Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 7hThis is a pretty stunning thing to admit 161658313
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5ha map company has the opportunity to perform the greatest bit in cartographic history 731059
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialLorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 12hI recognise that bird! It’s the sausage-addicted kookaburra 1127028
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 5hThey quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 8275631907
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5hToday in "People should read whatever they want": www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comThe secret lives of men who read romance books: ‘My life is full of love, so I’m drawn to them’It’s often assumed straight men are not interested in romantic fiction – but many are sharing their passion in forums online 37826114
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 5hOn the bright side, the Childe asked if there was a book of Kubo, I said no, then they asked if I could buy them a book of Japanese fairy tales since Kubo is one & I got to be Magic Mum. “Buy? No. Whose house do you think this is? We have three. Which one do you want to start with?” 11048
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialjackson henry @jasonemry.bsky.social · 23hAI v SI is the new godless merry christmas v happy holidays nobody gives a single shit and we all say either whenever the fuck we want but the losers from loserville have to loser up something from nothing 163
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 23hITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans 391370170
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 23hDo we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity. 1223167499
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 22hwhen you said not to vote in 2024 you chose a future where the Republicans got to take their swing at governing, which meant they got to hurt trans people and other marginalized groups. you chose that future with every post you made about your disappointment with Biden & Harris. 17513
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.social✊ Marissa 🌊 @marissarae.bsky.social · 7hOhhh no, what did the cast of Dropout do?? Do I want to know?? 😬 122
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.social✊ Marissa 🌊 @marissarae.bsky.social · 7hMy younger kid just turned 10 and TFG has been sucking all the oxygen out of the collective room since the beginning of that pregnancy. My little one has never known a world not living under that guy's shadow!! The clouds will part someday but not today. 082
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7hunpopular opinion: food almost everywhere was worse 250 years ago 3560635
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 6hyou think orcas are ever like "yeah we harvested yacht 78" 418210
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6hTech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down... 643651571
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 6hWe've had the ability to watch, say, Counterstrike marathons, Street Fighter tournaments, or chess matches between computers since the 90s. Spectacles which, by their very definition, would be at a "higher standard" than human play. And nobody wants it. It's entirely meaningless. It has no appeal. 161014157
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 6hEvery 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. 341224235
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6hThese ads go in the same category as brazen, easily disproven lies after ICE killings. It’s not about persuasion. It’s a display of power. They could have passed them off as PAC-funded. They added “paid for by the U.S. government” because they want us to know they can break the law with impunity. 301452429
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13hGoogle and Apple immediately update their maps. 352277509
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 6h“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.“ —Nixon, 1977. This was widely mocked for decades but now it’s the official position of all three branches of our government. 2388
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialGOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17hi feel like a lot of this stems (rimshot) from the fact that everyone has encountered and had to work with a stereotypical engineer and a stereotypical humanities grad 1215610
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 18hI have noticed that the obnoxious STEM-lord shit has lead to an equally stupid negative polarization among some humanities types about how the brutish crypto-fascist ape-robots of STEM could never hope to understand the true subtleties of art or theory or whatever 1226924
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialHenry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 22hidk what level total cultural victory it is that a male Republican didn't know sports teams and needed to be corrected by a Democratic woman but goddamn we got sports in the national divorce for real for real 39930
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialSpokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026Send Stephen Miller to The Hague. 21074292419
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17hI believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it 312493441
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialNigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 22hThank YOU. I believe profoundly that the only correct response to pleasure is gratitude rather than guilt 262552390
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialtaber @kvetch.gay · 21hI wrote this down in my notebook in the center of its own page and underlined it twice 0435
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 18hTERFism’s proposition to cis women has always been “What if you accepted having fewer rights than men in order to guarantee that trans people have fewer rights than you?” 217861
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialteepegg @teepegg.bsky.social · 16hMy pet hypothesis is that this partly to blame on wealthy metros not allowing enough housing. We saw in 2025 that the lowest rents fall the most in response to new housing supply, and so housing scarcity pushes low-wage workers out first. Then you get a shortage of low-wage workers! 1273
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialGiles for You @gilesforyou.bsky.social · 16hRetail pharmacists typically want to help customers get what they need. However, they're often weighed down by non-pertinent metrics devised by the higher ups in a misguided attempt gauge performance. This "number chasing" usually means time is taken away from dealing with customers. 1112
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialBrian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 16hStarting to think the destruction of facts and knowledge serves the fascist agenda…! 🤔 6472172
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 17hIn retrospect, I feel like a lot of places saw giving campus groups permission to do the Clothesline Project and Vagina Monologues and Take Back the Night as a small price for avoiding systemic change. What we needed--need--was a massive reckoning. 218227
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialSethro @armlessphelan.bsky.social · 16hIt's why the "a $5 coffee isn't why I'm poor" argument doesn't fly with me. We should be encouraging financial literacy! We should be providing classes at local libraries on how to budget and how to open a retirement account. I plan to get a 401k next year when I have to redo all my tax paperwork. 042
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 17hthis is the fundamental problem with the pipeline that creates most of the leftists you see on this site: they learn that they are part of the elite, the privileged, and that that makes them the bad guys, and that their role is, basically, to feel guilty about this. 4385
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialFascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 18hBut after a day of crying, I decided "fuck it, I'd rather die on my feet than my back". I legit didn't believe we had a chance till December 2024 but I refused to give up. And he's giving up when Democrats are going to win big in about a month. 3382
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialMichael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 18hSo many of these people literally can't hack, like, *basic* aspects of politics or Building a Resilient Movement. You can tell at the end of the day they're just depressed poasters. 3598
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialSpicymochi @spicymochi.bsky.social · 20hI had to give her a friend 1333371180
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialSnowjob @snowjob.bsky.social · 16hIn the same way that a CEO going without pay won't stop layoffs, it's spreading those profits and increases across all the small shareholders & institutional investors, versus a senior exec who may have a significant percentage or fraction or a percent of total shares. 262
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 29/09/2026AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR THEE: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR ME: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck. 12746183
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialVaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To demonstrate that if Americans are allowed to forgive themselves for electing Trump with another Obama, as they did by electing Obama in the first place to forgive themselves for voting for Bush, we will be right back here within two voting cycles 1271
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026also thinking a lot about how #MeToo apparently went too far, when it’s quite obvious now that it didn’t go far enough. it didn’t really go anywhere. there were no lasting consequences of that cultural moment beyond people making jokes about it. 12761149
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 28/09/2026Periodic reminder that you should not platform this man’s Manhattan Institute colleagues or publicly engage with material published in City Journal, their house magazine. 812118
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialChris Clare DJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is the thesis of my book, yes 510829
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Every time I see someone use their religion as an excuse to exclude trans people in some court case or other, I think about how I genuinely believe that it is my religious duty towards God to transition, and how stressed a judge would be if we ended up opposite each other in the same case. 637036
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Dueling accusations of abuse are not uncommon in abusive relationships. If the victim fights back or buckles under the pressure and acts in self-destructive or reckless ways this is characterized as them having been the perpetrator all along. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard is one prominent case. 222217
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It is natural that people would prefer to be around other people of the same race. That is why I avoid my wife as much as possible. by Christopher Rufo and JD Vance 657262
Reposted by @elenloth.bsky.socialSteven Dashiell PhD @dashiellsteven.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just got cited in the @nytimes.com talking about use of the word 'larp' by young people - it's a gift link, so enjoy!! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/s...nytimes.comHow LARPing, a Gaming Term, Became a Word for Posers (Gift Article)Live-action role playing was associated with games like Dungeons & Dragons. Now, it’s a way to call someone out for being inauthentic. 1147
