Opening for Nasty Women and Bad Hombres, please welcome ... COCKY DEMONS!

The scientific corollary to Murc's Law is the idea that it's always scientists' job to communicate better, not everyone else's to pay attention. 🧪 (via @arctomet.bsky.social)

This is true. It is also true that a lot of #writers seem to enjoy playing with #dystopian tropes waaay too much, and their stories come across as #cautionary tales about as convincingly as 1930s #gangster movies. ✍️

Little Bobby Tables is now old enough to be Little Billy Ignore Instructions' father.

Squirrels love the smell of (long) pork in the morning.

Those algaefa protistas have gone too far!

So do all who live to see such times.

Stop me before I snark again! Actually ... don't. 🧪

Ever since the beginning of the internet, I've been waiting for an e-mail from Money. Today it finally arrived. If you need me, I'll be on my yacht.

Common #AI #writing tricks. All of these can be useful techniques, but they’re best as seasoning rather than main ingredients. #LLMs don’t do subtlety.

"Okay sweetie, before we go back to the apartment, you either have to put your paw booties on, or put the cigarette out. Your choice."

Definitely need some old rubber bands that are so dried out they'll snap the first time you try to use them. Bonus points if they hit you in the eye. Or is that just me?

From a post on #AI #writing "tells." Both of these can be useful devices, but they're best as seasoning, not main ingredients. AI doesn't get that, of course. Sadly, neither do a number of human writers who have started using a more robotic style.

Oh, they'll comply with the #virus, all right. See, viruses don't ask nicely for compliance. 🧪 ⚕️ #medsky

Yes, but also no because the #Reddit "science and logic guys" believe a whole lot of different but equally pernicious #bullshit, but also yes because #antivax may well be the most murderous ideology in history, which is a fucking high bar when you think about it. 🧪 ⚕️

Uphill both ways. That part is very important.

Note the name of the group where this was posted. They really think they're scoring some kind of point. Liberals punish our sex offenders. Conservatives idolize theirs.

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Also: Punch, 1915.

For the WISP (work in some progress) I'm fiddling with population growth models, and considering rolling my own to justify the numbers I want. I guess that makes me a rather finicky Watsonian. But maybe it's like Tolkien coming up with several complete languages before writing any actual plot!

#seemslegit

Meta meme is meta.

The last time I put my luggage in an old-fashioned suitcase, I lifted it too rapidly after check-in because I was in a hurry to catch my flight, and my massive manly musculature propelled it upward so fast it punched a hole in the airport roof.

The Bird-dog of Alcatraz.

As @peekamimi.bsky.social points out, this is bullshit: there were absolutely protests against deportations under Clinton, GW Bush, and Obama. MAGA's selective memory is at it again. "Protests/Riots" is also telling. Cult rules prohibit them acknowledging any distinction. 🧵

The eagles have always known.

Freedomsaur is not amused.

lolsob

Well, crap. My Twinings addiction is about to get even more expensive. In a backhanded way I think this is a good thing. Someone explained to him in small words that invading Greenland is a very bad idea. He's not capable of true understanding, but he's easily bullied. Like bullies usually are.