Two of three judges on this DC Circuit panel seem inclined to hold that the government can't imprison Senator Kelly for repeating lessons he learned at West Point. Judge Karen Henderson apparently not convinced. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/u...

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I forgive the little old man on speaker phone in the bookstore cause he was asking his wife about books she wants and he said, “We need to buy it here and support Kaitlyn and not buy it on Amazon” 🥰

yeah all right I love a Mugler

Trying to figure out how to explain to my boss that the Douglas Adam’s quote about deadlines whooshing by is really funny from the right perspective

If I still lived in the UK, it would be vaguely embarrassing when people came to my house & said, “oh isn’t that by Gail Myerscough? And that…and also that… and—“ (“people came to my house”?? Well I suppose we’re having a little fantasy here)

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

I got my dad these little birdhouses for Xmas and very excited to report they have both been rented out!!

I still cant get over this. How you steal somebody's life... (he was 28 years incarcerated for a crime he DID NOT commit) He gets out, gets a law degree. Runs for office.... WINS... and then they steal the job

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

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The average household supporting an SSI recipient on SNAP earns just $17,000 a year. This isn't a war on fraud. It’s a war on families who are trying to take care of their own.

Trent Crimm, The Independent

God help me but I made a video to talk about two things I hate

The second half of the "ghost s" thing in French is that many words beginning with é + consonant used to have an s there instead (you can see the intermediary step in Spanish) school escuela école (Latin: schola) spouse épouse esposa student étudiant estudiante

There's a world where the headlines about Chinese EVs make American industry roll up its sleeves and say "bet" instead of cowering behind tariffs. There's a world where gigafactories are run on Texas sun and wind and batteries charged on windy nights when power prices are literally negative.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a 1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about being on Bluesky and then trying to share what you’ve learned there w people who are not chronically online

There's something so special in paleoart, because it speaks to the core of what it is to be human. We yearn to see and to be seen. To create and build. To leave lasting evidence of our existence, our talents, our yearnings.

#GardenFlowers today in “anything can be a cut flower” - deadnettles, grandmas bonnets, clematis, Spanish bluebells and a tulip

It’s not bad enough that we have commercials in our entertainment again, they had to also get rid of any sort of thoughtful editing to transition smoothly from the show to the commercials and back

She is very lonely

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

I honestly thought this was a still from a Wes Anderson movie for a second

That must have been so scary for everyone (including for the poor bus driver), but look at these amazing kids ❤️. apnews.com/video/missis...

I have these lovely notebooks still for sale. Would you like one?

I printed a pen holder because my fountain pens are collecting dust and I want to get back to handwriting either through journaling (dunno if it's for me) or some creative writing of some kind The model can be printed vertically so I had fun with the infill and no top/bottom shells, love the result

Heads up: it looks like *all* of Terry Pratchett's books are on US ebook sale for $2. I can't afford to get all of them, alas, but I'll be getting some. Even the Bromeliad books are on sale, so I will be getting those at least.

Good morning! Here is a three-day old sea-otter pup, snoozing on their Mama. The image is by one my favourite wildlife photographers, Suzi Eszterhas, who runs girlswhoclick.org - an organisation that mentors girls and young women interested in nature photography. Feel free to share.

If you're passing through New Orleans and you like diner food, you absolutely need to visit the Drift Inn Diner. Super affordable, rock-solid burger. (Plus soft-serve vanilla ice cream so good that it made me -- a person who does not like vanilla ice cream! -- swoon.)

Peonies are up! 🌱

This is the first time I’ve seen Virginia bluebells in my yard. What a delight!

Why are private billionaires allowed to do this to the planet’s commons?

Think I've found the name for the detective in the series of gardening crime novels I'm currently not writing.

washed my hands and dried them on my leggings, which were so covered in dog hair that I had to wash my hands again and dry them on a hand towel and friends, you’re not gonna believe this,

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

The internet has taught you more languages than you know

lego head ass layer cake

Reminded of this story.

DC statehood yesterday

god this guy rules. he says "I'm going to fix this" and then just goes and does it. really humiliating for every other mayor honestly

And then, in one last bizarre twist, the Court says that judges aren't allowed to ask experts in history about questions of history, because experts impact "independent judgment." Brb going to scream.

History is dangerous to fascists. Study history. #TalkAboutHumanities

Tomorrow at 8.30pm UK time I'll be listing a small no of my Victorian ink bottle tiny posy kits in my Etsy that I've designed using recent research to improve mental health.They include a 100-150 yr old bottle,dried flower posy & booklet abt how this kind of small project alters the 🧠 for the better

Ah yes. If you got caught up in the whiny techbro blocking tantrum then feeds that they created, which include Quiet Posters and Latest from Mutuals are unavailable too. Bsky devs really need to maintain separate personal accounts to the ones they use for infrastructure!

Republicans in red states have gerrymandered to shit and back, often illegally, and when voters have passed initiatives to ban the practice, they have (even more illegally) ignored and undercut them. It is a little late to clutch your pearls and weep about the sanctity of democracy now

So proud to be included in the AI Haters club. You do the work, but you never expect to be recognized. Sorry about all my broken feeds that this dingbat apparently “owns.” Mutuals and Quiet Posters, it’s just like the 8 of us, so we gotta look out for each other now.

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

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