@jococruise.bsky.social has this on their lanyards and I can confirm it is very cool as a social device although I’ve never run into anybody else with my same niche interest. But people want to hear about mine or I want to hear about theirs.

They’re genuinely smiling rather than just moving their mouths into part of a smile.

I understand this. I almost died of sadness a few years ago. It is a knife in your heart—metaphorically, and almost literally

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

if Trump nukes Iran it will be because no one powerful in america has ever been seriously punished for anything

Oh yeah 1929 saw some amazing stock market gains.

Wealth Psychosis is a real thing

I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

I had a hellish travel day yesterday (assistant booked a hotel on the other side of LA from the job site, traffic, traffic, no bathroom, no functional chargers for ev, traffic, crowded flight, douches, pushy men, aaaaa) and I remembered why business travel sucks

Holy crap yes. This is not a terrible map, it’s the TRVTH.

In my licensed profession (architecture) I cannot avoid personal liability for my professional actions by hiding behind a corporation. My home, my retirement savings are all accessible through the courts if I harm people. Will the same personal responsibility attach to chatbot creators?

As a geographer, please trust me when I say that Larry Visoski is dead wrong here. Oakland is actually located an average of 90 feet above the Bay Area.

An Uber driver tried to kill me today, slowly changing lanes into the side of my car to try to force me out of my lane. I went to report this to Uber but they do not allow anybody but the paying passenger to report dangerous drivers. So any Uber you encounter could be that guy.

#alysaliu WOKE IS BACK BABY MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!

I was up early and out on an icy (literally, weird for coastal California) work site at the crack of dawn. Now I’m so cold I can’t seem to warm up. But on my way back to the office I stopped at the recorder’s office and finally got my deed recorded. I’m now fully free of my abusive ex. Woot!

This a CAT checkpoint. Show me the most recent cat image on your phone.

And this is where we are now: white folk have to do the work of saving democracy by abandoning their comforts & organizing for justice.

Well this is a better resolution to this anxiety than I expected: www.filmsforaction.org/articles/noa...

Hey, city people. The groundhog thing is a joke. Either there’s six more weeks of winter or spring is only six weeks away. It’s literally the same thing. Seeing you all talk about accuracy as if there’s a difference every year is embarrassing. The first day of spring is March 21 every year.

This weekend has been a blur of intense stress because I woke up Saturday morning to find my grad school advisor’s name in the Epstein files and I have Feelings about it.

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall. But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

One thing about me is I’ve never been able to spit particularly well. This has not been an issue per se for well over half a century. But I see I need to develop this skill this year.

The primary thing is this, though, as a beekeeper of many decades: if you are constantly fighting with your bees you are a bad beekeeper, and keeping bees who can't fight back won't help you be a better beekeeper. 1/

You know what is reassuring? Waking up to today’s news while in South America. Been an interesting day. I’m safe and should be fine. My views on the current regime in the USA are pretty well known. But still.

I said “it sounds like you’re just feeding municipal vehicles to the hill” and the mayor of Montreal started crying

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. (I'm not a serious person.)

*GASPS*

We had to pause the show while I melted down about exactly this. I do try to do the willing suspension of disbelief thing with TV science/tech but the setup for that part was SO WRONG.

we need a department of kerning

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

My European family: if they are your age they are cousin, if they are your parents' age they are aunt/uncle, if they are your grandparents' age they are grandmother/grandfather. There's not much reason to try to figure out who is genetically related to me. What does it matter?

I will pay real folding US dollars to anybody who gets me video of this.

If there is anything I know about tattoos (not much) it is that if you can get a drunken, stupid tattoo you can also get that tattoo covered up/altered when you realize it's a regrettable design. I don't have a problem with people who have realized they made a mistake and taken steps to fix it.

As somebody with a really hard-to-pronounce name (it is not, in fact, Pie, as much as I sometimes wish it were), I am often befuddled when people with names that are said *exactly as they are spelled* (for English speakers) have to deal with this. No wonder they get stuck on the Turkish "c".

Bluesky is hornier than Tumblr??? 👀

Oh great, now we can look forward to the inevitable "our research shows that autistic people do not feel pain."

I hit a major milestone today. After years of hard work, I have reached the weight I was before I met my abusive ex. They wanted me fat and unhappy so I was easier to control. Now I feel like I've completely lost the person they shaped me into. 🎂

As somebody who was just in an ER as a patient, I can say that wait times are not too bad if you have a life-threatening emergency; I was whisked right into a bed. A system that makes poor people go to ER for urgent care/instead of primary care is very broken and hurts people with real emergencies.

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

I have a prescription for lorezepam and they give me 90 pills at once (90-day supply, in theory, though in practise they go bad before I use that many). And for reasons that are never quite clear, they put them in a bottle that is easily 10 times larger than necessary.

I have taken the Tylenol that was in the medicine cabinet and which they think probably is the reason you like trains forgive me but that’s bullshit you got autism from your dad

As is the custom of my people, the next hour will be spent talking about the earthquake. I will say this one was close to the biggest I've been through here. And every time we have one I am relieved to be on a modern foundation.

Been feeling light-headed during exertion for a week or so, and yesterday the chest xray showed pneumonia. Mostly just a cough right now, but that 80/50 bp was very dramatic: lying down on the street in SF unable to sit up without blacking out, ambulance, 5 hours in ER, 2L fluid. 0/5 stars.

The milkweed patch is finally mature enough that we have a real population of monarchs in the garden.

How is the network connectivity on my 3D printer making me nostalgic for token ring networks? Bambu Labs you have a lot to answer for. It should not be this hard for me to 3D print from bed.

did i just write the song of the summer?

Buying a 6-pack of beer for my dad with a note when I was 8. Just walking into the corner store with a note from my dad and walking out with beer. 8 years old. They'd also have sold me cigarettes for him but my mother disapproved.

Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.