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Kenneth Sutton
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Provincetown. Editor. Church employee. Radio DJ. Reader. Knitter. Tarot reader. Gay as duck.
Amplifying. And we can do the same wherever we are.
Dozens of unions, community and faith organizations are calling on every Minnesotan to take a stand on January 23rd.

On January 23rd there will be a unified, statewide pause in economic activity.
maydaystrong.org/iceoutmn
ICE OUT MN — MAY DAY STRONG
maydaystrong.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Putting this here so I can find it to read later!
Feminist Futurism Versus Project 2025
An Empowering Speculative Salon
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social
Charlie Jane Anders @charliejane.bsky.social
Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social
Annalee Newitz
@annaleen.bsky.social
Isis Asare @isisasare.bsky.social

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January 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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I'm watching a lot of people say that Ross is going to get off free forever bc the feds won't prosecute and will stonewall the state, and I keep repeating to myself:

There is no statute of limitation for murder.

Let this hang over their heads in every moment:

Justice is a persistence predator.
January 11, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Every time someone says "I can't write X, editors will never buy it" an angel loses its wings

Those shining adamantine feathers, sharper than death, slice all creatures in their path to molecule-thin ribbons, blood raining down onto acres of land rendered poisonous for decades.

So maybe reconsider
January 1, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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Not only does this intentionally violate the First Amendment to the US Constitution, it’s vile to watch mean-spirited, selfish ghouls who starve the poor and kidnap people for their skin color sanctimoniously pretending they follow any of the teachings of Jesus.
December 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Happy Christmas Adam! (Comes before Christmas Eve and is generally unsatisfying)
December 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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OH MY FUCKING GOD this is so good

for renaissance music reasons

for arranging reasons, DAMN

for 'it's One Night in Bangkok as if Kit Marlowe wrote opera' reasons, especially
I love the fucking internet, part 972964386: "One Night In Bangkok" arranged and performed as a 16th century chanson. youtu.be/i3jHv0GZB9U?...
One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson
YouTube video by Jonasquin
youtu.be
December 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hmm. Maybe I’ll bake some tea-infused scones this weekend
December 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar
December 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Color of the year for 2026 is the sky in New England on that awful day in early March when tree branches are dark and barren, the ground is covered with dirty, half frozen dregs of snowstorms past, and you are exhausted and jealous of everyone who fled to Florida
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
As though we needed more evidence that our prison industry is terrible. To be clear, I mean it’s terrible that prison guards are the kind of people who want to work for ICE
November 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Horned toad
Magpie
Elk
Humpback whale
Black bear
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Atlantic puffin
Appalachian cottontail
Great blue heron
Northern flying squirrel, if attics count as "in the wild"
Moose disguised as an elk (yes it was, @wlindley.bsky.social )
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:

Humpback whale
Coyote
Bald Eagle
Bison
Parrot
November 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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REPIGGYCAN???
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Gay superpowers restored
November 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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I wish we lived in a land where if journalists heard the president call one of their colleges "piggy" or suggest another of their colleagues, who was butchered for what he wrote, in some way had it coming, they would close their laptops, leave as soon as possible, and ask to be reassigned.
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
There’s a similar problem with “GMO” foods. What *exactly* do you mean? There is no farmed wheat or corn that is not genetically modified from its wild ancestors. Same for most of the things we eat. And wear!
November 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Lack of nuance compounds the problem. “Generative” AI or “LLMs built on stolen data” help, as does separating out ecological concerns. I mean, I *do* want Siri to understand me when I ask it to set a timer, and predictive text can be a real time-saver. But writing a first draft? No way.
One of the things most quietly grieved amongst practitioners is the half-century of history and work in learning systems and technologies which have historically been categorized as “AI”, and they’ve all been run over by LLMs, and by the hype cycles the industry has *built* around LLMs. A huge loss.
There are quite a few ethical and justice oriented AI people who talk about having lifelong love for a vision of AI that is being trashed by the current thing, and I wonder if any of those positive visions have been articulated somewhere? What is it ppl think AI is supposed to be instead of this?
November 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is the quality content we like to see.
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I think I'm going to like the various screens the best!
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
You need to resign. And take Dick with you. Shameful.
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
You need to get rid of Schumer and Durbin.
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
You need to get rid of Schumer and Durbin.
November 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Some good news for your Monday morning.
US supreme court rejects call to overturn decision legalizing same-sex marriage
Justices turn away appeal from former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM