This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:

generational discourse can be solved once and for all by distinguishing between "remembers no computers", "remembers no personal computers", and "remembers no cell phones". everything before that fought in wars. everything after that is, best case scenario, inventing the borg

From the depths of my finals grading I arise to cheer this on... SHOUT IT FROM THE ROOFTOPS 🧵

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

Would love to hear success stories from those under-50 who were able to get vaccinated—sounds like paying out of pocket is an option, but how many docs/pharmacies did you have to ask before getting it? How much pushback? I had shingles at 34 and would very much like to NOT get it again…

you will be visited by three spirits

Absolutely no one: Troy Aikman: Oronde Gadsden had a pet monkey

This morning I spent time looking up citations for a student. By the time I got to the third (with zero results), I asked where they got the list, and the student admitted they were from Google’s AI summary. Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?

WEATHER IS HAPPENING

Both the "Continue" button and the "Try it now" button do *the same thing* in what is the clearest example of a dark pattern I've ever seen. Imagine someone is getting metrics about the "number of Google Docs users who are using AI" and all the numbers are total bullshit.

die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie

They’re clearly plugging this dude into an IV regularly and, if this were Biden, there would be demands for weekly hour long press conferences from his doctors on his health. But that’s not how authoritarianism works so stop asking questions already.

They’re not really PhD students, or if they are they invent things. This guy found a couple who seem determined to be victims of AI shaming, which is interesting in itself, but I’ve seen others whose whole deal is productivity but their tips are bad and clearly not from a recent student.

Me learning this is a thing

Thread on how to detect ai in that viral dog video

This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

This one is for the foodies 🧑‍🍳 You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for... 🔭🐡🧪

Why do you think they're "healthy"? Republicans: ..... WHY DO YOU THINK THEY'RE "HEALTHY"?

Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns. Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships: > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]

At long last we have invented Gattaca, from the acclaimed 1997 movie "Wouldn't It Be Fucked Up If We Had Gattaca"

A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup--aka glyphosate--“does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted 8 years after documents released in a court case revealed employees of Monsanto, the company that developed it, wrote the article but were not named as coauthors.

An estimate of the energy cost of producing one single 10 second Sora video: one kilowatt hour. - Deplete and then recharge your iphone 17 68 times - 10% of daily German household use - 5.5 hours of Netflix - ~4hrs of gaming This is probably a huge underestimate www.linkedin.com/posts/alista...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

How a cyberbully could end my small business 💔 The Anti-Planner is my life’s work, and losing it would be like losing a part of myself. anti-planner.com

Apropos of that thing going around that gives info in one's bsky posting, a quick word: You can turn on the setting that will not allow you to post an image without alt-text. I urge you to do this. Alt-text is a crucial part of community.

Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.

It's the most wonderful time of the year, best-of book list time! At @sciam.bsky.social we do a fun spin, highlighting a ton of books individual staffers read this year and loved, and it's always a pleasure to contribute. Check out this year's list (with lots of entries from yours truly): 📚💙

Steve has a point....

OK, who narced?

Thread.

been thinking about this a lot lately, how I regularly discover someone has never done some kind of important maintenance (usually involving filters: engine air, HVAC, dishwasher, vacuum cleaner) & learning not to be disgusted by them, but just that nobody ever told them you have to do these things

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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Please reply to this thread with a pic of how high the TV is at wherever you are for Thanksgiving today 🙏🏼 🦃

It’s 6 *times* 7

In a tow truck on I-95 heading in the direction I started from was not how I planned for my Thanksgiving afternoon to be going when I left for New Hampshire at 9am this morning 🫠

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

Anyway time to post this again. AI is a tool of fascism.

It's not just "consumer smart" it reduces environmental waste, key materials are often mined in slave conditions. The whole tenor of the article is wrong - why is the economy so dependent on us engaging in mass waste?

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

Ah, that explains MTG's odd resignation date; the Congressional pension vests after five years.

Just did this and yup, it was turned on for me. Now it's off.