It's 1659 (or 4:59 p.m.) and the solar-powered/triggered fairy lights just went on. Loving Spouse is teasing me with the name "Mama Bear" - as in I am definitely in hibernation mode. Occasionally poking my nose into something like a book or something low-impact, to test relating to the world.

A body can be made VERY happy by getting to do a little hand-spinning on a sweet, SWEET double-treadle wheel for 30 minutes. At least, it did, today.

grease floats. when it flows in sewage and into our plants, it thickens as temps fall, separating in our settling tanks. the churning water forms grease globs that build like snowballs, and operators remove them so they don’t clog the process. listen. don’t pour grease down your drains.

This is just inconceivably ghoulishly dystopian.

It may be true, and librarians are awesome, but unfortunately this image is AI generated slop.

I guess I now have to do a thread on shoes in ancient Mesopotamia in response to this (which happens to be from one of my favourite accounts). I’m not an archaeologist, nor do I really know anything about shoes, but let’s go on this journey together.

This is actually a great idea for multiple reasons. AWS has become too important to the structure of the web itself to persist as a private entity.

A lovely thread.

in a sane world, openAI execs would be driven from the village with pitchforks for the audacity of this

if you have the option, please don’t use cvs caremark for your prescriptions it is murdering the pharmacist industry (diff from big pharma!) and just all around terrible.

my whole thing rn is battling against the forces of capitalism trying to kill my ability to do my job because i have seen this story too many times but also childcare is +$400/week (thus why i do so much Posting and not so much Live Reporting these days)

I will throw money at any candidate who points out the U.S. is the only developed country on the ENTIRE FREAKING PLANET without guaranteed healthcare. Americans are so uninformed about how other countries do healthcare that I bet 80% of us don't know anything about that.

If America is going to change the definition of human rights so they can say that protecting the LGBTQ+ community, providing abortion or DEI or helping migrants are human rights abuses? Can other countries start accepting American refugees? People need a safe place to go

Kids as young as 3 and 4 years old are being hauled into immigration court in Seattle and read their rights. They’re being told they have the right to an attorney despite having no capacity to hire one or understand what that means. As Rep Jayapal says, that’s not due process… it’s a farce.

The LUAS Red Line was thrown into chaos at rush hour this evening due to an incident at St James's. In order to find out what was going on with the service, the LUAS expected thousands of affected passengers to check their X account. It's ridiculous, enraging, and at this stage totally unacceptable

Phillip Glass was in his 30s & driving a cab when he finally premiered an opera at the Met. And that was after studying at Juilliard & receiving a Fulbright. That Met premiere allowed him to focus on music fulltime, but he would have been no less brilliant if he'd needed to keep driving for money.

Thread.

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

Point 1 is key.

Big believer in the right to die but had a turnaround there seeing how was being used in Canada. Not until we have healthcare for all and UBI that is more than mere survival level support is my position now.

I will be the first to admit I couldn’t understand why anyone would oppose Assisted Dying… and then I became disabled and had it “offered” to me. It’s not compassionate when there’s coercion. It’s not dignified when it’s offered in lieu of care. Listen to disabled people.

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Why an earth would we want to rename the airport that already explains to everyone where it is, what it is, what it's for and what county it's in.

It looks like every Irish outlet (that I've seen so far) has just transcribed a wire services report about the Linehan trial that is *dripping* with anti trans bias, misgendering the victim, calling the teenage victim an "activist" but not Linehan, and eliding the fact that the victim was a child

So fed up with this bullshit. And cis people, try and imagine for a moment what this constant egregious crap feels like for trans people. This is the kind of shite gay people had to put up with in the 80s when AIDS hysteria seemed to be pushing us backwards

This dog don't hunt. Troops absolutely can (in fact are duty bound to) refuse unlwawful orders. The problem is knowing which one's are such. Kelly didn't do anything to confuse that, and no Court Martial is going to find him guilty of sedition for stating facts. taskandpurpose.com/news/pentago...

oh fuck

Is it called UPS because that's what they say when they keep misplacing your order

@miriam.blacksky.app Hey, just checking in, because I haven't seen you in a while.

ICE detained Katie, a British woman in the final stages of her green card process, while she was holding her 6 month old son. She’s married to an American and was following the process, yet at her last immigration meeting they grabbed her. She’s been detained ever since:

Remember Andrew Wakefield? Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020. Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures. Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.

Weird how this keeps happening with regards to Palestinian historical sites. I'm so fucking pissed about the fact that Israel made a concerted effort out of destroying pretty much any gravesites in Gaza that they could. Any historical site in Gaza. Fuck. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...

I'm hardly the only one, but I've been warning against the 'warrior' language and symbolism for years (foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/19/u...)

The REAL origin of the Basilisk's wrath

Former Secretary of Defence Mark Esper refused to “shoot protesters in the leg” during the last Trump administration. Should he be called a seditionist too? Are we really ok with the President investigating people for following the constitution, the law and basic morality?

"It's all I wanted." Oh yes, this. (Yeah, @support.bsky.team and @bsky.app - this is still A Thing that is Happening. Is there ever going to be a fix, a PROPER fix for this?)

So, probably not for this year, but does anyone want to share any stories of how they're preparing to spatchcock their turkey? It sounds like it has a good "effort/result" ratio, and I could start mentally preparing myself for such an effort, judging my equipment being within an ass' bray of enough

Th American Association of Pro Life OBGYNs released a statement on the death of Tierra Walker “Maternal-fetal separation”? She needed an abortion to save her life. Her eclampsia started early, before the fetus was viable. Say the word so that everyone knows the draconian bans killed this woman

She had severe seizures, blood clots and uncontrolled hypertension. She saw 90 doctors and 21 OBGYNs. No one would terminate. That’s not malpractice, that’s doctors following the law. The abortion ban is the problem and it killed Tierra Walker. Her fetus died too.

DOGE shuts down having not found trillions of dollars of waste or saved any money. They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000. By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died. That’s their legacy

This is awesome news

More generally, wherever you are in the world: if you have kids’ toys, books, clothes or anything else in just-about-giftable condition that you were thinking of decluttering some time soon, please do it now, this week ideally, and get them to your local charity shop.

you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.

in addition to all of his experience, in 2011 someone tried to assassinate kelly's wife, former congresswoman gabby giffords. no way he's cowing to these ass clowns.

Lack of these means no referrals for early intervention, which is crucial for best outcomes. www.rte.ie/news/health/... Children and babies in parts of west Dublin are continuing to miss out on crucial health checks because of a shortage of public health nurses. #speirgorm

About every other year it snows in Seattle & the city would shut down & Paizo ppl couldnt get to work, so the warehouse couldnt ship orders. People made fun of Seattle ppl's inability to drive. Then I showed them this slippery snowy hill video and theyd shut up. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhZC...

John Scalzi, although a menace to burritos, gets it.

See also eloquent comment from Gawain Towler: gawaintowler.substack.com/p/the-deep-b...