You all: I’ve been talking about this for a year. What is your license worth when conversion therapy CEU’s are eventually required (currently accepted) in order to sustain it?

68) Women’s tshirts are too curvy, men’s are too long

this is probably more about the name of the stops than anything else

Harrow keeps sprinting super fast on her cat wheel then leaping if when she realizes she can’t sustain the pace.

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

Harrow has been getting so many hugs

Turns out the 1st Amendment doesn't work when regime allied oligarchs purchase the media and censor unfavorable content willingly.

Every day my watch gives me a summary of how my day went and every day it calls it a stressful day 🙄

There’s a reason why my wife is perfect for me and this sticker is it. An early Xmas present.

Family Christmas party means hanging out with my ten year old cousin to avoid everyone else. It works well because I have many interests that overlap with a 5th grade boy. We have played a bunch of Nintendo switch and built Lego. 🤣

I got gifted a portrait of Harrow 😍

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

PSA: 'quishing' is a scam that uses QR codes to redirect you to a scam site to obtain your financial info. Scammers will put QR stickers over legitimate ones, so even QR codes on reputable ads are dangerous. What's needed: a code BOTH humans & machines can read. So we invented it... in 1956.

How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US: Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science

This ain't it, SFWA. By allowing LLM tools "at any point during the writing process" you are allowing verified social, ecological, and individual harms to be part of the Nebula Awards. Shame on you. www.sfwa.org/2025/12/19/p...

This is bad. Any LLM use in writing should be grounds for disqualification. Stop compromising with garbage products pushed on us by fascists.

She passed away this afternoon 😭😭😭😭😭

1/n Out today in @jamapsychiatry.com: Interpretation Issues With the Patient Health Questionnaire Instructions. We find troubling variability in whether people think they should respond based on the frequency of the Sx or the frequency of being bothered by the Sx. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I’m convinced the stress and constant annoyance of living in an economy where every corporation is constantly trying to screw you over is a big part of why people are unhappy with the economy, the government and status quo in general.

My parents cat is not eating and is going to an urgent vet appt tomorrow. She’s an elderly kitty and I’m worried for her

In Boston, we like our protests with a whole lot of history. #teaparty #dumpICE #Dec16

42 faith leaders blockaded the entrance to San Francisco’s federal immigration court yesterday in an action that *shut down the courts* for the day.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

When I was driving home I saw something that I swear had the gait of a chicken run across the road. I’m trapped in a bad joke.

Why do I feel like WMD charges are going to be applied very selectively

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

When you actually measure if a well-fitted respirator blocks viruses, the answer is unequivocally yes. But when it doesn’t seal, orwhen you take it off to eat or scratch your nose, guess what, it doesn’t matter if the mask protected you ten minutes ago if you inhale virus unmasked now.

On the theme of, "American planners regulate the wrong things," we should have much stricter regulations on noise-proofing apartments. It's the sort of issue regulation is meant to handle: it's difficult for most consumer to assess it before making a decision, and it really impacts qualify of life.

Reading a book about a guy wandering around post apocalyptic New England.

I’ve seen two kids post that the Brown University shooting is the second school shooting they’ve survived. This should enrage and radicalize everyone. Kids shouldn’t have to survive one shooting, let alone two. No more thoughts and prayers. It’s time to address the guns.

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...

A cat who aggressively licked my hair until I got out of bed

Imagine doing your own research on measles and then thinking to yourself, "I prefer rolling the dice on brain swelling, blindness, seizures, and a fatal degenerative brain disease that takes 7-10 years to surface over a relatively safe vaccination series."

This article is sympathetic towards ICE but still a good read because it's clear that Minneapolis and Saint Paul are doing AMAZING work (with a little assistance from our weather). www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Tonight, DHS is targeting 47,000 TSA officers and AFGE members, a second attempt to union-bust in retaliation for workers standing up for their rights. Congress must act to protect TSA officers and aviation safety. aflcio.org/press/releas...

Was maybe going to go to an event tonight to meet krampus but I’m wiped and am gonna hug my cat and build Lego instead

I passed 😮‍💨

Stressed about this exam in taking in about an hour and harrow is being done good support

“The work was emotionally exhausting, with chat users confiding intimate details about their real-life relationships, as well as their own emotional trauma, falsely believing they were talking to an unfeeling AI chatbot.”

It's not even just Google anymore. I use Duck Duck Go, and a majority of all top hits are just useless AI generated guides on generic AI generated websites. From health conditions and medications, to custom CSS for websites, to propagating my plants, and beyond.

Asking for some help. I'm working with someone who is designing a pilot to study the uptake of PFAS chemicals by mushrooms for purposes of remediation. Does ANYONE have a contact for a mycologist or someone who knows about mushrooms? If so, can you point them my way? Many thanks.

This is just some ordinary dude no one had ever heard of, quietly getting by, and the administration has decided in a fit of pique to hound him for the rest of his life because otherwise they'd have to tacitly admit they're capricious incompetent villains. Just let him live, ffs

There is a hidden pocket dimension where time collapses, space folds in on itself, and logic coils into spirals of insanity. This where OnTrac deliveries go. (Assuming they make it that far.)

According to tracking info My item I ordered online has visited 3 different New Jersey towns this week :( it’s in some kind of mail purgatory.

This is basically the Bar application and let me tell you it is the most annoying, pain in the ass thing... We are so fucking screwed economics wise.