Michael Valkenberg

@lartist.bsky.social

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

There, WaPo, I fixed it for you. Someone who calls for the deportation of Native Americans is not a “nativist”. (www.rawstory.com/bo-french/) This guy is too racist for an openly racist party in an openly racist country. You should at least attempt to use the correct description.

It says it all about the ethical values of the combatants in the Ukraine war that Ukraine is striking oil refineries while Russia is attacking libraries and publishers.

Irony is dead and has been killed by AI. I searched for papers on cognitive offloading. Next to the search results? The option to have AI generate a short summary. If only there was another way of getting a quick summary of a paper and what the author(s) judged to be most important about it

My personal opinion is that it’s bad for us all that it’s so difficult to both use social media and also avoid involuntarily seeing videos of people dying.

Ah, god, not Dolly Parton. We’re going to need another pillar to hold up the universe.

This is the report the President is threatening a lawsuit over. #StreisandEffecting www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

"Thank you for updating to Woman™ 51.0. This release includes important security updates, several unexpected hardware changes, a completely redesigned relationship with alcohol, and expanded support for saying 'absolutely not' without explaining yourself." buff.ly/31NgFok

More puffin content…

Took a whale and puffin watching tour today with O‘Brien‘s boat tours in Bay Bulls, Newfoundland. As a German, I can very much appreciate their efficiency.

Totally normal bird picture! #birds #CommonMurre

Great job 👏

I guess the cocktail menu is ok. For a flight.

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

Whatever you have to say about the world‘s first paper trillionaire, if this is not the picture you illustrate it with, I won‘t read it.

Still sore that his side lost, I guess…

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

Art should make you think. This room makes me think „Is my measles shot up to date?“

#sitp #sitphannover @sitpde.bsky.social @sitpkoeln.bsky.social Hallo, wir sind die Neuen bei Skeptics in the Pub und freuen uns auf euren Besuch. Am 29. Mai 2026 um 19:00 Uhr gibts drei Kurzvorträge von uns im Restaurant Benatis Podbielskistraße 240 30655 Hannover infos: sitp-hannover.de

It is the time of the year where I have to leave the house for an hour every day, so that when I come back home I can show my wife something she can say „Ooooh!“ about…

It took me embarrassingly long to understand why the expensive restaurant we were at last night had such cheap looking decoration standing around…

Thought about it for a while; blocked it pro tem. YMMV.

Caught a bee and a willow very much in flagranti…

How dare they make the war criminal look bad?!

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Best of luck to our transatlantically challenged friends who will once again spend the evening playing a round of „Tourette’s or SOTU?“

Went to IKEA today where I bought the three things I wanted to buy and nothing else. Have been feeling vaguely guilty since then, like I may have started the apocalypse by mistake.

“The very first rubber dick to touch government-issued leather boots triggered a full-blown chemical weapons response. That is not metaphor. That is not exaggeration. That is a literal sentence that happened in America in 2026.” Treat yourself & read this! www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-...

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Just finished @tkingfisher.com‘s „Snake Eater“. A beautiful and surprisingly funny book about trauma, friends, and male assholes of varying species. Also about the desert, which I love. And it made me feel better about only once having seen a roadrunner. (Next to Saguaro National Park.)

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

"if i leave the nazi sexual abuse app - the predators win" win what? a nazi sexual abuse app?

I‘ll be honest: If you had asked me what state I‘d expect the 2nd US civil war to kick off in, Minnesota would not have made the top 40.

So far the best day of this year was the one I spent in bed with high fever, a blinding headache, and hardly any social media…

To anybody who believes the bullshit about the US needing Greenland for strategic reasons: 1. The US can already build as many bases on Greenland as they wish. They have exactly one. 2. Attacking Greenland would end NATO, and the US would lose access to all NATO bases in Europe. Is that worth it?

It‘s time for Europe to start thinking about which territorial claims we will support after the upcoming US civil war and resulting collapse. Sure, Canada gets Alaska - otherwise Russia would take it. But what about Mexico‘s attempts to retake Texas, New Mexico and Arizona?

I may have already found the best thing I‘ll read this year. More people should see this. And by „more“ I mean „everybody“. Long, but very much worth it. fixthenews.com/p/the-teleme...