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Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyy itsa me elon King: criminy Musk: you know, joyce carol oates, she says i no read Musk: but thata not true Musk: as evidenced by dissa new ad campaign i just start onna twitter to convince everyone that i read

Book 4: Dragonbreath. Join young dragon Danny and his nerdy iguana friend Wendell in the first of a very fun series of kids books especially designed for reluctant readers. In book 1 they journey to the wild Sargasso Sea to help Danny not fail his science report on the ocean

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

Happy Whalesplosion Day to all who celebrate. Today we remember all mad, bad, and just plain wtf ideas.

How you can support the fired journalists instead of subscribing to Teen Vogue:

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

My library had a no-holds weekend for Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver, so I checked it out and… I’m uh, pretty taken aback. I genuinely don’t know if I like this book or not. I was not expecting a serial killer romcom with multiple serial killers. Somehow it’s gross and creepy and a little fun?

Why are good teachers leaving teaching? We became teachers because we love kids, and we care deeply about their ability to learn and grow. We can’t be complicit in a system that wields us a weapons to harm our most vulnerable students. We won’t help them hurt kids. We will find another way.

Going to the salon this morning and deciding that washing the democrats out of my hair isn’t sufficient. I’m bleaching and cutting this party out of my hair

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

On Weds 26 November from 3.30-4.30pm GMT @robynollett.bsky.social and I will be sharing some of our latest research via MS Teams as part of @teessideuni.bsky.social’s English & Creative Writing Research Seminar series. Why not join us online?

When you find the concept of empathy and curiosity so threatening that you entertain the likelihood that a beloved children’s educator and entertainer is funded by a terrorist org. Were they this scared of Mr. Rogers, Levar Burton, and Steve from Blue’s Clues?

Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

Hey, Senate Democrats, a vote to end the shutdown was a vote in support of this. You could have let the GOP own this, alone, but I guess you wanted to make sure your voters understood that this is your vision for America, too.

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

It’s not enough to primary them. They must feel shame every day. They have to know that they won’t be forgiven by the people they betrayed. They should be afraid to eat food prepared by our hands for the rest of their lives. All their mail lost. No help finding shoes or suits at the store.

literally you're the only one up for reelection, how in the world do you think this is gonna go @ossoff.senate.gov

i s2g @ossoff.senate.gov i am gonna call 15 times tomorrow!!!!! if you vote for this!!!! and ruin all our lives!!!! what is the political upside for you??? do you think georgians will appreciate you killing their healthcare??????? you can't blame the gop for this if you cave!!! this is an albatross!

Hanging out with the kids while they play video games all day might be bad parenting, but it’s been so much fun! First, we checked out some old @carynandconnie.bsky.social videos together, then Littlest played the Minecraft RPG add-on, then Middle played Cities Skylines. Fun for the whole family!

The problem is they keep dealing with Republicans as if the Republicans are not evil.

Here: @slotkin.senate.gov 202-224-4822 @peters.senate.gov 202-224-6221 @hassan.senate.gov 202-224-3324 @shaheen.senate.gov 202-224-2841 @king.senate.gov 202-224-5344 Feel free to call them, or call them out on @bsky Feel free to complete the list, or add local contact information. BE RELENTLESS

Dear Democratic Senators: if you vote for this selling out of the ACA it will be the end of your careers. Depend upon it. You are there to defend this country against Trump and the fascists, not collude with them. If you become Quislings, you will forever REMAIN Quislings

Heads up research nerds; JSTOR is running a survey that includes questions about AI use in research and your perspective about the JSTOR database. Now would be a good time to let them know what you think about AI inclusion in teaching and research #academic #history #JSTOR #AI

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

sorry but the Democrats literally just swept a special off-year election slate that was explicitly a "fuck you, GOP" referendum up and down the ballot from sea to shining sea, a clear sign that the GOP are losing the "your problems are the Democrats' fault" optics battle, and you're surrendering???

Those of you following my students #analog learning experiences this semester, here is an update. Their #photo exhibit opens on Monday, & I picked up their mounted prints on Thursday & sorted through them yesterday. Tomorrow I will go into school to hang the photos & put up the interpretive signage.

Here's a site with a lot of tasty-looking museums with online shopping, nonetheless: museumstoresunday.org/find-an-onli...

Obviously a policy designed to avoid record-keeping requirements, while passing the *criminal* liability for the lack of record keeping onto the individual DHS employees.

Cornell agrees to "invest" $30 million in things like AI farming. Cornell also agrees to pay $30 million to the U.S. for no clear reason or purpose.

Re-upping this:

“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?” Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM

All Landlords Are Bastards, and leaseholding is some outdated Victorian era quasi-extortion racket shit that should be outlawed but this guy is a fuly on cunt. Stay for the kicker of "Yes I'm up in court on a stalking charge but I demand you send me the home address of one of your female reporters."

How does someone wake up and thing "you know, for one year of work I deserve more money than what a single person has ever had in their entire life". And what kind of shareholder thinks "yeah, he's right". It boggles the mind.

Huge animals made in wood, steel or fibreglass, these were beautiful works of art for children – made to be touched, climbed on, dived into and slid through. The Poole animals were the first that Hand created and are among very few known to survive. Are you aware of any more? If so, get in touch!

Reminder (for myself as much as anyone): having to work a day job has no bearing on whether or not you’re a “real artist”.

This kind of state violence requires people who don’t just lack morals, but who relish and delight in their thuggish policing. It cannot go unanswered.

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.

Loving my Pilot fountain pens extra hard right now. I use a Vanishing Point as my main, and I also have a couple Kakuno's, which are EXCELLENT starter fountain pens!

Oh god, I watched this movie so many times. I had it on a VHS tape with Lady and the Tramp and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. …in retrospect, okay, slightly odd combo. But the mouse saying “E pluribus unum” as she strikes a match!

"The sandwich did not impede Officer Lairmore’s duties that night,” Sandwich Guy's lawyer argues. "A footlong from Subway could not and certainly did not inflict bodily harm.”

Just playing Mamdani’s acceptance speech on repeat while I catalog photos, eat lunch, call my kiddo, prep dinner. It’s a good day.

Alito: what if there were an imminent threat of war with a powerful enemy whose economy was dependent on US trade? what if goldfish had laser-eyes what if I could ride a bike to outer space like that's just utterly implausible and not even kind of what's happening in this case

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

decision desk calls it for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !!