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my soul has left my body

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

this could be the subject of a dissertation

I keep trying to make it clear that what RFK Jr. has done to public health and healthcare will take years before the full weight of the horror becomes visible. We are seeing the canaries in the coal mine with the measles outbreak and the FDA idiocy around vaccine approvals.

Because the industry is actually being fed by dozens of white men SELLING ONLINE COURSES ABOUT HOW TO USE AI to forge books, make broken webapps, and pump out poorly constructed digital products who will never experience the same caliber of pile-on as a Black woman would, and that is TELLING.

I've read some pretty weird things over the years but this is extraordinary. "Every country requires a plan for economic self sufficiency". Really?

Is it still satire if it accurately describes no less than 1/3rd of the population?

Drawn on 17 February 1675: a rose. By Maria Sibylla Merian, whose birthday is today. A human life is like a flower, as she wrote on this page.

It can be so disappointing sometimes to realise you’ve just read a metaphor.

🧵 My 3-part series about Trump's Rededicate 250: the centerpiece of his Freedom 250 Christian nationalist hijack of America's birthday Rededicate 250 is a 10-hour prayer event set for May 17 at the National Mall: 'rededicating our country as One Nation under God' www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...

Easter fact: the name "Good Friday" is derived from the Old English term "Gooed Friday" which was named for the filling in Cadbury Creme Eggs.

Passenger zeppelins are safe if you take the Hindenburg out of the statistics

Israel's new law mandating death by hanging for Palestinians who are convicted of murdering Israelis, which further cements Israel’s apartheid system, is drawing condemnation from rights groups and other countries.

What it means is what has already started, which is countries considering all manner of restrictions on all manner of trade, weakening economies, before at some point they come to understand that weaponisation of supplies is lose-lose. This is the 1930s version of tariff raising.

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

"Ground control to Major Tom, I hope this email finds you well."

When you are a goofy goober and you jump scare the medical staff with "the horrors"

Every now and then a man I know to be smart and capable of real insight, yet who has never read a single book by a feminist in his life, will look at me with the wide eyed naïveté of a newborn babe, and be like, “Do you think this Trump thing might have something to do with gender?”

Good lord, I swear I have to do this every three goddamn months: if you’re sharing the r slur just to show everyone some dickhead used it, all you’re doing is sharing the r slur. Fucking blur that shit if you must share, and if you’re doing alt text as you should be, say r slur and not the word.

The longer this stuff goes on, the more I kinda hate the mealy-mouthed diplomat-style accusations. The world's getting fucked up, folks, vague mentions aren't gonna save you in the historical record. Some states need to start saying it clear, imho.

lying comes in several forms on here but the most predictable and regular is "TERF didn't read the report and is lying about its contents"

I cannot believe the Times is still busy trying to discipline democrats’ left flank. Democrats should tell people to unsubscribe and nuke that paper from orbit. If Dems came out against that paper in a united front it would be dead in a couple years.

They have provoked moral panics against multiculturalism and against trans children. You're not just running to lead the country, you're also running to lead the democratic party. How would the party under your leadership confront such a hostile media ecosystem."

canonically superman struggles with spicy food weirdly enough, I think batman would dig it though

Reselling a book, unless it’s rare or extremely new and popular, is rarely even worth the trouble. The likelihood people are doing this is minimal. If you have expectations about how the things you “give away” are to be treated, don’t give them away.

I wrote last winter about the return of the r-word. I'm so mad. www.startribune.com/r-word-slur-...

Good morning. Last night, the president of the United States gave a speech from the White House about his spiraling war in the Middle East. This morning, he is feuding with Bruce Springsteen.

i shit you not

Poland PM: 🇵🇱

Okay but how cool would it be to say that you remoted in to a machine that’s in outer space?

a language pet peeve: I find it annoying when I or someone else says "I'm sorry" that something bad happened to someone, and it draws a response of "don't say sorry" or "it's not your fault." Often I'm just expressing sorrow or sympathy. If I'm apologizing or taking blame, I'd word it differently

I'm not going to be online much today, so leaving this 🧵 with further clarification of my perspective: bsky.app/profile/juli...

Whitey's going back to the moon. All these years later, Gil Scott-Heron's commentary is still the best. m.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2...

This Day in Labor History: April 2, 1992. Seattle mayor Norm Rice created the Child Care Staffing Task Force to deal with the city’s low-wage child care workers and how to improve their working conditions. Let's talk about care work and the recent history of protecting care workers!

An enduring classic

Fun fact amid this thread: Richard Dawkins was married for 24 years to Lalla Ward, who played Romana on DOCTOR WHO from 1978-80 and clearly must be the most patient woman alive 😂

I'm sure the "difficult decision to deactivate Tilly Norwood indefinitely" has nothing at all to do with OpenAI having killed off its video generation because it was costing them sums of money they could never possibly recoup.

Counterpoint: language evolves. And, if we're going to go there, 'usage' is an ugly word: 'of contemporary writing' is right there.

This too was part of Project 2025. They said they were going to do this before the election. Mainstream media credulously chose to ignore or minimize that plan because Trump denied it. It was the blueprint and they’ve been following it diligently.

Omg ;w; It's drawn as such a scruffy little creature

Tfw you fake your death for a lark but everyone celebrated instead of mourned

I’ll always despise the AI bros for shovelling this slop at us, but I’ll never forgive the trade journos who credulously pushed their angle.

This does raise the horrifying prospect that someone might rub a software update and we're going to end up with a spaceship with Copilot on it. And thanks to the documentary "2001: A Space Odyssey" we know how that ends.

Decades of activism fought to make American cities handicap-accessible by installing curb cuts and tactile pavement. Delivery robots default to stopping in those curb cuts, effectively eliminating access to public walkways for those using mobility aids.

It's giving artefacts having politics faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001...

Pete Hegseth — the most unqualified Defense Secretary in modern history — blocked the promotion of two Black & two women Army officers. These are servicemembers who earned their rank, served with distinction, and put their lives on the line for this country — & they deserve better than this mess.