Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 23hi 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 10113363142
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialAbe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 12hI have discovered that the massive “twist” I saw leaked about DIGGER is, in fact, just the premise of the film. 173
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialAbe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 9hYesterday someone tried to sell me on AI as a legit resource for legal advice, and when I told him it glitches and hallucinates enough to be a genuine liability he responded “well, it’s the future” with a special kind of annoyance. It’s only! The future! If we keep! Using it! 3242
effulgent.bsky.social @effulgent.bsky.social · 6hI love when it rains hard and Felicia (former feral kitten) just stares out the window at it like "Yeah, indoor cat's a pretty sweet gig". 000
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialKen Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 03/12/2025I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Kitchens on fire off the oil in the ovens. I watched tokens glitter in the dark near the skeeball grate. All those moments will be lost in time, like pizzas in rain. Time to die. 720151
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 23hWho was it who had to go and point out the creases-in-pride-flags thing. I see the world with harder colder eyes now 11555
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialRo Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When telling a story, the rule of thumb is "show, don't tell," and that applies to many other things as well. For example, don't TELL me about all the hot lonely queer women you know. SHOW me. 1607
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialChuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026please enjoy brand new tingler NOT POUNDED BY THIS FLOCK CAMERA BECAUSE SOMEONE CUT IT DOWN. HUH, INTERESTING. I WONDER WHO COULD’VE DONE THAT? out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HL6WHFVV and on buckaroo patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/... 201664476
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialAbe Goldfarb @abegoldfarb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026One problem with widespread adoption of generative AI is that the results suck now, when it’s had an endless well of actual good art to train on. What happens when all it has to train on is the dogshit made with generative AI? 2142
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 28/09/2026came across this classic ASW and i gotta say: STILL GREAT www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id... 14750122
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialPetra Erika Nordlund @pepurika.bsky.social · 28/09/2026tigertigercomic.com/tiger-tiger/... it's tigers day!! 1328669
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialJames Leakyboots Batty @jamesbatty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Note to Farage: one reason the police ask you not to speculate about ongoing cases is to prevent you from looking like a total eejit. 318124
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm… 1258183445925
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It’s just a fact: History has been kind to Hee Haw. 1519714
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from? 953575646
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialjoe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple 312884465
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialsappho marx @impormable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026not sure why "the longest fart sound in gaming" isn't a back of the box quote on nighthawks 2267
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialSen @dresdencodak.com · 20/06/2026dresdencodak.com/2009/05/11/4... 959294
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialBill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This week's comic: Thirdback foxtrot.com/2026/09/27/t... 457157
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialMike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman. 149120731978
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialJonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Omg. Best ever 1485333762
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialThe Card @thecard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Bringing an iced coffee to a knife fight. 1025936
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialCaptain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 27/09/2026KURSGESAGT VOICE: Now, we’re just speculating here and there’s no real way to project this far into the future, but imagine yourself personally becoming a technological ultra super god with the power to tame every atom of the universe into a state of perpetually orgasmic hyper-abundance… 936121
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialJonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 27/09/2026Radosław Sikorski, Poland's minister of Foreign Affairs, has more balls than the entire Republican party. Meanwhile, our president is blaming Ukraine for diesel prices. What a fucking embarrassment. 9444151
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.social#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 27/09/2026*They're great as a duo, actually, the organic and the mechanical, that's a really strong ticket 929963
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialAl Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026popsci.comAsteroid named after ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic‘I just hope this isn’t the asteroid that winds up destroying the Earth.’ 1584405660
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I’ve given this a great deal of thought and I think the funniest option would be to simply pretend I have never heard of the New York Times 71634139
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialJason Copland @jasoncopland.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Do Canada next! Do Canada next! 212427
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialEinav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There‘s much to appreciate in Mamdani, but his insistence that culture isn’t a privilege of the rich is one of his strengths.It is reminiscent of how unions and the government treated it in the 1930s -art for the masses - paintings, music, opera, theater - democracy for all. 9737180
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 24/09/2026Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk that Rolling Stone called “a nonfiction horror movie” following its film festival debut earlier this month. Watch ↓rollingstone.comElon Musk Is in the Business of Selling Dreams in Trailer for New DocFilmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk. 43968354
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialSplitcoil @splitcoil.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Build weird guitars with weird hardware, get weird guitar hardware problems. Goddammit. This is why people just build telecasters over and over again. 2745
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026Alberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of rattheguardian.comAlberta’s self-image as world’s only rat-free region shattered by discovery of ratProvince’s rat patrol called in to investigate as town of Bowden announces discovery of dead vermin 1091084234
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is my new favorite thing. 74163675230
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialRo Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026What sucks about all the technology being evil now is that a lot of this stuff could be really useful to my life as a disabled person, but I refuse to be forced into becoming part of the problem, so I go without. Do things the hard way, sometimes the hardest ways. 17212
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialchyronsmaiden 🫀 @chyronsmaiden.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Shoutout to the team that made this issue of Monster High, this bit had me cackling 💀🩷 From Monster High: Howliday Haunt One Shot 2267522228
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106382505
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 685248855497
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialcomrade coze @maximumcoze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026nerds with chronic illness demand a symptom tracking app that is voice activated by the phrase "captain's log" 111
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialAlex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 24/09/2026a grid of 9 games i love but it's just the same picture of the obra dinn 9 times in a row 5281
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...londondaily.comBanksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London DailyExclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities 396382560
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialMichelle Steinberg, M.Ed @michellesteinberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026 622061
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialRo Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Someone in my city is advertising an anti-data-center protest with an AI-generated poster. I'm not making this up. Libertarians cannot be taken seriously. 0606
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialLee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...ecoticias.comTwo Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-foldMinnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields. 8445981684
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialParis Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 1633421481
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If you use Newman’s Own Brand Hemorrhoid Cream, they give a deserving person a free hemorrhoid. 2226025
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm in Salt Lake City for FanX and while out for an evening stroll I happened to walk into the Mormon Tabernacle Choir practicing (no really!). The best part: two beardy guys in teeny shorts and tank tops that said "Praise Lilith" were also watching. I would call it a very non-denominational moment. 319710
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialEyecager Sketchbook @amberbladejones.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Knights of Guinevere! Episode 2!! October 9th!!! 51283325
Reposted by @effulgent.bsky.socialRock and Roll Garage @rockandrollgarage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Happy 77 birthday to Bruce Springsteen! 📸Rob DeMartin 1134849760