Made this to have multiple uses. Right now sitting in front of my fireplace. Thought of using for soy sauce as you can separate the pieces. And also did it in pieces that can help when you want to store it. What else could I use it for? #pottery #ceramics #candles #imperfectart

Hi, it’s me again, reminding folks to stop doing stuff like this no matter the profession. #SpaceWeather is complicated, and only those who understand the dynamics of the Sun should be making posts instead of this fearmongering. K thx bye! 😒

Never more true. Got this in W's first term.

I deeply admire, and aspire to achieve, the ridiculous competence 50 exhibits.

Well if you attended a scientific congress in, er, a white nationalist police state, this is the preparation you'd expect.

This makes it sound like the fire was somehow a result of the residents’ revolt but just want to make it clear that in fact the ‘revolt’ was the residents questioning the contractor’s behaviour

Can't believe our tax dollars are going to be spent settling the upcoming exorbitant defamation suit with Sabrina Carpenter, but maybe this is just how public arts funding is going to work now.

The free world should take note that the Russian "Führer" has once again revealed his lust for more conquest. In a recent interview, he mentioned that "Donbas and Novorossya" will be "liberated." Below is a map of the imperialistic concept of "Novorossya" for reference. english.nv.ua/nation/peace...

The corruption will know no end, until it is forcefully ended.

Content moderation is also a job that is in large part outsourced overseas, and generally an entry level job that requires little to no tech expertise, and is in itself exploitative of workers that are exposed to abusive content for extremely low pay.

amazon threatens this every year and every year they come to the conclusion that actually attempting this would cost them significantly more than what they currently pay, this is *always* an attempt to renegotiate their costs, but the post has not *always* been owned by AMZ’s largest shareholder

One of the ways people (mainly men) do this is with AI and deepfaking, which I’ve been covering for a few years now. It can be sexual objectification and humiliation but also more strictly political and ideological. They’ve done it with Taylor Swift, too www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... #Ukraine #Putinswar #Russia

Great reporting and a knockout final line: “Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”

Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.

Just legal Calvinball. Obviously lawless.

The open disregard for judicial decisions and orders is being normalized more every day

We know you said we're behaving illegally, but you didn't tell us to stop, so ... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

A local pro-Beijing political party is promoting themselves ahead of tomorrow's "elections" by claiming that they assisted in the evacuation of the Tai Po fire by using a loudspeaker to warn residents to leave. It is unclear if anyone ever heard them from their location.

A first-year law student would get laughed at if they tried to pitch the idea that a judge's ruling that an official's appointment was invalid didn't mean that anything had to change because the ruling didn't also remove the official from office.

... our immigration laws against them? What jurisdiction do we have to detail them and expel them from the country? To enforce any laws against them, in fact? We have no jurisdiction over them, after all. And that can't possibly be correct.

... the part about the US having jurisdiction over them. For the Court to overturn birthright citizenship based on the record, it'd have to find that the US doesn't have jurisdiction over the children of non-citizens born in the US. Well, if we don't have jurisdiction, how can we enforce...

When SCOTUS hears the birthright-citizenship case, I think the argument should point out that the appellants don't dispute that the people in question were born in the United States. In fact they highlight that point as part of their arguments. That leaves only the second condition in dispute...

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AGO / Disney Hall. My photos

Disney Hall, LA / AGO, Toronto

Frank Gehry, 1929-2025. He died today at home in LA.

Natural Bridges, 135 years ago.

My relationship with each cat has a lot to do with the ratio between the amount of affection they give vs the amount of hassle they are 🤣 I’m not talking about illness or Hilo's handicap, I'm talking about straight up fucking annoying shit they do.

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

So even with the trophy that looks like they got Guillermo del Toro to design as a joke - we still don't have any actual plans for this event to happen without a whole bunch of people getting disappeared for existing as nonwhite soccer fans right

that's right. fuck that stupid owl

This will make things worse www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The ideology that was sold to tech workers by tech owners was that the workers were not like other workers, that they were very special boys who were entitled to high salaries and cushy perks due to the STEMy brilliance required to do their job. Easy to see the lie now that it's falling apart.

I think a lot of "learn to code" people thought high salaries for programmers were a permanent feature of the world rather than the result of unusual circumstances around supply and demand in the labor market. Over last 20 years, CS went from a niche college major to the most popular major in the US

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud. In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that. What a confession.

Nothing says fighting mass incarceration and standing up for the working class like having the LAPD use Palantir for racist predictve policing....and getting massive corporations to fund it.

We started building Verena in 2019. Three years into being an NSF Center, we are/were a preposterously productive research team; the open science organization for pandemic prevention; a training hub that was creating new paths into the field; and a community that means a lot to all of us. /2

I'm devastated by what the field has lost in terms of pandemic prevention research and infrastructure, but even more for the (to date, 60+) PhD students and postdocs on the project, many of whom face an immediate funding cliff at the end of the year. NSF had the funds for them and just didn't pay /3

I wish I could say "the work, at least, will continue" with a straight face. But the people driving this project are (mostly early-career) researchers who U.S. face funding shortages across the board. In-progress work will be lost on fundamental bio, climate change, and pandemic risk assessment /4

Death by starvation is turning out to be at least as bad as death by firing squad. Because we have no termination notice, everyone is struggling to apply for bridge funding, and no one is stepping in to save our work, because our project "still exists" even as our labs' bank accounts hit zero. /5

I cant imagine complaining that your grocery store will get housing on top of it and you keep the grocery store. Most places are just outright losing their grocery stores. SF has some of the greatest privileges in the world and high concentration of ppl complaining about them regularly.

One said Ruth Bader Ginsburg would rule in our favor. The other didn't know Roe v. Wade had been overturned and said the court couldn't have ruled the way it did in 303 Creative because it would have been all over the news.

More proof of what @prisonculture.bsky.social says that most people in this country have no idea what's going on: Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.

Finally received the results of my marine biology exam. I got a sea. *catapults phone into the sun

I have said (and fully believe) that writing tenure and promotion evaluations for deserving junior scientists is the highest and best use of my distinguished professor title.

I am and we’re actually in the pendulum swing from Obama . which is why I am so vicious right now about people who are trying to “older sibling” or “ uwu I’m baby” out of having us set sole give standards and boundaries .