TwoXChromosomes is a women's subreddit and it covers everything from "partner doesn't wash up" to domestic violence to when to leave a country whose politics are heading towards fascism. www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromo...

NGL, kinda enjoying volunteering as a PA for someone who is spearheading a local action on environmental stuff on the ground.

"You can't strike, you're too important" from a judge or government should instantly make you side with the people striking. They're *that* important but they get treated like shit? Nah. Naaaah. Let the government force better conditions.

Finally, note: DOGE and the Trump administration are so opposed to remote work that they rushed CDC employees back to the office without active shooter training. Other security measures failed because of staffing shortages. The shooter killed himself because no one else managed to.

CDC leadership also hasn’t been very communicative. To be fair to them, their staff who would would have dealt with this situation were mostly fired by DOGE. So my fellow civil servants at the CDC feel abandoned. They are hated with a murderous rage and no one cares.

But a white guy with a COVID conspiracy manifesto isn’t news at this point. After all, that’s who runs the government now! The CDC is a part of Health & Human Services, headed by RFK Jr., whose conspiracy-addled ideology is indistinguishable from the motivations of this terrorist.

My old school campus has been turned into a mall. It's pretty cool actually, but it's led to meet ups with old classmates being "where's [restaurant]?" "9th grade math class" and "meet outside the canteen?" (Canteen no longer exists as a single room and is now a number of shops)

Tried watching A Family Affair and couldn't get through it. They got a firm list of favourite actors/actresses and wrote THAT script??? Plot is a bit meta???

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years. “There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Same, little pepper, same

Went on a mission the other night to get a friend's google search cleared up and am so happy to see at least one of the forums have responded (I have verified as well).

NEW: In a newly unsealed lawsuit, the former leadership of Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds say Krafton sought to sabotage the game after realizing it'd be successful enough to trigger most or all of a $250 million earnout. A wild story gets even wilder: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Reddit really just gave me a warning for saying white people colonised south east Asia, stole our resources, ran away when the Japanese came, then got kicked out and are back for sex tourism. They said I was attacking marginalised or vulnerable groups of people.

Fascinating, informative thread.

Considering I'm on sabbatical it shouldn't be THIS hard to give myself permission to spend the evening on the couch.

5 years after having prk surgery on my eyes and I just reached up to adjust my phantom glasses.

Random observation - it may just be that I don't have to deal with my ex organisation anymore, but it's been a while since I've had an intense feeling of overwhelm leading to anxiety. Mild overwhelm is still a thing, but also very rare. #theSabbaticalIsWorking

If you look at popular GIFs you realise that some of them grew up in Geocities.

Loved this. So beautiful www.instagram.com/reel/DJzby_1...

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

TIL the word "meritocracy" was originally coined as satire and the person who coined it hated that the UK government was so into it www.theguardian.com/politics/200...

Moment of Gratitude: CloudFlare CloudFlare saved the Internet Archive servers from a DDOS yesterday. Max rate of this DDOS attack was 525 Gbps (44.93 Mpps) of a "TCP flood" @archive.org does not have enough bandwidth to fend off that kind of attack = wouldbe bad saturday. Thank you #CloudFlare

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I’ve got to say it: cutting the Warm Homes Plan but funding nuclear and carbon capture is not how you’d prioritise if you were trying to reduce carbon emissions as quickly as possible

Tech company nearly gets bamboozled interviewing AI deepfakes. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-fakers

"scratches please!"

Bought some acrylics and paintbrushes a while back in a sale. Finally got them out today for a minor project. It was only after as I'm cleaning up that I saw this and felt like a real artist 😁

To the people of Palestine, Im sorry you have been utterly failed by the EU. Never Again means Never Again for anyone. #FreePalestine #StopIsraeliGenocide

love that the diet section of "eastern gray squirrel" has this extensive image gallery

Performer at mall pop up market: I wish I was special Me: YOU'RE SO FUCKING SPECIAL Performer: *chords* Performer: Cause I'm a creep Me: ...I guess he can't sing that part here huh

This isn’t about naive hope — it’s hard physical reality. Avoiding emissions saves lives. Acting now prevents harm. via @ketanjoshi.co

I was recently turned onto bird net which listens to recordings of birdcalls and tells you what it thinks it is. It's pretty fun to discover what's calling around you

Thinking about how when i got checked into the hospital for my endometriosis operation I was happy to have some time off work, and yet was still doing my claims in the hopsital the night before.

This just reads like parody.

It’s plain for all to see.

I have humongous massive nostalgia for this site. I loved wandering through it finding new rooms. I wanted to be part of the belfry. I'm sad there's little trace of it left on the internet. Who were you guys? web.archive.org/web/20000510...

I really don't understand when countries do this. Do they know something we don't?

Guys I'm a computer science graduate but I still thought that the two holes on top of my phone was for those little strings you loop in to hang stuff off of and even bought some from Daiso so I could attach a lanyard and wear it around my neck when I don't have or have inadequate pockets.

New Yorker cover by Barry Blitt

How MPAJ "patched" the pavement. So they even know what the tactile tiles are for???

"somebody write something about ESG" "like what? We don't do any" "I dunno but it would look good on our website"

Recently I found myself on Antipope Instagram, where there are endless reels of the current Antipope of the Palmarian Catholic Church. This is, of course, extremely my jam, and I started reading up on them hoping to find some wild theology, but instead I found something WAY better...

Doin' a camouflage

Hotel california came back for me today in a new and unexpected and, yes, still unwelcome way.

I just made... A reasonable amount of money in 4 hours and I am having lots of thoughts about it. 1) that was, in turns, a lot of brain power and very little brain power. 2) The amount was pretty much my daily wage at my last position. An extra 25 minutes would've dealt with my pension benefits too

A game-changer for people like me who suck at appropriate planning for going vegetarian/vegan (turns out I can't just eat tofu and tempeh every day) solarfoods.com/solein/

15 years?? of smartphoning and I finally gave myself a monkey island ringtone again.

New phone, access to new AI. This conversation about data sharing.