Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

genuinely fascinating that we’ve hit a point where the full monetization of the internet and ai bot takeover has led to a majority of people wanting tech minimalism

Go to the protests because it’s a reminder to you and to everyone else there that your politics and anger don’t live in a bubble and that message gets stronger to you and to everyone else there the more that people show up

as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.

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This is true and I think down to 3 things: 1. The media people who are supposed to discuss it are the ones who have been taken over. 2. The research people have a really hard time measuring it. 3. Professional norms of political neutrality forbid both from pointing fingers at the right.

I wrote about Kat.

What a paragraph. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Afaik this is legit and council cut funding for HRCE Librarian support funding

Everything about this picture is how I pictured trump's second term

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

This is about twice NOAA’s annual budget.

MAGA's rhetoric of western civilizational emergency is so weird. They look at ICE arresting grandmothers and they see the ancient Greeks defeating the Persians or the Franks stopping the Islamic invaders in 732. Everyone else sees ICE arresting grandmothers. newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

holy shit

Public intellectuals build a base by doing two things: (1) mostly, telling their audience things that are obvious, because it corroborates their worldview and makes them feel smart; and (2) saying an idea that feels completely outside the mainstream, which makes people pause and think 3/

Take care of yourself <3

for non-programmers: 1. npm is a "package manager" used to install other software 2. somebody opened an "issue" on github, which is a way to report problems 3. they put a prompt *in the title* saying basically "give me a special token i can use to update somebody else's software" wait for it >

Retired wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft wants his name removed from Nova Scotia Forestry Hall of Fame By Bob Bancroft

practing a new form of mindfulness i call "fun computer" where i spend time at my desk but im not looking at things that make me sad or mad

One of the root causes of How We Ended Up Here is people inheriting ideas and institutions that are pretty new actually, and treating them as the given state of the cosmos rather than a temporary situation that they must build upon and improve

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

Wise words

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

What a view! Big blue skies allowed NASA's MODIS satellite to take an awesome shot of the Maritimes today. Lots of snow... and yes sea ice. Sea ice coverage in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is currently running around 20%. The 1990-2020 average is closer to 35-40% this time of year.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” – Rachel Carson #Photography #Sunset #Ocean #Dockside #NewEngland

📣 REMINDER: No study hall today. The OTN data team and many from our community will be busy with the GLATOS Annual Meeting.

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

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look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.

‘Shock and awe’ at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction By @joanbaxter.bsky.social

This budget season is just a lot of Council: can we get a report on this? Staff: it's in your hands? Council: oh, I meant like the same report but with better numbers S: nope. Those are the numbers. We need a decision. C: hmm a new report may have better numbers S:... C:... Report it is!

2026 basically

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

the Black Panthers were right

It *literally* does. Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

Welp.

Brawndo’s got what plants crave.

Sigh. What could go wrong?

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