God, I miss Seattle sometimes.

That's...not what the yips is? Not a surprise that the dude doesn't know anything about baseball.

I love grossing people out with research on Victorian medicine, but even I had to take a breath when I read the phrase "the juice of the leper tubercule" (a phrase in a letter to the editor of the Lancet in 1884).

Congrats to Freedom250 for finally booking a new act.

the Panem of it all is so wild

Probably finally got sick of educators yelling at her constantly about AFT’s ridiculous stance on AI.

This entire administration is an exercise in discovering why you need government and then scrambling to assemble an arm while cutting off another leg.

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I mean, I'd be lying if I said I haven't had a similar thought as a semi-practicing Catholic.

The moments where he says “I” really jump out.

In the US, it was the technological creation of the modern cotton gin that accelerated the Transatlantic slave trade — from 700k enslaved Black Americans in 1790 to 3.2 million in 1850. It upsets AI enthusiasts when I point to this history as offering a lesson for technology today.

I think this is especially masterful because the tech bros all worship the Lord of the Rings and name a lot of their evil things after characters/objects from it, without ever having read a word from any of the books or understood a damn thing from it. Woke Pope strikes again

I know some of y'all are in your feelings pro and con about the encyclical but let me just say getting a Pope to admit the church was complicit and needs to be on the right side of an issue is huge for an institution responsible for a lot of really bad things.

I do apologise. It was Cardinal Newman

The comparison I heard was data centers using the same amount of water as golf courses, and for that I was all, my brother in Christ, let me tell you what I think we should do with golf courses

if you cowardly try to sacrifice your friend, NPS will simply send a second bear

The rural hospital crisis is killing people and rapidly escalating. The Republican cuts to Medicaid are basically going to be the end of hospital services in the rural US.

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…doesn’t Cornell famously have agricultural degrees? Or were the apples I bought last time I was in Ithaca imaginary?

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There's no "study," this is based on a crank manifesto with only four footnotes written by a bunch of health grifters. Why is the Guardian covering this like it has any academic credibility?

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Tried a new to me cookbook (Runner’s World Vegetarian Cookbook), and given the current heatwave, I made raita for the first time. I feel like a wizard!

Bluesky is such a weird bubble. People here are not eager to sacrifice their children to ba'al - something extremely popular in the group chat, on X the everything app, and in Ohio diners

Also friendly reminder that the Luddites weren‘t anti-tech they were pro workers rights and safety and anti-capitalist so you know, feel free to call me that.

Been predicting this turn for a while!

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the manuscript i submitted

Did these people not have chicken pox as kids? I caught it at twelve before the vax became widely used, and I was *miserably* sick for a week. Not to even mention the increased risk of shingles later in life.

tell your doctor not to use AI notes

Paul Scheer is Odysseus June Diane Raphael is Penelope Jason is every single other character in the book, monsters included

If you really can't say "AOC is better than Tucker Carlson," you are on the right-wing. You see a basket of extreme right-wing views from one of Trump's friends and find it compelling. Nothing else you say about your political orientation makes the slightest difference, you're just a right-winger.

YES

This thing should have only one response: “You should go to meeting, let me help you find one. In-person or zoom?”

Omfg. Study after study has shown that the reason 12-step groups work is because of the human connection. Literally community is the treatment for addiction. This “AI AA” bullshit is going to kill people who would otherwise have sought help where it actually exists: IN MEETINGS.

Can I recommend KJ Fajardo’s Local Heavens, a dystopian retelling of The Great Gatsby where a prominent feature is data servers being placed in the homes of people in poverty?

“The girl boss leadership strategy isn’t just outdated; the ‘how to get ahead‘ genre is the antithesis of today’s labor market. Getting ahead is for a time when companies are hiring...” 1/2

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

If Dems take back the House and Senate, they MUST repeal Comstock. It's an absurd and outdated law that should have been repealed decades ago.

Writers traditionally shed words in May, which can make them awkward and skittish. Don't worry, they aren't sick, don't have rabies, and probably won't bite. If you see one in the middle of it, toppled over, words spilling out of them, just put a cloth or cardboard box over their head. Do not feed!

“Fuck it, we live.” is gonna be needed to get thru the bullshit that’s coming 🦔

Um, the FUCK?

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Post-grading, I've inadvertently finished a book (This House Will Feed) and watched a movie (Hokum) both featuring the Cailleach, an Irish witch, and I'm a little worried that the universe is trying to tell me something.

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

Unless and until he is entombed in a thrice-padlocked lead-lined coffin submerged in the Mariana Trench, his influence has not been sufficiently diminished.

Questions to ask before sharing health content on social media. Does this post feature emotional language designed to make me outraged? Does this claim offer a simple solution to a complex problem? To the best of my knowledge, is this content accurate enough to share? Am I in an echo chamber?⬇️