Genuinely, this is why the open web is dying. Imagine starting a site with user-generated features today. The walls you have to build, just to keep the bots and AI perverts out. Ugh. www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

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Everyone: welcome the Derpy Tiger cake! Celebrated youngest's birthday today. She is turning 6! And yes, I did cry over making this cake. ADHD hubris, and 5lbs of butter strikes again...

Leaving every single cabinet door open in the kitchen and not realizing it.

My post of this column on X, urging others to join me, is going to be my last post before deleting my account after 17 or so years I can't have that association with the world's highest-profile hatemonger. I hope everyone who's left on X will join me in saying no to hate, and no to trillionaires

i keep thinking about this video and about how the Republicans want to sell 20 somethings on the dream of living in a shack like the Unabomber, masturbating to the concept of a mythical submissive bangmaid, instead of feeling collective joy

"Why are so many people betting their money on literally the world’s greatest purveyor of hate speech?" A new @willbunch.bsky.social column you have to read.

GW never said this and neither did anybody else. The only official symbolism in the Flag Resolution is the stars are "representing a new constellation." The rest is just an iteration on the Red Ensign, and likely the East India Company's white stripes on it. The colors have no particular meaning.

It's 2000 and I'm in a B Dalton yelling for my friends who are somewhere else in the store, waiting to show them a weird something or other I discovered in the staff recommendations.

It's 2000 and I'm at the end cap of a Waldenbooks' pile of WHO KNOWS WHAT trying to pull a title out from the middle of the stack and not get crushed to death in the ensuing avalanche, but the Jenga aspect just added a spirit of treasure hunting to the whole thing.

Amazon took this from us. Support independent bookstores.

It is 2000 and I am sitting on the floor of a Borders sipping an overpriced mocha frappe from their counter, a pair of headphones on while I listen to a CD sampler, and flipping through one of the books in a pile of books I'm going to buy.

Lauren Southern's story of being raped by Andrew Tate is sad on so many levels. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

Washington Irving must be so proud.

I'm starting to get DMs from parents and educators about Lumi and AI usage in schools. If you're a parent, educator, or tech worker, I'd love to hear more and I'm easy to find. Email me, DM me, or text me securely using the Signal app: 646.481.0859.

I was trying to explain Cartoon Network to my kid, who then loudly asked, "WHAT IS CABLE????" Cue my husband laughing from the shower.

I've not shared my library's Friends of the Library merch recently, which not only still has this rad shirt, but now includes a great Pride themed tee, a Banned Books tee, and more. (We've got an **amazing** collab coming soon, too). www.bonfire.com/store/friend...

Looks like my foster cat-son Leo!

Hey fun friends, does anyone recognize this as any kind of translatable shorthand?

Audio feed is back. Noting here that the tarp isn’t a shroud of secrecy, it’s a safety measure for bystanders who ARE NOT WEARING PPE. No one gets like this about tarps on scaffolding on regular buildings. I’d rather this work be done in as safe a manner as possible.

OH BLUESKY IS DEAD? THEN WHY ARE ALL THE MILLENNIALS HERE UP LATE WATCHING SCAFFOLDING, HUH?

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

I know it sucks but, pending an official ruling from Bluesky's Top Scaffolding Regulation Experts, I think the tarp is actually a normal safety rules thing for debris risks.

omfg, I thought I was kidding

“Why’s it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?” yeah, undoing every single thing he’s done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it

one of the hardest truths about cleaning up the mess is that it always takes so much longer to fix the things that are broken than it took to break them. just refilling all the government positions for the people who were fired/quit is going to take years

I think one of the most damning things about Musk is that he wouldn't be who he is if governments, regulators, justice systems, and the public didn't grant him the ability to be this wealthy and powerful.

I think a lot about how much Elon's various companies would be worth if he disappeared tomorrow and what that says about society at large and it's very depressing

Opinion: You might have thought the world’s richest man had enough on his plate teeing up history’s biggest IPO. Yet he has been devoting many of his waking hours to stoking up racial hatred in Britain on his social media site. ft.trib.al/B4elnzv

i hate talking about my own books. it seeps into every hurt wound i have about never receiving outside praise from anyone. but if never receiving outside praise taught me anything, it was to respect myself and my own work 🤷🏼‍♀️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/GFM/a...

Elon Musk becoming the world's first trillionaire is beyond sickening. He's a mass murdering tyrant and simultaneously one of the most pathetic and embarrassing people alive. He's literally hoarding all the resources and making all our lives worse, while spending all his time bashing the poor

Let the group chat-induced dogpiles begin!!

With tomorrow being the 10th anniversary of @pixelatedboat.bsky.social's "Milkshake Duck" tweet, I think Pokemon Go might be one of the all-time great milkshake ducks:

The math of the greater harm Collins will inflict upon the nation vs. Platner is a solid argument to vote for him. And yet, when we read accounts like this, I also find it a grievous error to elevate him to a position of power, surrounded by young staffers.

Here is my Jane Yolen story, which I suspect is a pretty common one, or at least a variation thereon. I grew up on her books. One of my earliest memories is my dad reading Commander Toad books to me at the South Bend public library. Then I grew up and got a job in comics publishing. (1/)

My mother, the inimitable Jane Yolen passed away this morning after a blessingly short fight with Alzheimer’s. She did not suffer, and went peacefully into the ether which, I am certain for her, will be filled with words of the most exquisite beauty and meaning.

While I'm at it, If I see another take that treats rural America as lily white when farm labor isn't nearly as white as farm ownership is, I'm going to have an aneurysm. Rural America is only lily white if you don't see farm workers as people.

It's hard to be excited about the Artemis III mission announcements when the CEO of the company making one of the mission's rockets has spent his week inciting racial violence via his personal social media platform.

"This is a curse to the world. A sin upon humanity." My child after tasting sharp cheddar

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Call me a humorless killjoy, but I like being a man, I like being in relationships with men, and I think the violence and abuse that men experience matters. Gender essentialism hurts every body and there’s not actually a harmless way to participate in it.

“Weren’t some of the LEVERAGE villain speeches a little over the top?”

Enrollment in the state’s Affordable Care Act marketplace, which offers discounted health insurance coverage, declined by 160,000 Pennsylvanians after Congress allowed enhanced subsidies to expire in December. From @wdownard.bsky.social

Inside you, there are two wolves. One is Sheetz. One is WaWa. They want you to call a sandwich made with cold cuts by different names. You are Pennsylvania, and the primordial hatred and enmity of the western and eastern sides of the state will not be calmed.

When I had students ask me why they should take US history in college when they took it in high school—“I got a 5 on the AP!”—I would tell them it was because now I could teach them things that they wouldn’t have been allowed to learn in high school because someone’s parents would’ve been mad.

Hitherto unknown levels of feline side-eye.

Hi real archaeologist here, worked in the field for nearly 30 years, this is total bullshit, Indus valley (as one example) had major cities with clean water and clear equality (no rulers, similarly sized housing), we have rats today (ancient Egyptians had cats as pest control) etc, stop boosting 💩

My son just referred to the @ifbookspod.bsky.social podcast as the "Do Books Kill People?" podcast, and I am cracking up.

Summer vacation conversations, day 1. "No, Bob Ross and Betsy Ross are two different people."