The GOP is trying to rebrand kickbacks for billionaires and big corporations, passed on the backs of the American people as a resolution for rural America. I’m sorry, you don’t have a branding problem. YOU HAVE A POLICY PROBLEM. ⬇️

#felinefriendzinnebraska #adoptdontshop #DoGoodDays. These bottle babies lost their mom. They are just now getting old enough to toddle around. The incubator is nice and warm. Can you help us, help them? shareomaha.org/nonprofit/fe...

I think maybe this is a symptom of how...lazy? passive? insecure?...we are. A lot of people don't want to do work and so even when they know that a way of not having to do that work is flawed and fucks up, they still try to use it (just in case it makes their lives easier).

GROSS CANVAS NOT YOU TOO WITH THE AI BULLSHIT GO AWAY. I WILL NOT USE YOUR AI. NOT FOR GRADING, NOT FOR LESSON PLANNING. Listen, I expect my students to not use AI for their work. I'm a hypocrite if I go and use it. And I am capable of doing everything AI wants me to use it for MYSELF.

Working Through the Blues. Another smallish abstract painting with a bit of collaged paper underneath for texture. On archival canvas art board. Done by hand no AI. #abstractcollageart #abstractpainting #abstractart

Does anybody have any deeper information about the relationship between Instructure and OpenAI? They have a "global partnership" to embed ChatGPT in Canvas; do we know about whether content from Canvas is being used as training data for OpenAI? If so, which content?

Puppers are the best snugglers and when you foster there are generally funds to help you cover dog food, etc while fostering.

The rich can afford lawyers when they get into legal trouble or get thrown in jail. Also, theft tends to hurt the business that you steal from and many businesses survive on thin profit margins.

None of the people writing this are going to catch a charge that fucks up their life. Somebody out there is going to listen to them, though

Because of course it does. Link: buff.ly/mxEYq3E...

This photo would have been perfect if I'd bothered to take five seconds to remove the rag on the ground. 😅 But once you see a photo, it is already disappearing so you have to snap it that instant. (My old house was at the top of a hill and the wind blew shit all over the place on impulse.)

Dude, when we say that making movies is magical, we don't mean it literally. Signed, A Los Angelino Witch, apparently

Virginians headed to the polls Tuesday to weigh in on a plan to redraw the state’s congressional map — part of a broader fight over who controls the House in 2026. 🎥 Here’s what some "yes" voters told us about their desire to protect the future of American democracy. https://bit.ly/4vH28jn

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

Check out www.mobilize.us/publiccitize...

This girl teaching her new puppy how to go down stairs . 😍

BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated? RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy RFK Jr: *death growls* BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?

Your daily moment of #peace: Institutions like #libraries, universities, art #galleries, #museums are my favorite indoor spaces to both expand my understanding of human nature and find peace. They also tend to have peaceful outdoor #gardens and other spaces. #photosky #architecture

Hello everyone. The #7syllablesentence prompt for April 21 is #bound April 19-25 @451degrees.bsky.social April 26-May 2 @deepsouldiver.bsky.social May 3-9 ? May 10-16 ? Let me know if you want to host #7SyllableSentence Thank you for your fabulous posts! 🐬🦋🏝️🌊🐳

Clever idea...

"Kay will never have to #deal with his stepdad again," Abrams reminded me. "Doesn't mean he should get away with what he did!" "Accusations won't get the revenge you want. They don't hold up in court." "I don't care!" Griff walked in, flanked by cops. Abrams grinned. "Right on schedule." #wip

I used to be a civilian epidemiologist for the Army. The optional-flu-vaccine policy won't last.

It is so interesting that people worry about enforcement. Honesty is one of the principles of scientifuc integrity. We ask applicants also to declare that everything in the grant is filled in truthfully.

One could argue that every day is Tea Day in the UK. 😅 And also in my house in the USA. 🫖

New CPC outlook for July-September shows an active monsoon season potentially ahead. Warm Eastern Pacific + possible rapid transition to El Niño main drivers in this outlook. This would especially favor SW Colorado. Fingers crossed... #COwx

Your daily moment of #peace: Light brings life to the world and in spring we get to revel in its full glory... #naturesky #gardensky #spring #photography

ATTN #LosAngeles... secretlosangeles.com/los-angeles-...

Misinformation should be called out:

Worst negotiator ever...

NYC regularly moves sold out crowds in and out of Yankee Stadium + Citi Field on regularly priced trains without losing millions. The city even deals with simultaneous US Open + Mets games. I don't find Jersey's claims here remotely plausible.

Hello new followers! I'm Alasdair! I'm one of the hosts at @escapepod.org which is up for the Best Semiprozine Hugo this year. I do a bunch of other stuff including hosting for @pseudopod.org , the horror sister show of Escape Pod and voice acting in Roguemaker, The Magnus Archives and others.

Can we tell those 30-ish% that they've won a free vacay trip, transport them to an uninhabited island, and then leave them to sort out how they're going to survive when they haven't got a single brain cell between them?

In retrospect, it was a very weird coincidence that both the dogs I adopted had similar coat patterns. I don't have a fave breed of dog (I love all dogs), but maybe I have a subconscious preference for coat patterns???

Signal no longer supports SMS texts. What are you all using for SMS that didn't just come preloaded on your phone?

Without even thinking about it, PRINCESS BRIDE popped into my head. But if I think about it for a moment, maybe CAT PEOPLE (the original black and white). This motivated me to look up the list below to refresh my remembry and now I just want to rewatch (almost) all these films for 1000 nights...

Got to the end of Hulu's #RIVALS. Well, shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. All this for gardening shows.

Signal no longer supports SMS texts. What are you all using for SMS that didn't just come preloaded on your phone?

Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Check out the zine in this thread and check out maydaystrong.org for events near you!

Oh, hello. Almost didn't see you there... #nature #pond #ribbit

There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread. Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff. 1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.

One of the least fun moments of my life was seeing some people I thought of as friends trashing Uncanny winning a Hugo on social media hours after the win. This was as I was in a PICU with Caitlin, who had almost died two days before. Hot takes can wait.

This is the most important thing you will read today – and probably the whole year, honestly. We cannot let the AMOC collapse. For one thing it will make Iceland uninhabitable, and I would really like my children and grandchildren not to become refugees. But the effects will be almost everywhere.

BFFs Celia and Jasper really want to get adopted together - do you have space for two new best friends? 🐶🐶

A US army sergeant with 27 years of military service – including deployment to Afghanistan – has said that federal immigration agents recently arrested his wife during an appointment at an El Paso, Texas, immigration office.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer just resigned. She retaliated against women who reported her husband for sexual misconduct, made staff clean her personal closet, drank on the job. That’s the third Trump cabinet secretary out since January. All three were women.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​🧐

Have been writing posts on and off today that are related to human behavior and psychology and then I go look up the writing word of the day... talk about timing...

Re: MRNA, they fear and attack what they don't understand. Re: Masking, the plague was so terrifying that they had to find targets to lash out at in order to feel less vulnerable and helpless. Now they desperately want "normal" to come back rather than admit COVID is still here and still harmful.

Has Trump ever in his life used the word "whatsoever"? He probably ranted at someone while they took dictation and added a whole bunch of extra words that don't even exist in Trump's melting brain. Seems like he's so gone that he can't even write his own rants now.