Current* conditions near Allouez Township, MI:

we all know I have no life, so:

Me: "god why do I feel like I'm dying" Thermometer in my office: "it's 80°F in here" Me: "....well that explains a lot."

Happy National Library Week to whoever did this.

"Modern Dragons" launches tomorrow 🐉

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years. Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?) Distributed physical copies matter.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

I think the greatest trick for getting good at creative work i know is - finish making as many mediocre things as possible. Just finish stuff, again and again. Share it or don’t, but put a bow on it, put it aside, make the next thing, repeat.

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

Regular-stuf oreos are so puritanical

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10

I read Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, and I will not forgive.

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“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

going on 36 hours awake because every airplane seat was designed for tiny little mice. little cartoon mice curled up on a bag of peanuts and using their boarding pass as a blankie. all dragging a big steamer trunk behind them and shouting “oh boy!” when the plane takes off. unfortunately I am 6’3”

I NEED HELP! Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats! I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again! Please circulate widely!

Brb gotta go download all my photos off google photos and delete it 😤

The problem with communication is not coming from the left. It's coming from SOFT CENTRISTS who say shit like "our friends on the other side of the aisle." Clean your own goddamn house.

Note to Democrats: Stop punching left. The left is fighting mad and the words we use are "Fuck ICE" and "IMPEACH" and "SHUT IT ALL DOWN." Maybe you'd get somewhere if you used those words, too.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

they got the Church of England supporting the Pope now

Marlene cooked with this one.

The Atlanta Journal April 15,1918

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

91% ?!?!? go fucking team.

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

Disney has exactly two franchises that are made for endless sequels, and they've squandered them both. The first, Fantasia, because they're too cowardly to create real art. The second, The Rescuers, because they're too cowardly to go back to their roots and tell tales about child abuse.

Ultimately Silicon Valley’s fatal flaw is that it has a glut of losers in a loser echo chamber and they have no idea why nobody else thinks their ideas are good and fun

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

Firing and jailing RFK is the moderate position

5 hours wedged into a plane later and my knee is out of joint 🙃

This is great! The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, to their eternal glory, have digitized more than 7,000 public radio and television programs from 1940 to the present. It's a treasure trove of historic newsreels, interviews, speeches, and more. americanarchive.org

i dunno maybe it's because i'm in Minnesota and we kicked out Al Franken for squeezing his constituents' asses and now have a woman senator who is *currently holding the senate floor to save the boundary waters*, but you got a man with baggage? you can toss the man!

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Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Current* conditions near Two Harbors, MN:

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Goes great with this!

Rainbow over the library of congress!

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

The problem is no matter how exhausted I am, my body is still on CST and will not adjust to an EST bedtime, which is gonna really suck with an EST wake up again tomorrow 🙃

I genuinely love this. Astronauts, like kids, know that you do not leave your stuffies behind.