Reposted by BrooksHolBolDoArt🏳️🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · 18hGonna become a true game dev and call my game "Egg Salad: Legacy of Game: Resonance ULTIMATE EDITION or something really catchy like that 1391
Reposted by BrooksThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them. 391548291
Brooks @bahroox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this is just so funny to me. people went absolutely rabid for an enemies-to-lovers(ish) gay hockey romance, and every production company on earth genuinely thought "hockey" was the keyword there 011
Reposted by BrooksHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10131253651
Brooks @bahroox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026ME: Looks great. This is such a cool hobby. HUSBAND: Ok but what kind of wife *encourages* their husband to get into Warhammer 40k? ME: Uhhhh, a good one? HUSBAND: A good one. 💕 020
Brooks @bahroox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026a huge part of the problem is that people seem to genuinely believe that administrative tasks don't take "actual brainpower", skill, context, or emotional intelligence. when we start to see everyday communication - even repetitive, "tedious" stuff like this - as inherently automatable, we're cooked 1164
Reposted by BrooksCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026As an affirmed dog lover, I have a few things to say. (1) Dogs are harder than people admit. They take a lot of work. They need constant exercise and mental stimulation, especially those with working dog heritage of any kind. Dogs are hard. 18805102
Reposted by Brooksrev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility 191494239
Brooks @bahroox.bsky.social · 28/09/20261. Troll Hunter 2. Pan's Labryinth 3. Parasite 4. Train to Busan 5. Shin Godzilla 121
Reposted by BrooksBenjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Marx described commodity fetish as the imaginary of capital being more alive, having greater agency, and requiring more deference than the worker who produces it 69631
Brooks @bahroox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026it's been a while since I saw a "I have complex, original thoughts and therefore must be way smarter than the plebs" guy. you'd think most people eventually realize that literally everyone also feels like they're the first one to Think About Stuff and so grow out of it by 19 or 20, but I guess not 2546
Reposted by BrooksMicah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026it’s nice to know that, as a nerdy and insufferable kid with good standardized test scores, I could really have turned out a whole lot worse 211116109
Brooks @bahroox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026imagine bringing a coffee to an interview to help you stay alert, or a tea to calm the nerves, or just something you like because it's comforting, or literally just water to stay hydrated at an important thing, and finding out later you actually got disqualified for it because [?????] 200
Reposted by BrooksGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 206189015380
Reposted by Brooksrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 24/09/2026as ever when a straight man does some antisocial shit it’s an antisocial shit problem. when a lesbian does some antisocial shit it’s a lesbian problem 557339
Reposted by Brooksandré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I have been saying, mostly to myself and to Deans who will listen, that the Humanities is the responsibility of the university to itself. I'll say it again 0132
Brooks @bahroox.bsky.social · 23/09/2026lmaooo accurate. low blood sugar as a T1D is the antithesis of dignity. I recently ran out of orange juice during a low and just about resorted to straight spoonfuls of sugar, but instead just inhaled like 3 capri suns & sat on the couch ~sweating~ for 20 minutes 010
Reposted by BrooksCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/09/2026She could have spent the last four years writing another book. Learning more craft. Making herself a better writer. She could actually be published right now. Instead, she chose this. 41335
Reposted by Brooksjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's 164113122109
Reposted by BrooksWendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026updated my classroom code of conduct 235545
Reposted by BrooksFrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026cbsnews.comLargest wildlife overpass in North America located in Colorado with 91% reduction in collisions: "Big success"A wildlife mitigation system made up of North America's largest wildlife overpass, five wildlife underpasses, and fencing to guide animals to the crossings has led to a 91% decrease in wildlife collis... 6753216
Reposted by BrooksCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/09/2026THIS IS THE KIND OF SHIT I WANT MY GOVERNMENT TO DO Hold large corporations accountable. Distribute the proceeds to the workers. Rinse, repeat. 6879199
Reposted by BrooksGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Taylor Lorenz pulling a "Why I'm Leaving the Left" is perhaps the most predictable thing ever to have occurred, narrowly edging out "housecat slowly pushes cup off edge of table" 592812290
Reposted by BrooksJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026I'm of two minds about this information 1062989328
Reposted by BrooksEndless Mike @squirrelsquirrel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It is right and just to constantly talk about how much things were *supposed* to cost if AI shitheads weren't constantly making everything worse 2749051864
Reposted by BrooksGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I can't help but connect this to the fact that Trump's body and mind are failing. There's something very gothic about this dying king building a impenetrable fortress around the seat of his power as he falls apart. 512635
Reposted by BrooksImani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people 16886342300
Reposted by BrooksGianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out 395209313480
Reposted by Brooksmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21/09/2026great news! | patreon.com/lubchansky 111730349
Reposted by BrooksClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women 6138753686
Reposted by BrooksDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no." 452963741
Reposted by BrooksEvan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I’ll take any excuse to recirculate this 41442307
Reposted by BrooksThew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations 3132151096
Reposted by Brooksassbutt @nasboat.org · 17/09/2026I am so goddamn tired of this shit. support transgender people or fuck off forever 301438238
Reposted by BrooksErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...erininthemorning.comThe Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By StateThese are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle. 7837121375
Reposted by BrooksJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What is this, if not an example of an apartheid system operating 222293
Reposted by BrooksJane @jane.meangirls.online · 17/09/2026this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights. 92036376
Reposted by BrooksElizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen. 4429451010
Reposted by BrooksAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth 11077563621
Reposted by BrooksBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Anyway, it is Day 7 of the Be Specific Challenge, where I beg any reporter talking to these tech CEOs about how, exactly, AI is going to make us extinct in a year. If they dreamscape 50 hypotheticals, ask them to be specific, because they are doing a creative writing exercise for money, not policy. 35989151
Reposted by BrooksMelanie Dusseau @melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The outsourcing of reading to automation derails learning in all disciplines. Reading isn't just cute & fun, it is foundational to all other literacies. We continue to test this unethical tech on children at our peril. #EduSky #AIrefusal #Humancreativity #NoAI www.edweek.org/leadership/3...edweek.org3 Takeaways From the Latest PISA Test of Reading, Math, and ScienceThe results show reading performance dropping across the world—and one uniquely troubling U.S. trend. 16725
Reposted by BrooksIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's OK for things to be over. It's OK for things to end. Good stories end. 654701280
Reposted by BrooksA.J. Wilden🏳️⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message" 52144945760
Brooks @bahroox.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Fields of Mistria is just such a lovely, enjoyable game. intricate & fun writing, well-developed characters, nicely scaled leveling/progress in all areas, & just plain satisfying. it "fixes" a lot of little mechanical things about Stardew Valley I never even realized I wanted. 10/10 100
Reposted by BrooksGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 10/09/2026it's always so fuckin sad to see someone go from craft or art to Content(tm). spend your time on what you love, man! not what drives you insane! 529632
Reposted by Brooksdaryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com... 2845461914
Reposted by BrooksShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026the whole point for me of becoming an academic was to get to spend my life reading the thoughts of other weird little minds, and helping those other weird little minds find their own way, and AI has largely stolen that from me, and I will never be okay with it. 227850