Reposted by Sparkstante @tante.cc · 7h"Programming isn’t special. It’s just Art, and Art is the most human — and thus, the most universal — thing that there is." Programming Isn’t Special 0267
Reposted by Sparksdorian @doriantaylor.com · 20hwhat they don't tell you about being canadian is sometimes you will just get céline dion stuck in your head with zero prompting 031
Reposted by SparksBlake E. Reid @chup.blakereid.org · 08/10/2026This is a very delightful piece from my new pal @quinnanya.me that is just worth reading in full if you're interested in copyright, creativity, and lawquinndaedal.comWhat do Spinning and the Law Have in Common? - Quinn DaedalI was invited to speak on the closing panel for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic's 25th anniversary. I sat at the front of the room with my tiny Electric Eel Wheel Nano spinning wh... 083
Reposted by SparksJesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 05/10/2026Grave faced doctor telling you you have a Sam Altman exclusive. 111824
Reposted by SparksErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026True story. Happy ending, or more accurately, not an unhappy ending. 2175
Reposted by Sparks-𝚖𝚘𝚡 ❄︎ ☃︎ @moxiest.art · 15/08/2026people get intimidated by the social belief of "supporting the arts" as like donating $5,000,000 for a new wing at a museum or hosting some gala it's not. 10% of our audience throwing us $1.00 a month would literally be *life-changing* money most artists are in the same boat. 31639730
Reposted by SparksLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026I implore all cis people to read this. 17989418
Reposted by SparksAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026"we can't uninvent this" we can't uninvent my car either but it still doesn't go anywhere without gas in the tank 837599
Reposted by SparksMonteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Good morning. Your Saturday read is about dancing and fascism. “When I was a kid we’d come up with stupid games like ‘what would you do if you had a million dollars?’ Our answers were, of course, as stupid as you’d think they’d be.”buttondown.comHow to dance through the apocalypseIs it possible to be happy while desiring nothing? 2157
Reposted by SparksDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/06/2025This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better. 172540808
Reposted by SparksNick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 25/09/2026And I finally realised, when she said it, how much it matters to be unclassifiable, because it's another word for human. 224519
Reposted by SparksPhilip Allfrey @drpda.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Today looking up details to correctly cite a scholar I found she's also made some art. #DHMakes This is Interference Pattern II by Frances Rothwell Hughes. She started each square when she had time to embroider and stopped when interrupted by her newborn www.francesrothwellhughes.com/interference... 110854
Reposted by SparksMother Frog Slut // Steward of Giant Reptiles @toadcialism.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Just thought I’d share this for adults who don’t think we need to know square roots: bsky.app/profile/toad... 2269
Reposted by SparksStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026I would simply like to live my quiet little life as a trans woman and buy fruit and sing and walk my dog and wave to my neighbors and watch movies and use restrooms without being the subject of a culture “war” where both political parties agree I’m a disgusting freak who doesn’t deserve civil rights 4462111078
Reposted by SparksShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026love to read a post that sums up some 13,000 article you just wrote in 67 characters 14211
Reposted by SparksSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026For those interested in how Meta is exploiting disability to sell its glasses, definitely read the work of Rua Williams. And also! Here’s what I’ll be having my students read on this topic later this semester. Snippet from the syllabus. 27529
Reposted by SparksLeigh Honeywell @hypatia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The real ADHD achievement is not Inbox Zero, it is Floordrobe Zero. 1510511
Reposted by SparksJ. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 17/09/2026clowning is fun for everyone but the problem is that the normie takeaway is, now, "tech people have weird sex" and not "tech people have incestuously tangled power/consent structures the contours of which are worryingly relevant to domestic policy and the future of technology" 112730
Reposted by SparksViolet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Duhram County, North Carolina gets it. 03711
Reposted by Sparks🎃 David “schlazor” Pumpkins 🎃 @schlazor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Large Bee on a Small Flower 39513
Reposted by SparksElizabeth 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 SparksCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Tagging this on here, because I don't think everyone really grasps the enormity and pace at which trans people's human rights are being removed, it's frightening 024549
Reposted by SparksLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"I am for the dignity and safety and equal rights of trans people everywhere. Fuck you. The end." "I do not believe you care about this issue. You are lying. In fact you're a straight up weirdo for fixating on kids' genitals so much. That is odd behavior. Let kids run around with their friends."welcometohellworld.comI do not believe you care about thisYou are lying 81866457
Reposted by SparksLiz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026something i really resent is that they made a machine that uses every public thought we've ever had, and now it's our job to carefully edit every public thought so it doesn't sound like the machine, which is continuing to steal our every public thought by the minute 6592136
Reposted by SparksLiz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026they want to make us pay them to participate in humanity. everything online, books, whatever exists among us as a species. they think it belongs to them. 19713
Reposted by SparksAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 07/07/2023ambient levels of bullshit are too fucking high 1204
Reposted by SparksMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 09/09/2026If you like, or are looking to try, the strapless N95 masks from Readimask as this fall’s Covid and respiratory surge heats up, I just found out there’s a 20% discount code active currently: MeetJess20 47435
Reposted by Sparkskitty @kittyred.net · 07/09/2026My idea: no hours work, 12 hours sleep, 12 hours what we will 24119
Reposted by SparksJohn Breen @breen.tech · 09/09/2026“Because grief itself is not a measurement of merit, nor is it something awarded only to the righteous. It is something that happens inside people when a relationship to the world is ruptured” Kelly writes so poetically 111130
Reposted by Sparksderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Just realized that boro and kantha — the Japanese and Indian techniques for repairing cloth or creating new material from scraps by connecting them through a series of running stitches — looks a bit like the peeling bark on an aging tree. 554182452
Reposted by SparksDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/09/2026One of the things I hate most about AI is that now I first approach a lot of art with suspicion instead of awe 231476328
Reposted by SparksGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Could it be that realising that non-human animals are often meaningfully conscious would restrict the number of Epic, promethean tech things that humans could do whereas imputing consciousness to AI would give them permission to do *more* Epic, masculine things? 1408
Reposted by Sparkskill ghost @willjobst.bsky.social · 05/09/2026masking is cool. cool people are masking 415346
Reposted by Sparksrom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 05/09/2026are you wearing a mask while teaching this semester to keep your students, yourself, and others safe from various airborne illnesses? I am! join me :) 1155
Reposted by Sparks✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 26/08/2026dress for the job you want 463383672
Reposted by SparksGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895453545
Reposted by SparksElizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕 752176717
Reposted by Sparksrahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Holy shiiiiiiit if you know anyone in North Carolina who may even know anyone who knows anyone who's been to an event by these people, get them to go get the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis shots RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, DO NOT WAIT, YOU CANNOT TREAT IT AFTER SYMPTOMS START 1019621824
Reposted by SparksJonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage. 292456841
Reposted by Sparks✨ seb ✨ thriving for stoly’s hoe phase @pipsqueakparker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026 2160474835
Reposted by SparksJanelle Shane @janelleshane.com · 24/08/2026I made some holograms at home from an antique mall kit! According to the kit, I shouldn't bother trying to make holograms of plants because they move too much during the 5-minute exposures. www.aiweirdness.com/i-made-a-hol... 27813
Reposted by SparksQuinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 24/08/2026Have I summoned the will to face the digital knitting machine? I have not. But I have taken pictures of the cartoons in the G-carriage manual for you all to enjoy. #DHmakes 181
Reposted by SparksLia @liadanmakes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I know it's been said before, but if you're struggling with the *everything*, consider making something. It won't make the everything go away, but you'll feel good about what you made, and that one thing will be far more good than the evil fuckwits have ever produced in their lives. 2260106
Reposted by SparksIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 23/08/2026A hot take I've been working on is that everyone needs to be as mad about those smart intercoms being put into apartment buildings as they are about Flock cameras, what do you mean people need an app to get into their home 14677115
