Movie you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars/Trek), LOTR, Marvel, Disney animated, or Pixar

At the beginning of this semester, my higher ed institution formalized guidelines stating that students should not be using AI for their classwork at all. The training for staff and faculty to use AI has quietly dropped off the schedule, too. The pushback is working!

Please enjoy pictures of my pets on their favorite day, The Return of the Tree

The neighbors' boy (about 8 yo?) was singing along to Hamilton and wearing an Alexander Hamilton costume! It was the cutest thing!

My parents get so many notifications from their Ring of someone at their door. It is, at best, annoying. At worst, it fosters a type of hyper-vigilance and a state of constant alert (they have limited the camera as much as possible to cut down on the notifications, too)

Hey, your turkey probably needs to be moved out of the freezer.

“Ultimately, the collective strategy of AI companies threatens to deskill precisely those people who are essential for society to function(…) automation of knowledge and culture by private companies is a worrying prospect – conjuring dystopian and outright fascistic scenarios.” — @olivia.science

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Artificial sweeteners upset my tummy (and my tastebuds) and I'm begging people to just use sugar in their holiday recipes for all their gatherings.

#Comics #Bluey #MST3k

This part, specifically, seems like it has implications for the "use LLMs to create course materials" crowd infecting education.

Oh joy and here's me not able to get my flu shot for three more weeks!

I just got home, and my cat brought me a strand of Mardi Gras beads. What exactly does she do when I'm gone???

If this was enacted in Palau, it would reduce suicide rates and alcoholism. I hope they are watching this!

Byeeeeeeee

No, we need to tell her to help make room in the Republican party to oppose Trump. The answer is not to drag Democrats further right, but to leave room for Republicans to move further left.

I needed this news today! This probably helps explain why I have seen more monarchs at my place this season

Someone sent out the clown to distract everyone from lion tamer getting mauled.

I had to deal with slander against phonics forever. And now, another piece of evidence showing that phonics is a tool of stronger readers?

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"

My local Meals on Wheels (Montgomery County) is doing a food drive for Thanksgiving. Is yours? (I like an excuse to get crafty!)

Several states have closed primaries and TX Rs have been pushing to close the primaries here. Changing affiliation is not the way forward!

Prosecution isn't only coming for ICE

Oh, so Lego wants ALL of my money

Holy fazoli, anything is possible tonight, apparently (Yes, yes, runoff...but you know these numbers will be giving TX Rs nightmares for the next 12 months)

I have been hoping for this result for my CyFair friends! Let's gooooooooo!

PUMP IT DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS!

mine eyes? seeing the glory. the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored? trampled. the faithful lighting of his terrible swift sword? buddy, you better believe that's loosed.

You know what time it is!

Does the rule of 3 apply to politicians?

I THOUGHT HE WAS ALREADY DEAD???

Realism acknowledges where we are and where we are headed, and optimism points out where we could be if we made some changes. We need to be realistic AND optimistic right now.

Mentioned some information from the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the guy said, "Oh, I don't trust them. They say Focus on the Family is a hate group just because FotF doesn't believe in gay marriage."

Going to the airport used to be so chill that you could go just to relax and watch the planes. Major delays were usually only weather related (if there weren't any strikes), and flying itself had a glamour to it (the smoking during flight was not so great)

Musk clearly did not read the books. The Shire was not protected by Gondor. At the end, the returning hobbits had to defeat the evil forces that had captured the Shire. (The strong parallels to Brits returning home from WWII to reckon with Nazism there isn't a coincidence!)

Listen to me: Some of his supporters find these statements to be amusing rather than disturbing. They don't like feeling inferior to intelligent people, so Donny doesn't inspire the same icky feelings as competent politicians.

Hasn't Master Chief suffered enough???

Driving home today, I saw a group of Nazis with signs on an overpass. And none of them were even TRYING to jump! It's like they don't even believe in Nazi traditions.

I identified 12 lifers this weekend! ...and admired several shore birds that I couldn't identify...

Me, staring at almost any type of ducks: Beautiful, unknowable, amazing. Me, staring at black-bellied whistling ducks: *hisssssss*

I went to the beach today and have been humbled by shorebirds. #birding

“We will rebuild the White House as it was and pay for it by seizing assets from Trump, the Trump Organization, and his family.”

It's the time of year when churches and other groups are most likely to do food drives. Talk to your group now about gathering monetary donations and make a big campaign out of it!

Could someone see that tattoo design and ignorantly think it looked cool? Yes. Would it also be surrounded by other, more obvious, Nazi symbols that should've been a warning sign? Also yes. Could he have gotten it while drunk and ignorant? I guess. Could he have kept it and still not know? No.

[Exit pursued by a bear.]

If you're taking to the streets to protest today, know your rights.

Looking at this list makes it so clear that the social media comms team is laughably unprofessional. No naming convention guidelines, almost no attempt to secure .gov handles. The next serious team to take over will have to nuke these accounts and create new ones.

Pregame the protests--block the official government accounts that opened today!

Do NOT dunk post, quote post, or respond to the government accounts. That quick fix of dopamine isn't worth it, I promise you. There is nothing to be gained and it just gives visibility an engagement which is what they want. Starve 'em out.