Reposted by Gwyan RhabytTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 40118743085
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytJonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There are a *lot* of top priorities for Dems in the next Congress but forcing the administration to follow the law on spending is probably the top of the top priorities. 23435102
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytSamperson @samperson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the IP rush was driven by faith that a culture is just a pile of Stuff, and if you own that stuff, you own culture. the AI rush is driven by faith that if you can automate the creation of stuff, you can automate culture. 113333
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president 895254316021
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytRebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic 47837220
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytMrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows 553115570
Reposted by Gwyan Rhabytevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 10120181024
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytMark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads. 541917162
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytGeek Native @geeknative.bsky.social · 24/09/2026UK Games Expo has banned generative AI art, text, and merchandise across all NEC exhibition halls, bringing the convention in line with broader British tabletop standards. Standholders face removal or bans if their products aren't made by humans. #UKGEgeeknative.comUK Games Expo bans generative AI art and text across all trade hallsUK Games Expo has introduced a mandatory policy prohibiting generative AI art and text across all NEC trade halls, requiring exhibitors to sell only human-made games. 181518485
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytGravity Pike @gravity-pike.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The tragedy of late capitalism is that it's not enough to be a profitable investment. You need to be more profitable than literally any other use of capital, including speculation on magic beans. 051
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytCharles Gaba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 21/09/2026This is the 28th time I’ve posted this Doonesbury since 2015. 18124
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytCount Trashula @trashmobminis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026What the actual hell are you talking about?! 1641847192
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault. 433129789
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026when ai leaves u behind 75256759623
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026I hate doing the "a rollback of trans rights is the gateway for a rollback of women's rights" thing because trans rights are human rights in and of themselves, whatever the impact on cis women. But goddamn I wish more cis women had a sense of history and self preservation. 2742261003
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 20/09/2026Hugo Steiner-Prag (1880–1945), “The City in the Sea” www.tumblr.com/charnel-grou... 181
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytTalespinner @talespinner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026it just says so much that they think making literal Jesus a woman takes away from his essence more than making him ... y'know ... a fucking lion. 17224
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytTrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 17/09/2026He’s not looking at a placard about lowering grocery prices. He’s not looking at a placard about end the Iran War. He’s not looking at a placard about reining in AI or ending the Canadian Trade War or expanding healthcare. He’s focused on what he thinks matters most: His grievances. 271318340
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytTommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Skipping the 2026 vote because of cynicism is a luxury belief. It is the view of those who do not face ICE vans, dying lakes, or surveillance cameras tracking family to clinics. Your apathy is a comfort they cannot afford. #GetReadyToVote #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory 13281156
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytCapn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social · 22/03/2024The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope 2334182786
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytBrian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him, or as flying in an airplane does to falling out of an airplane. Although the one experience precedes the other, it in no way prepares you for it." 073
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inactiontheguardian.comBurnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donorsPM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour 641266474
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026The Republican Party is chock full of open race scientists and Hitler apologists, so naturally our political press is laser focused on reckoning with “wokeness” and trans kids playing sports. 262570561
Reposted by Gwyan Rhabyteb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia 323274494
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Why do all these Nazis keep showing up on Republican campaigns, it's a real mystery washingtonsun.com/senate/huste...washingtonsun.comHusted Fires Political Director Over Past Nazi PostsThe former staffer had posted profile photos featuring Nazi officers and wore the attire in a group photo in 2018. 471510339
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026Centuries ahead of its time, Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624) depicts figures made from a range of objects, mostly abstract — cubes, rings, squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, and braided hair. www.tumblr.com/publicdomain... 1576
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Rough Draft vs Final Draft 253116783318
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 03/09/2026guns are what turn small horrors into big horrors 41414
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Standing room only for Historical Fiction Meets SF/F at @laworldcon.bsky.social Monday morning doesn't stop enthusiastic fans! 121
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytPeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026And there you have it. Google Maps is calling Lake Ontario Lake America, despite having NO obligation to do so. Cowardly, unnecessary, corporate capitulation. 2126855
Reposted by Gwyan Rhabytryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/08/2026USAID was a free space for tankie and tankie adjacent dingbats to score edgy contrarian points by wildly exaggerating how imperialist it was, confident in the belief that it wouldn’t just disappear, except now it has and everyone is uncomfortably looking elsewhere 392549390
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytSam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 23/08/2026The death of folk graphic design in favor of AI slop across our country's delis is leading to some incredibly Lovecraftian food horrors 2464188769
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytPOCGamer aka PanzerLion! @pocgamer.com · 28/08/20265/5...modern corporations in this late stage capitalist nightmare we're wading through would rather engage in social engineering to make us buy a middling product than actually innovate. And the longer we let them, the harder it will be to actually innovate. 2163
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Nor will it end at ethnic cleansing. A machine built to eat people will keep eating people. Those who run it will always find a new category of unwanted humans. 5129841157
Reposted by Gwyan Rhabytmetacogito.bsky.social @metacogito.bsky.social · 27/08/2026How do we rebuild a viable, principled, and institution-preserving republican party after all this? I'm all for Dems winning and running things but we really can't survive if half of our tw-party system is willing to enable and defend all this. 621
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytMicah @rincewind.run · 21/08/2026I have two conflicting opinions these days 1. there is too much infighting on the broader left, we are all on the same side in the fight to remove these fuckers from power 2. it is existential that the moderates who want to hamstring serious attempts at reform lose that fight 32972114
Gwyan Rhabyt @rhabyt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Sooner than this, I believe that we will see figures on the Right claiming that Trump was a Democratic plant to discredit MAGA 000
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/08/2026"a Yale University study showed the program would save 114,000 American lives and $1 trillion every year" Hakeem dgaf as long as the donor spigot keeps gushing cash into his account & that's why the democratic party is my enemy 115432
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16/08/2026This is ALWAYS THE CLUE. Our journalistic class is (mostly) self-aware enough not to publish stories that are pure bigotry and resentment, but some stories give people a facially-plausible pretext to indulge in bigotry and resentment. You notice that these stories tend to get covered A LOT. 825931
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Basquiat seyde that "art ys how we decorate space, and musique ys how we decorate tyme." It doth followe that poetrye ys how we decorate thoughte and sense, and narratyve ys how we decorate memorye. And all are middel fingeres agaynste death. Make art, or else. 428883
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytMicah @rincewind.run · 16/08/2026exact same shit as when a teenager commits a crime and if they’re Black they’re a danger to society who must be locked away for life and if they’re white they just made a mistake and why should we ruin their life over it? 660075
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Abolishing ICE is now the official position of the Democratic Party 264106832256
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytRebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Donald Trump is stupid. America operates on the misbegotten assumption that being rich, white, and male means you’re also smart. If reporters had pushed back on Trump like they did with Sarah (not rich, not male) Palin, things might be very different. Instead, we have a moron as president. 1112828
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytSteven Glaros, M.A. @stevenglaros007.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Dems must always be in disarray. The immutable law of political reporting despite any and all evidence to the contrary. Every outcome must be bad for Dems. 0111
Reposted by Gwyan RhabytRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/08/2026More than half of accounts posting about violence in Belfast & Southampton on X were based overseas. Only 4 of the 12 most-seen posts were from the UK. X is now "“a weapon of choice” for hostile foreign actors seeking to manipulate shocking & divisive content". www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... 271158565