Reposted by Jen in BooklandGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 06/10/2026It's crazy that TERFs are so cooked in their own rank juices they don't even talk about actual violence against women, even when it's front page news. It's all the imaginary specter of the Trans Infiltrator. 191259183
Reposted by Jen in BooklandAnil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026Exactly this. And in fact, many models *have* been created this way, and decades of prior machine learning systems *were* created this way, consensually. These things are choices! People are STILL working this way! It’s not just that a better world is possible — it already EXISTS. We can nurture it. 171753473
Reposted by Jen in BooklandBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Lafayette Square isn't "a historic protest site." It's a fucking park. And it's packed on nice days. Calling it a protest site is White House framing. They're closing a popular public park to create a presidential palace Saddam Hussein would love.nytimes.comInside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations. 152484727
Reposted by Jen in BooklandJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead 10994582975
Reposted by Jen in Booklandmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real 292455512
Reposted by Jen in BooklandThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!! 354169593027
Reposted by Jen in BooklandErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026Holy shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control. 4734448935
Reposted by Jen in BooklandCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As a footnote, if a mechanism exists to deprive ANY group of civil rights—no matter how reviled they are, and by however many—then that mechanism WILL eventually be weaponized against YOU. You do not have to be trans or pro-trans to be against deprivation of anyone's rights. (PS: I am pro-trans.) 12520132
Reposted by Jen in BooklandI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026“How often someone is toxic” a super defined metric that won’t be abused against marginalized people at all. 412007421
Reposted by Jen in BooklandGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/09/2026We have reached gas prices that don't fit on the sign 😭 417542
Reposted by Jen in BooklandAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead. 4644255
Reposted by Jen in BooklandJed Brown @jedbrown.org · 16/09/2026Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy. 35702188
Reposted by Jen in BooklandAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy 543792895
Reposted by Jen in BooklandMicah @rincewind.run · 17/09/2026see, this is why Reacher is perfect television because we all had this reaction, and we knew that Reacher would then kill that fool using his nail hands, and then Reacher did kill that fool using his nail hands implicit promises made, implicit promises kept 928923
Reposted by Jen in BooklandGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/09/2026Everything about genAI is the opposite of consent, man. Like EVERY. SINGLE. PART. OF. IT. It's all built on the idea that consent is for lesser fools. 030880
Reposted by Jen in BooklandGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/09/2026me normally when a bad guy picks up a nail gun: oh fuck oh no run hero run me when a bad guy in Reacher picks up a nail gun: STOP YOU FOOL, YOU WILL GIVE HIM NAIL HANDS 322326
Reposted by Jen in BooklandGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/09/2026Trump really stress tested all the institutional norms for us and proved that with a complicit congress and a psychotic supreme court, the president can really mostly just do whatever the fuck evil shit he wants. And I feel like we should maybe... fix that? 😑 010521
Reposted by Jen in BooklandGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 17/09/2026This is so fucking evil. Just tremendously evil. (And it's an impulse that lives on both sides, as we see on here whenever a disaster hits a red state. But we have never elected people who embrace that impulse before, and it is terrifying that the system apparently allows him to do this???) 18518
Reposted by Jen in BooklandThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026🤦🏼 no wonder everything he touches goes bankrupt He literally thinks buying stuff from someone is the same as losing money, and nobody around him has corrected him 4663517897
Reposted by Jen in BooklandSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Even a lot of people on the left are still way too stuck on the idea that wealthy powerful people got that way by being smart and making plans and forming accurate reads on the world and it’s really just not like that, sorry, the truth is so much stupider 41968302
Reposted by Jen in Bookland🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it. 6673012111
Reposted by Jen in BooklandMike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Assuming Dems take back the House, the impeachment of Trump still should be on the table, but impeaching Kennedy, Hegseth, and Vought should definitely happen–and it will really put Republicans in a bind. 222245
Reposted by Jen in BooklandIsaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026the thing about antivax is not that it’s objectively wrong (although it is), it’s that even if it were right, you’re saying you’d rather your kid be dead than autistic, and that’s unforgivable 04411
Reposted by Jen in BooklandRachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Anti-vax is an anti-autistic hate movement, premised on hatred & fear of autistic people. Their extremely dangerous lies about vaccines are only coherent if you buy into their manufactured panic about autism. 19130
Reposted by Jen in Bookland"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This, absolutely sincerely. Most of these guys are doing high crimes and misdemeanors. A bunch of them are involved in waging an illegal, unauthorized war. Congress' investigatory powers are at their *peak* in an impeachment context. So impeach, impeach, impeach. 17924211
Reposted by Jen in BooklandBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Dem leaders: Impeachment is a waste of time that doesn't accomplish anything! GOP leaders: We must seal the House and flee the city to avoid the consequences of this looming impeachment votenewrepublic.comHouse Cancels Votes to Avoid Embarrassment Over Hegseth ImpeachmentRepublicans are sending members of Congress home early to avoid a vote on the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. 491965545
Reposted by Jen in BooklandThe Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die. 681208726137
Reposted by Jen in BooklandRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Iran War is out of control. Gas prices are about to hit record highs. Families are struggling to make ends meet. The threat of AI looms. But Republicans already delivered tax cuts for corporations and billionaires — so Mike Johnson is sending the House home. "Promises made, promises kept." 74971376
Reposted by Jen in BooklandDenis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A Canadian study of nearly 9,000 adults looked at repeat COVID infections. Researchers found that people who reported having COVID at least twice had 76% higher odds of being diagnosed with a new health condition, across 21 conditions studied, compared with those who reported never being infected.medicaldaily.comAdults with Two or More COVID Infections Had 76% Higher Odds of a New Diagnosis in Canadian SurveyA Canadian survey tied repeat COVID-19 infections to 76% higher odds of a new diagnosis. Here is what it shows and what it cannot prove. 5345211
Reposted by Jen in Booklandthene @thene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026this is why it's my pet peeve fake science fact. It's absolute bs! nothing happens to brains at age 25, they do not "fully mature". you will notice that many societies have an age of majority or coming-of-age or whatever and none of them have ever chosen mid-20s. 5545175
Reposted by Jen in BooklandRick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026it’s almost like ciswomen aren’t inherently athletically inferior to cismen and maybe the Trans Threat In Sports has been hallucinated by 37 bigots with bullhorns 4647246
Reposted by Jen in BooklandElizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen. 4429421011
Reposted by Jen in BooklandFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That: 28860751589
Reposted by Jen in Booklandbetsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NEW: Novel drug bezisterim might help with fatigue, PEM, and neurological symptoms in Long COVID, according to preliminary results BioVie shared today. These are early findings that will need more review, but it's exciting to see a positive trial result for once! More @thesicktimes.org:thesicktimes.orgBezisterim may help with some Long COVID symptoms, drug’s developer reports in early trial results - The Sick TimesWhile the phase 2 clinical trial results, shared by BioVie in a webinar on Tuesday, have yet to be peer-reviewed, investigators say they can inform a confirmatory phase 3 trial. 39847
Reposted by Jen in BooklandGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you 8980982032
Reposted by Jen in BooklandSarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Seeing Ed Sheeran's own band quitting on him is, I have to say, really doing it for me. Restoring one shred of hope for humanity. 794368603
Reposted by Jen in BooklandKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much. 7684761565
Reposted by Jen in BooklandMichael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors 584661921
Reposted by Jen in BooklandA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The guy who thinks humans deserve health care is being trashed as dangerous. Dangerous to what exactly, we might ask. 10576111
Reposted by Jen in Booklandpretty BOO!!!👻👻🎃🎃😈😈🎃👻!!!😈g @inyourculture.bsky.social · 15/09/2026wait fr?? 162584545
Reposted by Jen in BooklandClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I keep seeing ChatGPT ads about Olds having chatty convos with the voice to text feature to help them do stuff on their phone and every single use case is just a thing you used to be able to just google before AI ruined Google 21159162
Reposted by Jen in BooklandMary Sue @marysuesays.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I was saying this weekend that usually the GOP begs borrows and steals everything possible to keep gas prices low before the midterms. This is an unsettling turn of events because I don't know what their reaction is going to be. 112516
Reposted by Jen in BooklandKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 16/09/2026Reading a romance published a few years ago that's really trying to do an ethical billionaire, but as of 2026 I just can't. I will suspend a *lot* of belief in my romance reading but there are limits. 1226721
Reposted by Jen in Bookland👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/09/2026voter abstention this, voter abstention that, the obvious answer here is that Democrats could and should just support trans people. if you're on the left and consider yourself on the left in any capacity you should just be supporting trans folk 71569299
Reposted by Jen in BooklandEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The Democrats who are responding to anti-trans Republican attacks by kowtowing are signalling that they're not ready to meet this emergency. If elected, they're showing won't have the spine needed to reverse the Trumpist tide - unless we make them more afraid of their base than the other party. 327765
Reposted by Jen in BooklandAntlers Teeth Claws @gravewriter71.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And every single Dem who won't stand up for trans rights will be a fucking coward about everyone else's rights too. Fuck every single one of them. May their careers end in shame & may each of them be yeeted to the curb. 121058
Reposted by Jen in BooklandDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/09/2026It's official: The EPA has repealed a rule that would have directly saved thousands of lives by limiting fossil fuel emissions from power plants. Industry lobbyists successfully pushed for this repeal using surging demand from data centers as justification. The government chose AI over human lives. 12433227
Reposted by Jen in BooklandDr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own 10065511391
Reposted by Jen in BooklandRon Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Someone suggested some trans folks and their allies “are mad at DEMs for saying things that will actually result in winning elections *with their very specific constituencies*“ and I’m like we have recent data that shows saying those things in Texas or Ohio will NOT gain a Democrat statewide office. 072
