Thomas G. Atkinson
@darthmarmalade.bsky.social
Is there any tea on this spacecraft?
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A lot of transphobic whataboutism is just straight up trying to make being a bigot sound like a legit position asked in good faith.
Nope, same old horseshit.
Nope, same old horseshit.
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
A lot of transphobic whataboutism is just straight up trying to make being a bigot sound like a legit position asked in good faith.
Nope, same old horseshit.
Nope, same old horseshit.
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Every single day, I open my fridge and see *that* bottle of champagne and I think to myself “every day is one day closer”
December 1, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Every single day, I open my fridge and see *that* bottle of champagne and I think to myself “every day is one day closer”
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I was told for many years that criticizing the antivaccine movement was a waste of time and “a liability” for science communication in general
my hot take based on nothing is: GOOP is part of why we landed here.
One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
December 1, 2025 at 4:13 AM
I was told for many years that criticizing the antivaccine movement was a waste of time and “a liability” for science communication in general
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A choice epithet for a few present-day regimes too, perhaps
absolute goat rodeo of a dynasty
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
A choice epithet for a few present-day regimes too, perhaps
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Well this is right up there with "tech hoarding" and "people are not dining out enough"
November 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Well this is right up there with "tech hoarding" and "people are not dining out enough"
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conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.
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It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
December 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
It’s so wild how the wealthy are destroying the Amazon that potentially has the cure for all the cancers in favor of an Amazon that’s creating new types of cancers
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imho James Garner really is the guy that everyone thinks Steve McQueen is. Garner's fit was so powerful that McQueen threw a tantrum about it and insisted they swap costumes.
Rewatched Great Escape on my last flight and I think we don’t talk enough about James Garner’s unreal drip
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
imho James Garner really is the guy that everyone thinks Steve McQueen is. Garner's fit was so powerful that McQueen threw a tantrum about it and insisted they swap costumes.
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I lived in a time when we didn't have measles or polio to worry about, and frankly, I'd like to return to those times so that future generations don't have to worry about them either.
December 1, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I lived in a time when we didn't have measles or polio to worry about, and frankly, I'd like to return to those times so that future generations don't have to worry about them either.
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Predictors vs gen(erative) AI. An important distinction to make!
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Predictors vs gen(erative) AI. An important distinction to make!
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COVID myths are foundational to modern fascism.
Stuff like the lab leak BS or the idea that we “overreacted” to the pandemic, or the claim that dissent was “censored” by the “biomedical security state,” are narrative pillars holding up the fascists’ bizarro, contradictory worldview.
Understand?
Stuff like the lab leak BS or the idea that we “overreacted” to the pandemic, or the claim that dissent was “censored” by the “biomedical security state,” are narrative pillars holding up the fascists’ bizarro, contradictory worldview.
Understand?
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
COVID myths are foundational to modern fascism.
Stuff like the lab leak BS or the idea that we “overreacted” to the pandemic, or the claim that dissent was “censored” by the “biomedical security state,” are narrative pillars holding up the fascists’ bizarro, contradictory worldview.
Understand?
Stuff like the lab leak BS or the idea that we “overreacted” to the pandemic, or the claim that dissent was “censored” by the “biomedical security state,” are narrative pillars holding up the fascists’ bizarro, contradictory worldview.
Understand?
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Oh.
Hitler was bad.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.
Perry: The pro-Hitler problem with the American right
"We need to get back to the basics: Hitler was bad. The people who suggest otherwise are also bad," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Oh.
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My disciples go forth and do good works.
Took some old americium smoke detectors to hazardous materials disposal and the fellow on duty decided that merited the Fist Bump of Safety.
November 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My disciples go forth and do good works.
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D&D is gay now, and it has been for ages.
November 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
D&D is gay now, and it has been for ages.
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So basically, if you're saying in *2025* that D&D is dying because it's "woke now", you're not only incorrect, you're also about a decade behind. Because the whole of 5e has been incredibly diverse and joyful and queer and it's been more successful than ever.
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
So basically, if you're saying in *2025* that D&D is dying because it's "woke now", you're not only incorrect, you're also about a decade behind. Because the whole of 5e has been incredibly diverse and joyful and queer and it's been more successful than ever.
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This is as good as this stuff will ever be, this is the phase where we're all supposed to be getting hooked in to this disruptive new thing. Once the free money dries up and they have to turn a profit, it will inevitably get worse and worse
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is as good as this stuff will ever be, this is the phase where we're all supposed to be getting hooked in to this disruptive new thing. Once the free money dries up and they have to turn a profit, it will inevitably get worse and worse
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It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It’s infuriating to me that I need to evaluate media to determine whether it’s AI generated now. The great “time saver” technology wastes incalculable time and energy for people who want to retain their grasp on reality
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I am, in a weird way, glad that I will be long gone when this generation full realizes how much we utterly failed them.
Those that make it through may very well go to a Logan's Run (book) model moving forward, and I honestly couldn't blame them.
Those that make it through may very well go to a Logan's Run (book) model moving forward, and I honestly couldn't blame them.
I’ve always been puzzled by the ‘not many kids are dying so COVID isn’t serious’ arguments.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com (2022)
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com (2022)
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I am, in a weird way, glad that I will be long gone when this generation full realizes how much we utterly failed them.
Those that make it through may very well go to a Logan's Run (book) model moving forward, and I honestly couldn't blame them.
Those that make it through may very well go to a Logan's Run (book) model moving forward, and I honestly couldn't blame them.
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if trump pardons Hegseth, Hegseth then cannot plead the 5th when called to testify about trump. and presidents can't pardon themselves.
is I think an argument that it would be useful for someone with a higher profile than me to start saying somewhere where trump would see it.
is I think an argument that it would be useful for someone with a higher profile than me to start saying somewhere where trump would see it.
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
if trump pardons Hegseth, Hegseth then cannot plead the 5th when called to testify about trump. and presidents can't pardon themselves.
is I think an argument that it would be useful for someone with a higher profile than me to start saying somewhere where trump would see it.
is I think an argument that it would be useful for someone with a higher profile than me to start saying somewhere where trump would see it.
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Literally the first full-length, proper novel I ever read, in the enrichment class in Grade 3. With that cover.
Looking back I suspect a lot of who I ended up being was set by that experience.
That is not a complaint. Quite the opposite.
Looking back I suspect a lot of who I ended up being was set by that experience.
That is not a complaint. Quite the opposite.
Richard Bober's cover to the 1976 Dell Laurel-Leaf edition of A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle. Bober was only confirmed as the artist in 2023!
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Literally the first full-length, proper novel I ever read, in the enrichment class in Grade 3. With that cover.
Looking back I suspect a lot of who I ended up being was set by that experience.
That is not a complaint. Quite the opposite.
Looking back I suspect a lot of who I ended up being was set by that experience.
That is not a complaint. Quite the opposite.
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"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:44 AM
"In recent history, the Doctor Who actor has repeatedly made headlines thanks to his allyship towards trans and gender non-conforming people – most notably with a subtle gesture during a TV interview that wound up helping to raise £18,000 for the LGBTQ+ youth charity AKT."
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return of the Jedi is not possible without the receipt of the Jedi
May 12, 2023 at 2:50 AM
return of the Jedi is not possible without the receipt of the Jedi
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When Howard Dean was the Democratic frontrunner for President, he was disqualified, by the media, for yelling "Yeah!" once.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
Remember in 2000 when Al Gore was repeatedly misquoted as having said he invented the internet and that was seen the eyes of many as disqualifying him from office? Simpler times. Today, Trump makes up lies equivalent to "I invented the internet" 30 times a week and no one bats an eye. Good job media
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 AM
When Howard Dean was the Democratic frontrunner for President, he was disqualified, by the media, for yelling "Yeah!" once.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
At some point we just have to admit that mainstream media sources are biased.
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i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 AM
i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things