Kids go straight from school to intensive club sports practices to mandatory family dinners to math tutors and then are so tired (or have parents who have read extensively about the importance of sleep for teenagers) that they go to sleep.

But there’s another issue I don’t think has gotten enough attention, which is: kids today are completely overscheduled and many who WANT to read don’t have time.

The contract “requires that if AI technology is used for ‘newsgathering’ that it meet Politico’s ‘standards of journalists ethics and involve human oversight.’” That was apparently violated. www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/poli...

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

This might be the single funniest thing that has happened during this incredibly cursed year

You would think the council budget director saying, "We literally can't afford to pay [the water bill]," would be a bigger story?

The best thing I ever did for myself is name the robot vacuum Your Mom

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

I have exactly one spacial skill, and I wish I could put it on my resume: eyeballing the 1/4 of butter for Kraft mac’n’cheese

I’m not sure what it says about me that YouTube was like, “I know it’s 5 am in Pittsburgh, but you should know that Lincolnshire County Council’s audit committee meeting is live,” but I thiiiiink it means I’m pretty cool and should probably get a hobby

Me, 2009, adding to a list of nonsense words the PhD students use: problematic Bubble Guppies, 2025, minding its own business: well, that’s problematic

What if they made a 6:00 a.m. alarm that didn't feel like getting punched in the face when it went off

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Absolute queen shit

It's Journalism 101. Here's a handy flowchart to remind you.

A shitshow

The funny thing is that Democrats often say they want to tax the rich and expand social services - Mamdani is “aggressive” and not “conciliatory” bc he apparently was not lying and actually wants to accomplish these goals

Huge personal and community victory tonight: We organized our community to stop an effort by corrections officers to overturn portions of our solitary confinement ban. 🎉🎉🎉

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

My prayer this celebratory morning is that we harness its energy to continue the work that is ours to do. “The future demands that we fight for now / it will only be ours if we keep marching, keep marching on.” youtu.be/9-VHc2dgBrQ?...

My real takeaway from this season of Only Murders is that I might have a thing for Téa Leoni

Jeff Bezos’ wealth grew by $24 billion *yesterday.* Meanwhile, the VA now is asking for donations so veterans can *eat.* www.va.gov/northern-ind...

Join us at the Rally for the Public’s Health, Nov. 5 on the National Mall to highlight critical public health issues and initiatives. Protecting the public’s health IS NOT OPTIONAL — it is essential! JOIN US —> www.APHA.org/Rally —> #SpeakForHealth Follow @apha.org for more

And here is the Little Free Library World Map: littlefreelibrary.org/map/

Pittsburgh Food Security Resources – a List - Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents bit.ly/47zmYqC

Pittsburgh Food Security Resources – a List - Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents bit.ly/4hnqbx0

Also and again, GOP members of Congress are, by their actions, fine with this.

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

Okay new idea for a library service: leave a hobby take a hobby. When people get bored with a hobby they can come and leave their supplies and books and half-finished things, and exchange them for someone else’s supplies and books and half-finished things. Hobby swap.

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

No Kings isn’t going to change the world. But it is where can meet the people you’ll work with to win back your city council. Your school board. Your state legislature. Your do-nothing geriatric congressional seat.

this is a tacit admission that the administration is not confident in the legal arguments it would have to make in order to detain them, which should also cast into question the legality of the operation in the first place

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

13579/10 would watch 15 times in theaters

"Violence is when people cannot afford a house, violence is when a voter cannot afford medicine, violence is when mothers continue to lose sons and daughters to greed and guns," Rev. Valtoria Jackson told about 600 people at a "No Kings" protest in Montgomery. (Ralph Chapoco/Alabama Reflector)

ok leave me alone for being corny but like this is what america (can) look like

Proposal: instead of giving ChatGPT tens of billions of dollars to fail to create artificial intelligence, give me, an Actual Intelligence, a mere $10 million and I will gladly do a spreadsheet wrong for you from time to time for a modest fee.

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

Good list. Don’t engage. Quote dunk boosters are not your friends.

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on. Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights. Block, and move on. This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

Hey @nytimes.com, did you change your headline, and change "Islamophobic attacks" on Mamdani to just "attacks," because Elise Stefanik and the GOP bullied you into it? Really? Why are they no longer Islamophobic attacks, as your headline originally and correctly stated?

Man, there are a LOT of these in the region:

No Kings organizers announced the Point State Park protest at 2 is moving to Allegheny Commons Park. Gotta say it's always struck me that Pittsburgh will run 2–3 separate protests at the same time. Very indicative of the region's mindset

I was just on a Zoom about addressing ICE in local neighborhoods. There were hundreds of people on the call. You may not see it if you aren't paying attention, but good people all over America are coming out in droves to stand up for their neighbors.

“.. Pentagon reporters in Arlington, Virginia walk out of the building carrying their belongings after turning in their press badges. Reporters from nearly every major news organization would not sign new rules viewed as an infringement on First Amendment rights ..” @gettyimages.com

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you