Please enjoy this timely art from my beloved wife @stagefryte.bsky.social

My kingdom for pants that are the length of my (extremely average length) legs. I have been waiting YEARS for cropped pants’ reign of terror to end. It feels so ridiculous to go to work in the winter with a gap between my pants and my boots!

the True third place team

Everyone’s been talking about “Vatican Rag,” but the appropriate Tom Lehrer song for today is “Pollution.” youtu.be/JPrAuF2f_oI?...

‘guy who died while we were waiting to hear if another guy died’ is a fitting and worthy epitaph

“Angelica, tell my wife, John Adams doesn’t have a real job anyway”

not saying anything new, but if these folks actually believed in genAI writing, they'd disclose it, tout it, and build their own audiences elsewhere and leave others be. hiding and sneaking it to markets who want no part of it doesn't prove you're good at writing. just proves you're good at fraud.

Maybe the other thing that some people will get through their THICK SKULLS is that most people who live & work in the US are WORKING CLASS. Teachers are WORKING CLASS. NURSES are WORKING CLASS. Social workers are WORKING CLASS. SO ARE STARBUCKS BARISTAS (who some seem to despise)....

This. We saw this with Swalwell too. People - including a disturbing number of women! - kept yelling that we have to hold seats at any cost to regain power, so we should accept XYZ. People still yell about Franken to this day! No. We have to demand and expect better of our elected officials.

People love a champion of the working class who just so happens to hate women and black people

it would have been so easy to listen to the people who were like "nah" when it came to the Nazi tattoo guy.

My dog is barking at the truck that is dropping off the medication that makes her not bark at trucks. It’s a real chicken-egg problem.

"don't endorse a guy with a Nazi tattoo" is really not galaxy brain political strategy so much as it is common sense and/or decency

Okay but actually my experience teaching children from Cabo Verde is that if you learn to say “Modi ki bu sta?” they will definitely shake your hand and may support your petition for citizenship. And if they don’t, it’s only bc they assume that if you speak ANY Kriolu, you’re already Cabo Verdean.

If anyone near you is crying about sports this is probably how they feel

My mayor Muslim My bagel Jewish My air too hot to be alive Knicks in five

In my typing classes in elementary school, they cut one long side out of a shoe box and put that over the keyboard so that we’d HAVE to learn it by touch only. Makes a great trick for impressing today’s elementary school students!

Before any of you all go "BuT tHiS wOn'T aFfEcT mE", yes if will. It will affect EVERYONE. Not jusy here on bluesky, on EVERY. FUCKING. WEBSITE. You would have to give up your fucking ID info just to use ANYTHING on the internet. It's mass surveillance. theintercept.com/2026/06/28/a...

The canned fish looks like the pilchards in tomato sauce that were (are?) included in the swag bag for the Lucky Star Marathon (Walvis Bay->Swakopmund).

DOCTOR CONGO

“It is not too late. You are not obliged to use AI for everything. You can opt out, you can have a say and you can kind of just like think about how you engage with this technology.”

I agree with Seth Moulton that MA needs new leaders. That's why I'm glad that he's not running again in MA-06 because the North Shore deserves better representation in Congress.

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

Special Ed parents say inclusion drive is falling short despite great work by many frontline educators. “Inclusion is not created by saying, ‘Magic! Now all schools are inclusive!‘”said one parent at a parent town hall. schoolyardnews.com/parents-say-...

It takes an incredible amount of chutzpah for Seth Moulton to have this on his campaign website. Seth, *you* threw trans kids under the bus for political gain!

"ok ok sure he's going to be involved in 1-100 votes on whether or not women are property of the state or only the men in their lives, but he's just like a garden variety misogynist. It's fine. It speaks to rural voters."

this is my kind of company motto right here

"We are pleased to inform you that after several decades of constant (if often subpar) operation, you have finally crossed the threshold from 'garage sale junk' to 'retro memorabilia.'"

And yes, I cry like a baby when they sing "La Marseillaise." Even more now than ever. We're living under the threat of fascism. The immigrant and refugee actors in that scene knew exactly what that was all about.

Wait wait wait, Platner is a creep who disrespects his wife? The slur guy? The mercenary? The guy who loved doing imperialist violence? Are you sure? The guy who pretends to be a working class common joe whose excuse for his nazi tattoo was that he's very stupid? That guy? No. Don't buy it.

I was getting a massage and I was like “Damn it’s really gonna spoil this experience if that was the roof being wrenched off the building.”

Massachusetts teachers! My UMass Boston colleague Melissa Colón is studying how ICE has impacted your school. Might you take 15 minutes out of your day to help take this confidential survey? Here is the link: umassboston.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

It most uncool aspect of pro-AI folks is that they don't even know what they are talking about. Nothing about these days' AI really stands out as cutting edge either, it just assissts you in becoming less capable as a human. They brag about being useless without a computer holding their hands.

"Welcome to Fenway Park. Home of your underachieving Boston Red Sox, this most magical place on Earth is rooted in suffering, which I assume is the basis for their latest culinary affair: the Lobstah Poutine."

this is the most millennial dad joke ever conceived

I think schools, paved roads and fire departments are good things, actually.

“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...

the new song is here & on all the streamings btw! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjWf...

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

To paraphrase a recent viral post, I look forward to being the last fat bitch alive who can still write a sentence.

🧵 School closure trends are consistently being framed as the fault of women not wanting to bring babies into this world. That's how this piece opens. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

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My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

look how fancy the ocellated turkey is. such a fancy lad

What’s so brazen is that the subhead literally spells out the travesty. It says that tech industry lobbyists have convinced congress to pay for their products to be made a compulsory part of public education so that when the industry wreaks havoc on American workers it can be blamed on educators.

unsubscribing from an author who is moving their newsletter TO Substack :(

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!