You all can keep your pumpkin flavored things (exception — pumpkin roll). I will take all the cranberry flavored things. This is the way.

Seriously consider taking 45 minutes out of your day (perfect for multitaskers) watch, or listen, to this from Hank Green. Multiple 💡💡 going on all at once. Answers many, many questions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwgz... @hankgreen.bsky.social

one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

This is my yearly reminder that A) The Pilgrims never turned on the Wampanoags. The Puritans who did were a whole different group of people. B) Thanksgiving became a holiday to celebrate whooping the Confederates. Sometimes we can just enjoy traditions without guilt!

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

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We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.

It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation: Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.

Thiiiiissss. When the medical establishment gaslights people about real problems, people will seek out other solutions and degrades trust (with an addition of telling people with medical problems to “just lose weight” and it will fix the problem)

The extent to which I was completely abandoned with pcos/endo is hard to quantify, and plenty of people tried to sell me WooWoo solutions for pain. Doctors completely failed me on every front for most of my life, I am sympathetic to not trusting them. It is a hard convo.

Community isn’t something you show up to consume. It requires you to contribute, collaborate, and commit-create. If you want community, you have to be community. #craftivism

I am increasingly of the opinion that people who change menus and look and feel of computer software just so that you know it's a new version should be personally forced to play tech support to my mother for five months.

some other familiar grocery store names that are brands for producer-owned agricultural co-ops: Blue Diamond Bob's Red Mill Land O'Lakes Tillamook Welch's

My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!

I had deactivated my account because of all the nonsense going around on social post the Kirk stuff. I might still deactivate it again or change my username still. But I realized it did miss some of the local stuff I was hearing about here. Though my general wellbeing has been better.

Daria is autistic coded and Jane is ADHD coded.

I miss John Glenn. Remember when Ohio had a real senator? www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6otGXtQ/

Meta is building a data center in Wyoming that will use more electricity than all the homes in the state COMBINED. This will cause electric bills to skyrocket. Oh, and destroy the planet at the same time. This is what happens when there is zero accountability for Big Tech.

Everyone has collective amnesia about no child left behind. There is no phonics, only test prep.

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer

This is the stuff dissertation chapters are built on.

Seems bad.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

I just saw a TikTok like “the motivations of assassins don’t make sense anymore” but boy have they never. Hinkley shot Reagan to impress Jodi Foster. Oswald was such a complete mess people just assume the CIA did it. Guiteau killed Garfield because no one would make him an ambassador.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

From the score line it looks like OU is hanging in better than Grambling

Get off Twitter NOW. Like literally right now. Delete it from your devices.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Whew boy will I be complaining about this to everyone that will pick up the phone including my congressperson’s office and my senators. I got a $36.25 bill on $75 of purchase before the person exception was removed AND I have 7 days to pay or I get a 9.9% late fee.

Debate is a hobby. It’s not a thing you do to understand another person. Listening is a thing you do to understand someone.

How much frustration comes from someone saying they love you, but not doing or saying the things that look like love in your mind? Did they lie about loving you? Or does love look different for them, given their lifelong experience so far, and the examples set for them by family & community?

My favorite version of this is: respect can mean "acknowledge my humanity" or "recognize my authority". So when someone in power says "If you don't respect me, I won't respect you" they often mean "If you don't recognize my authority, I won't acknowledge your humanity." And oof. That stuck with me.

I am drowning in peppers. Any suggestions?

Everyone should be held to the same standards.

Thank you Dr Liston for being a class act.

Also, shame on any democrat politician who thought for one moment this was a radicalized progressive. We don’t radicalize toward weaponry and murder. We generally radicalize toward justice, protest, mutual aid, and community action.

Watch the wall to wall coverage end now that the call is coming from inside the house. Alas. Onward.

one reason to want real gun control is that we wouldn't have to sit around endlessly going "what does the shooter's use of this obscure meme tell us about his views on society" bc he wouldn't be a shooter bc he wouldn't have a gun. he would just be....some guy. sounds better, right?

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

Hey this is your reminder that if it feels like everything sucks and you can do nothing, go do a small thing. Pay off some lunch debt at your local school. Give money to your local abortion fund. Ask a teacher you know (you probably know one) if you can buy them some extra supplies.

Exactly, political violence isn't bad because the victims are good people, it's bad because it's bad!

I don't like doing this. It feels fucked up to constantly point out the negative dimensions of someone who just died in a horrific, worrying way. But I would like the media to tell basic truths about this person and his impact on public life rather than resorting to euphemism and outright lies!

With all eyes on Utah, this story got buried. “The Senate voted 51-49 to dismiss … with Republican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Rand Paul of Kentucky joining with all Democrats in opposition.” apnews.com/article/jeff...

Every media outlet is fucking terrified of the potential for violence directed at them From the state

Kirk's murder is getting the treatment it's getting because media types still live on Nazi Twitter and have a warped idea of his significance -- and the significance of a lot of stuff -- to regular people.

My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.