Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 8hThe IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027. 361704604
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint. 307119872190
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET. 332373579
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Tara Shoe @tarashoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026no YOU stop Donald Trump! bitch. i can’t do shit. I can’t even get an in-network referral for annual blood work and youre physically mailing me from your dc office YOU stop him 2488
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026President Donald Trump took a break this weekend from his nonstop, baseless accusations about mail voting fraud to remind his own supporters to cast their mail ballots in this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comTrump backtracks and begs Republicans to vote by mail as Democrats’ odds of taking Congress improveTrump’s latest demand that Republicans vote – even by mail – comes as polls show Democrats’ odds of taking both the House and Senate are improving. 941791745
shawniee 𓅒 @sraf10million.bsky.social · 04/10/2026sometimes, i think it's a shame when i get feelin' better, when i'm feelin' no pain... Listen to Sundown on your streaming service tidal.com/track/302934...tidal.comGordon Lightfoot - SundownListen to Sundown on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service 000
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 04/10/2026patreon.comAll the spaceships in the Alien universe #1: Alien (1979) | The SpaceshipperFollowing the modest success of the article on the spaceships in For All Mankind, I spent the week combing through every book in my sci-fi l 0121
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Listening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm. 8732151
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Consequences of Feminism (1906) 2154
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Every friend group has that one friend who was dissected in 1854 and is now a brain in a jar of formaldehyde, screaming soundlessly from deep within a museum's basement a continent away. 47013
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Rose❤️🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Poland had some wise words, for Russia. They can puff out their chests all they like, they can keep killing... But this Polish Foreign Minister is 💯 correct. They will never win. 51526614
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 27/09/2026He is so out of his depth it’s embarrassing. We have the worst possible president at the AI inflection moment. The opportunity cost of putting this guy back in office is vast. 501033178
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid 123197730
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press 817655
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Send this to every university President in the country. 361962441
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/09/2026Definitely. It's ridiculous to talk about climate change as a scientific/technological problem, in this day and age. It's a political one and a societal one, but the science of it was solved more than a century ago. 29821
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026And those others were at least in some nominal way developments for use by human beings. This is exclusively for make number get bigger, exclusively over the next few quarters and however much longer we can make the chicken dance before we run out of quarters. 422870
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Donald Trump hates democracy. He hates free speech & a free press. He hates free & fair elections. He hates an independent judiciary & its duty to justice & the law. Yet he adores murderous dictators, particularly Putin. Who exactly is the enemy of the people? American voters have one more chance. 1413114975
shawniee 𓅒 @sraf10million.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i would rather my breath smell like i ate something spicy than smell like i haven't eaten anything all day. 000
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026John Coltrane. Born 100 years ago today. Acrylic, ink and pencil. 462853589
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026what the fuck do you mean "could"??? www.realitytea.com/2026/09/21/e...realitytea.comElon Musk Could Face New Scrutiny if Democrats Take HouseJournalist Maggie Haberman said Democrats have privately discussed subpoenaing Elon Musk over his DOGE work. 501482173
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 22/09/2026🇺🇸👀 Fox News interrupted the broadcast of Vance's speech, and the host stated: "We'll be back if he starts saying something important." 1828350
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026"Rumpelstiltskin is backed by the same venture capital firm responsible for sports betting, artificial intelligence startups, and tech-forward fast-casual restaurants, so you can trust that we have the best interests of your family at heart." buff.ly/stGSoSTbuff.lyRumpelstiltskin Isn’t Your Typical Fertility Startup“Our founders took years of experience in casino design and timeshare sales and swaddled them together into a first-of-its-kind solution that asks: Do poor p... 38720
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Izabella Laba 🇨🇦 @ijlaba.bsky.social · 22/09/2026As various AIs are trying to displace us as mathematicians, this is a great thought on the essence of creativity, in music and otherwise. 1186
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026But there's a second hurdle that makes it hard for a small but important subset of humanity to understand that chatbots aren't people: the billionaires to whom nearly *everyone* isn't a real person. 14712
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026My first encounters with AI-generated text and images invoked wonder, out of the tension between the part of my mind that knew this was a product of mathematics and the part of my mind that insisted that painting must have painters, paragraph must have writers, conversations must have interlocutors. 1222
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026One of the less remarked-upon aspects of atheism is how it changes the way you see sunsets. If you believe in an omnipresent God, then sunsets are one of God's intentional creations, which means that the beautiful colors refracting through the darkling sky were *chosen* to produce that effect. 214842
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Prosecute ICE. Top to bottom, indict every single one of them. Abolishing ICE will cut tens of billions in federal spending. Put a chunk of that money into consequences. 25425
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 20/09/20261/When you learned Trump banned MS NOW, CNN & Politico from the WH, the first thought that crossed your mind was probably, “That has to violate the First Amendment.” You would not be wrong. joycevance.substack.com/p/its-a-nice...joycevance.substack.comIt’s a Nice First Amendment You’ve Got There…Mea culpa for the long post on a Saturday night, but read on and see if you don’t agree that it’s essential. 30889247
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026great art articulates eternal truths 1048511482
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Tomorrow,” said Toad, “I can just take life easy.” Toad went back to bed. 1430113
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 19/09/2026is it possible to bait the "user was blocked for this post" account into posting whatever i want? 2940931029
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Path (seasonal)🎉 @demandavoider.bsky.social · 19/09/2026a broken clock is right t̶w̶i̶c̶e̶ ̵a̶ ̵d̶a̶y̶. time is a hallucination. don't be ignorant. 07227
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The meaning of maturity – Ursula K. Le Guin on what it really takes to grow up www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/17/l...themarginalian.orgThe Meaning of Maturity: Ursula K. Le Guin on What It Really Takes to Grow UpIt is not merely a matter of growing bones and growing responsibilities, this business of growing up, this unfinishable project of becoming ourselves. It is less like the evolutionary diagram of th… 0112
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Margarita @margarita.bsky.social · 18/09/202671% seems lowgizmodo.com71% of Americans Say They're Completely ExhaustedA CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States. 52037341
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”orlandosentinel.comDocs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI... 9555472163
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The biggest political brains in the cosmos : if u stay very quiet and still the oligarchs with literally unlimited funding and strawmen candidates and a maniacal fear of working class people will overlook you, their vision is based on movementpolitico.comDemocratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AIDemocratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them. 1328
shawniee 𓅒 @sraf10million.bsky.social · 18/09/2026still one of my favorite karaoke go-tos. Listen to Style (Taylor's Version) on your streaming service tidal.com/track/323856...tidal.comTaylor Swift - Style (Taylor's Version)Listen to Style (Taylor's Version) on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service 000
shawniee 𓅒 @sraf10million.bsky.social · 18/09/2026just sittin' here, imagining the hubris that leon black must feel. the entitlement. the privilege. i suspect it's magnificently robust. it'll make his fall that much more just. 000
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The US government is like if something you got out of a gum-ball machine was intent on eradicating all complex life on Earth. 0264
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026waiting for trump to wade into the bestiality discourse should be an all timer 2647926
shawniee 𓅒 @sraf10million.bsky.social · 16/09/2026phil collins was a drummer, and it's wonderful that his vocals sometimes hit the backbeat. it makes songs like this shine. Listen to Turn It on Again (2007 Remaster) on your streaming service tidal.com/track/349867...tidal.comGenesis - Turn It on Again (2007 Remaster)Listen to Turn It on Again (2007 Remaster) on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service 100
Reposted by shawniee 𓅒Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I am old enough to remember when openly expressing the kinds of racism we routinely see in current politics would be a major career ending scandal. 211920