National power outage! Feeling very summer of 2003 (complete with sweating 🥵)

Is this a thing Pentecostals are doing, stealth anointing other religions' sacred spaces? That's not okay, but also it doesn't compute for me religiously. It doesn't match what anointing means. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/n...

My students were learning polynomial division in the class before mine, so I tried the area model - and I did it! Thanks, @howiehua.bsky.social !!! I feel very smart 🤓

biiiiiiiiig streeeeeetch

playing travel chicken with the contents of my refrigerator and losing

One of the most widely prescribed drugs in the U.S. is the generic version of Lipitor. FDA inspectors have found safety and quality violations at about half of the plants approved to produce it, records show.

The real men crisis: figuring out how to be good enough human beings that women will stay with them willingly, even when they have the resources to leave

Narrator: It could not, in fact, do those things. #TeamLuddite 👞👠👢👡👟🥿

There it is

A little crowd sourcing - trying to talk with some folks who have recently bought their first Bible or a new Bible

Holiday long weekend plus cold recovery means it's GYST day chez moi. Laundry in, a round of dishes done, bathroom getting cleaned in stages. I can do this. I will feel a lot better when this is done.

"We choose a school, pick a major and enrol in classes, following the same steadfast path as students before us. The difference now is that we have a painfully accessible and socially acceptable way to do everything in our power to make it meaningless."

This is absolutely right. The eight who signed off on this disaster of a deal were acting as a shield for colleagues who are up this cycle. Don't let any of them off the hook just yet.

My favourite type of kid: “a teenager who believes art, style and a good mystery belong to ordinary life” apnews.com/article/louv...

I reached a deal with the burglar. He gets to keep all of my possessions that he can carry and I get to call the police one hour after he leaves.

I think this is the question Democrats are gonna get over and over: if you just handed over your main demand in the end, why cause a painful shutdown at all? Governing is more than politics, but wild to see this group of Dems arguably toss the whole party under the bus, *politically* speaking.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

Dudes who get free healthcare vote yes on letting you die!

DURBIN. Don't be a coward. @durbin.senate.gov

Dealer: alright everyone ante up Chuck Schumer: I fold Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏

Apropos of theonion.com/democrats-si...

Sen Dems: OK, we'll vote to open the government if all promise to give us a vote on health-care in the future. Sen Repubs: (to each other "omg this is like taking candy from a baby") Yes deal!!! Sen Dems: You guys promise? We are trusting you Sen Repubs: Would we ever lie to you 😉

At this point, it’s utterly bonkers that any Democrat would trust any Republican to negotiate in good faith.

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

I nearly didn't keep going with Pluribus after the first episode, because it looked like it was going to be a very good show in a genre that's not really for me. But then I tried the second episode and changed my mind. I still don't know what this show is, but I'm interested in finding out.

Food safety regulations are so important

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

here’s the letter one church sent to its congregation after this lady called them.“you’re bad christians because you correctly figured out that i was lying!” is not a coherent take.

i don’t think the main problem with the american church is “too many of them refuse to be scammed by a lady who is obviously lying.”

Federal agents as militias. Home Depot parking lots as killing fields. The People's House demolished. These photos defy sanitized language and show us what American fascism looks like. readingthepictures.media/p/images-of-...

initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface

Today's entry in "why your chatbot, particularly that one, should not be in general deployment" "My car asked my kids a shocking and inappropriate question. That’s how I realized there are few safe spaces anymore" in the Toronto Star [gift link]

One thing to do, especially if you’re a science writer or editor, is when you have occasion to mention the names of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, just say “Watson, Crick, and Franklin.” No one can stop us, and it is correct.

Anyone who has actually worked with the poor knows this reality first hand. Way easier to retweet the ticky tocky lady than think for two seconds about why things are the way they are.

"There is no more prayer in front of building or inside the building because this is the state and it’s not [of a] religious background.” No baby, that's not how the constitution works

“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...

Just got an ESPN alert about yet another college athletics betting scandal. The next Dem admin needs to mount a MADD-level push to re-eradicate this omnipresent gambling garbage from society.

When am I going to learn, Torrid does not make a reasonable V neck anything, not even an alleged workout shirt 😭

I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.

Jeremiah 22:13 “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages,

TIL

Nightmare: Dreamed that I went to my childhood public library and found the 400s (where the language books live) was a single shelf. Mostly a Lilo and Stitch branded series for kids, which was actually very cool, but not what I was looking for.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

“Education is one of those areas where every asshole thinks they know what’s best, and where supposed innovators think undermining teachers is a net positive.”

You can do it! A slide from my "AI and the Law" presentation I gave to a bunch of lawyers:

Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.

Remember DNC, it doesn't matter who you run, Fox news will call them a socialist. You could endorse the corpse of Ronald Reagan and their first segment would be "Extreme socialist Reagan picked by Soros to destroy America" Stop caring what fox news says, and listen to your base. It clearly works.