Reposted by ReadinessAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.* 21422405
Reposted by ReadinessSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Harry Potter fan who fell into a coma shortly after reading The Deathly Hallows wakes up in 2026 423702823
Reposted by ReadinessMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/07/2026This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City. This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night. 461210793340
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 15/07/2026It’s been 23 hours and Ive thought about this question every waking hour. I need clarification about what you were asking about. 110
Reposted by Readinesss. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 14/07/2026Anyway if you liked this you are going to LOVE my @theflytrapmedia.com article about the explosive growth of the pull to publish trend that's turning Harry Potter fanfic into big book deals. While you're at it you should subscribe to our newsletter! Majority trans & queer feminist media! Good stuff.theflytrapmedia.comParry Hotter and the Six-Figure Book Deal"Pull to publish" adult fantasy based on Dramione fanfic is funneling money to one of the world's most notorious transphobes. 114445
Reposted by ReadinessBen Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Emergency research - favourite GULPIES flavours (USA only) and are they cold on a hot summer's day? 17263
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Do … do you mean a Big Gulp? Like a Slurpi? In that case the flavor has a name (cherry?) but it’s alias is just red 030
Reposted by ReadinessPreacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 01/07/2026open.substack.comTrashing the BathroomYou have to stop coping through cruelty 0113
Reposted by ReadinessGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it 3043511056
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 20/06/2026I sent the first one to Holly who was like, “I already have tickets” which is very on brand 010
Reposted by ReadinessAnil Dash @anildash.com · 19/06/2026The number of people at the Knicks parade today were roughly equal to the combined population of Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Montana & Alaska. So if you heard about any issues in NYC today, but not about any crimes in those states, you know the agenda of that media. 162776594
Reposted by ReadinessMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars. 8153372301
Reposted by ReadinessInternet Archive @archive.org · 02/06/2026🧵 Some publishers & news organizations are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving journalism, stifling access to the public record. 📣 If you rely on the Wayback Machine to preserve news & history, tell them not to block web archiving. ✏️ Sign the open letter👇 www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders 5729372
Reposted by ReadinessCZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Huh, this is weird The Tahoe utility is Liberty Utilities. They BOUGHT the CA assets of a Nevada based utility, NV Energy, in 2009. So Tahoe is regulated by California, but their service is entirely dependent on Nevada. It's the reverse of why El Paso keeps power when the rest of TX goes dark.arstechnica.comEnergy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centersTown’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy. 15218
Reposted by ReadinessPreacher from the Black Lagoon @revpoppop.bsky.social · 02/05/2026When I said I wanted Gen Z to do mischief and learn to risk assess, the Naruto speedruns in the church of Scientology were exactly the kind of thing I was asking for. Thank you. I’m so proud of you. 🥲 0554
Reposted by Readinessemily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Yeupp, eugenicists all the way down bsky.app/profile/emil... 110428
Reposted by ReadinessSeanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I don't care how well-supervised you think your dog is: the coyotes are fast and hungry and your dog looks like a Door Dash burrito. Please stop doing that. Or, if you must do that, please stop calling park services and trying to get my coyotes destroyed for doing what they do. 127520
Reposted by ReadinessJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Gynecology is largely just straight-up torture, because medical schools literally taught for decades that women just… don’t feel pain there, and women who complained were WWs (“whiny woman”, actual med student slang). 11757128
Reposted by ReadinessFrazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social · 05/05/2026BREAKING-ish: If 8 Republican AGs (TX, FL, AK, KS, LA, MO, MT, SD) win a case they filed today, Section 504 plans will end as we know them...and it will remove the federal protection against unnecessary institutionalization. I wish I was being dramatic. 26029
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 04/05/2026100% exactly. A thesis on “data privacy” would be VASTLY too broad to this specific issue unless you wrote it about this specific use case. Even then how old it is? What community? What car? It’s an incredibly challenging problem to solve. Anyway I had froyo and made him mad and both were delicious 020
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Honestly I feel like my take was like … bare minimum of understanding. But didn’t you know? He wrote a ~thesis~ on data privacy so totally knows alllllll about a highly dynamic industry 120
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 04/05/2026He got so mad when I eventually just responding 😘 that his account is now suspended which I find hilarious 120
Reposted by ReadinessMs . Penny Oaken @skywitchy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026There is some discourse about KiwiFarms Reminder: The man who owns KiwiFarms (& profits off it) also runs a website for an outlawed New Zealand White Identity Extremism terrorist group An AD of the FBI has stated they’re known to be an Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism group 1153
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I misspoke *the new DESIGN* and patent: finance.yahoo.com/sectors/tech...finance.yahoo.comFord's latest patent lets your truck scan your face and read your lips — and one day it could testify against youOwning a car is starting to feel a lot like renting your own data back from the manufacturer. Ford’s new patent is chilling for privacy experts and advocates. 010
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 03/05/2026100% and while yes privacy and security is part of it (a large part) there is a zero percent chance this will be another thing you don’t actually actually own but pay to use. Did you see the new Ford truck with facial recognition that won’t let you drive it if the CAR can’t verify your id? 120
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 03/05/2026definitely gonna to listen to some internet bro and idk not the last 20 years of combo exposure to tech, security and gov - naw big dawg but thanks for the laugh. Go forth and mansplain to someone else. 100
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 03/05/2026I bet you believe tech companies when they say they don’t store your data too lol. I mean you do you ig but flock, Alexa, et al are right there. “Internal governor” that would by design have to know what the speed limit in the area is - a thing that changes and will require patching. 220
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 03/05/2026What cause I don’t want automatic outside controls on my car? Wild take. 220
Reposted by ReadinessDavid Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 27/04/2026So much more about Newsom's politics makes sense when one realizes his son is a nazi and rather than being a cause for serious intervention, he sees that as cool, authentic and worth impressing. 111166324
Reposted by Readiness👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 16/04/2026they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now 10440461111
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 14/04/2026media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is sitting in a room with his eyes closed and his hands out .ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a room with his eyes closed and his hands out . 010
Reposted by ReadinessSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 13/04/2026A huge number of cradle Catholics I’ve heard talk about him—lapsed or not—have gone on to talk A Certain Way about adult converts, and I think non-Catholics don’t really understand this part of the culture because Protestantism is so much more loosey-goosey about a lot of this kind of stuff 833870
Reposted by ReadinessFrazz @mrs-frazzled.bsky.social · 13/04/2026ActBlue donors can request refunds if they donated to Swalwell’s campaign. Pass it on. 141416751
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 11/04/2026So it turns out that that nerve block was doing some Olympian level lifting and it’s definitely worn off now 000
Reposted by ReadinessSarah Hörst @planetdr.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels. 14139342335
Reposted by ReadinessIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 01/04/2026Fun fact, most catholics get yelled at by the pope exactly zero times in their whole lives but Censures Georg here has managed it like five times in six years 723304585
Reposted by ReadinessAnatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Hey, look. It's a decent scan of this legendary image! 6957681755
Reposted by ReadinessKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Conversion therapy and hiding the existence of LGBTQ people from kids isn’t going to make their queerness and transness go away. It’s just abuse and dealing mountains of unnecessary damage that hurt them and the people around them and doesn’t have to happen at all 129151
Reposted by ReadinessJessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...jessica.substack.comThe Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions9.12.25 3423981193
Reposted by ReadinessBabybel Bandit @greblin.bsky.social · 29/03/2026wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it 5401525812574
Readiness @readiness.bsky.social · 27/03/2026End of the season is everyone fighting over who 5150s him 010
Reposted by Readinessall-hallows-eve-ison steele, organic human person 🎃 @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 27/03/2026the dropout gang remain the coolest people in media today. 123250
Reposted by ReadinessLanakiller ❌👑 @lanakiller.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Rage quilted this, not quite finished. Lots of mask scraps, which is fitting. Thrifted the scrap pieced stars and bars on the right. Sprout at the bottom to symbolize what I want to embroider there, "HOPE" We'll get through this together 💙 #Protest #Resist #QuiltSky 26915
