@neilpbardhan.bsky.social How many people have sent you this? 😂

I've seen this before but it remains worth revisiting, if only because I enjoy considering how many "rules" my own not-even-unusual name breaks. Like, I have never changed my name (and no nickname) but I still had to list 2 "known aliases" on my clearance paperwork in addition to my "full" name.

I drive a Chevy Bolt and the only thing that would ever make me want an SUV is the fact that trucks and SUVs are constantly trying to run over my little car. But I’m not about to buy one and be part of the problem because WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY. And because sometimes I have to parallel park.

hey y'all, just gonna point out you don't have to use the bluesky app to use it on your phone. I've never downloaded the app, I just have a browser tab open to bsky.app and get to it that way. So even if they make app stores remove it, that only kills bluesky if y'all don't get back to the web.

A 24-hour swimming pool, but in my dreams it would be free so...not really a business I guess, just a money pit! 😂 I would also build it with a removable ceiling and walls so that it could be outdoors in summer but still used year-round (my hometown rec center had this in the 90s and I loved it)

Dumbass lifted trucks like this are why the RI DMV won't let kei trucks get registered saying they're "unsafe" .... it's the tanks that are unsafe.

Late night at the art studio

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Some plants only bloom when they are super happy with favorable conditions and other plants only bloom when they're kinda stressed/UNhappy. Which I find confusing and frustrating but also...kinda might apply to people, too?

My bleeding hearts are blooming like gangbusters and I am in love with the zeal of a convert. The leaves are so fancy! The flowers are so delicately beautiful! And they keep going and going and going from early spring through fall?!?!

Being “bad” at art is good, actually! My favorite excerpt from my appearance with @emilymbender.bsky.social on the @404media.co podcast with @samleecole.bsky.social in the episode “The Marketing Tricks of ‘Artificial Intelligence’”.

wild to be alive as someone pulls off the previously thought impossible to achieve Reverse Henry VIII

When your representatives throw your community under the bus, your work has just begun. The silver lining of Flock's influence over police and lawmakers is that it points out exactly who needs to be replaced.

I love this analogy, and to extend it: it is nearly impossible to outweed the weeds that have taken over if your goal is to return to bluegrass. The thing you need to do is plant things that outcompete the crabgrass.

Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

I had some people round for dinner last night, and I tried to impress them with a sauce created from vodka, gravy and nitrous oxide. But all I've done is make myself an absolut laughing stock.

Aaaagh the allergies are getting meeeeee

This is as genius of an idea as eating Cheetos with chopsticks to avoid getting cheese dust on your fingers.

I opened Notepad yesterday to paste a back up of the long email I was drafting (in case the internet glitched) and I got a pop-up about AI. So then I had to first disable copilot IN NOTEPAD. NOBODY ASKED FOR THIS?!?!

It never occurs to the sort of leftist that contraposes NASA against social welfare programs that the implementation of the Great Society and the peak of NASA's power, prestige, and (as a share of the budget) funding happened *at the same time, by the efforts of the same people*.

It's weird to me that "Free pre-school for all" is like some wild concept while "free second grade for all" is taken as a given. Status quo bias at work I'd wager

Past peak but still pretty

This is so, so well-articulated.

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reading is one of the great pleasures of my life and I deeply and furiously resent the introduction of a low grade but ever present anxiety that I might be fooled into believing that some slop came from a human mind

there are so many things to be angry about but at the moment I really fucking hate the fact that I’m expected to be able to recognize AI generated slop text

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

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The new statue of Bobbi Gibb near where she snuck onto Boston Marathon course in 1966 is the first statue of a woman along the race route. It's also the first statue on the course sculpted by its subject.

And please, pretty please, DON'T make the email a decorated link to read the information elsewhere (aka back in the app/portal/whatever). Just WRITE THE INFORMATION IN THE EMAIL.

Never ceases to amaze me how *perfectly* still they can hold their heads in flight. Male Anna's Hummingbird #birds #becurious 🪶

Drop a movie that traumatized you as a kid

Okay, the #TransRightsReadathon auction is up, and I have an offer in there! Drumroll... I will put your pet in my forthcoming book. Name, description, personality! (Nothing bad will happen to them, I'm not a monster.)

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

I remember when everything started moving to apps and I was morally offended at the idea of having to download all these little programs to access services when the Internet was right there and you know what, I was right

I think my favorite part of this suit is where the guy who was suing because Afroman said he fucked his wife said on the witness stand that he did not know for sure that Afroman did not fuck his wife.

as the world's biggest 10 Things I Hate About You fan (Clueless is also great) I would pay so much money for 'the Iliad as a high school basketball movie' followed by 'the Odyssey as one of the players tries to hitchhike home across the country'

I grew up visiting Presque Isle on Lake Erie and later moved near Cleveland (you know, famous for the burning river? By the time I lived there as an adult, it was safe for water sports). www.epa.gov/great-lakes-...

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

I got a wall clock for above the piano so that my kids will stop getting up in the middle of playing their instruments and walking to the kitchen to see how many minutes they have left to practice. Some days it felt like they spent as much time checking the time as actually playing. 🤦🏻‍♀️

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

I bet I could lead an unfamiliar but tame, domestic horse out of a bookshop. That horse probably wants out anyway and I have enough horse experience from my teen years to calmly muddle our way through together.

A rather fun and wholesome Alabama story made the CBC front page today! cc @mostlybree.kitrocha.com www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

another day proving my theory: the only thing billionaires have ever contributed to society is their ex-wives.

Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but

Excellent longform reporting on a topic that, as a parent of teenage boys, definitely concerns me.

It’s great and then it gets better