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💖 nigel hayes 🏀 cat papa 💖 💚🩷💜 #caturday 💙🧡💛

This is Edward. He was given 6 months to live after being found as a stray. His family was determined to give him the best few months possible, so they introduced him to the ice cream truck. That was 27 months ago. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: magnificent_foster_dogs)

From their own words; the now infamous on here "I'll fight till hell freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on" quote was specifically in response to seeing a slaveowner auctioning off his own barely teenaged daughter

well done william

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

OMG this snake's flops could get him into the NBA 😭

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

This looks very interesting/promising for the SF Symphony.

And let’s not forget the writers, producers and crew who also made the Late Show what it was and who have lost their jobs because our president is a thin-skinned thug who deeply fears the ridicule he so richly deserves.

Waterhen by Ohara Koson (1877-1945), Japan

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

Kill Grogu: defector.com/kill-grogu

Temu Lex Luther is all up on that orange taint now.

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

Don’t be embarrassed to know stuff. People should be embarrassed to not know stuff.

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

Thinking of all the idea scoops we’ll miss out on

Calarts staff has been struggling to unionize for awhile now meanwhile Ravi was given a 4.5 million dollar home by the school. (This fucker went to Yale btw) his "secretary" is actually chairwoman of the school board. www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/26/c...

The apology is here: updates.kickstarter.com/an-apology-r...

Lord...l see the slush fund has people screaming about impeachment again. He has been impeached TWICE and the country still re-elected him. Neither time did he come close to being convicted by the senate and removed from office. He just successfully had a sitting Senator from his own party

This is a cat checkpoint. Relinquish your most recent cat picture on your ohone

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

and I thought the police just letting the J6 rioters saunter back to their hotels for happy hour would be the biggest miscarriage of justice around the event.

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

it’s legitimately shocking to me how many americans who, in other circumstances, could identify tragedy and tyranny and suffering, look at the all of the blood and tears and sweat shed over the right to vote — one of the most fundamental we have — and think so little of the responsibility it entails

A guy we know pitched a story to a mag about former skateboarders going back to their old haunt in middle age. My BIL(52)went with him as part of the story. BIL is now back home with a broken ankle and the writer is home with a broken vertebrae. The only possible way the story could have gone.

Omg, I am going to scream. If you can't verify the source/citation you don't get to use it. You don't get it to go "how could I have known, I didn't check!" What the hell are we doing.

Our entire government is comprised of the people who used to leave me Jack Chick tracts instead of a tip.

This is probably the most historically illiterate and racist crap that an official in a presidential administration has publicly uttered since...oh I don't know...let's just say a very long time.

Shit is wild.

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

This piece doesn't support the its assertion that Gen Z has a different understanding of truth. Maybe the kids are crying over the polar bear tiktok because they know from school and experts that climate change is killing polar bears.

You've been good. You deserve this today. Having a Coke With You by Frank O'Hara www.divasofverse.com/2014/11/havi...

“They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant that they just awakened.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social in Montgomery #AllRoadsLeadToTheSouth

New in my newsletter: A major civil rights protest took place in Alabama today in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act

This is the bazillionth reason why no one should flippantly talk about getting rid of the southern states. We should never turn our backs on the powerful organizing happening there. We should not cast away the activists working to make change — and who in doing so risk way more than we do up north.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."

🚨 The NYT appears to have taken a great feature story written by my colleague at Bolts about a west Tennessee county & the VRA, & essentially rewritten it. (Same frame, similar hed, overlapping sources.) Without a single mention, credit, let alone the a hyperlink buried somewhere.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

I have friends who have articulated what you have to me. I empathize. I just think it’s important to distinguish between the marketing term Male Loneliness Epidemic & the completely separate and fully legitimate experience of being lonely while being a man. No MLE article discusses the latter.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

I think our dedication to most of our activities on this website not being meaningful or serious is important

Black people saw the largest decline in financial stability for nearly every category compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Federal Reserve survey.

It occurs to me in all the strange raging about 'historical accuracy' and 'Christopher Nolan' and 'is Helen hot enough that I personally, here in my pyjama pants, would start a war over her' many people in the world do not in fact have a proper understanding of how truly unhinged Greek Myth is.

The whole joy of a mythological cycle is that it's a playground. A mosaic. There is no One True Version of anything. If Christopher Nolan wants to make a humourless action movie out of a wildly silly story about a bearded chaos-goblin sailing around in circles, who are we to stop him?