Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 2hI feel this thread so hard. I used to be the equipment manager for a research department. When I left that job for librarianship, the 3D printer craze was hitting and I refused to deal with them because I knew hot goop + small nozzles = fiddly maintenance. 000
Reposted by Ian McCulloughirium 🖖🏻🎃🦇 @lapsoirium.bsky.social · 16hNormalize blocking folks that use AI art in their posts. 2103
Reposted by Ian McCulloughMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 96114102651
Reposted by Ian McCulloughAlexander Sliwinski @sliwinski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026And here we are! It's happened. (Starship Troopers nailing the future. We live in satire.) 110538
Reposted by Ian McCulloughSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm all out of bubble gum substack.com/@sarahkendzi...substack.comSarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior)Old photo of me with my daughter while I was pregnant with my son. Only realizing now I spent 2010 dressed like Rowdy Roddy Piper in THEY LIVE. 91798
Reposted by Ian McCulloughDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:science.org‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences researchAgency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year 9661515
Reposted by Ian McCulloughJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/09/2026Science fiction is currently roughly six percent of the current fiction market in North America and fantasy is (again, roughly) four times that. There's definitely more money in fantasy. In all genres, I will note, the money is very unequally distributed. (Horror... fluctuates) 3974361
Reposted by Ian McCulloughNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026With CNN and CBS in the hands of the Ellisons and Fox in the hands of the Murdochs, pressure mounts on NBC to sell itself to either Marc Andreesen, Peter Thiel, or Elon Musk. 443545
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I feel like Blaha rubs off on them a little wrt to sweaters and polos. 120
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This might be the most entertaining preseason game I’ve seen. Some very lazy early season play turned good when the end of the bench came in and try-harded their way to a comeback. 4 point game with 30 seconds left? Yeah, sign me up. (Pistons Suns) 110
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I thought you had to use fire or acid damage to kill them without regeneration?!? 1180
Reposted by Ian McCulloughCraig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The early internet didn't suck up my life's work without permission or compensation, use it for its own profit, condition people to accuse me of aping the style of the thief, and then yell at me and call me a luddite when I objected to it. bsky.app/profile/gold... 013016
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I think his best HAM performance was Tropic Thunder. Les Grossman is an all time character. 010
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This goes straight to my "Tom Cruise is a great actor" argument. People say "God, Tom Cruise annoyed me in that film!" Me "Was his character annoying?" Them "Yes! Supremely so!" Me "Doesn't that mean he effectively portrayed an annoying character?" Them "......" 100
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I figure it‘s because they want AI text to have copyright protection. 000
Reposted by Ian McCulloughLaika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026if you have 10 nazis and 100 normal people in a bar, its still a nazi bar. 2296
Reposted by Ian McCulloughAbdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics. 321164604671
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I strongly feel their shit ground game in 2016 delivered the state to Trump. 2012 - door to door organizing. 2016 - crickets and high paid consultants. 020
Reposted by Ian McCulloughJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5. 527584
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m with you. I (Gen Xer) was past cool when Stevens was cool. In the generational musician draft, he goes to the Millennials. 020
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My tenured union faculty position was eliminated during Covid due to loose wording in our CBA’s “force majeure” clause. Union folk - have very explicit language here and don’t just accept management’s words. These clauses can obviate every other section in a contract. 0206
Reposted by Ian McCulloughHacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I said no and Apple said yesdbushell.comI said no and Apple said yesThe one where Apple decides consent doesnât matter anymore. 001
Reposted by Ian McCulloughMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY 258144166834
Reposted by Ian McCulloughBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026This is the "force majeure" clause, which is not like a normal force majeure clause (which allows the parties to back out of their commitment in case of war, wildfires, etc). *This* force majeure clause lets Warnermount tear up the entire agreement if there's a *strike* or a *recession*. 27111
Reposted by Ian McCulloughPatrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026oil prices taking a breather today on hopes of new talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting, gasoline spots down 3-7c/gal, diesel though is where the real drop is- spots down 17-27c/gal. this means gasoline prices could dip slightly, diesel will see needed relief 25710
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 21/09/2026static.klipy.comGerald Ford: Our National Nightmare Is OverALT: Gerald Ford: Our National Nightmare Is Over 010
Reposted by Ian McCulloughPatrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026BREAKING: according to live GasBuddy data, 10% of the nation's stations are now seeing diesel over $7 per gallon... $7.01/gal, while the bottom 10% average $5.83/gal. Median price of diesel $6.39/gal. Expecting further increases to all of these metrics. 521463
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I don't really think the professional athletes shilling gambling platforms have fully internalized that thousands of children will associate them forever with their parent's financial ruin. 010
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Hey @jacobsberg.bsky.social or other beer seers - why are these Omnipollo beers so expensive? 100
Reposted by Ian McCulloughHacker News Robot @hackernewsrobot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Google illegally retains customer data,and I am taking legal action against themmedium.comGoogle illegally retains customer data, and I am taking legal action against themI stand before Google with the following clear technical evidence that cannot be denied, because it is based on unassailable software… 011
Reposted by Ian McCulloughSherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Ohioans are asking, “Who is Jon Husted?” Let me tell you. 69647
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Lovecraft was actually important and influential, Anthony is not. Both problematic, but one is still worth reading So I would say not the same. 000
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I never saw it in the 80s, but told my kid it was a classic so why not? We lasted 10 minutes- so. much. homophobia 020
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 14/09/2026One of my friends is an English professor. He said most novels written by American men between 1945-85 are unassignable because of the genuinely unpleasant sexism in them. 010
Reposted by Ian McCulloughEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026When I say I've been working on this debunking for *years* that includes academic publications. Here's a quick thread: 224575
Reposted by Ian McCulloughEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/20265. Finally, beware of mathiness. If some Anthropic defector gains notoreity for claming a 10% chance of "AI" annihilating humanity within the decade ... I mean this shouldn't be news, but at the very least someone should ask him how he calculated that. >> 525239
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If you’re a reader, the novel Stalker is based on - Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers - is really great. 010
Ian McCullough @imccullough.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Please, everyone - read widely and voraciously. 000