The incredible resistance to cultivating the next generation of leaders is truly baffling to me like the fact that we couldn't get a really good, inspiring gubernatorial candidate in California of all places is a testimony to how badly they are fumbling this.

@sssemester.bsky.social It was at this point in the story that I imagined you as the man.

Does everyone else here think of @sarahmackattack.bsky.social when they see a maiden riding a squid on ancient pottery?

also like this is obvious but just to say it so it has been said, in much of America Jewish people and Muslim people are natural allies because the same nightmare-ass white Christians are targeting BOTH OF THEM and are the ones who benefit politically when either Jews or Muslims get framed as Scary™️

A "podcast" that is taped and released as video and features famous people is just a talk show that doesn't have to abide by union rules.

Beaver consultations sounds like they're consulting with beavers, which isn't the worst idea. 🦫

I love them.

In which @weratedogs.com once again says ACAB without actually saying ACAB. Here for it.

I am also a “Galileo was a dick” truther if you take the pope’s money to write a book, and then that book features a character straight-up named Simpleton who quotes the pope verbatim just so your self-insert character can look smart by correcting him, you cannot be surprised when the pope is mad

like, credit to Galileo that centuries later we're still talking about his renaissance equivalent to a two page article in the Telegraph in which he shouts about being SILENCED.

I submitted an application to renew my 2017 passport, thereby invalidating the best government photo I've ever taken.

@squishythings.com Other than it being a skirt, obviously this is you coded.

I did not know about the A-pillar blind spot problem (gift article) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I think it's time for the yearly "how to deal with extreme heat" thread. Please reskeet and comment with advice.

so fucking sick of everyone being ground into powder just trying to live

‘Father’ and ‘dad’ are synonyms. ‘Figure’ and ‘bod’ are synonyms. But, a ‘father figure’ and a ‘dad bod’ aren’t exactly the same thing…

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

This is INCREDIBLE. “Many Scottish patrons learned the names of Hennessy’s bartenders, hugged them, gave generous tips, and drank for hours.” One bar said they tripled St. Patrick’s sales.

Please note: Sam Altman said out loud and in public, “We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.” He is planning for AI to de-skill workers.

We like to support the local economy while traveling, my quilty friend and I.

Totally normal sign to see in the quilt shop bathroom.

The Huz, without irony, from our window as he watches the neighbor down the street looking out from his window: "He's such a busybody!"

The purpose of this technology is not to accurately identify people but rather to instill in everyone the fear that they are constantly being watched.

Could someone tell greeting card manufacturers that some dads do not golf, camp, fix things, watch sports obsessively, or base their personality on drinking beer?

Inspired by Ukraine, and Worried by China: Taiwan Teaches Its Citizens How to Fly Drones. “I may not be a soldier, but if [a China invasion] ever happened here, as a citizen, I’d like to have the ability to help in some way.” [theguardian.com]

I can hardly wait to listen to this!

Generative AI is not art. "Art...is the most important form of human expression, a language to communicate what we can’t say verbally. Art is a way to connect with others through time and space, and potentially one of the most impactful forms of magic we as humans possess."

@squishythings.com You like stickers and you hate AI. Behold.

The Huz and I got ours taken at the post office last week and the clerk said, "They let you smile now, just no big expressions and they have to see your eyes." 😄

they don’t like being reminded that things like being toxic and violent are choices, which other men aren’t making, because that just draws attention to the fact that they ARE quite deliberately choosing it. they need it to feel biologically immutable and core to their nature to justify it

They have identities of exclusion, defined by what they are not instead of what they are. If masculinity is not girly, not gay, not loving, emotional, peaceful, joyful, supportive, vulnerable, cerebral, enthusiastic, artistic, or silly, all that's left is being angry all the time. That's no life.

Feel the cheese with your hands (Steal the cheese while you can) Cheeseman Grill the cheese on your own (Melt the cheese all alone) Cheeseman

Hey, Indy locals, the brilliant @staceyabrams.com is coming to Indianapolis on June 23rd. I’ve interviewed her like five times, and let me assure you, she’s always worth showing up to listen to.

The Kitchen Sisters Present... Quilts as Monuments: Sew Their Names, the story of an unlikely collaboration between an Black preacher, a white judge and a group of rural Alabama quilters. kitchensisters.org/podcast/quil...

I'm going to be SO MAD if I don't get to see the aurora before a white supremacist trillionaire ruins it for everybody.

A genealogical search led to a national struggle to protect historic Black cemeteries from neglect, development, and white supremacist vandalism capitalbnews.org/black-burial...

There’s so much more grace for bad parenting than bad behavior from a child.

Hot new job: telescope ranching. "People from all around the world send their telescopes here to observe the night sky from this place with no light pollution. We set them up and they can all access their stuff through a computer remotely." [kottke.org]

GORGEOUS day. Friend said she'd help with gardening so I didn't bother going out early, then she wanted us to do something else instead. Spent most of the afternoon out there—too easy to overdo it in such nice conditions. Happy at what I got done but damn, I'm tired.

There's a far better case for banning social media for people 65+ than for people 16-18

It wasn't at all hot this morning when I went out to garden, nor sunny, but I was still immediately drenched in sweat due to the humidity. I learned my lesson from yesterday and took breaks! Happy with what I got done and that I finished in time for everything to get a little rain in its new home.

the real political correctness is that you can’t go on the news and say that this is hick shit

OMG, LOL.

Got mulching done this morning but had to tap out 🤏🏻 close to my goal because I tried to power through without long breaks and, uh, that didn't work. 🥵 Do better, Sacha!

Every WiFi router should have a setting that is “I have a stupid new ‘smart’ home device, so please turn off 5G for the next 10 minutes so I can set that up with 2.4ghz, and then put the network back to normal afterward”.

An auspicious start to a ~nice~ weekend.

Melon Kuma, a terrifying hybrid of a melon and a bear, is a character from Yubari City in Hokkaido, and was inspired by wild brown bears destroying melon patches in the area. He visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building today.

Was outside 10 minutes before sunrise to get my gardening work done before the heat showed up. It sprinkled a little but I kept at it because I was already soaked through from sweat because the dew point was over 70°F. Looking forward to the more pleasant weather predicted for the weekend.

In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold it to a data center developer for $10 million