Thomas
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Fury Road is a Christmas movie
December 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Fury Road is a Christmas movie
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🤯
This is kind of insane to think about. Supermassive black hole 10 million x the size of the Sun, hurtling through space at 2 million mph, pushing a galaxy-sized shock wave of matter in front, and dragging a 200k light-year tail behind it. A new kind of galactic-scale comet
🧪 #JWST #Astronomy #Space
🧪 #JWST #Astronomy #Space
December 18, 2025 at 8:27 PM
🤯
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Untitled by Cy Twombly, 1967
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137451
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137451
December 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Untitled by Cy Twombly, 1967
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137451
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137451
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“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
The Night They Saved Christmas (1984) nominated for an Emmy alongside Punky Brewster, the Ewok special, and Reading Rainbow. With Paul Williams and Art Carney. The plot is thin but it's etched into my brain lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nig...
December 17, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The Night They Saved Christmas (1984) nominated for an Emmy alongside Punky Brewster, the Ewok special, and Reading Rainbow. With Paul Williams and Art Carney. The plot is thin but it's etched into my brain lol en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nig...
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Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
December 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.
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“Inside a downtown Columbus church on Dec. 18, more than 160 people will be recognized.
Their names will be read aloud, a bell rung in each person's honor.
They are people who have died in Columbus in 2025 while experiencing homelessness.”
www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...
Their names will be read aloud, a bell rung in each person's honor.
They are people who have died in Columbus in 2025 while experiencing homelessness.”
www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...
Memorial service to honor homeless people who died in Columbus in 2025
The Columbus Coalition for the Homeless is hosting a memorial service for those who died while homeless Dec. 18 at Trinity Episcopal Church Downtown and via livestream.
www.dispatch.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
“Inside a downtown Columbus church on Dec. 18, more than 160 people will be recognized.
Their names will be read aloud, a bell rung in each person's honor.
They are people who have died in Columbus in 2025 while experiencing homelessness.”
www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...
Their names will be read aloud, a bell rung in each person's honor.
They are people who have died in Columbus in 2025 while experiencing homelessness.”
www.dispatch.com/story/news/h...
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No way did our boy set an entire letter to projectionists in Papyrus
December 17, 2025 at 4:13 AM
No way did our boy set an entire letter to projectionists in Papyrus
Clematis from November on a walk to get a cinnamon roll
#bloomscrolling
#bloomscrolling
December 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Clematis from November on a walk to get a cinnamon roll
#bloomscrolling
#bloomscrolling
Talllllll teeth
youtu.be/UX_AMKF4vpc
youtu.be/UX_AMKF4vpc
December 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Talllllll teeth
youtu.be/UX_AMKF4vpc
youtu.be/UX_AMKF4vpc
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the idea of using ai in concepting is one of those things that makes execs DROOL and falls apart after thinking about it for like 3 seconds
Hi, we don’t use genAI in any phase of production ESPECIALLY CONCEPTING because doing so would defeat the purpose and role of concepting. Ok bye!
October 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
the idea of using ai in concepting is one of those things that makes execs DROOL and falls apart after thinking about it for like 3 seconds
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Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
December 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.
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Vivian Maier, Fire Escape Shadows
December 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Vivian Maier, Fire Escape Shadows
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Post-information society/ascendent fantasy society
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Post-information society/ascendent fantasy society
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Farmer sitting at the fireside and reading - 1881
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/11646
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/11646
December 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Farmer sitting at the fireside and reading - 1881
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/11646
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/11646
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I didn't know this: ”Memphis is the nation’s largest majority-Black city.”
December 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I didn't know this: ”Memphis is the nation’s largest majority-Black city.”
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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discriminatory policy and attitude is surely one piece of how trans people fall out of academia, but I have seen it work out a bit differently. for what it's worth I transitioned in grad school more than a decade ago, and taught in another field for the last few years.
Pleased to be interviewed for this much needed piece on the rising transphobia in higher education.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...
(Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...
(Archive link: archive.is/oYqXS)
Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
discriminatory policy and attitude is surely one piece of how trans people fall out of academia, but I have seen it work out a bit differently. for what it's worth I transitioned in grad school more than a decade ago, and taught in another field for the last few years.
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New: When the Washington Post ran tests on its AI personalized podcasts, the paper found that between 68% and 84% (!!) of the pods had potential issues.
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
December 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
New: When the Washington Post ran tests on its AI personalized podcasts, the paper found that between 68% and 84% (!!) of the pods had potential issues.
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
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I'm not reading Trump's remarks.
Just remember that when he dies, nobody will miss him, mourn him, or be thankful for anything that he brought into their lives.
Just remember that when he dies, nobody will miss him, mourn him, or be thankful for anything that he brought into their lives.
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I'm not reading Trump's remarks.
Just remember that when he dies, nobody will miss him, mourn him, or be thankful for anything that he brought into their lives.
Just remember that when he dies, nobody will miss him, mourn him, or be thankful for anything that he brought into their lives.
I read an opinion saying that U SAID was dismantled because of austerity and I feel it shouldn't be lost that it was scuttled because of conspiracy theories that it was central to secret government control by the left or some shit that never really made any sense.
December 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I read an opinion saying that U SAID was dismantled because of austerity and I feel it shouldn't be lost that it was scuttled because of conspiracy theories that it was central to secret government control by the left or some shit that never really made any sense.
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One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
December 15, 2025 at 3:53 AM
One of my all-time favorite clips of Rob Reiner, from his Friars Club Roast in 2000, as he reads aloud Roger Ebert's infamous scathing review of his movie North. The man had an amazing sense of humor about himself. RIP.
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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Gender — and restrictive gender roles — are core to authoritarian projects. Society uses concepts of gender to sort people. Data both reflects and imposes these social definitions.
Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...
Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...
what's in a data gap?
The project to redefine transgender data tells us some things about authoritarianism.
buttondown.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Gender — and restrictive gender roles — are core to authoritarian projects. Society uses concepts of gender to sort people. Data both reflects and imposes these social definitions.
Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...
Some notes from a speech about this last week: buttondown.com/stetdele/arc...