Just woke up from an apocalypse/survival nightmare. So that's apparently where my brain is. Super fun. Hey, brain, can we go back to nightmares about forgetting things in college?

Excessive use of fertilizer has led to widespread contamination in the state’s water wells, Clean Wisconsin’s Sara Walling tells @fayeparks.bsky.social, adding that the public health and economic impacts require more study. www.wortfm.org/new-study-ex...

“This is unlike anything that has ever happened in my tenure at CDC and in the tenure of anyone that I know who's worked there, some of them for 40 years,” former CDC employee Dr. Sarah DeGue told The Trace.

"The Harvard Business Review study came out the day after a Financial Times analysis of hundreds of earnings reports and shareholder meeting transcripts filed by S&P 500 companies that found huge firms are having trouble articulating the specific benefits of widespread AI adoption..."

out in paperback today! read the book called "the funniest book about racism you will ever find" 🥰🫡 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/690564...

NEW: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding the agency release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read messages from encrypted chat apps www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

If this week had you mad and taking action against censorship, might I recommend finding a way to join the fight against book bans? Readers: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/ Authors: @authorsabb.bsky.social

Today is the first day of Navratri, the 9 day festival of the Mother Goddess. Later today I will begin my annual posting of her story, but in the meantime I wish you all peace, love, and joy in her holy embrace.

Goodnight, all. May we all know moments of peace and sun-warmed bliss like this adorable ocean potato I saw today.

Just gonna keep reposting every single one of Pina's comics, because they are always so spot on for how I'm feeling.

Huzzah! Opening Day of Autumn ... do not think of the darkening days - enjoy the celebration of color!

Hey, @pocan.house.gov (and @baldwin.senate.gov), please hold Trump and the DOD responsible for this. This is unconstitutional. It is impeachment-worthy. It is against international law. It is disgusting. Draw attention to it. Please. 19 human beings have been murdered.

Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset on 22 September. Here is the ram caught by its horns. Bodleian Library MS. Michael 619; Maḥzor for the High Holidays (Rosh ha-Shanah and Yom Kipur), Western Ashkenazi rite (Tripartite Maḥzor, volume 3); 1320–1330 CE; f.5v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

I woke up early again, but! I managed to fall asleep fairly quickly at bedtime, managed to sleep on my back!! (this never, ever happens), and thus also slept with my cpap on. So I got like 4!! hours of actually good sleep?!?! I shouldn't have gotten on my phone, but addictions etc. Still so happy.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

There's no more fitting tribute to Charlie Kirk than the one they're giving him right now: nominally Christian survivors on the same grift clambering over one another for more publicity, capped by the shambling, lurching embodiment of everything they long to be. You couldn't write anything meaner

For real (acknowledging a bsky reach is limited) - how many ladies out there remember what it was like to be part of board gaming in the early 90s? Like... what galpals out there remember being the ONLY woman (and in my case, sometimes the only non-white person) at a small game convention?

Today in “Alice is ridiculous” I offer you a muppet in a shoebox.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

BREAKING NEWS: Canada, UK and Australia say they recognize a Palestinian state as part of efforts to pile pressure on Israel over Gaza. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/3VtaMRI

I am so tired of waking up at 3am and not being able to sleep more, regardless of when I went to bed or how exhausted I am. I'm just so tired.

lol tbh they should have expected this

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings

Not everything has to be on the damn phone. Like why are we unlocking stuff with our phones? Keys were just fine. I don’t want an app account to open a door.

A sand quarry in Ecuador has yielded South America’s first amber with bio-inclusions, including a spider's web and a collection of mosquitoes, beetles, flies, wasps and biting midges that lived 112 million years ago

Get ready for this across the country, as workers essential in fields like agriculture and home repairs are rounded up at work sites and put concentration camps. This country has chosen to sacrifice our economy on the altar of genocide

More pepper balls, so many. People started running. Protesters tackled. Someone may have been detained, can't tell. Everyone is getting hit. Air is intolerable. People retching, coughing.

Another year of @gdocexpo.com completed, and I think this was one of our best yet. Stellar games for our Direct showcase and Sale, and phenomenal talks. It was a honor to get to help lead as Head of Curation this year. So proud of the team, all our participants and community. So, so good.

as someone who is trash at platforming and has no patience for Git Gud-style gaming I am putting Silksong firmly in the category of "I'm happy for everyone this game is for, which does not include me"

Call your senators about this. No, Schiff and Padilla were never going to sign this resolution, but seven senators is more than I would’ve expected a year ago and that means pressure works. So call your senators, because it takes 3 minutes total and it’s more effective than posting about it.

Our next stop on the road took us over to Potawatomi State Park, where we were glad to celebrate 125 years of Wisconsin's State Parks with a visit to the newly restored and reopened observation tower. We're glad this tower has reopened for residents and visitors to enjoy.

These are gorgeous skirts from an independent artist. I get compliments every time I wear the ones I already have! We need 100 orders of each design to get them made.

With apologies to the Ramones. Another tragically evergreen linocut. #printmaking #prints #art #artsky #printsky #crafts #ink

That was the most aggro I've ever seen the agents. While pushing to get vehicles out, agents grabbed at least 2 people. Multiple tear gas cannisters deployed and pepper balls fired into the crowd.

Reminded again today what a great agility dog Mhera would have been, but COVID (& people not treating it seriously it after the vaccine) killed that dream. I had wanted to be doing that for the last five years, but nope. Girl is so well-built, agile, motivated, & loves jumping & crawling. Perfect.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois: a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work. a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

Tonight’s Nebraska sunset.

Why do they never say this about the second amendment?

“I want our campaign to be rooted in care, in putting working class people first, and building working class power so we can get out of a system that doesn’t serve us,” @francescahongwi.bsky.social told reporter Maria Segura yesterday. www.wortfm.org/rep-hong-run...

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For a game that wants to make exploration a major part of the game, Valheim sure does everything it can to make it an annoying pain in the behind. I enjoy sailing. But I effin' hate fog & mist in this game. It happens way too often and means you have to stop sailing if you're exploring.

i saw goody proctor making inflammatory posts about charlie kirk

We broke up the banks. We broke up the railroads. We broke up the steel companies. We can break up the media conglomerates. We can break up the tech conglomerates. We've done it before. We can do it again.

What I really want to know is why Republicans are demanding national public mourning for one influencer, when they have never, ever done as much for any of the numerous children slaughtered at school. I want every journalist talking about this with Republicans to ask why kids don't get this response

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

deeply + profoundly annoyed that fb retains their stranglehold on events. sure, it has robust infra, but the userbase is dying, the platform itself has been so enshittified that it's barely navigable, yet it remains THE platform to schedule/track events. need a new socials platform to step up.

Even if he's bad with names, the "9 people murdered in Charleston in 2015" should be more than enough to jog someone's memory.