Warren Fish

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Timothy the Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) at the San Antonio Zoo demonstrates why he's not in the petting area using a Fall pumpkin. 🦛🎃 The bite force of a hippo is ~2000 psi, producing a force of 8100 Newtons. So why does a GRASS-EATER have jaws stronger than a polar bear, jaguar or lion's?

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

#mtgcube announcement!! SAN FRANCISCO BAY CUBE CLASH IS HERE! Come join us January 23rd-24th at the beautiful Fort Mason IN San Francisco for two full days of cubing! Price: 65$ hedron.network/events/sfbcc... If you would like to submit a cube for the event, you can do so below! So excited!!

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.

Cornell. Didn’t. Refund. Her. Tuition. THEY DIDNT EVEN REFUND HER TUITION. I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ONE SINGLE BLIP ABOUT TRUST IN HIGHER EDUCATION UNTIL WE TEAR DOWN THE SYSTEM THAT MADE THIS BOTH POSSIBLE AND A COMMON OCCURRENCE.

This is horrible. This is disgusting. This is normalized. Seriously, is anyone truly shocked? Upset, of course. Appalled, definitely. But shocked? These men raped a woman for hours, and effectively got a finger wag for it. That's the standard. Rapists need to feel fear again. #Cornell

Amazing. Also--you never know what will make an impact, no matter how small it seems.

When I argue that this AI doomsday stuff is marketing hype, I mostly get ignored and I think I know why: people don't understand why "our product will destroy humanity" is an advertising pitch for the product. You're right. It's counterintuitive. But here's why www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

Sounds like this needs at least 7 *trillion* dollars to fix it.

bad news everyone. i wrote a program in qbasic that was just 10 KILL ALL HUMANS 20 GOTO 10 which means we are all going to die. does anyone want to give me 7 billion dollars

What gif comes up when you type your name?

Coyote vs Acme was amazing. Still chortling. I’d been hoping to be able to see this movie for years, and it is a masterpiece.

Why young people hate AI even more?

"Be strong enough to be gentle" Rust in peace Peter Cullen.

RIP Tim Curry, who had the range to star in the two greatest movies about a mutiny in the middle of a transatlantic sea voyage, and also the crew occasionally breaks into song

She was the best of all us 🖤

Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.

God dammit, Dolly Parton has died. From everything I've ever learned, she was a genuinely good person who used her fortune to make the world a better place. A study even confirmed it earlier this year skepchick.org/2026/02/stud...

Thinking about @cubecon.org

Finishing a craft project we started circa 2011.

Played the Decipher LOTR card game today with @magesandmentors.bsky.social. The game is still great. It’s tragic that it was cut short. Telepathy FTW.

"Republicans do it, too" is not an acceptable excuse. Everyone knows Republicans are the bad guys. Their base is people who like con artists. Democrats need *good people* to vote for them, not to stay at home. These emails make people stay home. data4democracy.substack.com/p/hook-and-s...

M. Gessen on the hell that Kansas is inflicting on trans people is really hard to read, but so necessary. It also shows why the hysteria over trans athletes is so dangerous. Because it creates buy-in from liberals and centrists to demonize trans people, www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/o...

Just had dinner with some older Gen X people who are well-educated and every one of them had the whole "we just have to give up on trans people" attitude I want to talk a little bit about how I countered their arguments because maybe it will help some of you in similar convos (🧵)

Rest in smaller, harmless pieces, Fantasticar.

Okay, I am going to tell a little story. It's one I have saved for the last couple years, almost nobody knows about it. But it lives in my heart. I don't know how others will feel about it, maybe something, maybe nothing. It's about the Uncanny X-Men. 1/

A health insurance company should not be able to claim on your card that an emergency room visit will cost $250 when they know it will cost $2,500.

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

Did you know we have a digital drafter role in our #CubeCon Discord? Our online draft group will be drafting cubes that will be featured at Cubecon this year, as well as other cubes from cube events events throughout the year! #MTGCube

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Seems like this @smbccomics.bsky.social was written for @lastweektonight.com www.smbc-comics.com/comic/four-3

This event sold out! Awesome. BUT if you're feeling a little fomo from missing out and/or you want to get on this drive/scoop a very cool Liliana + Silumgar bondage playmat you can do that here: lodestonegames.com/products/eve... 100% of the proceeds go to helping trans people in trouble

Are you DANGEROUS enough to draft this cube at @capitolcube.org ?