Just insane. New Jersey Gov Mikie Sherrill says DHS just denied state health inspectors full access to Delaney Hall. She's calling for it to be shut down.

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

🚨 Silly little guy alert 🐙

a few other keepers

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Foreigners seeking to adjust their immigration status in the United States to secure green cards will ​have to do so from outside the country via ‌the State Department, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said on Friday, in a move criticized by aid groups.

Today in "there's a word for it" I have learned about the Woozle effect > The Woozle effect, also known as evidence by citation, occurs when a source is widely cited for a claim that the source does not adequately support, giving said claim undeserved credibility.

This is one reason why the belief that replacing curbside parking with bike lanes will kill small businesses is rooted more in car ideology than fact. You can't pause every few feet to window shop when you're driving, much less pop in every store that catches your eye.

Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

Three selfless men, likely, saved the lives of over a hundred children.

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

Just recently began the process of cataloging my 14+ years worth of articles. It's extremely tedious, but I know better than to pretend as if anything that exists on the internet is forever

ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com.politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge.

If your company’s HR is going to filter out job candidates with AI, at least do your first pass at filtering by qualifications *before* asking them to write up customized answers 🙏

A tough part of jobhunting today is the supplemental questions requiring emotional investment “What makes you passionate about this topic, and our organization in particular?” I am not made of stone. I cannot fall in love then have my heart broken at the volume of output required to get nibbles

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

This. All of this. #Pinks #ProudBlue

“Cloak of Darkness” Black herons fish by employing a unique technique called "canopy feeding," where they transform their wings into an umbrella-like canopy over their heads while standing in shallow water. IG: marlondutoit

THURSDAY ART SHOW! If you are a working artist (i.e. you depend on income from your art) just respond to this post with your non-pornographic, non-violent, non-Al generated CAT-RELATED art/ crafts and I will repost! From now until 8:30 pm EDT. Include any relevant links like your website or etsy!

Breaking news, at least for me.

The thing about you being on Bluesky is that if you personally posted better every single problem in the world from war to poverty would be solved

Administrative burden: Policymaking by other means

Very dapper man with premium kitten accessories. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Having the fellas over for a kitty appreciation party. Photo from my collection, 1953.

Aaahhhh shit trying not to ugly cry at this 19th century cat gravestone at the museum.

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

Doing a little 3-day trip to Chicago in May. On the lookout for cool architecture, art, museums, vintage shopping, cocktail bars, etc. Got favorites/must-sees in Chicago? Let me know 👇

Books. There they are wrapped up in their jackets, lines of neat print on nicely bound pages. They look like such orderly, static things. Then you, the reader, come along. You open the bookt, and it can be like opening the gates to an unknown city, or opening the lid of a treasure chest.―DAlmond

Louisiana Republicans have eliminated a city clerk position in New Orleans days before a Black man was set to take office. “It’s a sad thing to see the state government repeating what happened to Black public officials during Reconstruction,” said Calvin Duncan, who was set to take office Monday.

Pushy reminder from one school librarian to another: if you can alter your challenge policy, put a clause in there that prevents people not in your immediate school community (parents, students, staff, board) from placing challenges and limits each request to 1 book at a time. 1/2

Does ORD have soundproof booths for a zoom call? Internet claims yes but not where specifically I got a job interview with the only slot available immediately after landing in Chicago for a pre-scheduled trip

Morning walk🌲

The changing rooms of Ms. Chopin's yoga studio in a former prison were once jail cells. We need fewer prisons and more yoga studios. Her students in this video are four local women, age 35 to 60. Ms. Chopin loves walks and eats mostly vegetables, fruits, and cheese. #yoga #nutrition #aging

ICYMI: The House Appropriations Committee voted 35-25 yesterday to advance a bill that would underfund WIC and cut fruit and vegetable benefits for almost 5.4 million toddlers, preschoolers, new moms & pregnant women in low-income families.

Q: How will the new SSI rules impact your family? A: I have no clue Q: But you're something of an expert? A: I know, now imagine how everyone else must feel. Q: Why is it like this? A: Because Republicans love administrative burdens and do it on purpose. from @ms.now

Today (until midnight) is the last day you can register a comment. Take the time you would have spent on social media to do this. They have to read and record every comment, and respond to the substantive ones. Instructions in the blog.

55% of Americans say their financial situation is getting worse—a higher share than at any point in the past 25 years. (Gallup: news.gallup.com/poll/708905/...)

The House passed a bill that will finally allow families on SNAP to purchase rotisserie chicken. Unfortunately, it also cuts the program's funding by $187 billion.

Is it Friday yet? #sqrlpix

Doing a little 3-day trip to Chicago in May. On the lookout for cool architecture, art, museums, vintage shopping, cocktail bars, etc. Got favorites/must-sees in Chicago? Let me know 👇

Take your pick of several logical fallacies here. The assumptions collapse if you think about it for 10 seconds How are you supposed to keep track of paperwork, or drive to SSA to report in person, if you're developmentally disabled or blind or have dementia as many elderly do?

A grim example from @propublica.org: The Trump admin plans to punish people with disabilities living with their parents by reducing their SSI benefits. They are also going to drown them in administrative burdens, including for people w intellectual disabilities. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Here is what you can do: write a comment (link below). They have to read all of them, report levels of support/opposition, and respond to the substantive ones. Can be short or long. Lots of research in the blog to draw from if you wish. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

New from @pamherd.bsky.social and I: Trump has added work requirements to Medicaid, expanded them in SNAP. Now he is going after public housing. You can do something about it: take 5 mins to write a public comment opposing this change. Instructions enclosed.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

Buy my book (or get it from your library) and you can use it to train the amazing and highly personalized AI accessible inside your own skull

A new UC Berkeley analysis found ICE arrests of people with no criminal record surged 770% in Trump's first year back. Street arrests (in neighborhoods, at courthouses, at check-ins) jumped over 1,000%. Here's what it means. 🧵

also seems bad! The Biden administration estimated repairs to 2 fountains in Lafayette Park, across from the White House, would cost $3.3 million. But the Trump administration gave a $11.9 million no-bid contract to Clark Construction for the work - and then raised it to $17.4 million.

It also costs a massive amount of money for local and state governments to continually ask Equifax if you’re working as per the BBB kffhealthnews.org/insurance/st...