Dark and Wondrous - it's in the trees! it's coming!
@darkandwondrous.bsky.social
Fight fascism!
Writer, science-y person, dad, caregiver, wants to be an artist when he grows up.
SFF & moody existential horror. Dada, deco, noir, philosophy. Yunnan tea & long walks on the beach.
Monsters, John, monsters from the Id.
He/him
Writer, science-y person, dad, caregiver, wants to be an artist when he grows up.
SFF & moody existential horror. Dada, deco, noir, philosophy. Yunnan tea & long walks on the beach.
Monsters, John, monsters from the Id.
He/him
Pinned
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Hearing AOC in Nemik's voice (complementary)
"Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly.
Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."
"Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly.
Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."
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I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Hell yes.
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Hell yes.
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The best thing I learned from Macaulay Culkin at last night’s Home Alone screening is that his 4yo son loves the movie, thinks of himself as Kevin, and has no idea that that’s his dad. Culkin is attempting to hide that fact for as long as possible
a young boy is smiling and says `` i made my family disappear '' .
ALT: a young boy is smiling and says `` i made my family disappear '' .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The best thing I learned from Macaulay Culkin at last night’s Home Alone screening is that his 4yo son loves the movie, thinks of himself as Kevin, and has no idea that that’s his dad. Culkin is attempting to hide that fact for as long as possible
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NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
Trump’s Fury at BBC Gets Unnerving Results with Pro-MAGA Edit Stunner
First, British Broadcasting Corporation execs resigned after Trump complained about a segment. Now the BBC edited out a line from a historian that was critical of Trump. Where does this end?
newrepublic.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history."
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
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I just want to point out that there is a lane for someone to start a small media company whose express mission statement is "nothing we put on the internet was made by AI" & every time a category gets overrun like this, they branch out
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I just want to point out that there is a lane for someone to start a small media company whose express mission statement is "nothing we put on the internet was made by AI" & every time a category gets overrun like this, they branch out
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Hello Sunday.
🖼️ Mr Tod in the Forest, Beatrix Potter.
🖼️ Mr Tod in the Forest, Beatrix Potter.
November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Hello Sunday.
🖼️ Mr Tod in the Forest, Beatrix Potter.
🖼️ Mr Tod in the Forest, Beatrix Potter.
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Nothing else is quite like the feeling of running into a gonzo paragraph like this one.
![A screenshot which reads:
"Inspired by Theosophical lore and several visiting Mongol lamas, Gleb Bokii, the chief Bolshevik cryptographer and one of the bosses of the Soviet secret police, along with his writer friend Alexander Barchenko, embarked on a quest for Shambhala, in an attempt to merge Kalachakra-tantra and ideas of Communism in the 1920s. Among other things, in a secret laboratory affiliated with the secret police, Bokii and Barchenko experimented with Buddhist spiritual techniques to try to find a key for engineering perfect communist human beings.[17] They contemplated a special expedition to Inner Asia to retrieve the wisdom of Shambhala – the project fell through as a result of intrigues within the Soviet intelligence service, as well as rival efforts of the Soviet Foreign Commissariat that sent its own expedition to Tibet in 1924."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ekew4wtc2m4ctroumek7kr4l/bafkreidabk6ljvos3wdgnum2ao7enwzc46kdkcxc2afw5ahfchncacn5tm@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Nothing else is quite like the feeling of running into a gonzo paragraph like this one.
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dogs don’t bark at parked cars
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
dogs don’t bark at parked cars
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Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
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Seriously, what other president is even remotely in his league?
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Seriously, what other president is even remotely in his league?
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
There was corruption in the Grant and Harding administrations, but the presidents were largely uninvolved. Nixon committed crimes in secret but didn't really line his own pockets.
Trump is like a Thomas Nast cartoon come to life.
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Finally, an Olympic sport I can get behind!
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Finally, an Olympic sport I can get behind!
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icy moon update:
November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
icy moon update:
there's something here that doesn't make sense; let's go poke it with a stick, charlie brown
November 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
there's something here that doesn't make sense; let's go poke it with a stick, charlie brown
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Also weird how opponents of the Mamdani plan have never heard of the Circulators in DC and Baltimore.
Buses have been free in Tucson for years now. City check: still standing.
Well, well, well, imagine this:
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Also weird how opponents of the Mamdani plan have never heard of the Circulators in DC and Baltimore.
my father has not engaged in conversation for at least twenty years; the monologue is his preferred mode of discourse, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
my father has not engaged in conversation for at least twenty years; the monologue is his preferred mode of discourse, Charlie Brown
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A cooking channel where throughout the video the person's dogs and cats keep successfully begging for food, in the end they have eaten all the ingredients and the dish does not get made.
This would also be great for a knitting channel.
This would also be great for a knitting channel.
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A cooking channel where throughout the video the person's dogs and cats keep successfully begging for food, in the end they have eaten all the ingredients and the dish does not get made.
This would also be great for a knitting channel.
This would also be great for a knitting channel.
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when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
November 25, 2025 at 10:17 AM
when trying on pants, do this in the store. then tell the sales associate "the menswear guy told me to do this."
IG mr.funkys0ul
IG mr.funkys0ul
Still this pulsing night
A plague I call a heartbeat
Just be still with me
You wouldn't believe what I've been through
And I've been putting out the fire
With gasoline, Charlie Brown
A plague I call a heartbeat
Just be still with me
You wouldn't believe what I've been through
And I've been putting out the fire
With gasoline, Charlie Brown
Do you know how you got that dent, in your top lip? Way back, before you were born, I told you a secret, then I put my finger there and I said "Shhhhh, Charlie Brown!"
Where we’re going we won’t need eyes to see, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Still this pulsing night
A plague I call a heartbeat
Just be still with me
You wouldn't believe what I've been through
And I've been putting out the fire
With gasoline, Charlie Brown
A plague I call a heartbeat
Just be still with me
You wouldn't believe what I've been through
And I've been putting out the fire
With gasoline, Charlie Brown
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Okay. Yes. We’re bored now. We’re all bored. But has it ever occurred to you, Charlie Brown, that the process which creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money?
Everything's in ruins, Charlie Brown, everything's been degraded, but I could say that they've ruined and degraded everything, because this is not some kind of cataclysm coming about with so-called innocent human aid, on the contrary, it's about man's own judgment over his own self, which of course–
I know you’re not actually a person in the strictest sense of the word, Charlie Brown.
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Okay. Yes. We’re bored now. We’re all bored. But has it ever occurred to you, Charlie Brown, that the process which creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating unconscious form of brainwashing created by a world totalitarian government based on money?
Someday a real rain'll come, Charlie Brown, and wash ALL the scum off the streets
“Give me a ping, Charlie Brown. One ping only, please.”
Klaatu barada nikto Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Someday a real rain'll come, Charlie Brown, and wash ALL the scum off the streets
Don't say it, hiss it: "Sssssss", Charlie Brown
who will survive and what will be left of them, charlie brown
Man is the warmest place to hide, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Don't say it, hiss it: "Sssssss", Charlie Brown
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You're trending on bluesky, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
You're trending on bluesky, Charlie Brown
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History Will Call Us Wives, Charlie Brown
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 AM
History Will Call Us Wives, Charlie Brown
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Has anyone set a bonkers space-operatic novel or game amongst this charismatic group of five galaxies, which astronomers believe are slowly (over the next billion years or so) merging into one?
Apr 25, 2022: NASA marks Hubble's 32nd birthday by showcasing Hickson Compact Group 40, a collection of five galaxies engaged in a gravitational dance. This rare grouping offers insights into galaxy evolution, dark matter, and the formation of supermassive black holes.
flic.kr/p/2ngGLy
flic.kr/p/2ngGLy
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Has anyone set a bonkers space-operatic novel or game amongst this charismatic group of five galaxies, which astronomers believe are slowly (over the next billion years or so) merging into one?