☀️Balcony Solar☀️ is having a moment — the portable, affordable kits are an innovative #ClimateSolution AND have the potential to cut energy bills by 20 percent. @reasonstobecheerful.world#ClimateSolutionshines a light on the states embracing this DIY tech: https://bit.ly/4suB9om #EarthMonth

Hell yeah Montana

NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

IRS has the capability to just send us a receipt with the amount owed like other countries. There were two (not consecutive) years I legit forgot to get an extension and they sent me said receipt with the amount owed. The most we should have to do is report investments, deductions, etc.

Keep treating ICE agents like the Nazi trash they are it's working

It's almost bedtime. What if my brain stopped refusing to do the one thing I must get done today.

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

It's such a low-key resistance move but talking about not using AI, especially in a professional context, is so important in working against "inevitability" narratives and so powerful in identifying who your people are — and in ensuring there are more of us all the time.

This weekend I gave a presentation to a group of mostly college-aged folks and had a little line at the beginning of my slides that described it as an "AI-free presentation made by a human, for humans" and I had to pause for clapping at that part you love to see it

This is another very excellent point made on the site about why this is important. Remember we are talking about the 2nd biggest tech company in the world valued at around 3.8 Trillion...

The four official seasons!

Is being in a union punk? It depends on the union. IATSE? Yes, intrinsically. A police "union"? Absolutely not.

Even if you are testing negative for COVID, nobody wants your hideous flu either. Normalise masking in public when you are ill!

how adults colonize every third space and remove young people — including the Internet link: dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/8134647...

which is the point of means testing!

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

🎧 I just got to the part about the relationships and interplay between disco, hip-hop, vogue, and house, both fascinating and a little frustrating how the queer history of the music isn’t more widely known.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

I just went to the post office here for the first time and there is no self-service machine 😮 just a counter. Really bringing home that we moved to a small town.

Every time Favorite Engineer make a point of making sure I've seen that day's Foxes In Love, I am uncomfortably perceived. I read it every day! Why send me this one! (I know why.)

This thread is making me a little emotional

Yesterday morning was peak Saguaro! 🌵 🌼 (13 blossoms?!)

"if you were in charge of star trek what would you do?" Joseph Sisko: No Reservations Jake Sisko: Parts Unknown

Got a very special package today from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social. This incredible kyanite reminds me of the beauty of winter and is my reward for surviving one of the hardest winters of my life. The stunning leafy green onyx is my promise to myself about spring and new beginnings. Time to unfurl.

I should work on getting NY the documentation it needs to give me health insurance, but instead I think I will go outside...in the sun...

sometimes there isn’t anything else to say www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Tailor Bird sews leaves together with plant fibre to form its nest!

Grow. Best as you can wherever you can

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

I went out in the sun today and I'm still sad?? Mods???

Tried FreeTaxUSA based on several recommendations here and it seemed as thorough as TurboTax without charging me a boatload of money that it will use to lobby the government not to just tell us what we owe so it can keep making money. Referral link if you want to try www.freetaxusa.com?friend=LgrzDv

Okay, taxes part 2, send me good vibes!

Going back through my expenses for the year is always so strange. Like ah yes, a review of my moving process, just what I wanted.

Eeeee shipping notification from @peculiarityshop.bsky.social !! New treasures are on their way!!

#RepostYourArt day 7: autumn

It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap

found the post of all time for the shit I be feeling lately, oh my fucking god

Discussing eroticism and gender with some friends and boy, when you step back and look at it, it's pretty fucking wild that one of the main arguments against transfeminine people had historically been "Well, see, when they're happy with themselves they feel like a whole sexual being"

governor abbott took away our rainbow crosswalks but we replaced them with much more visible rainbow sidewalks, and some businesses have followed suit (one added rainbow exterior stairs)

if a position of authority can be misused in this way, that position of authority should not exist. It's clearly not enough to simply change who is in that position, no more than praying that the next king be better than the last.

That's what the sky on these hills looked like in the 1980s, before all the light pollution.

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

13 LGBTQIA artists, we sling jewels, talk sumo sometimes, and try to curate a fun place where rocks are better to talk about than dystopia. Just saying.

The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE. The vote was unanimous. 🎉🎉🎉

Imagine being a Greenland shark. Deep under the ice, below any sight of the sun, you float almost motionless above the seabed. You do not know what is happening anywhere else in the world. You do not even know there is anywhere else in the world. This is the seven hundred years of your life.

I really want that MN button to just open on a random location somewhere in Minnesota. *bing* it's the boundary waters *bing* it's a field somewhere etc