This wouldn’t be happening if she was president.

I wish I could say this was absolutely unbelievable. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Secretary of Wrestling has cancelled grants for deaf/blind students across 17 states saying the money doesn’t align with the administrations policies to end DEI and would give the students an unfair advantage over other children.

Yoooo, receptionist at specialized imaging center dealing primarily with screening for cancer — Maybe don’t hang up the phone and laugh at the person calling every day who notes they’ll call again Monday (hoping for a cancelation). That imaging is actually a life and death sort of thing for them.

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

my bf is in bed telling me about planes he is catching in this pokémon go knockoff where you capture the plane flying overhead (it’s built by flight radar). i could not care less but i know this is for some of you plane nerds skycards.app

Bingo. ChatGPT doesn't give you knowledge, it gives you confident lies. If you accept confident lies, you are a fool.

Me: I'm a foundational support pillar for this organization Me:

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

Did you know the Oregon Zoo has the last functional mail train in the U.S.? Shortly after it opened in 1958, the Washington Park and Zoo Railway became one of the first recreational railroads in the country to have its own official postmark and cancellation stamp.

I heard there was a secret ooze It turned four turtles into dudes But you don't really care for pizza, do ya? They fought like this, Two swords, a stick A couple sai Some nunchuck tricks Those Ninja boys-a callin Cowabunga

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

Someone on here said that we've just replaced the four humours with the names of neurotransmitters and that's so right it's not even funny.

Libraries feel like holy, safe places to me. And this is one of the myriad reasons why.

Stopped at Lokum in Santa Barbara, finally. Halvah was actually made there. In the states. It was fresh. I don’t even know how to explain how rare or unusual this is. I’m not even a big halvah person, I just think a little every once in a while is nice.

I cannot stress how big of a deal this is. www.cnn.com/2024/09/06/u...

I used to get conference brain after 10-12 hours and now maybe five hours in I am fully ready to be wheeled onto a sunny balcony overlooking the sea like the grannies in Ponyo

“I used to dream about working at Gawker. I used to dream about a job. I used to dream about labor. That’s wack. Don’t do that!” Gita Jackson spoke directly to my heart and soul #xoxofest 📍Revolution Hall / Portland / OR

I was never an advocate for being able to edit social media posts or messages after the fact. It just seemed ripe for misuse and not necessary… After having the ability to edit a post on Slack, Mastodon, even Messages… I’m now on team edits-allowed (as long as changes are tracked).

Loving the low-fi playlist at #xoxofest but I just had a delicious empanada and I’m so, so sleepy. My back says go to the hotel and get to sleep early. My traveling FOMO says stay at the festival or go to Powell’s

The story of melonpan, a ubiquitous and beloved Japanese sweet bread invented by an Armenian immigrant to Japan, is a tale that I chased for two decades, and which brings together his story and my own. https://unseen-japan.com/melonpan-armenian-history/

If you’re debating going to your first indoor meal in IDK how long for the sake of a 97yo you love, keep in mind that a racist antivax wackadoo might have hosted a dinner there the day before (or after! 🤷) https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/rfk-jr-says-covid-was-ethnically-targeted-to-spare-jews/

THAT’S ME IN A TESLA THAT’S ME AT THE CROSSWALK CHOOSING MY COLLISION

It seems like this is the place for random shit-posting… but thinking about it, the beginning of every content sharing platform felt like that, too. …I almost got fired once because a boss ended up at the beginning of my Facebook posts and thought something was about work.

Nightstand goals.

ATTENTION KMART SHOPPERS! This collection is an enduring favorite: Back in the 80s & 90s, a former KMART employee saved a private collection of original in-store background music cassettes from being lost to history ▶️ https://archive.org/details/attentionkmartshoppers

There was this weird era of Nintendo Street Pass at GDC where people added me on LinkedIn after passing me and that’s how random follow notifications here feel. Weird, but, fine. Would be better if I thought we’d -ever- interact, you know?

If ur serious about workers’ rights, take COVID precautions seriously—and return to them if you’ve dropped them. WHO released that 1 in 10 *infections* leads to long-term bodily harm. 1 in 10 chance of becoming disabled/further disabled, yes, even if ur fully vaxxed (via LaurenRKayes on twitter)