NOTING THIS. 🫤

Alas, she is herself a haunted building. Not without cause, the groundskeeper is wasp-blooded.

My wife asked me to repost this in case some folks missed it. She is de-stashing her treasure hoard of yarn. There's a lot of it. It's kinda taken over the house. I'm in the attic of the garage right now. Help? www.etsy.com/shop/Destash...

It would have been nice to mention Writer Beware, since I was the first to report on this lawsuit (back in February) and in much greater detail writerbeware.blog/2026/02/20/a... authorsguild.org/news/topps-l...

Remember the Dead A comic from some years ago inspired by my local cemetery and a particular mausoleum that has fossils in it's stones.

Her project directly tests what many geneticists + biologists have been observing: LLMs will, with very little promptly, direct users to information about human genetics and evolution that is at best outdated and biased, and at worst actively promotes scientific racism.

I do not believe the internet was a mistake. I think giving entitled little shits unlimited money to do racism and misogyny and dress it up as accommodating disabled people in a super ableist way is. And I know enabling that culture is destroying us.

You know what else is annoying? When people use Excel as though it’s Word or PowerPoint. It’s just supposed to store data and run formulas. It’s not supposed to look pretty!

The Illinois State House just passed HB 5511, a bill that will require EVERY WEBSITE and EVERY APP to implement an age verification check. @govpritzker.illinois.gov has pushed this hard and it’s Meta’s preferred solution to avoid liability. Votes here. CALL YOUR REPS! www.ilga.gov/Documents/le...

I think taking a moment to look around your class and thinking "These can't possibly be the best and brightest minds of our generation. What the hell is actually going on here?" is an important part of a gifted kid's development and I don't trust anyone who has yet to reach that point as an adult.

Archbishop of Canterbury calls for members of the Anglican Communion to join Pope Leo in calling for peace I stand with the Pope in call for peace, says Archbishop of Canterbury “I urge Anglicans across the Church of England and the Anglican Communion to join with His Holiness in raising our…

She flees, pursued by joy.

These things have caused real world damage to real people, NOT TO MENTION making folks mad at Warren & Sanders! SORRY IS NOT ENOUGH @grahamformaine.bsky.social. Meet privately with disabled rights grps, progressive Jewish grps, & SA advocates. Publicly share your learnings. Then keep doing it! 3/3

It's not enough to say you're "endeavoring to improve every single day" @grahamformaine.bsky.social You badly bumbled a facially dishonest effort to explain away a Nazi tattoo at a time of WILDLY rising antisemitism; you used a hateful slur, constantly; you said SA victims share blame for the SA 2/

Today a jetplane roared over head during catfood time. 2 cats scrambled to hide. Younger cat returned to hoover up other cat’s food. #cats

Good for him but I am tired of learning about all the ways a 41-year-old candidate for U.S. Senate supposedly has a lot more growing and learning to do. Maybe do that before the Senate? And maybe try out a lower office before then? Or maybe we just watch him blossom into another Sinema/Fetterman.

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!

Don't argue Augustine with someone who went to Villanova, esp if that guy is the actual Pope and former head of the Augustinian Order lol

How is TJ Maxx not getting in on "looksmaxxing," riding it hard for a fiscal quarter of advertising campaign, then walking away with the satisfaction of having murdered the trend.

Does anybody remember when teen pregnancy was a huge boogeyman of the right? They had all these purity dances and whatnot? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Like I really can’t emphasize this enough: they are upset that girls in an age range the majority of which is too young to consent aren’t being impregnated as much as they used to.

I like to remind my students that Jackie Robinson RE-broke the color barrier because >50 yrs previously there were Black players in the Majors, but the teams actively chose to segregate. Segregation & acts of racism are affirmative choices made by & for the benefit of White people & institutions.

Potat interpretive dance

Lots of new work on the site [+ those three cuffs not even posted yet]. wingssilverwork.com If you're on a mobile, WP doesn't always work properly. Try turning it landscape, or use desktop mode. Menu on left.

Down to the wire - the labradorite in the bottom right has gone but there's still plenty more pendants to go around!

"Writing with [insert stylistic quirk] is a giveaway that it's AI." "You can tell this drawing is AI because [insert stylistic quirk]." My sweet little children, WE DID THOSE THINGS FIRST. AI didn't invent the Oxford comma or the em dash - we used them correctly, and AI *stole our work*.

So here I am, a patient recovering from major surgery trying to get good information and the search engine that delivers that information is only prioritizing the sites that say the same shit. That shit is sometimes actively harmful or misleading, but who cares as long as you get views, right? 7/

A four-time whistling champion and member of the Whistling Hall Of Fame performed the national anthem at a Baltimore Orioles game last week and it was just as weird as you’d hope.

Shiny things, get your shiny things! I've got just a few more days to come up with the rest of rent, and plenty of pendants to go around. oishiny.etsy.com Every pendant comes in a gift box with free international shipping. #Handmade #DisabledArtist

Automobiles from the U.S. a longe tyme ago lookid lyke space shippes, lyke sleek dirigibles, lyke elegant jet planes. Wherfor do thei all now looke lyke dorkye hikinge shoes?

Again, if you have a Substack, the best time to switch away was months ago -- but today's the second best time.

it'd be great if you could get off Substack

Dear everyone who declared #MeToo dead, a failure, meaningless, whatever: THE DEHUMANIZATION OF WOMEN HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MILLENIA AND WAS NEVER GOING TO DISAPPEAR IN A HANDFUL OF YEARS BECAUSE RADICAL CHANGE THAT UNDERMINES THE REALITIES AND LESSONS FROM ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY TAKES TIME. ffs

Greetings from a world where people are using AI to pick what sewing patterns to use for their figure. And also to ID the type of fabric they have. (dubious either of these are what the gdamn plagiarism machine is for. sigh)

Went for a walk and a pint and spotted the best example of free will I've ever seen

In the end, Hungarians showed us not only how to beat a thuggish nationalist, but also how to defeat our own stubborn cynicism. Set some Google news alerts. Get a little invested. The future can still be ours. Nothing is inevitable.

Ole stands in Heirot bearing a great severed arm before him. Lena looks up from salting cod and asks, “Ole, how do you have that smelly old thing now?” “Well Lena,” Ole replied, “when I caught the beast Grendel in a grip o strong he could not break free, he says, I really gotta hand it to you!”

what I'm hearing

See? It’s ok to bail on people when you find out they’re horrible. In fact, you have an obligation to bail.

She arrives at the house in summer, seeking research materials for a book. She carries the token, and a journal.

If you’re going to make a list of rights women need, banking and credit in their own names is probably the number one item.

Funding NASA is funding this planet‘s near and long-term health. You think solar power just appeared? GPS? Weather prediction? Battery tech? Most aspects of the microcontroller? Velcro? Space sciences are planetary sciences!

The spiral pendants from @oishinythings.bsky.social are a lot of fun. Especially the one with a skull for your goth bestie. Perfect for buying in prep for birthdays or graduations.

It is truly remarkable how many people cannot talk about Melania Trump without being utterly degraded sexist monsters. There is plenty to complain about with her without resorting to absolutely revolting misogyny. Stop it.

Re: amazon discontinuing connection to the store for older kindles: this should not impact your existing library, and I imagine you can also still usb transfer files over to it if you got them from somewhere that isn't amazon.

If, like me, you dislike making telephone calls but don't know why, this might explain it.

(2/2) Read more about how the Paralympic Village was proof that accessible cities can exist here: www.teenvogue.com/story/the-pa... #Paralympic #Accessibility #Disability

All the President's Men (the film) had its national release 50 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MxP...

Now it's getting warmer in the northern hemisphere don't forget to check any air filters you have, in furnaces, head pumps and fans, and replace any that are done if you can before the prices go up in fire season.