PG @pantherpg.bsky.social · 1hIf you’ve never read the originals, they are probably far wittier than you expect them to be. 010
Reposted by PGRonan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Grindr is training its AI on your photos, your age, and your taps by default, without asking. This video shows where the app buried the off switch. The stakes are high on an app like Grindr. Numerous countries criminalize same-sex relations, so being outed through your data can be dangerous. 321236688
Reposted by PGBichinhos Fofinhos pra quem ta cansado @bichinhos.bsky.social · 11/10/2026⬆️ 1350341416
Reposted by PGDon't you just love the skeleton dance? @feyerbrandx.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Come down to the cellar geop I have a choice pipe of amano tillado to share with you 0254
Reposted by PGClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026rainbow capitalism is important not as a statement of any corporation’s values (for that, look where they donate money and talk to LGBTQ employees!), but because they have access to consumer data we don’t have and they’re conservative by nature. a pendulum swing right now is useful data 12294562
Reposted by PGChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026As always, I’d like to remind everyone that when you fight in public, you make it very easy for the feds to understand how to start and keep fights going within the movement So be thoughtful!!!!! 124142
Reposted by PGCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/10/2026Large language models are not the sorts of entities that can be held responsible. This lede should read "Using AI agents, Anthropic tried to gain access to a range of government websites...." 29560151
Reposted by PGAnil Dash @anildash.com · 11/10/2026Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built. 14702191
Reposted by PG🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 11/10/2026no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt 272163472
Reposted by PGMei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence. 50168505524
PG @pantherpg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Reposted a bunch of stuff. Went ahead and removed a few things because yes, we know everything is on fire. The cat remains a wonderful excuse to avoid getting up and doing anything. 020
Reposted by PGJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/10/2026Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq... 492780786
Reposted by PGProsanta Chakrabarty @prosanta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Natural history museums are at an inflection point that started with the auctioning of dinosaurs. If Fort Hays State (Sternberg) or Drexel (Acad.Nat.Sci.) think they can monetize collections (i.e., sell natural history specimens); museums become safety deposit boxes instead of research institutes. 310544
Reposted by PGLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books 4073526510616
Reposted by PGColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó 9572190
Reposted by PGKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities 207126123133
PG @pantherpg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Chilly chilly weather is here. I should go get my cardigan but instead I’m wearing this 130
Reposted by PGKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...gadgetreview.comOne of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data CenterA rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land. 8537362230
Reposted by PGLydy @lydy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I don't know how important this is, but it seems like it might be relevant to the trans rights discussion: I think that a lot of people 50 and younger do not remember when no one was gay. I am 64, and I was raised in a conservative household, and I absolutely remember this. 35022
Reposted by PGMax Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 08/10/2026My colleague @hannahritchie.bsky.social has published a brief guide to the new 'Living Planet Index' report that just got published today. Here it is: ourworldindata.org/2026-lpi-upd... 1257
Reposted by PGDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Sitting on a boat in the wonderful family-owned marina that this amendment would destroy as we tweet. It’s just a monstrously corrupt idea. 0276
Reposted by PGThought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 08/10/2026Holy shit. It just hit me that the unspoken intended "social contagion" is sex education. Since the unspoken fact is that underage girls and just out of high school young women account for the entire decline (with slight increases in birth rates for adults over 25). There's so many gross layers. 35419
Reposted by PGYves-Claude Arem @yves-claude-arem.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The erasure and the uplink that fixed it are in the Apollo 8 flight record. The meeting where she was told it couldn't happen isn't, so it survives only because she kept repeating it. Being overruled in a room is the part that almost never gets written down. 0617
Reposted by PGThe Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I think it would be okay for all media to stop treating "CEO says company he gets money from is good and will change the world" as a newsworthy thing 0365
Reposted by PGThe Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I will simply say I am seeing exactly this situation play out right now in a different field. Work that would have taken about 3 weeks start to finish via traditional methods is now into week 6 and still in what amounts to first draft territory 2926286
Reposted by PGThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2026Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.nyti.msMargaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has DiedMargaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90. 342106876
Reposted by PG🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 08/10/2026this is definitely what publishers do with books that are in high demand and not written by a toxically bigoted dented can of spray cheese 43900156
PG @pantherpg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Do you want to close down amusement parks? Because this is how you close down amusement parks. 100
Reposted by PGDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My next book has a whole section on the psychology behind "People becoming successful by simply lying about already being successful then charging other people to learn their 'secrets' about how to become successful". This would make a perfect case study, but I doubt the legal team will go with it. 1493743836
Reposted by PGMJ of Everything is Public Health Production @everythingisph.bsky.social · 06/10/2026NYT fascist friendly word choice example #387749 044
Reposted by PGBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores. 2854613342
Reposted by PGThe A.V. Club @avclub.com · 06/10/2026Following the final approval of the Warner Bros.-Paramount merger, CEO David Ellison promises "difficult decisions that affect our workforce." tinyurl.com/5n7jnxe4 That's all, folks—Skydance immediately hints at massive layoffs 28392150
Reposted by PGElizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026never the wrong time for this classic 56120283575
Reposted by PGKrista Koeller @kristalerista.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When I was forced out of my lab, I was able to continue researching because of Morphosource. I would not be a scientist right now if it wasnt for this incredible resource. 210041
Reposted by PGGaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Can’t stop thinking about a date I went on years ago. I drank A LOT at a bar in the East Village and it was our 3rd date so I suggested he come home with me but he said “No, you’re too drunk. I wouldn’t want u to regret it later.” And I was like lol wut that’s not a thing. Reader, I married him. 81786
Reposted by PGGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost? 2188152
Reposted by PGKim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I keep trying to tell people irl that what they're doing is like if I walked into your house like "you wanna buy my friend's stove for $20? you want their car? $50" 424856
Reposted by PGJohn 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 10895162985
Reposted by PGAnu @nofirstorder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Dave doesn’t even care enough to correct him because he honestly forgot whether he's supposed to pretend to live in PA, CT or MN today.😐 20974186
Reposted by PGColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵 121195282
Reposted by PGMarc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/10/2026🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration illegally changed a form used by overseas voters to register and request mail ballots just weeks before the midterms, Democrats argue in a new lawsuit filed Thursday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comTrump admin quietly changed overseas voter form at 11th hour to disenfranchise Democrats, lawsuit saysThe change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues. 9435562012
Reposted by PGMarty @martincrownover.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The perfect way to put it. They found a way to worm a subscription between you and your normal work. 3395166
Reposted by PGThe Revelator @therevelator.org · 30/09/2026Many choices we ask people make to help the climate don’t reveal immediate results. But researchers found that changing diets can have a climate benefit and quickly reduce some health risks. therevelator.org/climate-policy-diettherevelator.orgClimate Policy Has a Sacrifice Problem. My Clinical Trials Kept Solving It by Accident. • The RevelatorMany choices we ask people make to help the climate don’t reveal immediate results. But we found that changing diets can have a climate benefit and quickly reduce some health risks. 043
Reposted by PGGaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m seeing a lot of ‘it’s not how we talk to our daughters it’s how we raise our sons’ on my timelines this morning and while I 110% agree with this statement I do wish it didn’t sound so much like we are still talking to women. 3748
Reposted by PGThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is crazy. They are laughing at us. 32814318
Reposted by PGU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/09/2026Finding Backrooms frightening largely due to all the unanchored furniture. 11666100
Reposted by PGJack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.” 44777289
