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I'm backtracking on my @centerhealthyminds.bsky.social app & got back to a module abt the 2010 Harvard study that showed we're distracted about 47% of the time (or.... WERE distracted about 47% of the time, 16 years ago...) & that it makes us fucking miserable news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

If you don’t know the Trump shoes thing, here you go. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/who-...

holy SHIT today's puzzle ... all that AND a George Eliot joke?!

get urself a man who reminds you when your Overwhelming Medical Drama is on omg

my neighborhood now has 4 tiny independent coffee shops. a pilates studio, AND a witchy occult store my rent is about to double isn't it

let's do this, assholes (this = "Thursday") youtu.be/UgWgDWgNBzQ?...

I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

bsky.app/profile/jose... tfw the bestie is going through mood swings

fuck AI vimeo.com/1171576833

Me waking up this morning looking at the clock… RECLAIMING MY TIME

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

heads up #knitsky - apparently the folks who own Crochet dot com also own Knit Picks, Jimmy Beans Wool, Berroco, & some others www.instagram.com/reels/DU_wtp...

the fuck....

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?” www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

- 2 (two) "gumbands" - 2 (two) firecracker fingers blown off (fucking FINALLY) [there are no longer any shoe stores in Oakland as far as I know] - cancer patient's family sneaking in Jeni's salted caramel - gentle anthrocon fox girl 😭 - SANDCASTLE. CATASTROPHE.

There is a person on here who is extremely wrong.

friday morning 6am mood youtu.be/VgAfiK6ntHA?...

People are always like what’s something you miss from the past and one of mine is antitrust laws

I completely forgot this this is actually an absolute necessity I can't believe it hasn't already come up

In Greek the word for Thursday, Πέμπτη, literally means "fifth" so three consecutive 5 pulls for Thursday feels v appropriate (hope we make it to 5 consecutive maybe then something weird happens)

brb wasting 20 minutes reading about the origins of hopscotch en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch

My mindfulness app's meditation on the difference between compassion and empathy is really, really interesting.

We’re excited to announce that the 2027 SCMS Annual Conference will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, March 17–20, 2027, at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel. We look forward to gathering together in this vibrant city and welcoming the SCMS community to Montréal in 2027.

The good news is it seems like we're succeeding in killing target bc I went in ours today for the first time this year and that place looks FUCKED the bad news is weirdly that was the fourth place I went today at lunch trying to find like ace bandages and no one has them ???

Masterful Troll, TCM.

Never a big Narnia guy but this 6 seconds typifies everything I love about British television.

live footage of my Biological Son eating *only the gravy* out of his $2 an ounce prescription wet food

SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

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me: man I'm so moody I've really been in the Hormone Zone all week... kev: can we just call it the HorZone?

tfw u stayed up WAY too late hunting vaults & drinking wine & talking shit

life imitating app

me when the students have done the reading

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

:: live footage of me when office pals on campus ask what I'm doing for my ankle sprain bc it seems to be getting better quickly ::

v much enjoying the new Remember Sports album you guys

cognates are so handy until they're not like the greek word for example is παράδειγμα (literally just paradigm) and I couldn't remember the gender of it but searching "gender παράδειγμα" ..... really just *spectacularly* unhelpful 😂 (it's neuter, btw)

[redacted lamentation re: schools that scrambled to preemptively comply by scrapping offices and firing staff]

I'd never come across this Orwell quote before today (a couple searches & it seems to be a legit one) and in this, my 50th year, in a moment in which really fucking horrifyingly evil people look 20 years older than they are, I am extra-intrigued by it "at 50, everyone has the face he deserves"

Three ICE agents accidentally shot themselves in the leg during routine training exercises within two days last year.

Extremely funny to log on to this site populated exclusively by communist furries who work in software development and go “does the left like ANY technology?”

When I say the older I get the less patience I have for dudes giving me unsolicited feedback/advice, what I mean is... Bro it is literally taking all of my limited remaining self control to not verbally eviscerate your fucking scrotum. I promise that if I want your take I will ask for it.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Why is this the first thing I saw in my feed this morning I'm so mad at all of you.

uuuuuuuhhhhhhhh

I know Jesse Jackson spoke so much truth to power for decades, often with memorable turns of phrase. But his most indelible & quotable line for me is "The Question Is Moot" from this 1984 SNL sketch (alas only available via this low-fi copy):

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is