As a white man, I hate AI for appropriating my culture of being confidently wrong about things while using Reddit as a primary source.

First night using an electric toothbrush

Ivy Leaguers: stop trying to reinvent racism. Challenge level: impossible.

in case people were unaware www.jstor.org/stable/20028...

Firmly believe one of the ways to improve trust in journalism among young people is to support them in learning to research, write, and report themselves. Even if they never pursue it as a job, it helps to understand the process, and encourages them to engage with their local journalism outlets.

So uh. I've spent the last five years working on a book about grief, mourning, who is allowed to grieve and how, and where we go from here, and... you can now preorder it!

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

i am much more concerned with falling behind the rest of the world in this than i am falling behind in chatbot technology

Then when the bubble bursts, the US taxpayers will already be on the hook. “Too big to fail” redux. Meanwhile these folks will continue to collect on their massive compensation packages.

make them answer for why they care more about checking a child’s underwear than whether you can afford your electric bill!

I FOUND IT ALL ON MY OWN WHILE VACUUMING!!!!

There is a REASON this administration started with undermining diversity Because it is the power of PEOPLE All people and we can NAME that This isn’t a “debate” This is a fight for us ALL.

For the sake of my friends in New York, I really hope Mayor Mamdani is everything Candidate Mamdani was. But even if he isn't because, well, politics, it is truly lovely to watch a racist sex pest piece of shit like Andrew Cuomo lose TWICE in the same year.

Having a really rough night here. Lost not only a sock but a wool dryer ball in my building's laundry somehow

absolutely furious about Teen Vogue

hey folks we gotta get in the habit of blocking accounts who post AI videos without saying it's AI and leave the posts up WELL after they've received hundreds of comments telling them. they are scammers.

nobody asked but wallace shawn also has a fun very silly prominent guest role in stargate sg1 season 9 episode 4

Relatedly, I am really sad at all the people who think research means typing their question in and if they don't find that exact answered served up neatly, they give up. Research involves reading a whole bunch of unrelated stuff and getting fuller context to the answer. It's fun and interesting.

the housing crisis in Madison means the undergrads* are renting places farther and farther from campus which means their annoying parties are now within earshot 😤 * This is compounded by record high 1st yr enrollment at UW and no new student housing bc GOP legislature hates higher ed

Unsure if dinner was good or if I was just very hungry

she is incredible

can't believe I went so long without getting worm on a string for the cats. Their prey drive is on FIRE and they're getting such a workout chasing it up and down furniture and leaping in the air, it's unreal. This is the one I got www.chewy.com/pet-fit-life...

The Familiars'Joyride, Kat Philbin. #31DaysOfHalloween

BRAK O LANTERN

I went to a maligned misfits party where we all vindicated an unfairly maligned thing and I went as Chumbawamba's Tubthumping and WON!! Hat tip @margaret.bsky.social for a great 2-part podcast episode that was part of my research. Also watched the recent documentary and read... So many articles....

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

I was reminding myself of the details of that case where the aunt had to sue her nephew for reckless endangerment in order to get her medical bills paid and

And they did this when they should have been spending money on air filtration.

how do i explain to agatha that if she sits on the power button on the keyboard it will restart the computer she's watching the bird videos on

good news: my hip bone being fucked up (from birth) might be the source of a lot of my body problems. yes this is good news because the other option was There Is No Explanation You Will Just Always Be In Mysterious Pain Forever

When I say I'm nostalgic for the past, this is specifically what I mean

and because i can imagine the bad faith reading of this, what i am *not* saying is that everything about the extant democratic party is hunky dory other than its total absence of a communications/propaganda infrastructure. what i *am* saying is that this absence puts a hard limit on reaching voters

Aagh and again the weather forecast was clear for tomorrow until suddenly now, a 40% chance of rain. I have to bike to and from an appointment tmrw so I'm displeased!!!

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.” www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Can anyone churchy explain what a food pantry employee means when I say "good luck, I know it's about to get really bad" and she says "yes but it's a blessing" ?

Really noticing the cuts to NOAA in today going from sunny forecast yesterday to definitely rain all day today

One of these cats pawed at me and gave me sad looks until I got back in bed

Pretty sure this is a scene from @annaleen.bsky.social's The Terraformers

Really well done this defector.com/higher-eds-r...

who is she

“People with long COVID reported worse disability than 98% of the general Australian population. A total of 86% of those with long COVID met the threshold for serious disability compared with 9% of Australians overall.” theconversation.com/long-covid-i...

COVID is not done with you, even if you're done with it. I used to feel like I needed to be gentle with people like this; but watching my mother die of COVID complications this year has stripped me of any remaining empathy. Don't get vaccinated, enjoy the consequences. Just stay tf away from me.

Hallowe'en is just around the corner and it is one of the most dangerous days for children. Here are some safety tips: 1) Avoid hitting children with your pickup truck, SUV or other motor vehicle. It is technically against the law to harm or kill a child with your vehicle and you could be charged.

Folks if you usually do end-of-year/holiday charity giving, consider moving it up to the beginning of November instead and hit up however many local food pantries you can afford to give to. (Check if you or a spouse/partner's employer does charity matching, too.)

- get in bed to go to sleep - first one cat and then the other jumps on bed and curls up against me on either side - a moment of warm peace - both cats start furiously grooming themselves 🙃

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Aftonbladet's report is harrowing and should make anyone who doubted it feel ashamed.

It continues to amaze me that so many peers who would go to the mat for facts & science on virtually every other Trump-era issue—who rightly rail against the injustices & the empathy gap seen in this epoch—blithely reject public health & pandemic precautions as soon as it gets in the way of brunch.

Aw I'm for sure in this photo but behind a tree