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[screenshot of Facebook ad: "I'm sick of all the A.I made ads. Here's mine: I'm a Roofer" over a work van & stick figure holding a drill in one hand & a hammer in the other. On the side are before & after pics of an unhappy stick figure under a leaky roof then a happy stick figure under new roof]

some #OTGW drawings from a year or so ago, as well as some doodles that didn't make the cut! #artpost

Happy #IntersexAwarenessDay! Today I'm reposting my old Intersex 101 thread from Twitter - with new improvements, resources, and more! It's starting right here, read on!

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree.

Behold, my son the disco ball 🎃

look i support women having the sole right to hold elected office as long as men gain an equivalent unique civil right (the freedom to call each other "big guy" and "my man")

While I *am* the kind of nerd who knows what an arming coif looks like, I have *no fucking clue* what you make for a film buff who's obsessed with Titanic (a movie I personally find…boring, at best) & is otherwise a history nerd. Suggestions?

This is something we get accused of surprisingly often and all I can say is: yes. Good. I am here to destroy the hopes and dreams of husbands who don't think they have to add value to their wife's life.

something something snowflakes

NUTTED HATCH

Neither tired nor over-caffeinated but a secret third thing

Ronald, of course, has his own copy of the game. Arcane knowledge: 14 points!

Evolutionary 'game-changer': weird armoured amphibian lived in ancient seas www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great tips from Fabian on how to make social media alt text useful in this and the following tweets

Feels like it's been forever since I made this piece! This is Lookfar and it's my tribute to Ursula le Guin, who wrote A Wizard of Earthsea in the 1960s and is still one of the best fantasy books ever written. www.martintomsky.com/shop/lookfar #art #fantasy #earthsea

You know, I keep saying "I think Silicon Valley people think AI is good at everything because it's good at code and they think code is the most intellectually challenging task in existence", and then they just go ahead and skeet it out

*appalled* NATURE I AM NOT HERE TO KINK-SHAME BUT ALL OF YOU PUT YOUR DAMN PANTS BACK ON RIGHT NOW THERE'S ROUGH AND THEN THERE'S "I BROKE MY BUTT"

we gotta bring back the italian renaissance term "Canonista" originally meaning a scholar specializing in canon law, but, well

We're working on a game where you bring 🤮BILLIONAIRES🤮 to 💝❣️✨COURT to face JUSTICE ✨💖💘 You aint special, just a normal lawyer but with the power of the 🔥collective🔥 🤯REVENGE FANTASY IN THE FORM OF A DECKBUILDER🤯 Wishlist now, RTs appreciated!! 🔪🔪🔪

A reference probably only understood by 3 people in academia, but I think I’ve figured out a way to put my finger on LLM-speech’s ineffable badness: AI can’t smell. @tkingfisher.com

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

At one point he had a Whatsapp group with 10 million people in it, coordinating action. Which I didn't even think whatsapp was infrastructurally designed to support. And yes, whatsapp is of course a meta network, but the strategy was to be everywhere, to act redundantly, to be unbannable.

And credit to him, it worked. A sort of digital levee en masse, literally raising an army to counteract the forces that artificially amplify far-right messaging. He did that through organizing and messaging, both on the streets and online, that was so relentless that he put himself in the hospital.

ladies, is your programming - a field dominated by rich white men - driven by fashion trends - practiced as a demonstration of status - funded by vanity projects for failsons - filled with queers trying and failing to break even that's art, sorry

It was tradition to put a $20 in the physical copy of your PhD thesis for the rare chance someone pulled it off the stacks and read it. What's the equivalent of writing a research paper and hoping a human reads it instead of only the AIs?

I don't really want to get into it with a random person in someone else's mentions, but this is a fundamental problem with how these tools are marketed

Trans people are approximately 1 percent of the population. There are more than 100 women's medals in every Olympic games, which means if trans women were exactly equivalent to cis women they'd win a medal in every Olympics.

I hereby declare Awkward Mondays You know how sometimes there’s something you need to do with no real deadline that is uncomfortable or awkward or really should have been done long ago and it feels terrible to have to face it so instead you put it off and then it’s so much worse?

I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.

witch hat i tell ya

We as a society need to stop making sexy versions of classic Hallowe'en monsters lithe and hairless. Give that werewolf some meat on his bones. Make Frankenstein's monster as jacked as he is in the book. Give Dracula his fuckass moustache back.

"The repeated misinterpretation of recently constructed golf course elements as impact craters highlights a striking lack of methodological rigor…" that's a very polite way to put it.

Great-great-etc.-grandma Eoceras watches her descendant take the next step in tool use, for the #inktober2026 prompt "contraption"

Should I be concerned about the lessons my cat is learning or …

It’s almost as though “gifts for men” (or “gifts for women”) is nowhere near as useful a classification as “gifts for readers”, “gifts for cooks”, “gifts for pet owners”, etc. etc. Perhaps we can infer something from this.

#invertober 24, orange sea pen! #invertober2026

<3 Heather Smith's cartographic design posts on the ESRI blog www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

SWEET BABY: Yuck! Yuck! Yuck. Yuck? *pointing to various locations, starting with the easiest case of the toilet and moving on to progressively less obvious cases ME, AN ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHER:

The Lord of the Rings is essentially a series of faculty meetings broken up by several long walks in the countryside.