Off to a contractually-obligated rehearsal. Stay warm unless you're ICE, in which case feel free to get frostbite and hypothermia.

You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"

Nine year olds should not live in a world where they have to consider the logistics of civil disobedience as a tool to save their friends. Nine year olds should not have to strategize about how to keep each other safe. That is a failure of our responsibilities as adults and can never be overstated.

This is a fascinating (and surprisingly inspiring) thread about teaching tech ethics in an age when the big question on everyone's minds is what to do about genAI in tech and education.

BE CRINGE. BE FREEEEEEE (Reposting with alt text because this is so important)

I see Worldcon's annual rake-stepping competition continues.

its well known that you can confound any malevolent poet by scattering an array of punctuation marks on the floor — the bard will feel compelled to count and arrange them, whereupon you can make your escape

Well, at least it was nice to go to sleep dreaming of a (slightly) better world.

They're hoping this scares people into never criticizing politicians but in fact it only encourages me to word my insults in whatever way I think will be funniest being read aloud by a semiliterate cop to my doorbell camera. "Um, ma'am? Did you post that 'Gavin Newsom gargles Nazi cum, winky face?'"

NO

...no it isn't? Affordability is an issue local politicians (particularly in large cities) can address and do something about. The issues Schumer should be focusing on aren't things local politicians can do something about. That's... kind of what Senators are for.

Korean barbecue place in the town next to the one I grew up in, with bulgogi so good my mouth would water for a week afterwards just thinking about it. It was crowded every night (and afternoon) of the week, and kept all the other shops in the center going with traffic.

I Should Be Practicing And Instead I Am Posting On The Internet: A Life

abcnews.go.com/US/video/for... - Will has a small interview clip in this. Warning: There's a 30 second commercial in front of the segment, but please go watch. Please give them the clicks so this remains a top Google result for his name.

The US is currently 1933 Germany.

This thread is gold!

May you grow boils around every orifice that itch so badly you can think of nothing else.

i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything

Love how every search I do for technical information now has been poisoned by pages and pages of SEO LLM garbage. Can we have a separate internet that's intended for humans?

I'm assuming my description should leave out the ear splitting squee I emit when I hear about the homemade donuts. (Joking aside, this is a great thread about alt text.)

Painsomnia: activate! Anxiety: activate! ADHD: activate! Segmented sleep: activate! Over-40 bladder: activate! Nocturnal pet ownership: activate! Just One More Episode: activate! Together we form Awaketron!

Title text: "Some surfaces may seem difficult to glue. But if you research the materials, find tables of what adhesives work on them, and prepare your surfaces carefully, you can fail to glue them in a fun NEW way that fills your house with dangerous vapors."

Still nonbinary, because both of these sound pretty good.

Hitting 'like' on things and watching the client undo it two seconds later quite a lot lately, on both browser and app. Could we get some bug fixes instead of cashtags or whatever?

Re last RT: I've voted in every election since 1984. No matter how much you try to convince me my vote is pointless, (and on a national and often state level it's made no difference many times since then) I'm voting. Go ahead, send masked thugs with guns to my polling place. See if it stops me.

There are many tactics Republicans can & may employ to try to depress voter turnout and intimidate voters. That said, voter turnout can also be depressed by people preemptively declaring the election is rigged. It takes effort to get to the polls, it doesn't help to tell people it's not worth it.

Okay, the doom does not need me, personally, to pay attention to it every moment. Go take a shower and practice.

I am serious Halp! SOS

Don't know why I'm in tears watching dog agility runs this morning.

Best timeline cleanse.

No, Apple, I do not want i(Pad)OS 26. Stop trying to bypass my settings to download it.

Will was finally released. He has bruises and a headache. He was held for over 7 hours. His lawyer was not allowed access because Will didn't ask for him by name. This is unconstitutional as fuck. @keithellison.bsky.social @ilhanmn.bsky.social @smith.senate.gov @governorwalz.mn.gov

When you announce that you are taking a social media break:

Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.

Born near Strawberry Creek in Berkeley, grew up along the Sacramento and Santa Ana rivers. (My best geography teacher had several lessons on what happens during a major earthquake in a flood plain. He had us riveted for a week as he explained how the school would collapse and sink into the ground.)

Okay, that's enough doomscrolling for a Monday morning.

The problem with reading @kbspangler.com's books is choosing the right time to start them, because they rapidly accelerate to the point that they're impossible to put down. Anyway, it's Monday morning, I'm short on sleep, and you should read Inside Threat.

MUSIC MUST HAVE A LOT IN COMMON WITH SORCERY. THINK BOUT IT! YOUS MAKE SOMETHING VIBRATE IN WAY TA CREATE A NOTE! DEN YOU COMBINE NOTES TOGETHER IN PATTERNS! AND DIS MAKE FOLKS FEEL THINGS DEY WASN’T FEELING BEFORE! CAN MAKE SOMEONE FEEL THINGS JUST BY MAKING AIR WIGGLE! SOUND LIKE MAGIC TO THUNK!

cozy is great but have you considered the emotional benefits of beheading people in fiction

@levin.house.gov - I'd like to see you on this list.

This is an excellent thread about how what's going on in the U.S. affects what's going on with our neighbors. (I also think borders are garbage, and at the same time they're unfortunately important in resisting what appears to be a global swing toward fascism, in which we are participants.)

Less crypto, more cryptid.

ICE is very active in the Minneapolis suburb I'm closest to, and they don't get the same attention and resources as some of the bigger burbs. Can folks boost this and try to get some funds to them?

Le Guin never misses. (I barely remember reading this decades ago, but holy cow does it hit harder now.)

Increasingly unhinged Karlheinz Stockhausen recording that sounds like a saxophonist falling down several flights of stairs.

Look, 7ft mantises are just the price you pay for insect-resistant corn.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Alexandra Petri is (as always) amazing.

great news, i put the tiny dog couch back in the living room

Oh good, a ChatGPT-generated phishing email. I suppose that's my amusement for the day.