Dept. of It's Come to This: I was asked to referee a squabble between a person who actually knows how to wield language and a colleague who insisted that an AI assistant was correct about a point of prose. Spoiler alert: It was not correct.

This happened before Tylenol?

one of my longest, closest friends has worked for cisc0 (the tech company) for 19 years in sales. in july they changed her account load from 90 to FOUR HUNDRED. there is no way for her to manage her accounts, grow them or acquire new business. all she does is put out fires and work non-stop.

Teaching this class has convinced me that Gen Z lawyers will have hearts of gold and incredible moral compasses but Gen Z juries will be out for blood.

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NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

For me it's "Bart's teacher's name is Krabappel? I've been calling her Crandall! Why didn't someone tell me?!"

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Important to note that Jane Goodall would not have lived so long had that fateful bite not given her the monkey powers

Perfect floof for your TL

The whole deal with technology was it being accurate* beyond what simple humans could achieve. Now these same companies put out AI programs that are 50% correct* in Excel spreadsheets. They should be embarrassed but instead have all of us doing free labor to teach their LLMs. I h8 it here

URGENT: blep

A Comma Butterfly resting on some oak leaves alone the edge of a woodland area. Showing its very dark underside with its white Comma mark.

BREAKING: Striking workers are currently storming Tesla showrooms in Paris, demanding higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy. (🎥 Luc Auffret)

Oscar-winning actor and progressive activist Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, a free speech initiative originally spearheaded by her father, Hollywood icon Henry Fonda, in response to the rise of McCarthyism in the 1940s. on.nbcboston.com/HvVc58L

Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't be sassy [Jan Luyken, after Cornelis van Dyk, Skeleton of a Man, 1680 etching, 139 mm × 86mm (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)🎃💀]

🔥🖤🔥 www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/hell...

Baskin-Robbins Spicy 'n Spooky Ice Cream (2022-2022): A ghost pepper-infused white chocolate ice cream, combined with a rich, black, dark chocolate ice cream, and loaded wutg spicy blood orange flakes. Given a limited-time run for Halloween season

if you’re in crown heights & found this lil coin purse on nostrand last night can u please lmk 💗 it is my wallet and my whole life. keep the cash! but pls i need my wic card & IDs

+Pritzker.

inbox, from Democratic Assembly nominee Katie Brennan (LD-32, Jersey City/Hoboken): Brennan Calls for New Jersey to Withhold Federal Taxes, Seize Trump’s Bedminster Golf Course After Gateway Tunnel Funding Freeze

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If anyone has too many doohickeys, I have a solution: buy a tube of M&M's minis, eat all the M&Ms, remove the label on the tube, stick a handwritten label to the tubes and decorate them (mostly to differentiate them from other tubes that still contain M&Ms) and bam you can put screws or whatever in

hardly anything is on fleek these days

🧵🧵🧵🧵 This is crazy!

Today is Primidi the 11th of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate potatoes.#JacobinDay More information on potatoes

Happy 16th (😳!!! How??) birthday to my dearest weird kid. Nick is currently snuggling my Covid vaccine sore arm, purring cat is very healing. I measure my life in cats, so I’m having a bit of a wtf how has it been 16 years.

Consultants Hate This One Weird Trick

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

Six Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Durbin, Schiff, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, and Welch) voted yes on two Trump district court nominees this morning, and my question remains, why do senior members of this party keep voluntarily ceding political capital to Donald Trump

Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity https://theonion.com/physical-media-collector-pumped-for-downfall-of-humanity/

I know who Pete Hegseth is. He’s the guy constantly doing bench reps in the weight room but thinks agility drills and footwork “is for pussies” He’s the guy pounding ten different steroid cocktails while ignoring his playbook He’s a practice squad all-star who wilts every time the lights come on

The chimpanzees are wearing black armbands to commemorate the passing of Jane Goodall. The anteaters are wearing bedazzled jeans because they have terrible fashion sense.

I'm decorating my whole house even tho I'll be gone most of October Literally no one will even see this and I'll have to change it immediately when I get home I would do the same if I lived all alone tho

So lazy!

I adore this story. I love the description of Amy Poehler's eyes going black for a second as if she became Vengeful Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and flayed Fallon effortlessly as if he was Warren.

My phone has been blowing up with fundraising spam texts and calls today. Great opposing, everyone!

More dogs, less dread.

As we head into chilly times, my fellow Pittsburgundians, fyi DLC has a free comprehensive energy audit and the very nice lady who just scheduled me said if you make less than $1.9k a month they have programs where they potentially replace appliances for you!! www.dlcwattchoices.com/wholehouseau...

John Waters is behind a table at a flea market. Marge and Lisa approach and Marge says: I'm here to sell something." Waters practically jumps up and down yelling "Please tell me it's your hair!!!"

1. Vehemently anti-LGBTQ+ Oklahoma education superintendent is finally out as of yesterday. He appointed Libs of TikTok to the library board, and constantly worked against LGBTQ+ students. Now, local businesses are literally throwing parties that he is gone. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The fillings on her teeth sent out waves and summoned them. They've arrived to do her bidding.

Corvids being Ungovernable

Capricious Forms by Vasily Kandinsky, 1937 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137201

This is the 3rd time Trump has allowed his Toadies to do this. How does no one care?

A top Mamdani adviser tells me internal data shows taking on Trump's authoritarian abuses resonates. It appeals to working class voters across all demographics, countering the frequent claim that this is a "distraction" from issues working people "really" care about. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

🛢 Historically unprecedented: 38% of Russia's refinery capacity was shut down after Ukrainian drone attacks, — RBC As a result, gasoline production in September fell by 1 million tons, and its deficit on the domestic market reached 20% of consumption.

Kudos to @karenattiah.bsky.social , her union, and her lawyers for fighting this. Their case is righteous. It’s the labor movement that’s doing the most to fight back against Trumpian repression and corporate enabling of it. Join a union! open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

I remain baffled by Jimmy Fallon's success. He's not remotely funny, and his inexplicable stint on SNL is memorable only for his repeated habit of breaking during sketches and laughing at his actually talented scene partners and ruining it all.