I am obsessed with Louise Erdrich, and everyone should go read The Sentence right now

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway

An exclusive look at the deal to reopen the government:

As part of my quest to be The Christmas House You Can See From the ISS, I scour secondhand sites for more of what sates my festive hunger. I’m always tempted by the creepy vintage Santas. But when I go to pick some to buy, none of them feel creepy enough anymore. Did the Santas make me this way???

“Mommy! I love to play camogie!” Btw she’s the one who chose Clare. And while she’s outgrowing the jersey, I think she’ll grow into the Stockholm Gaels very nicely :) But if the Banner squad needs a sub…

My little guy. He is so good. He’s accepted that he now has to stay on the floor, no stairs, no jumping onto the couch or the bed, and he’s taking his meds without struggle. I don’t think he understands that this will go on for weeks, but pls root for him, he is a piece of my heart

A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect maps.nls.uk/view/218516888

God gives his hardest battles to his silliest sausages GOLD PRINT EDITION xox

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Make no mistake, this excavation wouldn’t be happening if Catherine Corless hadn’t stuck her neck out and defied people telling her to leave it alone. But the scale of this is unimaginable. It’s not just M&B homes, it’s laundries, it’s industrial schools, it’s giant psych hospitals.

Digital Artist: In my work I invented the Gowl Detector as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

The Danish social democrats saying the quiet part out loud: selling out on immigration (immigrants can’t vote) was worth it! Same here in Sweden. Reminder that there’s no such thing as “progressive on everything except immigrant rights.” (The family reunification policies are particularly noxious)

A lot of people give AI a hard time for always getting things wrong, but they’re ignoring that it also makes people racist and insane while poisoning the air

I thought I was fine but still quite shaken from finding an unconscious woman on our road. We have no idea what happened to her, or how long she’d been there, but also it took about 25 mins for the ambulance to get there. She had a serious headwound and was going in and out of consciousness.

This is what they took from you

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

I asked someone who works on carbon credits to help me understand them because I literally do not and all I could get out of him was a frustrated “I’m an economist, so I like them.” Not that anyone I interact with here is so naive but like…if we leave it to these people, we are truly cooked

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

My little dog is still in so much pain. It’s hard to keep him from trying to do things like get on and off the furniture or use the stairs on his own. He’s quick and hates being picked up, so it takes 2 people to trap him before he makes a leap for freedom. And he HATES the makeshift pen we’ve built

To round off series 2 I have got the MOTHER of all guests for you: Speaker, coach, author of Technically Wrong and Design for real life, Sara Wachter-Boettcher. In this episode, Sara and I talk a lot about burnout… Apple: apple.co/47rrJTk RSS: bit.ly/43gtLkB

Update, the vet says he thinks it’s a herniated disc an he needs total rest and meds and a follow up in 2 weeks. Still not great bc he’s in pain, but way less scary than anything I feared (internal organ stuff, the kind where you don’t come home with your dog). My poor baby is in so much pain tho

Every tech company eventually either reinvents the bus or reinvents phrenology

My little dog, my little Lusse, reincarnated Spanish partisan fighter who was so brave and kind he was reincarnated as the world’s most adorable layabout, is sick and we don’t know what’s wrong. I love him so much you guys, pls make it so he can just talk a LITTLE so we know how to help

Anyone else now getting prompts on LinkedIn that your posts won’t be shown to anyone unless you pay to boost? I don’t have premium or anything, I’m just a normie user. And the prompt is sitting on top of a post that has 60 impressions (ie, pay us or you’ll sink into obscurity and never work again)

Here’s a fun fact: More than 1000 people have signed up at runforwhat.net to run for office since last night. 😈😈😈

First they steal your intellectual property then they make your power bills go up then they demand your tax dollars. How good is AI?

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

Love to dig this up from the Magic Nate Ball 🤗🤗🤗🤗

Enjoying some victory posts before the folks who are pathologically invested in the “Europeans are superior to Americans” narrative wake up and start being jerks about it

Not a good news thread, an AMAZING news thread

in my experience, truly nice people are mostly concerned about being accidentally unkind and completely unconcerned about purposely delivering a haymaker when necessary

People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!

we did it babes.... we're the opposite of cooked. what is that. we're ingredients

Just putting in a plug for libro! I love shopping at my hometown bookstore (for audiobooks)

Trying to get vaccinated in Stockholm, at a private clinic, is mayhem. We’ve been here over an hour, we’ve paid, finally in a room, and now they’re not sure they even have any vaccines. The future RFK Jr wants is here in Sweden.

I've been playing this track all morning to manifest some good news today 🎉 You can snag a free/PWYW copy for yourself! djshonar.bandcamp.com/track/the-na...

Reminder that we do not have to hand a damn thing to Cheney

I am hoping so hard for you, New York City!!! I hope you get the charming, brilliant mayor with the spine! Rooting for you! (But never for your baseball teams, wouldn’t be right)

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

THREAD: 25 years ago today, the first crew of the International Space Station for a four-and-a-half month stay. Two cosmonauts - Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev - were joined by NASA astronaut William Shepherd. Since that moment, the ISS had had at least two people onboard.

BOSTON (AP) — Judges order the federal government to use contingency funds for SNAP food aid payments during the shutdown.

The problem I have right now is that I put my dog in a bumblebee costume and he hates it, but the angry bee and the sad bee just make it cuter so wyd

Now something like 60 municipalities in Sweden have said “don’t fuck with our immigrant neighbors” and I cannot stress to you what a surprise this is because it is SO VERY FAR from everyday discourse and a lot of peoples actions, but I will take my hope where I can get it, and hope it’s a trend.

Extremely alarming violence and malnutrition in North Darfur report Doctors Without Borders . As attacking forces advance into El Fasher,in Darfur, MSF teams in nearby Tawila are receiving people fleeing with gunshot wounds and severe malnutrition. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/extre...

"Knowledge is power" is a thought-terminating cliché. Power is power. And it often grants the ability to make knowledge irrelevant.