The US. (I had to scroll through the website a bit to figure that out.)

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

"Hey, if you don't mind me asking... what are you doing here? Don't you know that you could be sitting on your couch with all the lights off, lying face down on your bed with a pillow over your head and trying to hold the cruel world outside at bay?"

Really, Gray Matter makes it all so relatable.

I was SO CONFUSED by this and then realized the movie being discussed was an MCU Doomsday, not the 2008 "what if apocalypse but medieval and also Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" Doomsday.

That is *so cool*! 💜(⛓️🪚)

First I hit up the Mysterious Galaxy booth to get a ticket to see @stephengrahamjones.com, and got The Buffalo Hunter Hunter signed for my husband (today's his birthday and he loved the gift!!) and The Angel of Indian Lake signed! The stamps!!

Folks you should really read Tom Cox's work if you haven't yet!

It’s perfectly safe I assure you

Also pitching the new graphite mineral exhibit, should look great side by side. And allows for natural story telling

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A *lot* of the posts in the AI Regulation trending topic feed, are literally there just because they use the word Canada.

It's picking them up just because the words "AI regulation" and "Canada" are right now statistically likely to be near each other given today's news.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.

Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Donate to Support Jodi's Fight Against Pulmonary Fibrosis, organized by Clint Black We're Jodi and Clint Black, and we need help fighting Jodi's Idiopathic Pu… Clint Black needs your support for Support Jodi's Fight Against Pulmonary Fibrosis

Gamers! My friend Jodi Black of Pinnacle Entertainment Group and Legacy Game Tables is in a hospital ICU, on the list for a lung transplant, and she could use your help.

gofund.me/85df234bb

It isn’t just being nice and giving things away to the “undeserving”*.

It works BETTER and is CHEAPER!

*someone you know works paycheck to paycheck and is vulnerable to homelessness right now.

"You do not dislike being in love with a puddle?"
"I've been a puddle on the floor too many times myself."

@wiswell.bsky.social , somehow making me want to stop and copy out phrases as well as never stop reading.

(Note to self: should revisit "That Story Isn't the Story")

A highly detailed photo of a field mouse snuggled up asleep inside a purple and yellow flower.

I just found out that tiny little field mice climb into flowers like tulips and take little naps in them like hammocks and I feel like this information is too important for me not to share with anyone. 🥹

"It corrupts the youth--"

My Brother in Christ, the youth are watching the entire government shuffle their feet while a babbling racist bombs Iranian children. You want to stop bad influences? Ban war. Don't let sex criminals be president. Fund school lunches.

Thread, up and down. 😂

I do not quite understand this.

I recognize enough of what is being said that I know what the reaction of people who *do* understand this is likely to be.

The difference between me and "AI" is that *I am still making it clear I do not understand it.*

"Sun in my eyes, time to get out of the chair and head to wor--"

😻: HUMAN in SUN about to MOVE

>lands on my torso like an urgently purring sandbag, headbutts enthusiastically<

"Why is the only time you come into my office?"

😻: HUMAN YOU ARE SOFT I LIKE HUMAN

It's a miracle I get anything done.

Beyond Agency A desire for sovereignty, not agency, underpins the appeal of games and immersive experiences.

An amazing piece about why people are drawn to games and what we can do to better each other and ourselves while playing.

mssv.net/2025/05/30/b...

I have begun reading @wiswell.bsky.social 's SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN.

Shesheshen is *adorable*. No notes. 💜

‘The Terror: Devil In Silver’ Sets Premiere Date At AMC+ & Shudder AMC+ and Shudder have set Thursday, May 7 for the premiere of The Terror: Devil in Silver, the third installment in the popular anthology series.

WE MADE A TELEVISION SHOW.

@victorlavalle.bsky.social & I adapted his incredible book The Devil in Silver into a new season of THE TERROR alongside Karyn Kusama & Ridley Scott.

Dan Stevens will blow you away this. So will Judith Light. CCH Pounder. Stephen Root. The cast is stacked.

May 7th. 😈 🚪🔒

A hare linoprint by my mum, Jo

THREAD. Just for today I will be sending out a free original linocut by my my mum, Jo, to anyone in the UK who takes out an annual subscription to my website (minimum cost £20). I have a few of her popular meadow hare in various colours plus a few other prints...

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“Within a week, more than 75 different employees had spoken out.

'I don’t want to be one of the people in the village who said they didn’t know. This has turned me into one of those people. I am now actively profiting off making people disappear'.”

it's a horror game about having to follow voices through the Paris catacombs. they're all ghosts but only some of them want to help you get out

Re-upping this since we're getting close to the deadline.

People are characterizing this as a situation in which Wachspress describes the inappropriate relationship as beginning after Daniel Biss was no longer her teacher.

No. That's not what she's describing.

"It's a big, beautiful landscape... It's the best landscape... You know the press, they hate it, they keep saying it'll all fall apart... It's a great landscape."

An animated picture of Audrey II, a giant plant that reaches up the ceiling of the room it's in. The central stalk is surrounded by leafy vines and buds, and topped with an eyeless head that has a huge, toothy mouth.

Mr. Mushnik: "What did it eat *this* time?"
Seymour Krelborn: "...a... ...about a million Japanese beetles?"

Work is expanding my idiolect.

Wait, why only *outside* of the body?

So if I'm AB+ and I get a transfusion from an A- person I'm okay, but if the A- person sneezes a nosebleed at me there's serious danger?