@clairewillett.bsky.social Have connections in the visual arts community?

ARTISTS! I need your help! In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend. Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...

Every single Democrat who voted for this needs to be primaried.

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Back in the 80s, we shared important stories on VHS www.popularmechanics.com/science/a346...

“Eke” or “eek” was a Middle English word for “also”. So if you have a name that you are also known as, it’s an eke-name an eke-name a nickname

Bluesky’s naughty labeler out here like a 13 year old trying to wank to the JCPENNEY catalog.

If you've ever wondered why the higher up women go in education and their careers the fewer women there are, this is why. A lot of women wanted to be there, too, and a lot of them spent a lot of money, time, and passion only to have it all ended invisibly behind closed doors.

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Swastikas, nooses and the Confederate flag are reportedly no longer considered to be hate symbols by the U.S. Coast Guard

SOMEONE NEEDS TO BUILD THIS. BE THE HERO YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD.

Meanwhile, over at HHS today... bsky.app/profile/joke...

they’ve been saying it and saying it and saying it, like we all knew, but there’s something about seeing it in print on the official government site where people who don’t know any better will still go looking for information that just really sent a chill down my spine

Remember: don't eat the mid tier fast food chicken, don't play the wizard game, don't shop at the hobby store run by the bad guys from Indiana Jones, and don't donate to the bigot bucket.

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air. “The transit system is one of the greatest tools communities have to combat climate change and reduce emission. You can make a pretty immediate impact.” [nytimes.com]

HONORARY ACADEMY AWARD WINNER DOLLY PARTON ✨ people.com/dolly-parton...

Bought an immersion blender for the first time at age 43 and I can finally relate to this tweet

The waitress* at lunch said I had an infectious laugh that made her smile when she heard it in other parts of the restaurant. I'm going to carry that as a bright, warm lantern through this dreary fucking day. *I used the gendered term because I don't want to know what a (straight, cis) man thinks.

I'd seen kneeling chairs before but never one for sitting cross-legged! I almost wish I had a context for this so I could justifiably buy it.

CDC officials confirm that the US is two months away from measles being considered endemic for the first time since 2000. “Elimination status is lost if the virus spreads continuously for 12 months.” [arstechnica.com]

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

He said privately later that he practiced being ready, and the formula, and that he was sorry he’d had enough opportunity to get good at it. So much capacity for goodness comes from practicing the thing you want to do over and over.

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

Re-upping this bsky.app/profile/miss...

@kj-zurda.bsky.social YOU STILL CAN'T PET THE ONES IN YOUR YARD, BESTIE. 🤟🏻

"Zohran has been marinated in love...from intergenerational family life."

"Talking about slavery without addressing the way it continues to shape the social, political, and economic infrastructure of our country today is like talking about a hurricane only by discussing the speed of its winds, and not the damage it left behind."

this company from Bend makes all kinds of infused simple syrups, which you COULD use for cocktails (recipes on the site) but also for mocktails, coffee beverages and baking. some of the coziest-sounding include Woodfired Apple, Pumpkin Spice, and Salted Honey Cardamom www.meadowlandsyrup.com

PURVEYORS OF COZY GOODS (with links!) Babkush, a small-batch Jewish baker just about to open up a storefront in SE Portland. babka, rugelach, sufganiyot, hamantaschen, amaretti and more. donates a share of proceeds to Gaza relief! www.instagram.com/babkushpdx/?...

the sense of incredulity and comic revulsion i get every time i see a cybertruck in the wild has not been reduced by even a single degree in all the time they’ve been on the street

Luckily, I keep a running document for each year that i put my major accomplishments in when I finish them and just cut and paste that sucker in at review time. If you're not doing this already, I HIGHLY recommend it. Makes it so much easier.

Clint Smith recently talked to students around the country about the “complexities and contradictions” of US history (including slavery) and found they were receptive to it. “Doesn’t seem that hard. Just say both things.” [theatlantic.com]

One does appreciate economizing on boycotts. #TwoForOne

Look at this thing and realize it is going to last less than 10 minutes outside before it is utterly destroyed. Look at it. It wants to have its days ended. Look. It craves the kiss of fire and embrace of the baseball bat, the caress of the brick, and the final loving touch of the sledgehammer.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”

Look I’m just trying to prepare y’all for the inevitable VF profile on “the quiet strength” of Majorie Taylor Greene

Calvin Duncan, a former prisoner who was wrongly incarcerated for nearly 30 years, wins Orleans clerk of court race He ran as someone who struggled for years to retrieve his own case records in his bid to prove his innocence

This episode was so fun, and not only because everyone is so genuine and enthusiastic.

Jesus Christ.

Temporary dog gets walked with what looks like a tactical vest. I was looking for fun hook & loop embroidered patches to put on it. Apparently those are sold mostly by shops that are fascist-adjacent (or at least -tolerant). Disappointing but not surprising.

Create some good shit today. 💔

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

"we decided your view of AI-as-idolatry wasn't quite literal enough" bsky.app/profile/meak...

you'll still be feeding them if you're dead; the menu will just be different

GOOD NEWS! A groundbreaking study in MORE THAN 1,000 people reveals that cancer patients who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived dramatically LONGER than those who didn’t. In some cases, their survival rate was DOUBLED.

I’m speaking at this really fun, feminist event about the Virgin Mary on November 25th. If you’re in Toronto and this seems like it would be up your alley, I’d love to see you there! Kadie is an amazing and dynamic woman and I love her vision of revisiting biblical women through a modern lens.

Fun (terrifying) fact: Moose are so gigantic, they don’t have any predators…except for orcas. In winter/scare months, moose will dive for vegetation and orcas will eat them! www.forbes.com/sites/scottt...