Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 7h

Big "guy who doesn't understand science talks science" energy here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

1

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

83 4.2K 15K

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

Michael Salerno @mikenjd.bsky.social · 14h

I was right. It’s now almost 7am and they still haven’t mentioned “we took freedom of speech away”

Michael Salerno @mikenjd.bsky.social · 1d

There is quite a large part of my thinking that suggests Trump announced the Israel-Hamas “deal” (such as it is) tonight because of his “we took freedom of speech away” admission.

I guarantee #MorningJoe is leading off with the former and not the latter tomorrow.

1 4

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 23h

Not to be that guy but the democrats should have had the foresight to see this coming when Obama did this exact same thing (including to US citizens!) and they did nothing. It’s not as if they weren’t warned by the ACLU and many others! Bipartisan “war on terror” foolishness delivered this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

5 53 200

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 1d

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

9 260 1.7K

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

210 2.5K 14K

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

Changing the user interface on cell phones (for no reason) is actively cruel to old people.

1

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

My 12yo and 15yo daughters have been watching Brave New Worlds with me and they are both *aggressively* anti Nurse Chapel.

It's hilarious.

a woman says we 're in love and i 'm sorry

Alt: a woman says we 're in love and i 'm sorry

media.tenor.com

1 1

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

Mr. Cait @chas.bsky.social · 1d

Normally I'd tell you to block people instead of fighting, but I'm sick and tired of settling for the lesser of two evils. I'm sick and tired of losing to appease monsters. Now I'm going to fight you in the marketplace of ideas or the 99 Bar and Grill parking lot. Your choice.

9 28 280

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

The Oregon National Guard general says if they were to be deployed, they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters and not ICE

250 2.3K 7.4K

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher, Tachyon Publications, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. To celebrate, myself and a bunch of Tachyon authors did some short readings of our books. I'm around the 32 minute mark, but listen to all of it if you've time--they're all great!

youtu.be/gVaU9F1OtBg?...

Tachyon's 30th Anniverary Reading and Q&A

YouTube video by CSECooney

youtu.be

2

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, I've hit a 1000 followers!

This is how it works, right? I get 1-2 followers every couple days or so until I have 50K, right?

(looks at other randome, non-famous people's profiles with 70K)
What the...hell?

1

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

30 560 1.4K

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 1d

sooner or later we are going to have to get to grips with cognitive decline, and start taking seriously the idea that lots of old people need as much or more protection young people, in both cases whether they want it or not.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like if you had to ban social media for any group of people for their own protection, you should probably start with people over 60.

Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

3 31 160

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 1d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

58 500 1.9K

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1d

When a law enforcement officer aims a weapon at someone wielding a camera, it is procedurally unsound and unprofessional in two fundamental ways:
1) It is disproportional to any actual threat and is instead an unprovoked threat against a citizen.
2) The officer is a crazed, untrained asshole.

Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 2d

Call me a libtard but this doesn't seem like something that should be happening in the United States of America.

33 150 570

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

44 230 1.1K

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 1d

Also Games Workshop Is worth a lot

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

2 3 51

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

410 9.4K 25K

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

CJ Lemire @cjlemire.com · 1d

I think there's a lot of truth in this.

You have a few stubborn mules like Larry Kudlow, still insisting against all evidence that trickle-down economics actually works.

The rest of them move further right, because admitting the left might have had a point is inconceivable.

James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 1d

This is my basic theory for a lot of what is going on with the centre right atm

The ideas failed utterly and now there is a total crisis of intellectual confidence

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 3d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

4 4

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

330 4.1K 12K

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

Sweet! No downside!

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

3 21

Reposted by Auston Habershaw

Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 2d

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

13 220 570

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, cool! I loved Hench!

Natalie Zed 🍁 @nataliezed.bsky.social · 2d

Getting to show you all this cover and announce that VILLAIN is officially coming out in May of next year is such a joy and a relief i don't even know how to express it.
www.harpercollins.com/products/vil...

the cover for a book entitled Villain by Natalie Zina Walschots. the cover is a bright magenta with dark blue and teal lettering for the title, and the author's name is in yellow. there is an image of the silhouette of a woman carrying a cane, surrounded by the silhouettes of five superheroes.

2

Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 2d

Social media post by Josh Crowley (sp?): If I build a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.

5 100 350