Suzirang

GOOD MORNING WASHINGTON! Scarlett O'Hairdye here, reminding you to do your Civic Booty and get your ballots into a drop box by Nov 3! Piss off a transphobic billionaire today by voting: NO ON I-645 NO ON I-001 NO ON I-638 It's free, easy, and puts you on the side of justice! Tell your friends!

Excellent essay by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, a profound mix of media criticism, political economy, elegy, & manifesto. The headline undersells what it's really about. Also, though I should know better by now, I was shocked at how repellent many of the comments are: a fetid, colorblind swamp of

Current mood

"The idea that unwanted #fiction should be removed simply because somebody finds it objectionable is precisely the attitude that makes an #archive necessary in the first place." www.michigandaily.com/arts/digital...

Aw heck. I was always amazed at how he could be so… affably evil on Babylon 5.

The Australian government is introducing legislation to allow AI companies to use authors’ work to build their models. This would apply to authors from anywhere in the world. Authors: To sign the US Author's Guild petition against (you don't need to be a member): authorsguild.org/news/austral...

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

Houstonians are putting their voting stickers on the memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, who was shot and killed by ICE in July

"AI will destroy humanity" has always and only been an attempt to distract from "AI will leak your login credentials to the internet"

I still think AI systems should be paying me 150k per copyright violation. People keep asking me 'what laws do we need for AI?' and I keep saying 'enforce the fucking ones we already have!' There are copyright laws that should be being enforced right now that just... aren't. B/c it's billionaires.

I get maybe 2 kids a year. Do I still give out candy? You bet your ass.

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

The top Democratic lawmakers on the congressional intelligence committees on Wednesday said they received an intelligence briefing that Russia has been waging a misinformation campaign against Democrats ​running in next month's midterm elections. www.reuters.com/world/us/law...

Cue thousands of unhinged proposals from libertarians who lost all their money on NFTs, and the institute will tell 99% of them “oh sorry, you didn’t make the cut” then steal their ideas

The Texas Republican Party is a wholly-owned subsidiary of two Midland oil businessmen, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilkes. These guys made billions off of the last oil price spike and are Dominionist pastors to boot. They are the money guys for the Texas GOP and everyone is beholden to them.

Today is my birthday and I'd love if people would share my artwork 🥰🖤

historical and/or fantasy novelists take note: workers in the bakery turned the bread shovel over to play games between shifts or at the end of the day

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories... "But this alliance now exists." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT MMX??? japan is launching a spacecraft to explore the moons of mars, deploy a little rover onto phobos, AND bring samples from phobos back to earth. THIS IS SO COOL???

🎶 Qobuz will now tag AI-generated music in its catalogue, aiming for transparency and fair artist compensation. When AI tracks are flagged, they'll be excluded from royalties, and removed entirely if fraudulent. alternativeto.net/news/2026/9...

FRIDAY HAS WEREWOLF TEA THIS IS NOT A DRILL (Immediately ordered a bag. Plus some pumpkin chai because 🍂fall🍂.)

Happy birthday, Jimin! 🥳 As you offer serendipity to the world with your art, ARMY carries the love forward to make a real change and this time, they are helping out mums who need support pre- and post-pregnancy. 🫂

I mean, geez, Ohio GOP, I already voted for him, you don't have to keep selling him to me

(also, of course, Sherrod Brown is a socialist exactly as much as I am Michelin-starred chef)

it took four hours and emails across three agencies to determine if a simple, polite email invitation was legitimate, in case you're wondering whether AI has improved efficiency in my field

That first pic is one of my lock screens

Good news, Cousins! Registration for CrossingsCon 2027 is now live! Gather your fellow adventurers and get your tickets the link here: www.universe.com/events/cross... #crossingscon #youngwizards #literaryconvention #bookconvention #speculativefiction #scificonvention #fantasyconvention

*three hours of waiting in line*

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

I worked at a tshirt press booth at the Ohio State Fair in the early 90s. Owner was a friend of a family friend I think? Best thing about it was being next to a stage where a flamenco troupe performed several times a day. Never got tired of watching them in between customers.

PSA: The latest NVIDIA App update adds a Default-ON option that allows AI Agents to control the app... Might want to turn it off.. Even aside from being lame AI features, that feels like making security even worse by defaulting it ON.

“Do you think that Trump is attempting to overthrow democracy?” I asked. “Because I do, and think it’s obvious that he is. And I think that the fact that mainstream media won't say it makes it more likely that it’s going to happen.”

The federal government is not Donald Trump’s personal weapon to use against his political enemies.

The right to digital protest in Africa does not need inventing. It needs locating, and governments have spent 12 years showing us where it sits: every time a crowd has gathered and the network has gone quiet. #GVSpotlight

We've got an open tenure stream position at Michigan State for an Assistant Professor specializing in syntax. Application review starts November 15. Please share this information widely! #linguistics careers.msu.edu/jobs/assista...

Mine came in today!! Gotta go pick it up

Forget the Olympics, cities should compete that hard to be a stop on a BTS tour

Today, and every day, we could all use a little guidance and encouragement. Here's one step in that direction (your mileage may vary, choose your own adventure):

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

😂🤣 i don't know how to describe this kitchen disaster except that these apple turnovers grew erect and ejaculated their filling.

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’ It’s our duty to know.