Letter from @pinkhairedcyn.bsky.social (posted with permission) to our Congressman.

@techconnectify.bsky.social Just wanted to let you know your videos inspired me and @stevecheckoway.bsky.social to get an electric car because you convinced us we didn’t need a 220V charger.

Has anyone written their thesis yet on how the current belief in generalized AI is just like when the Victorians went through the Industrial Revolution and suddenly believed in ghosts and fairies and shit?

What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!

Hello folks in spite of The Everything™️, my next book is out in one week!! 7 days! If you would like to have a small heavily illustrated book tell you about the stars illuminating our understanding of the cosmos, this is your book! To preorder (US): bookshop.org/p/books/fort... 🧪🔭📚 #booksky

1. Incredible ruling! An Ohio appeals court has ruled that trans care is healthcare, strikes down youth trans care ban! It made the ruling using the Republican-passed "health care freedom amendment" meant to overturn Obamacare! Subscribe to support my journalism. You'll want to read this one.

There’s a “death before detrans” sticker on a bollard just outside my office building. I see it and think about it every day when I come to work. I think it’s important and I’m glad whoever put it up did so.

Sure he’s an asshole, but between this and Rust in the Linux kernel Linus Torvald is winning me back.

Stayed up too late looking at the moon.

Not all heroes wear capes: (h/t: Jay Kaufman)

Amazing that none of these tech bros have ever heard of the Streisand effect. Sure she’s not allowed to publicize it, but now there’s a NYT article about how it hurts Zuck’s feelings if you buy a copy.

I’ve seen two different college students wearing witch hats in the last two days. I can only assume witch hats are trending now?

If you're a man looking for a way to support women today, tell all your female coworkers how much money you make.

happy international women’s day to all the women AND cis women out there!

Tonight I received four identical response emails from the office of Senator Bernie Moreno, which is not actually making me feel like he is “committed to listening to my concerns and ensuring that my voice is heard in Washington”

“So I thought this was just a regular SpaceX explosion but apparently it’s an extra bad SpaceX explosion?” is a thing I just said to my husband.

Today while trying to figure out what’s up with one of our cats our vet causally said “Maybe she’s allergic to her teeth” and how is THAT a thing.

filed under: baudy horror

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

I appear to have made a typo and titled this lecture “The Translation Look-aside Bugger”

Stop trying to look at kids’ junk, you fucking freaks!

This is a really interesting group! The Computing Research Association (CRA) has done something like this aimed at every member of Congress and their staff. Focusing on local papers is another great way to connect the benefits of Federally-funded work with your community!

So how many times a day are we all having to consciously unclench our jaws lately? For me I would say it’s all the times.

James No LGB without the T Kirk

Finally finished knitting this sweater! 🧶. It’s inspired by the eclipse this April (and made with wonderful eclipse themed yarn from @destinationyarn.bsky.social

Yesterday @stevecheckoway.bsky.social said the word “arbitrage” and I have been making up a Beastie Boys style rap where the chorus goes “it’s arbiTRAGE” ever since, it is now all I think about.

Just pushing code to prod in the fucking US Treasury. 😱

Try really hard not to be an asshole.

Started reading @matt-levine.bsky.social's Money Stuff newsletter to learn about investing, but instead it has radicalized me by teaching me how rich people don't pay taxes.

Called my senator about the government funding pause and the person who answered the phone said they'd already received 5 calls today about it. It is 9:30 in the morning, and I called a regional office.

petition to replace fetterman with gritty when

Mended some socks.

Bumped into this Jenny Holzer in the Allen Memorial Art Museum and she is the perfect antidote to Mars broligarchs (from the series Inflammatory Essays)

you dont have to put your body on the gears if you have enough sand

Yesterday we were talking about how you don’t hear as much about blockchain anymore as cryptocurrency is more obviously scammy and Steve was like “remember that weird car dealer who wanted to rename Cleveland ‘Block City’”? and I had to break it to him that that man is now our senator.

<Me, undergrad director, explains to student society how we decide the course schedule, which is complicated and kind of chaotic> "I'm also cc:ing the department chair, in case he has anything to add." Department chair: "It is like this, but I am also holding a sack full of angry wolverines."

(please allow me just one more of these...) "lean in to preserving your records pending discovery"

Lots of talk about AI, but who is working on the important tech problems (a little robot that follows me around and holds my tea)?

“I love to put on mittens made personally for me, stitch by stitch, or earrings that are one-of-a-kind and there’s some story behind them, or to touch the handmade quilt from someone long gone. Living with handcrafts feels like being surrounded by other people’s care and appreciation.”

I channeled all of the rage in my soul today into making a two page RPG, in the style of @deathbybadger.bsky.social's one page RPGs. It was actually a very cathartic exercise.

“I understand there’s some kind of event happening in Washington DC today, but that’s none of my business. I have work to do, as do you.” - put perfectly by @theferocity.bsky.social

Puttering around and making things. Cooking for people I love. Talking about computer science. Reading about imaginary universes. Hearing cats purr.

Between this and their Theranos partnership, it seems like you should actively avoid any tech Walgreen’s invests in.

All the websites are bad now. They used to be good, but they are very BAD now!!!!!!!

Google Reader RIP

All consumer products have become drastically shittier during my life time and now I have to do several hours of research before I buy anything to make sure it’s not crap or a scam.

Turning 45 this week and just found out I need bifocals, so apparently I’m hitting all my age-appropriate milestones.

My new aerial embroidery experiment! I had some little circuit boards I thought resembled buildings and paths and added my stitches and trees in the gaps... and I had to add a car park! I imagine it to be a business park or factory grounds. What do you think? I don't usually do mixed media 😊

Is there a place where I can enjoy little pictures of my friends cats that isn’t Instagram? I’ve been ignoring it being owned by Meta but they’re getting significantly worse and I just want to see little pictures of things my friends like.