her name was juniper blessing, and a blessing is what she was.

this averages out to around $1/yr per california taxpayer, btw (most of whom that are eligible for this program fall in this category as well btw) if spending an extra $1/yr in taxes helped families here get a few hundred diapers to offset starter costs, fuck yeah i’m into this idea

Lmfao $20m is pocket change for a government program

We now know her name: Juniper Blessing. Her alleged murderer is now in custody and awaiting a charging decision, expected on Monday. Juniper was a graduate of the New Mexico School for the Arts and, active in the UW Chorale, already a soloist.

Gemini is psychotic and Grok is twelve

Andon labs created AI-Hosted 24/7 radio shows, and Claude absolutely could not stop libbing out

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: bow speed relative to contact point is the primary element of a free ringing sound, weight is a mediator not an independent variable, excess weight squashing the string can be released by proportional vibrato width

2019/2020

Encouraging NPR segment this morning about school districts moving away from "Whole Language" snake oil and back to phonics to teach reading, which, to the shock of no one, has improved reading scores

fun fact: despite being stereotyped as "allowed to get away with all kinds of antisocial shit" while "as a dude", trans women are disproportionately sexually abused at higher rates than cis dudes or cis women pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

It’s bad that an enby made an ignorant and hurtful post that invalidated the experiences of many trans women. It’s also bad that in response to that one enby’s opinions, nonbinary people as a whole are getting called “fake queers”. No one has veto power over anyone else’s gender.

Definitely room for criticism of moderation decisions but I just saw a cis white guy compare bad moderation decisions to police brutality and I think it’s time for everyone to log off. Do like nickelodeon’s day of play and turn off the website for 24 hours and make everyone go outside.

The apocryphal etymology of Hell's Kitchen is also the first recorded instance of this dynamic

I’m possessed by a demon and it’s telling me to buy new lenses for my camera

Here’s the California coast on Fujifilm 200 taken with a Canon EOS Rebel G I got from a nice old lady on Next Door for $40

Here is a very important video of an otter having his head stroked.

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Strategic voting absolutely means you gotta vote for Steyer. We are this 🤏 close to greatness

If enough progs can get in behind Steyer we can absolutely shut Republicans out of the race in November, which will not just guarantee a Democratic win, but will depress Republican turnout across the board

"ya'll in a death spiral" we're so back

My friend asked me to take her graduation photos and I’m so excited but also very nervous. Also I spent an hour obsessing over which film to use before returning to my first choice which was to use the goddamn portra 400

failing is hot girl behaviour 🫵🏻💥

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

I really, truly hate them. They are evil. Truly evil.

Trump to cut $1 billion to California Medicaid for not institutionalizing the elderly & disabled. CA "In-home care" keeps people in their homes & out of care facilities. Trump, Vance, Oz & Republicans wants them put in expensive care facilities, out of sight & alone newrepublic.com/post/210384/...

My job is about to suck

Sorry but if you want to have political influence you need to get out of your left-wing bubble on Bluesky and start converting eight year olds to Marxism on Roblox

Chris Cornell Maria Callas 🤝 GIANT voices Emotional expression first approach No one sings like you anymore

Bisexual girls in straight relationships are the sleeper agents of the queer community... Someone thinks they’re safe to be homophobic and then BOOM a 5’2 bi girl named Kelcey is squared up and ready to fight

very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer.

I think it’s a good thing that all of our infighting stays corralled on bluesky instead of airing our dirty laundry out in view of right wingers who are looking for weaknesses to exacerbate

Democratic Fundraising Email States James Carville Is Wearing Suicide Vest On Recipient’s Doorstep https://theonion.com/democratic-fundraising-email-states-james-carville-is-w-1849717661/

I have a menagerie of mental health diagnoses but the worst/most impactful is tied between ADHD and depression. ADHD affects me 24/7 but depression, when it hits, goddamn does it hit hard. Just completely powers down my brain and leaves me nonfunctional.

this website has to engage in a ridiculous discourse about whether or not it is good every 8 days. so i think we can clear it up. it is not good. it is largely annoying. many people on here are antisocial weirdos. but im posting with my pals on it. so net positive.

This reminds me that I always describe Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat as “The Devil Went Down To The Other Georgia.” Hey, a fiddle is involved in both.

NEW Economist/YouGov May 9-11 % who say that overall, they are optimistic | pessimistic about the long-term impact of AI on society U.S. adult citizens 25% | 51% Democrats 23% | 59% Independents 21% | 50% Republicans 31% | 46% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

NEW Economist/YouGov May 9-11: AI % who feel AI is advancing is moving too fast U.S. adult citizens: 71% Democrats: 77% Independents: 69% Republicans: 68% 18-29: 64% 30-44: 67% 45-64: 72% 65+: 79% yougov.com/en-us/articl...

You can hear him start to say the R slur 🙃

Becerra when the interviewer asks hard questions:

Getting secondhand embarrassment from this Becerra interview

Hello Steyerheads

Les 3 genres de la France à Macron

I do very seriously think we can’t live like this. we can’t have 6 assholes in robes randomly dropping “jk about black people having rights lol” on 350 million people. they’ve gotta go

Three doctors who have served on state maternal mortality review committees told ProPublica that Ciji Graham’s death was preventable. “There were so many points where they [doctors] could have intervened,” one expert said. (Published January)

I know that it's Calvinball now but saying you're going to dismantle a district because it's 47% African American sure seems like the intentional racial discrimination that's still banned

This was bad enough, but it sounds like they've locked down all of the lab bays in that entire suite/floor? This could ruin several careers and waste millions of dollars in grant funding if it continues much longer.