Reposted by Abbie 🌟Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Teach your son to wait. Teach him that other people are as important as he is. Teach him to apologize and go back to the end of the line if he made an entitled decision. Teach him that girls and women deserve respect in *all* scenarios—not just during sex. 21303249
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Saavik ‘Careful of the Ankle’ Ford @saavikford.bsky.social · 12h‘YOU MEAN THESE EQUATIONS HAVE PHYSICAL MEANINGS I COULD LEARN TO INTUIT?!?’ ‘A WEATHER MAP IS A FIELD THEORY?!?’ Yeah kids. Sorry about that. Very much a, ‘Wait, you fuckers with good eyesight see like this all the time? When were you gonna tell ME???’ Kind of energy… 3232
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 16h(pounces on you at a cocktail party) Did you hear the good news about crabapples! #PlantSky 🌱 #ScienceSky 🧪 #Apples 🍏🍎 source.washu.edu/2026/09/wild...source.washu.eduWild crabapples have genetic potential to improve domestic varietiesA plant scientist at Washington University in St. Louis studies genetics of native crabapple species to identify traits that will help production of domestic apple crops. 59428
Reposted by Abbie 🌟rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 13hso okay. mathematically, it is compression. mathematically, compression is not just what that word intuitively means to someone who knows what a ZIP file is. if you imagine a Price is Right Plinko board (token goes in top, produces new token at bottom repeat), a weight is the distance between pegs. 1382
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Shoshana 🏳️⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · 12h"When I first saw the lead concentrations, they were so high I thought our instrument was broken" 😬 Disposable vapes are also horrible for the environment, throwing away so much plastic, batteries, and electronics. 47930
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 12hHow many times must we say this? AI* software does not “go rogue” any more than your printer “got religion” when it stopped working Sunday. Software does not have intent or agency. People do. And this feels like some people might be exposed to liability. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t... 720971
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 12hjust a reminder that a whole lot of prominent center-left men went to fucking Epstein for advice about what to do about the #MeToo movement, like, in case you were wondering why 2 seconds after it started the media was like HAS IT GONE TOO FAR??? 011032
Reposted by Abbie 🌟darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11hu can not convince me these are not orange popsicles left in the freezer for three years 39139194
Reposted by Abbie 🌟jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 21hWhy Good Things Are Bad For Very Specific Cultural Reasons I Made Up An Hour Ago, by The Atlantic 2203
Reposted by Abbie 🌟פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I am bluesky-poisoned; my first read was "officer in fursuit" 0487
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Also … can you imagine not being able to run a model within a single data center Literally everything I *ever wanted these things to do* is now possible with the one running on my MacBook. What are we hoping for here 1113
Abbie 🌟 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Unclear how exactly AI will take over the world when I ask Google maps to navigate to "ABC Business", it tells me there are two locations in two different towns, I then ask it to navigate to "ABC Business in Town X" and it's like "I have no idea what you mean by that." 030
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In an age when the Peter Thiels of the world are smiling and saying evil does good because it is competent, we are entering a time when we will need to be aggressively "pro-human." Or at the very least, Pro-Good. And we have to build power, unapologetically. 1050890
Reposted by Abbie 🌟samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking 33897540
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11141491417
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Emily Hunt @emily.space · 27/09/2026What OP is describing is explained perfectly well by (nerdy) neurotypical people engaging in bog-standard rape culture, let's not drag a minority here for the actions of some male rapists 0221
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@fredtaming.bsky.social 21512162
Reposted by Abbie 🌟we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i feel like if i rolled up on a house that had a real bike rack outside ready to lock up at i'd think okay, here live some hoopy froods who really know where their towels are 1685
Reposted by Abbie 🌟András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes 2934356
Reposted by Abbie 🌟David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3149262679
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026As a former pretentious little shit who grew out of it, rationalists (et al) annoy the piss out of me because they are adults with the mentality of tweens - they are somehow still convinced they are the greatest geniuses who have ever walked the earth. It is the worldview of an arrogant baby. 352370277
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up. 522554258
Abbie 🌟 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Turns out when your toddler sneezes directly into the baby's face, the baby gets sick! (So far just a stuffy nose, thank gosh) 020
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776092089
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad. 8246511151
Reposted by Abbie 🌟c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Bless the memory of Stanislav Yevgrafovich, the Man Who Saved the World. At a moment when it mattered, he chose humanity. 8683245
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not 81117307
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In other words, as a rule of thumb, a high-profile race with polls showing the Democrat up 4 is probably actually a dead heat. A Dem up 5 points or more is probably safe. Up 3 or fewer is probably a loss. The lesson here is to keep the foot on the gas. Don't let up until polls close. 419745
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 23/09/2026Mozilla's new ad campaign skewers tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk bit.ly/4xBAuDZbusinessinsider.comMozilla is plastering New York with posters mocking tech billionaires as part of a new marketing campaignThe Mozilla Foundation skewers Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk in a new poster campaign promoting its fellowship program. 06920
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Surly Amy @surlyamy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Flying is stressful. If my pilot was dressed like a cat or friendly bear it would calm my nerves. Or really any flying creatures would be great. Sugar glider maybe? Side note, republicans are desperate babies who don’t know how to have fun. 3394
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026That means approaching pandemic prevention with a mix of evidence-based ecosystem interventions where we can support them, and investment in health systems. We could stop cutting down rainforest tomorrow, and the world's poor would still suffer from spillover as a health justice issue. 28516
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The world is a big, complicated, scary place. It would be nice if every outbreak was a morality play, and stopping the next pandemic were as simple as building parks and planting trees. But our study provides very strong evidence this is not true: instead, we have to learn to live alongside nature. 18516
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/20262: Outbreaks happen anywhere that people live alongside nature: fragmented landscapes with a mosaic of human population centers, livestock farming, and forests. 👉 Stop planning around spillover "hotspots." Emerging infectious disease outbreaks can happen anywhere - both the Amazon and Central Park. 214027
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/20261: For every hour you travel from the nearest clinic, the odds of detecting an outbreak decreases by about 1/3. 👉 For policymakers: the best thing we can do to catch and intercept spillovers before they become epidemics is build rural clinics and pay for diagnostic machines and supplies. 119754
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - NatureEmerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ... 8553276
Reposted by Abbie 🌟MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Lmfao Jesus Christ.....this is so delicious, it simply MUST be fattening 😂😈 1321280165
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I used to call it Twitter out of inertia, but I'm going to try to call it X from now on because (1) that's its name and (2) calling it Twitter lets people pretend it's still the same as before. It's not. People who frequent X: The Everything Site for CSAM & White Nationalism deserve our respect. 833013
Abbie 🌟 @abbiestev.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Autumnal weather is finally here in MI and for the first time in months I feel CHILLY!!! Pregnancy + summer + bad postpartum hot flashes + constantly holding either the little space heater or the big space heater (sometimes both!) means I've been So Fcking Warm For So Long 110
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/09/2026This applies to AI too! > what a model establishes is determined not by what it produces but by [its] inferential structure[.] The decisive moment in any modeling program is not when the model fits the data, but when the theory behind it is made explicit enough to have something determinate to fit. 1287
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement 6392114
Reposted by Abbie 🌟unboxed cereal @unboxedcereal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026item number 9 here is something that needs to be reckoned with even outside of genai and most folks are not prepared for those conversations 37214
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We used to be a proper planet, one that rewarded its top scholars in style. 432019187
Reposted by Abbie 🌟sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026bro this bus isn't even taking us to another place on the tarmac. we're on what appears to be an actual highway through rolling pastures 29172833
Reposted by Abbie 🌟sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23/09/2026ok i thought we were stalled on the jetbridge to the plane but the line finally started moving and i rounded the corner to see.... a bus 36182223
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You can't, and shouldn't seek to, replace public schools or libraries with bookstores. You can't replace a public good with a private business, no matter how well-meaning or well-organized it may be. 5713226
Reposted by Abbie 🌟Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23/09/2026All apps should have bisexual lighting by default imo 5518
Reposted by Abbie 🌟mave @mave.bsky.social · 22/09/2026AUTUMNAL EQUINOX FACTS • harbinger of hayrides • 1000% spike in marshmallow roastings • invented in 2003 to sell spiced coffee • if bitten by wild pumpkin, seek help from nearest scarecrow • changing colors of leaves are completely painless (to humans) 17319