Eva Emiel

Hey remember a couple months ago when I almost died from sleep apnea and begged y'all to be checked if you have symptoms of sleep apnea? Eric Bauza just died from sleep apnea. We were the same age. Don't ignore sleep apnea.

I think my ability to distinguish between "I am feeling weirdly anxious and low today" and "I am just a person having a totally normal reaction to being alive during the 2020s" might have completely vanished.

Unified Theory of Pam (“in any human field of endeavor, there will be a single person—Pam—miraculously holding things together, and if anything happens to Pam, we are hosed”) remains undefeated

#Inktober Day 19: Confused

The main way the LLM boom has affected my life is to make a lot of things so much harder. It makes information filtering an even more constant grinding process than it already was: it's noticeably worsened search info quality and makes it harder to find anything reliable and/or human and/or real.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Fascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

there really is something to being in the presence of 60.000 other people, knowing that all of them came together here because we believe that a better future is possible and that this future starts now

This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.

I mainly come on bluesky for trans women to tell me to install Linux

"Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of multitudes. (...) To trace the history of the most prominent of these delusions is the object of the present pages. Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds (...)" -- Charles Mackay (1841)

Moral panics are manufactured concerns created to push an agenda, don't hold up under scrutiny, and the fallout always harms more people than will ever be helped. Stand up for trans people.

it is nearly impossible for new artists, animators, or programmers to share their work without a swath of people accusing it of being AI. the only way to avoid that is to have proof that your project existed before gen AI. i think this ignorance ultimately helps normalize AI more than anything.

Some "recent" drawings:

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

The alt text here is good

Weinig mensen beseffen hoe extreem deze uitspraak van Francken is: Vrijheid van vereniging en meningsuiting kwam in de Belgische grondwet terecht precies om dit soort partijpolitiek autoritarisme te voorkomen. (Niet persé voor organisaties in het algemeen, maar zéker voor politieke partijen.)

Music rec for your Monday: In case you haven't been following her career, it's my duty to inform you Rebecca Black is making insane club bangers about voraciously eating pussy now music.youtube.com/watch?v=FEjk...

support the creators and watch it here!

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

it was so crucial for the web that people could look at and learn the html and eventually css behind the sites they visited, and so crucial that all you needed was notepad. losing that while also losing the basic knowledge of how computers and filesystems work has been a total disaster for all of it

Solutions to all the world's problems #cartoon

Friends, I think Ghent University should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This letter is from academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk You can add your name👇🏽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Comets from The Augsburg Book of Miracles, 16th century. 💫 More in our post "Flowers of the Sky", of depictions spanning almost a whole millennium of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars: publicdomainreview.org/collection/f... #comets #meteors #shootingstars #meteorshower

We got one. Let's talk about this. Google "Edward Hopper the Dory" real quick. Two things will turn up. This, and a picture of a boat. Now check the dictionary to find out what a dory is.

Still thinking about this 🙃