it is 2025 and the fact that, for many services (utilities, insurance, etc), the *only* way to contact them is via phone is ridiculous. Even if you don't have a chat available (let alone *human* chat), I should at least be able to *send an email* to be read [by a human] during business hours.

I've been eagerly awaiting the annual @nytimes.com Puzzles section (my parents get paper delivery). Surprised I hadn't seen it yet, I googled to see when it was releasing this year. I discovered it was supposed to arrive weeks ago but we never got ours. Has anyone seen them? (is this us or broader?)

Did I ever share this from our NYC atlas with you? "What Is a Jew? From Emma Goldman to Goldman Sachs," a map whose specificities breaks down the idea of a homogenous population so useful to antisemitism. Ruth Bader Ginsberg to Bernie Madoff to Rose Schneiderman to the Beastie Boys.

When did we stop saying "Democratic" as in "member of the Democratic Party"?? I remember 10-15 years ago it being a Republican thing ("we don't want to imply that they're democratic and we're not so we'll call them the Democrat party instead") but now it seems like everyone's caved.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

the mathematics genealogy project is down. how am I supposed to look up obscure information now??

If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS. Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org

truly all I want on here is a reverse chronological feed of all of the posts made by the ppl I follow. (ok maybe also the option of a private account, ideally with the ability to make public replies. but that I can live without!) I hate that the tech world has decided that's an unreasonable ask.

I have been dealing with a stupid bug with my iPad for like a year. (maybe longer?? definitely through many OS updates) For some reason turning Bluetooth off doesn't always "take". The only (temporary) fix is to reboot the device. Why is this happening????

@markey.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov this includes you! You can’t claim to be an ally to the LGTBQ+ community while supporting censorship bills like KOSA which play right into the fascist takeover playbook. Please 👏🏽 pay 👏🏽 attention 👏🏽

tapbots is making a blusky client and I could not be more ecstatic! [@phoenix.tapbots.com‬] (cannot wait for a testflight!!)

on the one hand: Skybridge makes Ivory infinitely more useful to me. on the other hand: Skybridge's instability/unreliability makes it very frustrating sometimes to try to read bsky in Ivory. I hope the reliability improves over time. (no, I do not want to be told to use the bsky app)

@slayerfestx98.bsky.social I think you uploaded last week's Angel ep again (or at least mislabeled this week's).

@hankgreen.bsky.social (re:HPV graph) I'm curious about the data for “vax'd <17, now >28". I'm interested in the efficacy numbers for those of us who got the 1st ones. I know newer versions cover more strains + there aren't a ton of people from those days but I'd hope there's enough for data?