We're searching for a Lab Director to run the new #Kansas Water Institute water quality lab. Lots of momentum here at Kansas State University for #water research and we're putting together a pretty awesome lab. Details here - careers.k-state.edu/jobs/water-q...

Far too many people in the US are already totally untethered from reality. Enter AI:

Had my annual today and my wonderful lesbian nurse-midwife gynecologist told me she’s leaving the practice to be a hospitalist. I am CRUSHED. I cried in the exam room. She was so good and I will miss her SO much. She’ll do so much good there but this is a horrible time to lose a safe provider.

LMAOOO ily Merriam-Webster

Middle schoolers walked out www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/l...

Very lucky to have @jamiecummins.bsky.social as a STAR editor at Psych Science, helping us navigate these kinds of issues. This is such important work.

Cats are so good. We are blessed to have cats.

This is a huge deal. AB 288 allows California's PERB to take over monitoring union elections and monitoring ULPs when the NRLB cedes jurisdiction, as is happening with an increasingly empty and pro-boss board. Great for new organizing and great for CA asserting independence from the feds.

I hope you’re having as good a day as the construction crew outside, one of whom just hollered “whoohoohoohooo!” and another guy responded with a loud “hehe hee heee hee heee!” Then they hopped in the truck to move a piece of equipment. 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

Poster I made for the Great Midwest Crane Fest!

WHAT THE FUCK www.themirror.com/lifestyle/fo...

When my kid was 7, I took her down to the beach one evening and pointed out the yellow band across the sky. “That’s called the belt of Venus,” I explained. She pointed at the purple part and asked “Do you know what that part is called?” When I said I didn’t, she said “It’s called the fart zone.”

“I have seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence,” Herzog said. “Story and acting and everything, they look completely dead. There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.” Get their ass, Werner.

Why do parents text like this?? Mom: what was the name of your exchange student "boyfriend" Me: *gives her the name* Mom: thanks Then nothing more and no response when I ask why. So...why _did_ you need this information randomly on a monday night???

Heads up WA state friends. Coming out of Lowes spouse ran into one of those petition signature collectors. She represented the petition as protecting trans rights in WA, but it was a petition to require all school physical / mental health records to be freely accessible to parents.

Wild. Would be interesting to know what OSU is concerned about (federal or state retribution? Or something else?)

Did you know that NOAA has a major office in Asheville? They put together a story map about Hurricane Helene, and it’s the best data resource I’ve seen out there about the storm. I might be a little biased, though, because I have a geography degree and love using GIS to share data.

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

I'm posting another mysterious hematite orb to win people over! #MinCup25 #MineralMonday #minerals [Vid description: My gloved hand holding a flattened, dark metallic brown hematite sphere & rotating it. Specimen from Cleator Moor, Cumbria, England. On display in the Natural History Museum, London]

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Food banks/pantries/mutual aid projects desperately need support right now, whether that's money, in-kind donations, or time.

I forgot to edit my imperfect foods delivery this week and this was in it and I just. y’all. what are we doing. why. for what.

when some lib posts that WW2 era politicians/generals were “the original antifa” it drives me up a wall as if by the 40s the american state wasn’t at least 3 decades into a purge of actual antifascists from the country

HOA got a county permit back in the 1980s to build a revetment on the condition that they keep access public, and recently homeowners started putting up barriers and went to court to privatize the walkway. Coastal commission fined HOA almost $5 million; court just ruled the barrier has to come down.

💯 Thread.

Ermine figurine, porcelain, vintage. ZIK Konakovo, USSR, 1974-1991. Author is Sh. Shukvani.

Any rich people out there want to make a large donation to our local mask bloc for a bulk purchase? 😊 We are definitely in a COVID surge because demand for masks is way up and we're running super low.

As a shutdown approaches and Dem leadership does its usual schtick, just re-upping that basically every fed employee I've heard from in recent weeks (anecdotal, yes, but still!) is pro-fight, pro-shutdown-if-necessary. As I wrote a couple weeks ago about NIH: www.gravityisgone.com/the-walls-ar...

They recently released a book of these archival images, along with essays about outdoor gear. We chatted how they built such an extraordinary collection, the surprising gaps in outdoor brands’ own histories, and what their work reveals about the culture of gear. putthison.com/the-most-ama...

Earlier this year, Trump rescinded the Bipartisan Permitting Reform implementation rules they negotiated to streamline NEPA in the fiscal responsibility act of 2023, in case you wanna know how bipartisanship is going (not well).

Is Starlink unable to provide many users with internet access? Yes. Is Starlink enabling organized crime? Yes. Is Starlink making a mess of low orbit? Also yes. It remains way past time to shut down this scam. www.satellitetoday.com/connectivity...

I’m on the ground near Broadview. Because of illegal fence, we are at a nearby intersection.

They live there #art #sharks #comics

this is his face when he gets wet food! commission to @cryptidbean.bsky.social

On June 2, 1991, flight 283 from LA to Newark lost all contact with ATC. The aircraft never landed, and no remains were found. Ever since, rumors of a "ghost plane" have spread among aviation enthusiasts, who claim to have seen flight 283 attempting to land at airports across the world.

Hey journalists: are you wondering if this is climate change? I'm one of the like five to ten world experts on this, and I wrote a guide last year to help *you specifically* decide: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... (Then I quit my job and never published it) My take: somewhat, but mostly not. (1/2)

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

So much going on, but we’re still making Water Talk and had a short episode that you can listen to now come out last week. Listen and subscribe to get our first full episode — on water and data centers — of Season 6 tomorrow! www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...

I saw a Rothko in person for the first time at SFMOMA in 2005 and it was an overwhelming emotional experience. Afterwards I felt like I understood something about art I hadn’t before.

ok i hadn't really noticed until @nora.zone flagged it but it seems pretty weird that this "nonprofit newsroom" mostly posts unattributed headlines and takeaways from stories they did not write

Yes, this is why the “they’re not groyper” fixation also misses the target because it is only a technicality. This *is* postmodern fascism at its heart. 20th century fascism was a result of industrial capitalism meeting nationalism while this the result of consumerism meeting racialized nihilism.

It rained today for the first time in weeks and when I went outside tonight there were much rooms where there had been none yesterday. Maintenance installed this terrible new light outside and I knew I had to document the sinister feeling of the scene.

This has been a really wild story to follow. Opponents to the Applegreen deal even took out radio ads. www.wickedlocal.com/story/news/s...

HANG IN THERE! 화이팅! #art|#kpdh

I love this picture of Guillermo del Toro and Hideo Kojima because it looks like they’re expecting.

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

fabulous work happening in the midwest US not least because tenant organizing and collectivization is some of the hardest there is www.bloomberg.com/news/article...