Reposted by hobbitqueenWorlds Beyond Number @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We are interrupting our Summer Sundown coverage with reports of a disaster at the harbor. We do not know what caused it. We do not know where it came from. If you're in Akabor, get indoors. If you are headed into the city, turn around. We will bring you updates as we have them. Stay safe, Akabor. 110311
Reposted by hobbitqueenMichelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 28/09/2026in advance of the National Day of Truth & Reconciliation I spoke to Kimberly Murray & Connie Walker about their efforts to raise awareness about this looming destruction, which survivors may not even know is happening next year. read it today at @thenarwhal.ca: 15240
Reposted by hobbitqueenSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The weather has turned such that I have to socks. A great injustice. 51045
Reposted by hobbitqueenCitizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026George Marshall’s MY FRIEND IRMA premiered in New York on September 28, 1949 marking the film debut of the comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. 061
Reposted by hobbitqueenMarc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Hill I'm ready to die on: whether for grants or articles, review by AI is not *peer review*. Review based on a 1st scan by AI without actual reading of the grant or manuscript is not peer review either. 213030
Reposted by hobbitqueenRoyal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 28/09/2026New research from #ProcB: Past rapid spread of introduced livestock coincided with vegetation clearance on Madagascar doi.org/10.1098/rspb... | #EnvironmentalScience #Palaeontology 033
Reposted by hobbitqueenJeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I slept on this book for TOO LONG. It is SO GOOD! Beautifully written and intricate like a puzzle box. @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social knocked it out of the park with this one. 1823925
Reposted by hobbitqueenDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026Also, the idea that it "encoded" the instruction to never doxx the user again as a "hard rule" would be genuinely laughable if i didn't know for dead certain that a Lot of people were going to take that as a true statement of fact >_< bsky.app/profile/wolv... 8105370
Reposted by hobbitqueenDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026That being said, I really hope this is the last lesson people'll need to to stop purchasing or at all trusting meta's or other "AI" companies' products. bsky.app/profile/wolv... 51110132
Reposted by hobbitqueenDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11041801441
Reposted by hobbitqueen🎃Meli👻 @mismatched.bsky.social · 25/09/2026👀 #ThisWouldBeInJewsletter etc etc 191
Reposted by hobbitqueenRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27774943153
Reposted by hobbitqueenJordan L. Hawk @jordanlhawk.com · 25/09/2026OUT NOW! The Devouring time is available in ebook and paperback! Bookseller Sterling Caine and investigator Adrian Evans must find out what happened during Sterling’s forgotten year, or all of humanity will pay the price. CLICK HERE: buy.bookfunnel.com/2n2porj6w5 06631
Reposted by hobbitqueenKatie Collins @spissatella.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Everytime we have an all-hands at work and AI comes up, people voice reasonable concerns about a) environment b) data protection c) reliability/accuracy, some executive always says "well it's out of the box now, it's not going away" and .... so? Just bc it exists doesn't mean we have to use it 26812
Reposted by hobbitqueenanomalouslymandatory @anomalouslyman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Also note, the option is different on desktop, you need to turn it ON to hide ads. It's confusing enough I actually had to pull out my phone anyways to make sure it was right. 3251130
Reposted by hobbitqueenMr. Moo Sky @bricebowl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Disable gambling ads: 8387356078
Reposted by hobbitqueenCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/09/2026As Alex notes in this thread, AI doesn't "democratize" science. Rather, it compels scientists to rely on anti-egalitarian means of directing their attention. 322364
Reposted by hobbitqueenCheryl B. Klein @cherylklein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Your & Scalzi’s posts on the subject made a great shot / chaser 1331
hobbitqueen @hobbitqueen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This literally my favourite show ever made and difficult to find on streaming so this is doubly a great deal 111
Reposted by hobbitqueenJustin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The Big Week In Politics meant the nuts and bolts of UBCM got overshadowed, which is sad because UBCM is a place where municipal issues that are so important and directly affect people fully come to the forefront but it’s also a place where city councillors dress up as carrots which i also love 1986
Reposted by hobbitqueenNoah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026this is federally mandated sexual harassment. it's forcing men to disclose personal info for the purposes of identifying supposed sexual failings. it's humiliating and is meant to be humiliating. 36690218
hobbitqueen @hobbitqueen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I have broken at least five toes tripping over cats in my life. Three of them happened within a week of each other after a move because they were being extra clingy being in the new place and were just permanently underfoot. 030
Reposted by hobbitqueencait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my doctor looking at my bruised and scratched up arms: umm... do you feel safe at home? the person making me feel unsafe at home: 623209247
Reposted by hobbitqueenUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Workers in Delano CA are setting up in the table grapes. "We officially start at 6:30, but we show up earlier to pick a row that has more grapes or is cleaner so the wheelbarrow can get thru quicker. We're not paid for this time but it allows us to work quicker." #WeFeedYou 424961
Reposted by hobbitqueenKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/09/2026I know I ask for this at least once a year, but can some nice historian reassure me that the world has ALWAYS been this stupid? 123126990
Reposted by hobbitqueenm͖͙̗͎̄̃̒͋̇e̊͒͊̆̉͑ͅw̭͙͕͈̝͖̟͛̐̅̑̑̊🐈 @ooopiwowoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026new creature discovered 1983733115
Reposted by hobbitqueenBlayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Much, much more. In Canada, as @ntusikov.bsky.social and I point out in a recent Policy Options piece, Mark Carney's foolish all-in bet on AI, combined with his civil service job cuts, is guaranteed to put lives at risk. People will die.policyoptions.irpp.orgCarney’s AI push risks harm as Ottawa automates public servicesFrom immigration errors to social-assistance breakdowns, early use of automated systems shows how public services can fail without human judgment. 23820
Reposted by hobbitqueenSlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Me listening to other people's conversations that are absolutely none of my business whatsoever. 039884
Reposted by hobbitqueenpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026so we just nearly started a war with china (a nuclear state) because of genAI use 19853310
Reposted by hobbitqueenJay Garmon @jaygarmon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Author/artist grievance against AI, summarized 026369
Reposted by hobbitqueenJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Today's installment in the NIH institute director shitshow... A new director for the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). www.nih.gov/news-events/... As far as I can tell, he has three publications and has never received NIH funding. 1/2nih.govDr. Jonathan Burke selected as director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial ResearchDr. Burke will start his role on Sept. 20, 2026. 1212755
Reposted by hobbitqueenStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots. 15786382555
Reposted by hobbitqueenGhouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If we aren’t doing this everywhere, what are we even doing? Annual Toronto dog swim before they close down the outdoor pools for the season: 511403469
Reposted by hobbitqueenNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oh one other thing, if you're wondering where the Sheeran headline itself ended up, this *could* work except he's rather more famously an Ipswich Town supporter, though these past few days he's probably felt very Spurs cc @jelbugle.bsky.social et al 231919
Reposted by hobbitqueenNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Okay so @defector.com has had an odd glitch since the site redesign a couple of weeks back where the wrong photo and headline are often put together on the main page and I was going to ask them about fixing it but this just happened and as far as I'm concerned they have to leave it as is. 7270801519
Reposted by hobbitqueenDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This is a key point about self-driving cars and disability. If you are completely reconfiguring the car this offers opportunities to think about space differently, and there are some models for how to do so. But the cybercab is just a sports car without a steering wheel. bsky.app/profile/myst... 618021
Reposted by hobbitqueenDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If you use a wheelchair, are you worried that you might not be able to use a cybercar? No problem. Your first fare includes some sort of miracle cure that allows you to not just walk again but to also store the wheelchair yourself. 22840152
Reposted by hobbitqueenDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/09/2026I did not have Tetris needing to put out anti-fascist statements on my bingo card, but here we are 162282615
Reposted by hobbitqueenCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I like that this design appears to show the birth date of liberty as 1776, and its death as 2026 626113812247
Reposted by hobbitqueenKrista D Ball is Canada's Spooky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Today's Word of the Day 💫Acatalepsy💫 "The philosophical idea that absolute truth or complete understanding is impossible" (from "The Word Nerd Dictionary of Obscure and Enchanting Words" by Kaelin Witt - it also gives usage and etymology along with each word) 2263
Reposted by hobbitqueenjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026this takes an incredible amount of character, not just to give it up, but to admit all of this. This guy has more guts than any AI fuck by a mile, and maybe more than us too. People who've managed to escape AI usage are invaluable towards convincing others to do the same. 228951051
Reposted by hobbitqueenCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20/01/2026People jerk off in those things but ok send my kid to school in the Dangerous Jizzmobile. You are a psycho if you send your unattended child in a goddamn Waymo. 1537545
Reposted by hobbitqueenCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Watching the same idiots impressed by AI also impressed by the remote control cars that people jerk off in and shit in has been one of my favorite subplots of this era of Silicon Valley scams 213020
Reposted by hobbitqueenChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026Ok what the actual fuck, @wired.com!!!! Calling perimenopause a “buzzword” is wild, misogynist work that minimizes a decades long feminist movement to raise awareness about women’s health This article could have been good but instead is … very very badwired.comInside the Perimenopause Industrial ComplexHow an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy. 561828338
Reposted by hobbitqueenUnofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Nepal-Tibet floods: River water smashed into tunnel and chased me, hydropower engineer saysbbc.co.ukNepal-Tibet floods: River water smashed into tunnel and chased me, hydropower engineer saysMajor efforts to rescue hydropower workers continue as Nepal's death toll exceeds 1,000. 163
Reposted by hobbitqueenMonterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 01/09/2026🍣 Choosing sustainable seafood is a positive action nearly all of us can take to protect ocean habitats and wildlife. Our refreshed Sushi Guide will make those choices even easier. 619780