environment and want to harm it as much as possible. I’d *love* to have an oil furnace. (3) PERSON 2: But the technology just isn’t there and the cost is too high. I despise solar, but it makes more financial sense in my situation. (4) PERSON 2: But with the money I’m saving, I can buy and burn industrial waste in my yard to try to make up for it. PERSON 1: Ah, yeah, carbon onsets.

Home Solar

xkcd.com/3226/

There’s a good chance that someone will feed my publicly available work into an LLM and use it to generate podcasts. They won’t be my work, no matter what they’re trained on, because my work evolves and shifts, as it should when you’re an active thinker in the world

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT

there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Comic. [Person with a white hat and person with a ponytail face a third person with a poster behind them. The poster shows Earth and space beyond, and in space there is a rectangular banner with different space features on it.] PERSON WITH PONYTAIL: Aren’t you worried these will be disruptive for ground-based astronomy? PERSON 3: No, why? [caption] My new company is being criticized for our satellites that deploy 100-mile-wide banners painted with inaccurate pictures of the night sky.

Satellite Pollution

xkcd.com/3225/

taking this opportunity to once again say Bob Dylan was one of the three most miserable concert experiences of my entire life.

“I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that,” Weir said. “I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that.” “For instance, as a lifelong Star Trek fan, it’s always bothered me that there is a presumed ‘responsibility’ within Star Trek shows to talk about social issues,” the writer added. “I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other.”

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb

gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...