Reposted by BJ NichollsDeBisco @debiscomusic.com · 07/10/2026Imagine having media literacy in 2026? ArtCraft is vibe-coded slop, and not a single line of code has been decompiled from Adobe Creative Cloud. Worst of all? They were FOUNDED as a GenAI startup! I implore people to RESEARCH before they repost 🙄 62413
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026What kind of tree connects a stem mammal to a chicken by way of a turtle? 100
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Look how well abundant US oil has done thwarting war in the Middle East. It is, however, stretching out the viability of fossil energy when we most need to end it. 110
Reposted by BJ NichollsPat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Pretty sure Trump’s grandfather’s bordelo in Alaska had a similar vibe 66017
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026We just got a 2026 Toyota BZ. Way too many EVs are priced only for the wealthy. I’m onboard for future low maintenance, but also see more frequent tire purchases and replacements for our car model’s poorly managed 12v battery. 100
Reposted by BJ NichollsAdam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from. 10817225
Reposted by BJ NichollsTom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026#FossilFriday: the displaced vertebrae at the base of the unexpectedly long neck of the Plesiosaurus discovered by Mary Anning in 1823 which caused some discussion at the time, and Henry De la Beche's fun interpretation of how the bones came to be displaced in his 1829-31 lithograph Duria antiquior. 16318
Reposted by BJ NichollsAnn Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A brilliant and honest look back at the 9/11 attacks and how the Bush administration misled the American people into the Iraq War by Joel Pett. Be sure to support him on substack: joelpett.substack.com/p/75-months-...joelpett.substack.com75 months, 40 panels, 0 sense at allSeptember 11, 2001 to December 2, 2007 1025183
Reposted by BJ NichollsOn the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026What would an AI code of ethics for creators look like? @micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with @davejorgenson.bsky.social about how to earn your audience’s trust in the age of AI. 12111
Reposted by BJ NichollsChris @asmarcd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I'm a white Arab American. Most ppl would never know that's my background by looking at me. The day after 9/11, family friends, who did not know, where at the house and openly talking about how all Arabs and Muslims in the US should be rounded up into camps. I was 12 years old. We were never united. 393572582
Reposted by BJ NichollsThe Palaeontological Association @thepalass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Charnia & other late Ediacaran macrofossils preserved in turbiditic deposits of the Indreelva Member (Finnmark, Norway) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday 0257
Reposted by BJ NichollsPrehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It’s Fieldwork Friday! Today we are highlighting our recent 2026 fieldwork near Ferron Mountain. Here are some shots of our amazing team with some amazing fossils! #fieldworkfriday #fossilfriday #volunteers #fossils #paleontology 082
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Your excessive coverage of this anniversary is appalling. 011
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The AI that can speed progress finding molecular treatments for disease can also streamline bioweapon design. It's still humans at the helm, but that doesn't make the tool less dangerous. 011
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026You don't trust the intentions of people who stole the world's IP to build their businesses? The folks who think of Democracy as an impediment to progress and "freedom"? The self-declared cultish stewards of future who tell us how dangerous their product is and how only they can avert extinction? 010
Reposted by BJ NichollsEscape Pod @escapepod.org · 10/09/2026Good news, sophonts: a new story has arrived! If you like stories about sapient digital intelligences and environmentalism, "Extrasolar Ghost Tours: Safety Questionable, Lizards Guaranteed" by @hansew.bsky.social should be one you'll really like. Also the lizards!escapepod.orgEscape Pod 1062: Extrasolar Ghost Tours: Safety Questionable, Lizards GuaranteedI am a hundred and seventy-nine years old when I commit my first betrayal. It is a small one, relevant only to the blue-flecked lizards on Alda Safiya’s southernmost desert landmass. 1146
Reposted by BJ NichollsSouthern Utah Wilderness Alliance @protectwildutah.bsky.social · 09/09/2026New polling shows, once again, majority of Utahns do not support the shrinkage of national monuments. Read more from @sltrib.com: www.sltrib.com/news/environ...sltrib.comMost Utahns want Trump’s cuts to Bears Ears, Grand Staircase reversed, survey findsA new survey of Utah voters found that most respondents want to see Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments restored to their previous boundaries. 044
Reposted by BJ NichollsToddRockford @toddrockford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026GRAND Staircase Escalante and Bears Ears both protected national fossil treasures, sacred Native sites, and unique wildlife habitats. washingtonsun.com/climate-envi...washingtonsun.comHow Trump Unleashed an Existential Fight Over America's DinosaursIn Utah, Trump resurfaced a decades-long dispute over how to protect some of the country’s crown jewels. 024
Reposted by BJ NichollsKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money 512310633
Reposted by BJ NichollsMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 08/09/2026For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docsnyc.govSeptember 11 Docs 402265076438
Reposted by BJ NichollsJim Zub @jimzub.com · 08/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. The only AI I 'use' is shit foisted on me - summaries and slop vomited on my screen as part of internet browsing or injected into programs I work with until I turn those settings off or rip those parts out by the roots. 11514250
Reposted by BJ NichollsBryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 09/09/2026I just started reading Spencer Cox’s book (for work). HE MADE A TURNING POINT JOKE WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE SHOOTING OF CHARLIE KIRK! How the hell did he think that was a good idea. This was the introduction. What other literary horrors await me? 5194
Reposted by BJ NichollsRicky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 08/09/2026At a propaganda event pretending to honor 9/11 victims, the orange felon lied about being rescued by firefighters and said he was jealous of a 9/11 hero and victims for being more famous than him. It never amazes me how much of an evil piece of shit he is. 28856631309
Reposted by BJ NichollsThe Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 05/09/2026@dennisgoris.bsky.social 18338
Reposted by BJ NichollsDr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 05/09/2026There is a plant which can mimic the leaves of other plants - including plastic ones - and the best explanation for this ability is that it has some form of vision. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comBoquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plantUpon discovery that the Boquila trifoliolata is capable of flexible leaf mimicry, the question of the mechanism behind this ability has been unanswered. Here, we demonstrate that plant vision possi... 616766
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I fail to see the situation where Trump falls headfirst into a wood chipper. Color me skeptical of instant karma. 010
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 31/08/2026If it was a legal option I’d pick an air burial in support of condors. 010
Reposted by BJ NichollsPrehistoric Museum @prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026This Fossil Friday we are showcasing this beautiful conifer from the Neslen Formation (~75 million years old). Conifers dominated forests for over 200 million years! Conifers can be identified by their needle-like foliage, which are in your backyard! #fossilfriday #conifer #paleobotany #wesleyan 052
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I've never liked cartoon + live action hybrids. It's hubris to make a movie based on the materpiece created by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. 000
Reposted by BJ NichollsRobert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026#fossilfriday A fossil crab (Cancer or Metacarcinus) I collected in June from the Purisima Formation near Santa Cruz, CA. Specimen is approximately 6 myo. 🦑🦀🦖🧪 2398
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Good episode, hate to hear Roman shill for Meta in the commercial pushing so-called Instagram youth protection. 030
Reposted by BJ NichollsMichael Banach @m1db.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Leaked Pictures of the new 2027 CyberTruck 4962112328
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Good luck pushing that rope, as much as I agree with you. 000
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Why not call out the author, Gilad Edelman? He seems to enjoy the rehabilitation beat when he’s not writing about wearing shorts to the office or dealing with snoring. 000
Reposted by BJ NichollsBecauseMy😼SaidSo 🐸🇺🇸 @scarpity026.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Some good info here... refuseuline.comrefuseuline.comRefuse UlineUline is a purposely political company aligned with extreme right-wing ideology. Despite their politics, millions of small businesses and artists still use ULINE completely unaware of what their dolla... 25617
Reposted by BJ NichollsRobert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology ™️ @coastalpaleo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026#fossilfriday The hefty jaw of the "killer" walrus Pelagiarctos, a sea lion-like pinniped from the early Miocene Topanga Formation of southern California. Our analysis suggested it was primarily adapted to eating fish. 🐬🦖🧪 1288
Reposted by BJ NichollsJ Pardo @jdpardo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026For #fossilfriday, here's an old friend; the giant stem tetrapod Gaiasia jennyae from the Permian of Namibia. 25616
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I’m awed that I can look back at my ancestors’ billions of years of unbroken reproductive success starting with the common ancestor of every living thing on this planet. Surviving the branch into Homo sapiens is trivial by comparison. 000
BJ Nicholls @bjn2.bsky.social · 12/08/2026They were given all the details about distance and still effed it up. 010
Reposted by BJ NichollsThe Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"Fascism will come at the hands of brainwashed, brainless, Americans." 17577432273