D&D Creators had me turn WILD Monsters into POKEMON! YouTube video by PragMagik

I dod a video with my friend Brandonnnn

youtu.be/TPAp-9BQz_k

I will not support a @stonewalluk.bsky.social that celebrates JK Rowling and is praised by Maya Forrester and Kathleen Stock.

While I was visiting Nathaniel Hawthorne's grave in NE I spotted this other one off on the side that said "I told you you'd be back to see me" and nobody's ever topping that one if they bury ppl there for another 300 years

Glad for all the romantasy readers who're living in their golden age but when will fiction drenched in unsentimental cynicism starring women who give no fucks be on trend again (asking for myself and my career)

The Queersar Not An Award 2021 For excellence in queer SFF and SFF with queers released in 2021

I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists.

Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s.

2021 is here, and... 1/2

Big fluffy black and tan husky mix with bright blue eyes, standing and smiling on a sidewalk with mushy pink and white magnolia blossoms.

goooood morning it is chilly but partly sunny and warming up fast, so we took a nice long lap around the neighborhood, met some new folks, and shared snacks with the crows, so yes: Lucy Loved That Walk

Behavioral Lab Manager in Los Angeles, California | The Regents of the University of California on behalf of their Los Angeles Campus UCLA is hiring a Behavioral Lab Manager in Los Angeles, California. Review all of the job details and apply today!

The Behavioral Lab at the UCLA Anderson School of Management is looking to hire its next Lab Manager! Applications will be reviewed starting April 30th.

jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/10354?l...

These statements don’t always align with an organization’s actual willingness to remove a perpetrator from a position of power.

But after a public debate about whether sexual harassment is “bad enough” for someone to leave Congress, let this be a reminder that the policy is clear: yes, it is.

Do I know any excellent bartenders, mixologists and cocktail makers in the NYC/NJ/CT area who are interested in competing on a tv show to win money? If so say hey! My friend is casting it and I can get you details.

“but we can’t just run on being anti-Trump”

actually you can and you should

nostalgia is remembering when you didn’t have to pay bills and attributing that feeling to mario

Happy National Library Week! This week you should:
1) Donate $ to your local Friends of the Library

2) Write to your public library director to thank them for standing up for diversity or to condemn them for caving to fascists

3) Plan a similar public comment for the next library board mtg

The thing about these religious exemptions to public accommodation civil rights law that the court is creating is that they have no limiting principle. If commercial enterprises can refuse to serve me because my marriage is gay, why not because it’s interracial? Why not because I’m a woman in pants?

someone buy this so i can live vicariously through you

Black and white photo of a shorthaired tabby kitten appearing to burst through a sheet of white paper in a dark frame. Text at the bottom reads “sauve qui peut”.

“Sauve qui peut”. This is a French phrase that translates literally to something like "save yourself who's able/can" and roughly equates to “run for your life!” or “every man for himself!”, indicating a chaotic or dangerous situation/stampede. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.

DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.

My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.

DOJ is now 0-5.

My firm is 5-0.

Lesson: When we fight we win.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

A blue bird stands on a bare branch with tail fanned out to the side and head twisted around at an awkward angle to poke underneath it.

Blue Jay assembled incorrectly?

Nah, just preening that pretty plumage

#birds 🌿

The Emperor Angelfish change color dramatically as they mature, can switch sex from female to male and live up to 20 years. They form small harems on Indo-Pacific reefs, and can eat toxic sea sponges that would harm most other animals.

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Call For Five-Year Pause on Gen AI in Schools As generative AI tools are rapidly expanding in schools, often based on their hypothetical “potential” to enhance learning, these products are posing risks to children’s development, mental health, pr...

A "pause AI" letter that I actually like (and signed)! Because it's not about imagined doomsday scenarios, but rather putting the brakes on the rush to impose synthetic text extruding machines in schools in particular:

actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

ICE's abuses directly enable such shady inheritance fights. Her stepsons got her deported because they wanted the money.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

A Family Feud at an Oregon Winery Turns to Vinegar Over A.I. Slop

"An online database tracking judges’ reprimands of A.I. misuse now catalogs more than 1,300 cases — almost triple the number from only five months ago."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

The $10 Billion Startup Training AI to Replace the White-Collar Workforce Mercor is promising to replicate most professional work. It was also co-founded by twentysomethings who previously never held a real job.

If you've been inundated lately with job ads for a company called Mercor, my colleagues at @bloomberg.com Businessweek have a story on the company, whose 20-something founders are paying white-collar workers to train AI models they say will take their jobs. Gift: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Martinez, a US citizen, has called the Border Patrol agent who shot her 5x her “attempted executioner.”

"Despite comprehensive coverage of Martinez’s shooting and charges of impeding law enforcement that were later dropped against her, Noem repeatedly claimed she didn’t know about the case.”

A Tale of Two Tax Returns And one glaring omission, plus more news for your Friday.

On Thursday, both Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Zohran Mamdani released their 2025 tax returns. Some takeaways? It's helpful to be married (ugh), even the most regrettable rap career can still pick up some pin money and, of course, the rich don't want to tax themselves (see: Bill Hochul's income).

New piece in BMJ by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social, Sam Lovell, @jvipondmd.bsky.social, @mjnabuurs.bsky.social and myself on how poor quality trials can bias evidence against respirator use.

www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Let there be no question that moving off of fossil fuels means freeing ourselves from the shackles revealed by Trump's Iran war. Anyone arguing for keeping a fossil fuel economy wants us all in chains and at the mercy of a dying, inefficient way of doing things.

Yeah men aren't violent to women because of their mental health issues. That's a social problem. Most people with mental health issues aren't taking it out with murder. The answers are looking at masculinity, not mental health.

i do not believe she knows a 'millennial socialist'.

When youve never read a dan brown book