Steven @padnick.bsky.social · 15hIn fact it comes at a cost: you will lose friends. Shitty friends, but still. And the people you’re helping will never know or thank you. Still, be a good guy. 030
Reposted by StevenJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed 3243781036
Reposted by Stevenshing yin khor @shing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026just in case you did not know what you were looking at 1033464
Reposted by Stevensianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world. 1371167
Reposted by Stevensamuelwa.de @samuelwa.de · 28/09/2026My “Involved in Human Trafficking“ shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are making me want to stop wearing my shirt rather than reconsider my involvement in human trafficking 33895539
Reposted by StevenJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every thriller and scifi writer in America: "Um, am I in trouble for having this in my Notes for like ten years?" 2531466
Reposted by StevenMore Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.” 291198268
Reposted by StevenOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"This reminds me of a critical mistake made in previous generations of socialists; the idea that before any political action happens, before it’s worth contesting power, the people need to be educated." A point I pushed past on the first read but worth staring at www.powermapmag.com/p/shitty-sky...powermapmag.comShitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet. 617928
Reposted by StevenDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t. 7833151101
Reposted by Stevenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule. 942820458
Reposted by StevenAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282158851
Reposted by StevenJared 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. 16892733039
Reposted by StevenBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“It’s not pervert glasses, it’s a tiny fuzzy pervert you wear around your neck because you trapped him in a tiny pervert cage. It’s not weird. He likes the cage, if you know what I mean. Now come over here and let him have a good look at you.” 11310128
Reposted by StevenLee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What a surprise, the organizers of the covid cautious dyke bar hated the article, rejected its framing, and is defending their covid cautious patrons and performers. Anyone who joined in on the viral harassment campaign started by Jesse Singal wanna say oops or…? recorder.com/2026/09/24/g... 141231455
Reposted by StevenChris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”houstonchronicle.comTexas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable. 352245759
Reposted by StevenEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252094917
Reposted by StevenToo Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026In Christine, John Carpenter had Christine "heal" herself by filming internal mechanisms crushing the car from the inside, and then playing the footage backwards.static.klipy.comChristine John CarpenterAlt: Christine reforming herself after being crashed 321148
Reposted by StevenG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 25/09/2026Every day we get closer to this: 121457442
Reposted by StevenThe Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026If many Kansas voters weren't completely deranged, this would be the final nail in Marshall's career's coffin as a senator and as a doctor. 110131
Reposted by Stevenanna, journalist, get woke or DEI trying @fakerobotgamer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this is getting a lot of attention all of the sudden so i want to additionally point out: this is all a jesse singal op bsky.app/profile/did:... 443095
Reposted by StevenZane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The thing about this "AI is gonna go rogue" bullshit is that we've established that this technology requires extremely expensive unpopular infrastructure to run. Like oh god the super intelligence is gonna kill us all please keep letting us build the streaming diesel fume factories 1417113
Reposted by StevenAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit... 1493894545
Reposted by StevenMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Without due process, you'll have no way of showing ICE that you're a citizen" is pretty effective messaging for normies! Do I wish everyone cared about undocumented migrants as much as they care about themselves? Sure. But they don't, and it's fine to have different messages for different audiences 776346
Reposted by StevenBully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮 @bullythelsb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This doesn't even need an article. 095
Reposted by StevenInkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Obsessed with this c. 800 sketch of Charlemagne I found for lecture today 001
Reposted by StevenDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Have you ever tried to read a scientific journal article and been told “you don’t have access, pay to download this article?” Did you know that the author of that article gets $0 if you pay? Instead, you can email the author and ask for a free copy! I’d be delighted to help and answer questions! 421918771
Reposted by StevenCRSerenity2132 @crserenity2132.bsky.social · 24/09/2026As @johnrogers.bsky.social regularly says: "Because the companies. DO NOT. Play by the Rules. Visibly. Repeatedly. Pathologically." 011756
Reposted by StevenAaron 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. 21188013840
Reposted by Stevenweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106412506
Reposted by StevenAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This guy has all the worst ideas for weirdos. I guess he got lucky once with one bad idea for weirdos that normies took to, once they completely eliminated its original horrible weirdo purpose 57623
Reposted by StevenKarla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This man so deeply understands that life should be more than just work. That you communicate something to people about what they deserve when you make art accessible. 02510
Reposted by StevenCeleste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...londondaily.comBanksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London DailyExclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities 396382560
Reposted by StevenEmily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend 5794773353
Reposted by StevenDavid Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around ‘free speech’ and ‘cancel culture’: whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship." www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se... 014359
Reposted by StevenJohn Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When you want to write, "The AI wants to hurt people," remember that you mean to write, "The AI company profits off of hurting people." 1371174
Reposted by StevenDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/09/20261868: Let's allow these people to save face so we can move one and get back to work fixing the country. 1974: Let's allow Nixon to save face so we can move on and heal the country. 2021: Let's not convict Trump so we can move on and get back to work fixing and healing the country. 2026: … 11302105
Reposted by Steventweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 23/09/2026"activists are SUPPOSED to be annoying" was one of my great "no shit, dummy" belated revelations 240874
Reposted by StevenRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Apartheid: "a policy of political, social, and economic discrimination against the non [ethnic] majority in the" state Democracy: "political, social, or economic equality : the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class distinctions or privileges." 116558
Reposted by StevenMatthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What I expected to see in this interview, but didn't, is a huge simple fix: stop means testing altogether. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...news.harvard.eduIs it time to start cutting red tape on government programs? — Harvard GazetteJournalist’s new book "The Time Tax" argues the "administrative burden" unfairly hits nation’s most vulnerable hardest. 312025
Reposted by StevenRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano 11867541611
Steven @padnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Cut and Paste: Ethical Questions on Transporter Disruption of Continuity of Identity 010
Reposted by StevenMaggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 23/09/2026That’s Mensch of the Year Emeritus shit right here 2533
