A photo of me and Margaret Orr, with me wearing a Margaret Orr shirt designed by my daughter, you say? No problem!

Bitsy, just checking on you

Irish watchdog opens EU data probe into Grok sexual AI imagery

evergreen description of how extremists argue for quite a lot of the things they want, actually

Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in… Credit: Volcano Hideaways

“The debate over direct-to-consumer ads dates to 1997, when the FDA loosened restrictions and allowed prescription drug ads on television as long as they included a rapid-fire summary of major risks and provided a source for further information.” (I’m old enough to remember, blah blah blah…)

This sounds exactly like lawmakers saying they’re not banning abortion, they’re just requiring a 48-hour waiting period and two trips to the clinic

Please enjoy this video of the Leviathan baptizing us

A. G. Sulzberger is scared of the Bronx

Any child above the age of 10 (maybe 8) and school technology like Ipads, tablets, laptops, etc. They think they put in protections to keep kids from not breaking them... and I'm left to wonder if they've spent more than 90 seconds with a child.

Via PBS News Hour, Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, today endorsed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. "Your sucess is our sucess," Rubio said. Orbán, of course, has been the model for controlling the news media as a way to stay in power. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Per WSJ reporting, Trump is lying when he plays dumb about Noem’s affair with Lewandowski. GIFT LINK: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

“Nobody in their right mind would say, ‘Hey, a 41-y-old woman is going to have a shot at another Olympic medal in a speed and power sport. I want my children to know that people told their mom that it can’t happen and then she went for it anyways.” www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

In a rare letter to Republican senators, four descendants of Teddy Roosevelt oppose mining near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

"Why Is Trump Strangling Cuba?" How Miami elites may be behind the current blockade causing a humanitarian crisis in Cuba. Read/share/subscribe:

USAID absolutely was imperfect and had a lot of problems: we are also now witnessing the utterly unfathomably evil consequences of taking it out back and shooting it.

This is "Celestial Eyes," by Francis Cugat. A painting that was made for one of the most famous novels of the 20th century.

There is a fab new book out about the 2022 polychromy exhibition at the Met. It underscores 38 scholars who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 experts in polychromy today. Coming out of polychromy retirement to review _Chroma: Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today_ for @hyperallergic.com (edited by Natalie Haddad).

🎶 False herring I remember The rings of rare design I remember The look in your eyes I don't mind 🎶

Risk of type 2 diabetes may be higher up to 3 years after COVID infection in unvaccinated, severely ill www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/ris...

This is Bob Coveiro. He sat by his human's grave for 10 years until his own death in 2021. Pets were not permitted to be buried with humans, but he was given an exception. Now 5 years later, inspired by his loyalty, Brazil passed the Bob Coveiro Law allowing pets to be buried in family graves. 14/10

This is a subtle point but I’ll try it out as a “yes, and”: What Minnesota (not just Minneapolis) showed us is even bigger than “love your neighbor,” because in Minnesota, “neighbor” is a more expansive category than proximity. It’s anyone who needs help.

contrast this to a year ago when there was very little anti-Trump messaging in public from anyone in a position of power or influence this is an big change and it does indicate his power over the elites - who have been much more deferential than society at large - is starting to wane

🚨 Study: Intermittent fasting NO better www.theguardian.com/science/2026... Cochrane conclusion: "Compared to regular dietary advice, intermittent fasting may result in little to no difference in weight loss or quality of life." "...no clinically meaningful changes in most of the outcomes."

I was initially not the biggest fan of Spanberger but it turns out she has the heart of a world class hater and that is 100% the kind of energy we need right now

I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

the median reporter or editor makes $60,000 a year, which makes them slightly below the average U.S. income. www.bls.gov/ooh/media-an...

The Branch Manager is taking what he can get these days

Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.

Sorry I’m late. I had to pre-occupy the toddler that lives in my brain with an iPad first

The other thing that is so awful about this is that if you happen to take any pride in the quality of your writing and making it engaging and pleasurable to read, you will not have time to do that, because writing is not part of your “workload,” meaning you will not be given time to do it.

RICHARD SCARRY APPLE CAR!!! RICHARD SCARRY APPLE CAR!!!!

definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died

Normally this would be a 24/7 news story and instead it's like the 47th craziest thing happening right now.

Just saw Sen. Mark Kelly say on the BBC that he’s considering a run for president. I don’t want him to be the nominee but he does have a twin, which could tee up an interesting Dave (1993) situation.

The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

It’s LeVar Burtons’s bday so it’s only right that we put on Reading Rainbow.🌈

This is how you live a life

Every other thing wrong with this, but the false herring just leapt out and slapped me in the face. These are not bright people.

Fascinating chart with one outlier: Warren Buffett. At the low end, giving 0.06% of one's wealth is equivalent to: Net worth -> Lifetime Giving 50K->$30 100K->$60 500K->$300 $1M->$600 Most folks give far more by % in a *single year*. www.forbes.com/sites/forbes...

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"My husband sold cheese to John Cleese …" fun fact: Cleese's family name was originally Cheese, but his father changed it legally in 1923.

MY BOBSLEIGH LADIES SLEIGHED AND TAKE HOME GOLD AND BRONZE,!!! 🥇🥉 Letz GOOOOOOO Elana Taylor Meyers and Kaillie Humphries,!! Elana,,, the most decorated black winter Olympian of All time finally takes her gold,!! So proud,!!!

Via @doritreiss.bsky.social, antivax lawyer/ Kennedy minion Aaron Siri at the Kennedy center next month. Remember when they had legit science programming there?

That people are already staking out strong takes on voting in the 2028 primary on this website is simply further evidence that people need to get out more and do literally anything. Even laying in a field and looking at clouds is more productive

“Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.”

Librarians always win