Robert Starr (he/him)

RAPE 👏 ISN'T 👏 AN 👏 ACCIDENT "Ambiguous consent" is an excuse, not an explanation.

John Oliver: "I'm thrilled to be part of the Skydance family. Hope you're happy with what you bought, guys. We're never gonna change."

There is no amount of intellectual charity with which there's even a single way this analogy makes sense.

I just think scientists and creative writers should collaborate more tbh My science colleagues help me think through SO MANY cool plot points for my manuscripts 10/10, writers need ALL KINDS of friends, including ones who know about poisons

I don't want to be cynical, but y'all had four years to do something and then somehow let him walk right back into office.

Brutal.

My dude, you are not in high school anymore. Read books you enjoy!

So historically, instead of just standing up for themselves, Democrats join their bully in attacking themselves, and convince people who want obvious answers to desperate problems that they don't stand for much of anything. And their reward for it is they're still painted as dirty Commies.

Slim is a Pig-Bear (Currently available for adoption at the Agoura Animal Care Center)

This doctor is exhibiting "punch in the face seeking behavior."

I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My "Minions never worked for Hitler" shirt is raising questions already answered by the shirt.

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

The story somehow manages to even improve on the headline: www.thepinknews.com/2026/06/09/e...

It must be a very comforting thought. Everyone's secretly using AI to write emails and come up with things to say to their family for them, you're not a deeply weird person, everyone else is doing it too, just secretly! The cowards. At least you admit it. You're the brave truth teller for saying so.

do you think we all got on a Zoom call and were like "alright gay people can get married next up is making sure we can place fifth NCAA swim meets"

It's fascinating how many ridiculous elements there are in this quote. The more you look, the more you find. Case and point: "prewritten software"? As opposed to what? "Postwritten software"? I have extremely nerdy friends and not once have I spoken to them about how much tax I pay on software.

update for those who don't live in CA: the gov race is so fucked that the #1 Dem in the polls is anti-healthcare & lost a bunch of children, our major newspaper endorsed the lady destined to lose, & the most progressive is a billionaire who draws a nazi symbol on his hand every day for reasons

pink hearts, yellow moons, orange stars, green clovers, blue diamonds, and purple horseshoes.

Y'all, I can't believe this is real. www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-data-gur...

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

This is embarrassing. I don't remember if it was the same in the book, but it bothered me how ridiculous Project Hail Mary's portrayal of the scientific process was. I know it's fiction, but one dude isn't singlehandedly solving the biggest problems in physics on his own alone in a lab.

I'm trying to respond to some of the replies, but Bluesky keeps glitching out.

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Maybe it's the depression talking, but now that I think about it, Silly Putty isn't very silly.

I implore y'all to read a single book on philosophy before half-assedly reinventing Pascal's Wager.

The problem is the hype is objectively *not* true, but tech will make sure AI replaces humans anyway. We're seeing it already. It's really the worst of both worlds: people lose their jobs and we don't even get functional products as a result.

lots of people seem to be okay with AI doing whatever form of art they consider lesser.

the movies we truly deserve: thread

This is an excellent thread of very excellent dog pics.

Republicans: We don't hate immigrants. We just want them to follow the legal process to become citizens. Also Republicans: You don't seriously expect us to go through the hoops of the legal process, do you?

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

I have like four followers but every little bit helps.

37% of the country *still* approves of ICE. Yes, this is what they voted for.