“Then they shouldn’t have voted for this!” Bitch, Asheville is a blue college town and the county has gone blue for decades. I am so sick of this “if I pretend disasters only happen to red areas, it means I’m safe because I’m properly on the left!” No. You’re not safe. That’s why we save everybody.

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In February, DOGE - under Elon Musk’s direction - gutted the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, notably including their autonomous vehicle safety unit, which was investigating Tesla.

Okay, my sister celebrates Christmas despite not being Christian, her partner being Jewish, and me having done my best to bring her up pagan. What movies are holiday appropriate but neither saccharine nor overdone, nor too grim for me to get others onboard?

So... what is the enshittification of LLMs?

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I hope I am not repeating content you have already seen, @tkingfisher.com - but I think you might the only author who could do justice to the alpha were hens.

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I stan for phthalo green.

Y'know, if someone was taking a class on evolution, or geology, or most any other science, and the student ignored the actual assignment to rant on about their religious beliefs, it wouldn't even be a question, would it? I could see an argument for giving her 1-3 points, but I'm good with the zero.

I may even have find a good local source for bulk beeswax votives. (I had a great on in NC, but I like to work with local beekeepers.)

This is the most cheerful picture!

This is a little hard to see, because it was refreshed recently, but my starter has come into its own. Propagation mats for the win! (Yesterday evening got away from met, so I refreshed it around lunch time, and will be using it soon.)

Seriously, though, propagation mats are a lot more useful than people give them credit for. I put them under my basil for the cooler part of the year, and under anything that would prefer warmer feet. They also help keep my greenhouse window a bit warmer. Sourdough is just the latest.

I am reviving a badly neglected sourdough starter. This isn't really the season for it - cold weather does not a happy culture make. After a couple of days of very slow going, I decided to pop it onto my propagation mat. This is clearly helping, and I'm hoping it might be ready this evening.

#UBC Botany is hiring an Assistant Professor in Non-Seed Plant Diversity - come work with us in beautiful #Vancouver, BC! Please repost! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31140

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

it’s nine PM on the east coast and polls have closed bring me the head of andrew cuomo

Elijah has a clean bill of health, and is really coming out of his shell. And he's so cuddly! (That look is because I called his name to get him to look towards the camera. "What?!") He still has another round of shots and a snipping before he's ready to look for his people...

Today I am reminded of Purrberus, guardian of procrastination..

I'm not against a good domestic thriller. But it's hard to get excited about people whose lives are more boring than mine.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Like my grandfather before me, I am antifa. (Pictured, CDR William Fleming McLaren.)

Meet Elijah, our new foster

The subtle implication that Trump v. U.S. has always been law and that a president's official acts weren't considered prosecutable when Smith started is disgustingly dishonest.

Here are the 10 states that will see the highest premium increases for families that lose tax credits if Republicans refuse to act. West Virginia 387% Wyoming 382% Alaska 346% Tennessee 320% Mississippi 314% Texas 289% South Carolina 285% Alabama 284% South Dakota 235% North Dakota 234%

I was just introduced to this site: goppredators.wordpress.com

I know it's the current fashion, but I really hate the brash bolding of phrases in cover letters and CVs that one sees these days.

Escher cake Vanilla cake, vanilla bean buttercream, one layer of salted chocolate buttercream filling, one layer of salted caramel buttercream filling, fondant (modeling chocolate was too sticky for the cookie cutter)

Kavanaugh Arrests

Well, at least this. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

This thread is amazing.

I work with the the students who made it to for year college - but I see the effects described here every day www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

What if we talked out our fourteenth amendment rights the way some people talk about their (often badly understood) second amendment ones (h/t Sherrilyn Ifill)

I slightly know him - we taught in the same auditorium, him slightly before me. (And I have the East Asian language degree...) I love the UNC community, but this is pretty much exactly why I left. www.dailytarheel.com/article/2025...

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

Special case: If you see ICE heading towards a group of people, loudly fan-girl / boy-ing at them is a great way to raise the alarm while confusing the issue.

Do you want to know who George Soros really is? He’s a Holocaust survivor. He’s one of the world’s greatest philanthropists for progressive causes. It’s DESPICABLE that the “justice” department is going after him. They “claim” to care about Jews. Not true www.georgesoros.com/the-life-of-...

the lesson of the kimmel thing is that a corporation that previously caved to trump was forced by its audience to defy him. they're afraid of him but they're more afraid of you.

Is disaster prof a thing the way disaster queer is? Because I think it should be...

What movie do you consider perfect? youtube.com/shorts/bjaeh...

coates is genuinely a generational writer

Really, teaching CS is mostly a side gig. My real job is opening doors for cats.

Remember, students, smash the four olds! Old thinking, old culture, old customs, and old habits! Report counterrevolutionary instructors who defy Our President's Laws to the proper authorities for reeducation!

Gen AI doth remove commitment from art. Yf an artist ys committed to makinge somethinge trulye weirde, even shockinge, that artist doth neede to crafte the art, at everye steppe thinkinge, "Yes, Ich am drawinge a sexy C-3PO." Wyth Gen AI you kan make a sexy C-3PO wythout caringe, and that ys wrong.

I kind of feel like anyone here probably already knows this? Not to mention that he's been found liable for rape. ...but then, maybe not.

This is the best thing I've seen on the internet all week and I am on the floor laughing.

A thread of animations from my Blender class that I've been given permission to share. First, Raelyn Brown and Zahi Asalman's stick figure duel (complete with blooper reel).

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain