Reposted by Christina Wodtke cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 05/09/2026girl stop typing and hit him with your car 573937517
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum 1839681159
Reposted by Christina Wodtke (spo)okie 🎃 @okie.gay · 25/08/2026Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar 21113432633
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Dan Saffer @odannyboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton is the anti-Elon Musk 0153
Reposted by Christina Wodtke mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026beef with the wind 242387512
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 02/07/2026It's giving gender reveal that turns into a raging wildfire 638079
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 02/07/2026THIS IS SO REAL!!!!!!!! 4464
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 25/05/2026GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.ecoticias.comGoodbye to seasonal viruses as we know them: the first universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergies is now closer than everScientists are getting closer to a universal nasal vaccine that could protect against respiratory viruses, bacteria and even allergies 345147364602
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK 918181163035
Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 12/06/2026This made my day www.reddit.com/r/UnderRepor...reddit.comFrom the UnderReportedNews community on Reddit: A Giant Inflatable Elon Musk appeared in Times Square in NY this morning. The workers said they have no idea who owns it, they were just paid to put it ...Explore this post and more from the UnderReportedNews community 010
Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Those who don’t learn from history. … Or as bugs bunny would say, what a ultramaroon. 130
Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Been watching Columbo and wow it stands up well. I see why it’s copied so widely 130
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/03/2026I understand what these words mean when these words get put together but I don't understand how these words could possibly be together. 40834131
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Stephane Bura @stephanebura.com · 03/03/2026My instinct is to adopt the opposite strategy: build a LLM on a game's world model. The challenge being decribing a world in operative terms that both make sense for a LLM and can be interacted with using such an interface. The way LLMs are built right now makes interating toward this a nightmare. 111
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026“I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game.” —JG Ballard 317668
Reposted by Christina Wodtke zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Resistance? On Saturday night, Claude overtook OpenAI’s ChatGPT to claim the number one spot in the App store, a position it still held as of this morning. techcrunch.com/2026/03/01/a...techcrunch.comAnthropic’s Claude rises to No. 1 in the App Store following Pentagon dispute | TechCrunchAnthropic’s chatbot Claude seems to have benefited from the attention around the company’s fraught negotiations with the Pentagon. 1142
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/02/2026Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think. 18333301187
Reposted by Christina Wodtke jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/02/2026these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion 12798922117
Reposted by Christina Wodtke McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23/02/2026"Pantry is empty of the four kinds of food your kid will eat." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/par...mcsweeneys.netParenting Blizzard BingoParenting Blizzard Bingo 0443
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Can we talk a bit about the terms “First Amendment absolutist” and “free speech absolutist,” and whether they have any agreed-upon meaning? I promise to try, to the utmost of my ability, to Be Respectful Of Other Opinions. /1 5179791
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/02/2026HELL yeamississippifreepress.orgByhalia ICE Facility Plans Ditched Amid Mississippi Opposition, Wicker SaysA proposed ICE detention facility that would have held 8,500 immigrants in a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, won’t happen, Sen. Roger Wicker says. 344176721
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 16/02/2026If you (whoever you are) give a few dollars away a month, you're beating Elon Musk in relative donations. 524057
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Juan Luis @juanlu.space · 15/02/2026"Showing someone a finished prototype and watching them shrug isn’t research. It’s a slow, expensive way to discover you guessed wrong." Vibe-Coding Is Not Need-Finding, by @cwodtke.bsky.social eleganthack.com/vibe-coding-...eleganthack.comVibe-Coding Is Not Need-FindingLast month a product designer showed me her new prototype. She’d spent two weeks vibe-coding a tool for tracking “gratitude journaling streaks.” The interface was beautiful. Confe… 021
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 14/02/2026This Is Cute (10 Photos) Sometimes art doesn't have to be big or serious. It just has to be cute! Here are 10 tiny, fluffy, and adorable pieces of street art that will definitely make your day a little sweeter. More: Almost Too Cute (9 Photos) 🦇 1. Shhh, He’s Sleeping — Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦 A…streetartutopia.comThis Is Cute (10 Photos)Sometimes art doesn't have to be big or serious. It just has to be cute! Here are 10 tiny, fluffy, and adorable pieces of street art that will definitely make your day a little sweeter. More: Almost Too Cute (9 Photos) 🦇 1. Shhh, He’s Sleeping — Calgary, Canada 🇨🇦 A bookstore in Canada found the cutest little visitor. A tiny bat decided to take a nap right on their door frame. 1164
Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Add the private army he's building and things are only getting grimmer and grimmer. 000
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Kristina is family. Trust that if she is asking it’s both needed AND going to where it should go. 32814
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/02/2024Roses are red Love is a gamble Obey us or else You get the mop handle 1353177
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Dan Hon @danhon.com · 09/02/2026Kellan wrote another good blog post so I am having thinky newsletter thoughts laughingmeme.org/2026/02/09/c...laughingmeme.orgCode has always been the easy partWhen I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in... 071
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Jonathan Speights @jspeights.bsky.social · 04/02/2026"Need-finding happens before you have a solution. You’re listening to people describe their lives, their frustrations, their workarounds. You’re hunting for problems that actually exist..." Worth reading the whole post from @cwodtke.bsky.social: eleganthack.com/vibe-coding-...eleganthack.comVibe-Coding Is Not Need-FindingLast month a product designer showed me her new prototype. She’d spent two weeks vibe-coding a tool for tracking “gratitude journaling streaks.” The interface was beautiful. Confe… 021
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 27/01/2026The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired 141124434121
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Rusty Shackelford @pfcilng.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Yup here’s the gift link for everyone www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...wsj.comVideos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal AgentsSee how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday. 22663224
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26/01/2026If I sent a letter saying I would continue to inflict violence and murder on a community unless that community made legal concessions to me, I would go to prison. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comRead Bondi’s Letter to Minnesota’s GovernorAttorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Saturday that blamed him and other Democratic officials for allowing “lawlessness” in the state. It was not immediately clear ... 803238715
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 26/01/2026ICE guys: so yeah you're pretty much going to abolish us now, huh 34773115
Reposted by Christina Wodtke kottke.org @kottke.org · 23/01/2026A Chinese factory mistakenly stitched a frown on a Year of the Horse plush toy and it became a surprise hit. Meet the ‘Cry-Cry Horse’, the perfect mascot for 2026. [news.cgtn.com]news.cgtn.comFrom a stitching mistake to viral hit: Meet the ‘Cry-Cry Horse’With the Year of the Horse approaching, a netizen in Hangzhou recently shared photos of a stuffed horse toy that came with an unexpected flaw – its mouth had been stitched upside down. 318163
Christina Wodtke @cwodtke.bsky.social · 23/01/2026 I watched the new Starfleet Academy and I liked it. People who don't like it are those purists that think that we should just keep making the old Star Trek or Star Trek: The Next Generation over and over again. 030
Reposted by Christina Wodtke 5 Calls @5calls.org · 22/01/2026PSA: You do NOT have "until Jan 30th" to call your reps about ICE. The House is voting on the DHS appropriations bill TODAY (1/22) 🚨🚨 7835709
Reposted by Christina Wodtke George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/01/2026These are too good 🤣comicsands.comVideo Of Trump Getting Distracted And Looking Out Window To Admire Ballroom Renovation Sparks Flurry Of Memes 2461585
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social · 19/01/2026132. T. Kingfisher’s Snake-Eater Sometimes a woman's best friend is her dog. Sometimes it's her septuagenarian trans grandma neighbour with a shotgun. The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a…lizbourke.wordpress.com132. T. Kingfisher’s Snake-EaterSometimes a woman's best friend is her dog. Sometimes it's her septuagenarian trans grandma neighbour with a shotgun. The vast majority of my writing here is free to read and will remain so, but if you enjoy these sorts of posts, your support on Patreon or as a paying subscriber through WordPress is what subsidises me to write more of them. 16311
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 18/01/2026You get the users you get—with their existing habits, their limited attention, their varying levels of motivation, their phones buzzing with notifications from seven other apps. Of all the languages, @cwodtke.bsky.social decided to speak the language of facts. eleganthack.com/the-formula-...eleganthack.comThe Formula That Changed How I Think About DesignA few years ago, I stumbled across a formula from Kurt Lewin, a psychologist working in the 1930s and 40s: B = f(P, E) Behavior is a function of the Person and the Environment. Lewin was explaining… 012
Reposted by Christina Wodtke Adrian Howard @adrianhoward.com · 05/01/2026Since the AI bubble hasn't quite burst — a small batch of some more sceptical pieces on AI in the first issue of the year :-) mailchi.mp/7dde6332c467... Including work from @emilydileo.bsky.social, @cwodtke.bsky.social, @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social, @lizthegrey.com, Lizzie Matusov, & more.mailchi.mpQuiet Stories #194Your Chatbot Is Not Your Knowledge Management System, Before You Cite That Study, Nine Risks Caused by AI Notetakers & more. 041