A+ vaccine, highly recommend, would get it for both my kids again. (Note: also true of all the other vaccines I got for them.)

My mom knew a mom who lost her baby to epiglottitis. In the late 1970s. It made her really paranoid when my siblings got croup.

Seen today- a dental cow and a rice yeller

We went wrong as a society the minute we abandoned the idea of ass printers.

Boy child will be off to college soon, so pulling out the list we made together of things he should learn before he leaves the nest... There's 62 entries. 1. How to introduce yourself. 2. How to make an introduction between two other people. 3. How to apologize.

I have never used AI for this and would not know how to begin.

#HumanMade my favourite piece of art "Farm at Watendlath" by Dora Carrington held at The Tate www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...

A servyce wher people come to your hous and convince you to keepe the thinges you were goinge to throw awaye. "You will misse thys pile of cinderblockes when it ys gone." "You are nothinge wythout thys capybara t-shirt." "Smell these Dragonlance novels. Heaven! That ys the 80s and that must staye."

One of the stated goals of the ADF, Heritage, and Family policy council was to drive a wedge between the LGBTQ community to divide and conquer it. This pick me is willingly doing that work for them and is constantly being platformed by major media like the Atlantic and the WSJ.

every single one of these fired losers will sycophantically praise trump on the way out and as soon as he dies will claim they were fired for being the only person in the room to dare to stand up to him

It’s literally all I want. Twenty-two episode seasons that return on a reliable yearly schedule and run for 5+ seasons. We used to be a country.

the two genders

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

My friend who studies viruses says we are in an epidemiological crisis. My friend who studies computers says we are in an epistemological crisis. So I asked my friend who studies history which it is and after a moment she said: yes.

A tiny evening sketch. Fountain pen on paper.

Oh, I love this history of child care and World War II. It's one of my favorite little nuggets

What's the difference between bird flu and swine flu? Bird flu requires tweetment; swine flu requires oinkment.

Rooftop solar has come out of nowhere and is now 20% of Puerto Rico's energy generation mix -- more than natural gas.

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

For #ThingThursday, here's an example of a thing I have, and have no idea what it really is! I picked them up for a few cents years ago because I often incorporate 3D elements and numbers in my collage work, but I don't know what their actual purpose is. Numbering, clearly, but what specifically?

A perfect one for this week

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the underlying reason why we are in the state we are in is because rich white men were so disturbed by #MeToo that they decided it was a mistake to ever give women and queers rights

The orange felon should’ve been removed on the basis of the 25th amendment alone during his first disastrously destructive term and the same applies triple except now he’s a convicted criminal so send his ass straight to prison afterward.

During Covid lockdown I took every single edition of primary sources I was using for my book project and copied out scraps of interest to me into an excel spreadsheet, with key terms related to my chapters in adjacent columns. It was more fun than I can express.

Now would be the perfect time for people to sell their Teslas. Get what you can while you can

It all just seemed too stupid to comment on but... they literally think they're giving instructions to an intelligent entity, don't they. I can't wrap my head around the idea of a whole industry worshipping the LLM like it's a 2001 alien space monolith when we *know* how the damn things work.

This is the thing that has puzzled me for fifteen years—why are Republicans pursuing policies that will lead to America's decline and cede the future to geopolitical rivals? I feel like I'm missing something.

this is the platonic ideal of a baseball food, the ballpark is the absolute best place in the world for nonsense gimmicks like this you're there to hang out in the sunshine with your buddies and watch dudes hit ball far, why not have a nacho hat while you're at it

Iran FM: ‘Striking civilian structures, including unfinished bridges, will not compel Iranians to surrender. It only conveys the defeat and moral collapse of an enemy in disarray. Every bridge and building will be built back stronger. What will never recover: damage to America's standing.’

no they didn't. that's not true.

This is why I don't use this stuff at all, it ruins your ability to think, and that's the one thing I think we should refuse to give up for anything.

Trump said we “can’t take care of daycare” because “we’re fighting wars.” Hello? The $200B he wants for his war could provide every child in the country with a free school lunch for a year & have $170 billion to spare. Trump can help people here at home — he’s just choosing not to.

May your day be calm, safe, and free of trouble. And may you someday own a haunted teapot, which will keep your tea warm and offer some well meaning, though unsolicited advice from the spirit realms.

If everyone was already using it, AI slop paddlers wouldn't be working so hard to convince resisters to give up. They cannot make any money if people don't embrace it in every facet of their lives.

An excellent writeup of the existentially terrifying House Resolution 7661. reactormag.com/what-to-know...

An extra-soft “velvet” bristle toothbrush my dentist gave me. I think I like it a lot. #ThingThursday

House Republicans are seriously planning to divert more money from healthcare this year to fund Donald Trump's failing war of choice in Iran. Trump literally wants to kill you just to kill more Iranians. #FundHealthcareNotWar

The exact same thing happened when they launched the Aegis system. The most sophisticated tracking everything system ever developed was trounced by a clever commander who used no-electronic communications. It lost so badly that they reset the test and did the wargame again a few days later.

Judging by how often it's made the rounds of the internet over the past five years, this is the funniest tweet I ever *wrote*.

Considering how much of my personal data is available I’m pissed I get any ads that aren’t targeted well for me.

does trump seriously think entire countries are going to tolerate running out of diesel and fertilizer and generic meds and LNG all at once and not come back on us

When I was younger, I wanted to be an astronaut to explore the unknown and float around in space and to boldly go where no man has gone before, and now I wanna be an astronaut just to be 238,000 miles away from earth so I can finally unclench my jaw for a little bit so

This is insane: TeleGuard, a 'secure' chat app downloaded more than a million times, uploads users' private keys, meaning the company can decrypt messages. And anyone can get anyone else's private key by just sending the user ID to the API. Possibly worst ever www.404media.co/a-secure-cha...

There is simply too much money in the richest Americans. I just watched a woman pay 6x on her stone budget because even tho she can't tell the difference between formed stone and real she doesn't want to have to know it's fake.

"Having enough guns to necessitate a rack" is when you do so many bicep curls that people flash their boobs at you.

Strange Lands Iceland 2018 #fotografia #photography #fotografie

I love the viscid nature of this long purple-capped mushroom. I believe it's some species of Inocybe 📷 Canon R5 Canon RF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM M, f/2.8, 1/3, ISO 400 Stack of 23 images 11/13/24 Northern Oregon Coast #mushroom #fungifriends #mushrooms 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 🍄‍🟫