Reposted by Glass Cat OwlRyan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 07/10/2026I usually design my business cards to be conversation-starters. But at after too many endless awkward discussions at recent events, I realized I needed a new type of card. The conversation-ender. 141097294
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlRachel Parris @rachelparris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Here’s the dates! 2116880
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious. 5162681732
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlMurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Data suggests family dramas bear a less than 10 percent resemblance to actual human families, which is unsurprising and also a relief, considering all the murders. 036339
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlMira @thefreeradical.org · 02/10/2026so i saw this and panicked and started researching other cat foods, but then i decided to dig into the clean label project. spoiler: they are not a trustworthy source gonna dive into it in a thread now because i do public science communication also no shade to OP, i was sharing this worried too!! 8331207
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlHere lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026There are NOT machine-made clothes. If there were, your clothes would be made in the country you live in (where the customers are), or in China (where machines are cheap). They’re made in Bangladesh or India or Indonesia because that’s where the LABOUR is cheap. Your clothes are made by people. 271503365
Reposted by Glass Cat Owlmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 168188104718
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlClaire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026Okay so I don’t think this is true - historically speaking, mass violence consistently comes from an attempted rejection (rather than a *lack*) of empathetic impulses, which exist whether we want them to or not, and desire to distance oneself from an externalized target. 1238168
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlJosh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 01/10/2026True psychopathy is rare! Basic math means that most war crimes and monstrosities are carried about people who are not psychopaths, which is why there is so much propaganda dehumanizing and othering the target group (have to blunt the empathic impulse) 38423
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlEric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing 192927542
Reposted by Glass Cat Owlc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him. 2847671604
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026a map company has the opportunity to perform the greatest bit in cartographic history 944988
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlFrank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist. 101432279
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlBOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Hey quick question: How could a study which has “not been peer reviewed” have divided researchers? Like is the division here between researchers who are paid by AI companies and those who aren’t? 10490100
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on. 3249742753
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026No kink shaming except for Roko's basilisk weirdos. 1547686
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlThomas Neville @goobermunch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Take everything this assholes own. Grind it to powder. Burn it to ash. Mix it with salt. Then till the salt mixture into their estates as a warning to future generations. 512829
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:theguardian.comHoman Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 peopleExclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’ 9147841745
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 17092973070
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlKen Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As a reminder: Sam Altman has been credibly accused of sexually abusing his younger sibling, who has been in and out of psychiatric programs since she was a teenager. Their parents decided her claims stopped being plausible right about the time Sam attracted VC money. 2295114
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlSasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Heads-up for fellow CRPG dungeon crawler fans as one to avoid: this one is made by ban-evading neo-nazis. 2420541310
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Absolutely wild to hear "is computer human" from dickheads who treat large groups of people as if they're not 81119310
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlSebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If you have more empathy for the box of blinky lights than you do for, say, trans people or refugees, you are frankly a bad person 437687
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843441194
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong. 21088183854
Reposted by Glass Cat Owlflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds 81492676
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects. Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it. apnews.com/article/open...apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 7710113
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542411630
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlErin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And given that many of these "third party" countries offer no legal status for the people we are trafficking there, it's also in many cases forced statelessness. 323542
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlErin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This is human trafficking on a massive scale. 332303782
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole." 12457511513
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard! 1347861234
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlEmma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In regards to the video game industry 'adopts AI tools' no, they've pushed out human workers to make a buck Meanwhile some of the best games have been made by a single person laboring without ai and I will continue to buy those games fucking asshats 612513
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software. 3540711431
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlHipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It breaks my heart that it’s 2026 and there’s still disagreement about which minorities it’s acceptable to throw under the bus. 720641
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Okay yeah see I think we should be a lot more worried about this kind of shit than the killer machine god and not just because this is a clear concrete thing that’s happening right now 5467189
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I absolutely promise you that if Dario Amodei says “I’m worried the thing we’re building might kill us all” and we say “okay we’re taking you seriously and that sounds like terrorism so you have the right to remain silent”, he’ll start saying something different REAL fucking fast 2400124
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...reason.comTexas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphletsThe case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights. 4052362447
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlTyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”orlandosentinel.comDocs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI... 9655492164
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlK.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 17/09/2026"But K.B. you already have so many different art hobbies--" And I will keep adding to them until I find the one that finally fixes me, THANK you. 71345
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlReturn of the Living Dan @danlarson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Writers/Musicians/Artists told you from Day 1 that this was theft. Straight up. Always has been. 102302835
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 17/09/2026Fire anyone who says this shit. 7848163
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlRandi 🇧🇻 @irithyllwolf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I feel ashamed that I have to ask for help, but sadly, I have to. I need help with getting the necessary supplies like firewood as the weather is getting colder here in Norway and I need help buying cat food. Hope someone can help Snupsi and me 🩷 ko-fi.com/irithyllwolfko-fi.comSupport Randi ❤️Become a supporter of Randi today! 1119
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Who called it YA literature and not bildungsromantasy 4567
Reposted by Glass Cat OwlKylie @styla73.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Good to see South Hampton drop Turnitin who are now using student work to train AI models. Now we just need thousands more institutions to do the same. Students shouldn't have to consent to this to get an education. AFAIK all nz universities use turnitin www.timeshighereducation.com/news/southam...timeshighereducation.comSouthampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AIAcademic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’ 1199
