I for one am happy Trump wants a coin of himself knowing full well the law says that only dead peeps can be on currency.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

So what's the plan today?

Lady Liberty, lying in a growing pool of blood, the light dimming from her eyes, clutched her chest and with her last breath whispered into the impending void, “… but her emailsssssss…”

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!! reactormag.com/reading-rain...

Got my covid shot at CVS and learned they have the pediatric doses in, so I scheduled my daughter! EVEN MORE THRILLED THAN USUAL ABOUT VACCINES FOR OBVIOUS REASONSSSSS

PSA

I hold many grudges against "Artificial Intelligence", but perhaps the biggest one is how confusing this era is for all us Weird Al Yankovic fans.

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Movie pitch: a secret organization trains a squad of white women to use their evil powers to thwart ICE, and we call it Army of Karens.

Found a new way to channel all my nervous energy -- TAKING AMAZING CARE OF MY DAUGHTER'S TAMAGOTCHI

This is your must read of the day. "The neurogeneticist Stanley Nelson once said, 'If you had 100 kids with autism, you could have 100 different genetic causes.' Researchers increasingly believe the search for a cause of a singular 'autism' is misguided. There are autisms, rather than just autism."

And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.

I try not to do this in a knee-jerk way, but: I'm a sustaining member of multiple @npr.org affiliates precisely to support news that ... isn't this. The science is extremely clear on the medical value of Tylenol, and the lack of any credible link to autism, and it's not hard to say that

Health and science reporters should lead the coverage of all these health-related conspiracy theories & newsroom leaders should keep their both-sides political reporters out of their way.

So can Tylenol sue them or what?

I once figured out where every spice in my spice cabinet fit in the plant evolutionary tree

Hoo boy. The next functional leader of our country will be going on quite the apology tour.

I 3-D printed this little giraffe the old fashioned way.

Not only do we routinely see kids dying in ICE custody, now they’re missing nearly 1000 people who were being held in Alligator Alcatraz? HOW THE HELL is this not a stop the presses moment? We can only hope it’s not a Brubaker moment.

I know sharing Wordle is hopelessly passé these days but I just love the look of this one today. 1,556 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Go fash, lose cash

it's wild how much cats are just cats no matter what if I fits, I sits, tiger edition

I’m now a certified Tamagotchi babysitter.

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

AMERICA!

Already out of date. I'm in Nevada and I just scheduled my covid (and flu) vaccine appointment, but I could walk in today, as confirmed by my closest CVS.

SALE EXTENDED: 40% off of almost everything at effinbirds.threadless.com until September 9th. T-shirts for $13! Mugs for $11! Prints for $9!

just sold my first of these sculptures i’m using as substrates for epiphytes… so excited to make more!! The sculpture itself is made from reclaimed telephone and stereo wires and Teflon tape. More on the philosophy behind the work on my site: www.kalliopimonoyios.com/home/pattern...

No explanation needed.

“Quick, fire someone!” “Okay, revising the number down to 21,999 jobs.”

Maybe things will get SO BAD with all these assholes at the wheel that this will FINALLY HAPPEN when we clean up this mess.

It looks like he’s wearing a tiny dunce cap.

I wonder how stuff is going in the other timelines.

I'm starting a movement. Every time you, or someone you know, gives AI agency, replace it with "Big Tech". See for example: "Big Tech" is killing my job. "Big Tech" is reading my CT scan. "Big Tech" is writing my paper. I asked "Big Tech" to be my girlfriend. Maybe that will speed up regulation.

Over the weekend, the “sandwich thrower” posters went up all over DC. Instant icon of resistance. A remix of Banksy’s mural: not a Molotov, not a rock, but something just as disruptive, a hoagie hurled with defiance.

I'm afraid to go out in DC 😬

Ya bc Earth is def not a planet

Wow I have several books on the list. This is surreal.

I did this — writers, heads up.

[seeing all the billionaires on their waiting list] It’s important that we let this play out

🚨BREAKING NEWS: RFK Jr. is a danger to this nation. Don’t give in to Trump & his cronies: we are NOT trading innovation for ideology. We demand the immediate IMPEACHMENT and REMOVAL of RFK. Stop the quack. Protect Science. Protect Democracy Sign & share here: zurl.co/PEPyD #StandUpForScience

This is why I frequently say, “the attention economy will kill us all.” Why do we keep letting this guy be on tv?? Can I be on tv?? Let’s get someone else on the goddam tv.

Things are decidedly awful. I never thought I’d be staring straight into the face of fascism every day in the USA. But I remain hopeful. We’ll get through the next 3.5 years together and clean this mess up, hopefully laying foundations for the future that don’t crack so easily.

This is why in 2016 and again this year I searched out news outlets that will get to the point and help me understand what is really happening. My dear friend NPR was not able to do this for me.