Mt Olive makes great pickles, is a great NC business, and has no time for bullshit. www.wnct.com/news/mt-oliv...

Having a library card increases a person's attractiveness by at least 63%

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

‘The future of children in a digital world, and particularly their chance to flourish in it, remains in doubt…’ Ella Rhodes reports on the UK ‘social media ban’, with comment from @sonialivingstone.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social & more. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.

I find it fascinating that JD Vance - a man I have never, not once, not a single time, heard make an insightful or informed point on any topic - gets the presumption of "smart" despite ample evidence to the contrary.

More people have read this Reddit comment I wrote about gender-based pay discrepancy in professions seen as women's work than any scholarly article I've ever written. Can I put this on my CV?

I'm regrettably not perusing a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone street in Edinburgh, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

“We’re not here for trouble… we’re just here to see our family members.” Outside Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark on Day 4 of the hunger strike, a 10-year-old whose father is detained inside confronts masked guards, asking why they won’t show their faces. WATCH @jordanchariton.bsky.social LIVE ⬇️

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: In the next-to-last episode of Stephen Colbert's show, he gave his own responses to the "Colbert Questionert" that he'd often posed to guests. This recording was his answer to "You get one song to listen to for the rest of your life; what is it?" See you around.

Super interesting thread about art historians’ nuanced work versus AI nonsense.

I’ll fetch a turn about the garden

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Misinformation is not harmless. Examples #1001 ... "Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth" www.propublica.org/article/more...

"hottie with a body" implies the existence of other hotties, hotties beyond our mortal ken. hotties without form or substance

Slight correction, their argument is that because racism isn't a problem anymore, if former Confederate states disenfranchise Black voters it definitionally can't be racist, which you may recognize as the same logic that our institutions employ every day to avoid confronting uncomfortable realities.

Today in the family group chat Anna tells us she finished her last college class. Her mom asks if she's going to celebrate. Anna: "yea applebees happy hour is calling my name rn." Mom and me: "haha lol." Because she's obviously joking. Just looked: she charged $45 of Applebee's dranks to my card

Coco typically hates the car, but even she was pumped to ride with all these new plants for the yard!

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

Mississippi has thee largest Black population by percentage in the whole country. But they have exactly ONE Black member of Congress today. After the Supreme Court ruling came down, one of those members had this to say

Straight Fs for IU (which definitely earns those grades!).

"If we wait for the hyperrich to finally realize that their fates are tied to ours—for their children to contract measles, or for them to get cabin fever in their apocalypse bunkers—it will be too late for many of the rest of us." - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

CHRIS MURPHY: You fired half the department! LINDA McMAHON: That's hindsight MURPHY: What does that mean?

The incompetent quacks entrusted with overseeing our public health system have blocked hundreds of millions of dollars of mRNA vaccine research, based on pseudoscientific drivel. Our money. The public’s money. Lifeblood for miracles like this one.

BECAUSE I’M A NERD, I receive the USPS’s quarterly magazine about stamps, USA Philatelic. There are so many cool stamp designs available or coming this year, including figures of the American revolution, bald eagles, and Harriet Powers’s quilts. Go write a letter and get you a cool stamp for it!

THE NUTELLA HAS COME LOOSE

Well, enjoy having written.

Once you adjust for family income, students who go to their neighborhood public schools do just as well as students who go to fancy private schools (and better than students who go to most charter schools!).

No shit, dude.

why don’t i slip into something more comfortable (jorts)

Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”

GOP: the mail is secure enough to receive your photo ID, social security card, your debit and credit cards, your stimulus checks, and your tax returns Also GOP: the mail is not safe enough for voting

2100: Nothin' but skulls as far as the eye can see and floating nano chatbots chattering away chattering away chattering away.

Not surprising.

Ahhh the glow of a pure soul through a pair of slutty little glasses

Read this headline. Now read it again. Now read it again. You are not alarmed enough. It is later than you think. 🇺🇸 deadline.com/2026/03/trum...

“Ad, ad, an AI figment, someone squawking, someone hawking—hours consumed, of this only life, and who is left in the garden, who is tending the flowers?” Read the whole poem by Leila Chatti here: poets.org/poem/world-t...

In less than 1 week, Trump has wasted more than $5 BILLION of your taxpayer dollars on his war of choice on Iran. That money could have covered the cost of SNAP for more than 2 million Americans for a year. There's always money for war and never money for human needs.

This Summer, Students From Hundreds of Colleges Will Heed One Urgent Call www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

Joke's on you daylight savings I'm totally fine with an hour less of this shitshow

Predicting a return to reading books. It will be on the frontier of resisting subjection.

The declyne of readinge ys caused by manye thinges. A huge cause ys a systematic & decades-long devaluinge of literature at all levels of educacioun. We kan not put instrumentalitye above meaninge and still thrive. Fundinge the humanityes ys key to a just societye of well-informed citizens.