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My cooler is currently draining in my tub.
This is a reminder for everyone that used a big cooler for a picnic or other gathering this weekend. Empty and drain them! You don't want mold.
On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were unforgettable, complex, and real. redpopnews.com/remembering-... #redpopnews
When the canary in the coal mine kicks, you don’t shrug, keep working, and put in an order on Amazon Prime for more vulnerable birds. You get the fuck out of the mine, and work on fixing whatever the issue so that it’s safe for canaries.
Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu
Nooooooooooo ;__;
Star Trek celebrates Labor Day
I learned them from my grandpa who was a union steward.
"Computer science isn't political!", they said. "I'm just going to develop AI products for startup cash and to draw cute girls", they said. "You're over reacting and making everything political", they said. We need ethics training in engineering.
Great now I want to clank bottles while mall walking.
Everyone has left. Everything is put away. People took leftovers. It was a great party. And now I'm a blob on my couch.
replacing Batman fight onomatopoeiae with old midwestern brewery names
They can even make clouds in the wind tunnel during winter! My ex used to work there.
I will admit I started smiling and stopped myself from doing a happy dance as he was explaining everything he packed into the boxes for me. I did the happy dance in my car while driving home.
I also have a gluten free chocolate filled raspberry cake. Gotta make sure my celiac friends have something to eat.
OMG OMG! The catering company gave me little labels for the boxes with allergen info!
You took a (long) break from wearing a mask, right? You got away with it. But, guess what? There's a *lot* more Covid around again. And, access to vax is up in the air. Just put a (good) mask on again when you're out and about and you'll be much more protected as well as protecting others. ✨✨✨
Oh and yes, I have hydrated and taken breaks.
So far I've: - Done a load of laundry, - Cleaned two bathrooms - Vacuumed the stairs - Vacuumed the living room - Moved doom boxes to other rooms - Decided that my clean laundry can live on the chair in the basement and if anyone has a problem with that, they aren't for me.
Today is "ahhhh clean all the things, wait no time, that is good enough!!! Guests are coming ahhhhh!!!" Don't mind me, I'm just a little tornado/whirlwind this morning.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”
Was rummaging through old articles and found this one of Demetre Daskalakis. Apparently, back in 2013, he went to New York City's gay sex clubs and bathhouses and administered meningitis vaccines and helped beat an outbreak.
This made me remember the anxiety I had around y2k because everyone was preparing for the rapture. The joys of being in an evangelical church.
Yep. Gotta "love" the hyping them up and then breaking the kids down with cry night. There are many reasons I am not part of a church anymore.
I, too, have booze sitting around that I don't drink anymore. Stupid chemo doing a number on my liver. Last year I let a friend going through nursing school take whatever she wanted. I kept a bottle each of my favorite rum and gin otherwise the rest was fair game.
The carrying case for it has wheels! I'm excited for portable shade.
I like that my mentality around party/picnic supplies is "Does anyone in my main friend group have it already? No? Okay, I'll buy one for us to share." And that is why I bought a canopy this afternoon.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group”
I will always cherish the look on my ex's face when I was testing a game he was making. I drove the little car up a palm tree, over some leaves, and then dropped out of the walls containing the world. I am vicious when it comes to testing.
This is your reminder to test in production because sometimes things get through.
Trump take LEGO www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
When we mentioned the anti-trans stuff bleeds into so many other areas of society, this is what we're talking about. They're using a shooter to shoehorn an attempt to target SSRIs. They don't believe in medicine itself.
Pharmacists in Woodbury and Mahtomedi have sued their employer because they are unwilling to do their jobs
Not Trump got Neil Young bringing the protest anthems. The old head warriors are assembling.
wild how people want to get rid of autistic trans people and think that the Internet would still work
It's clear that the shooter was deeply conflicted over identity. The fact that they were an indoctrinated detrans person will likely be glossed over since the right wing is frothing for an excuse. But it's worth recognizing that these things aren't neat and clean.
Minnesota Trans people... Be strong. This is about to fucking suck in the worst way. Im worried the current administration will come after us after this incident. Do not give in. Resist. Keep fighting. We survived worse. I love you all, do not give up. I too, am scared. It's rational.
Reading the list of conditions that qualify you for an updated COVID booster, I think the easiest route for most people without an existing diagnosis will be "physical inactivity" because that's entirely self-attested, with the runner up being "I was a smoker for a few months a few decades ago"
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
If you think you don’t have a qualifying condition to get the COVID shot, yes you do. You have the same conditions that I do, and I am happy to talk about our symptoms at length to better explain them to the pharmacist, who at the moment does not need to confirm these things on any record.
ever been depressed? smoked? you should still be able to get the updated Covid vaccine for at least one more year
"Recently" as maybe defined on the galactic time scale.
Yay for the horrible thing that is BMI! Whatever keeps me getting the vaccine.
Take care of yourselves. If you're seeing posts shared over & over that you find upsetting, remember that you can hide them so you don't see them again. "Hide post for me" is an underrated feature, IMHO.
We were going to do another big marketing stunt for THE TOXIC AVENGER UNRATED. Instead, Toxie, whose life was upended by crushing medical bills, has joined forces with Undue Medical Debt to erase at least $5 million in un-payable medical debt for those who need it most. Learn more:
minneapolis/metro area: if it is possible for you to donate blood today mn recently declared a shortage. you can find out if you’re eligible and where to go from the link below, if there are better resources please correct me www.mbc.org
Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY. Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
If I remember right, this orange also fails that. Besides then we would be failing internal policy and international law.
I had a call with the project manager this afternoon. A big thank you to all the web browser developers who put text color contrast in their inspectors. I was able to talk the PM through how to check text to see if the contrast passed.
Yeah, it is a battle I have been waging for decades at this point. Your pretty brand colors mean nothing if people can't READ IT.
I’m a labor nerd so this is how I found out lol Congrats to union folks on building yet another union!
Color contrast isn't just for people with vision difficulties. It also helps with glare. So, be selfish. Make your website work in bright sunlight so you can work outside on a patio with a tasty beverage.
OMFG! Don't mind me banging my head on my desk trying to explain that orange text on white background is extremely hard to get right for color contrast. And then have a tech consulting firm be like "WAHHH??? what is this color contrast you speak of?"
As someone who has closely followed the effects of ChatGPT on people's mental health, the most shocking thing about this story is that it's *the first* wrongful death suit.
I DEEPLY FUCKING RESENT the Fifth Circuit and the Supreme Court for making me write this goddamn fucking news post
He needs his own little headset!
Whenever I try to explain this to people who call themselves designers, I get a blank stare. But if you don't understand how your product mediates behavior, you should not be doing this job.
Basically, if you come to my house you will have good food and sparkling bathrooms.
I also got a boatload of bread because last time everyone was stealing from the other tables. I know whatever I have "leftover" of either will happily go home with someone.
Yes, I did order the large cheese box that feeds like 20. I know of at least 4 Wisconsinites that are coming, so that is like 10 servings of cheese minimum just for them.
This evening's activity is more cleaning in preparation for Saturday. I'm thinking cleaning the bathroom and the floors. Yes, the party will be outside but I still have to have clean bathrooms for everyone. Ooh and I should figure out if the outdoor speakers still work.
I'm officially done with OT. She asked how I was doing, made sure I had my lymphedema pump and knew how to adjust it, quizzed me on what to do, took a look at my boob and declared it looked great with minimal swelling. So I guess I know my body and how to fight it when it wants to act up.
Tech oligarchs oppose the idea of any supposedly undeserving person getting financial help from the government in 2025. But they want you to believe they’ll give *everyone* free money in the future. It doesn’t make any sense, but it’s the techno-utopian lie they will keep selling.
AI companies: Don't worry, we're really not using that much energy after all! Also AI companies: Please give us more grid capacity!
About two weeks ago I had to explain to a skeptical college student what AI psychosis was. They scoffed and suggested it was news sensationalization until I outlined it for them. Then they got very, very quiet as they pondered what the future held.
Boosting Jen's post in case you, too, weren't aware that `leading-trim` was renamed to `text-box`—a shorthand for `text-box-trim` (not to be confused with `margin-trim`) and `text-box-edge` `text-box` does sound more descriptive when you remember that every element in CSS is a box. 📦 #CSS
If you stopped masking, just pick it back up! No emotions about it necessary! It’s like wearing a seatbelt!
The island is covered again with the stuff from the corner of doom. So that is tomorrow's problem. I'm done for the night and having ice cream to celebrate.
Moved onto the dining room and cleared off the island and the peninsula. Currently cleaning the dishwasher and all I have left is a doom corner of the kitchen counter.
'A NSFW ban won't negatively affect me, I don't draw or post porn!' You sure? Here's how it went down when tumblr did it:
Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
I also found dip pens, nail polish, pens, and random craft supplies. I have the Mary Poppins bag of a coffee table.
Today I'm cleaning my "cancer house" as I call the depression pit my living room and kitchen turned into after going through a divorce followed by cancer. So far I've found batteries that expired in 2018, a thermocoupler, remote for a TV I threw away years ago, and a GFCI outlet in my coffee table.
Kitty monorail has run out of track and power.
Is this implying--and if so, do folks know if it's accurate--that these founders made a show of how Meta's glasses could be used to dox people *so that* Meta would add more privacy protections and therefore Halo would have a competitive advantage??? techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/h...
if you are ever tempted to write off the residents of a "red" (i.e., gerrymandered) state and say "set them adrift, let them secede, they deserve what they voted for", you are missing all the thousands of stories like this where the human beings in those states are pushing back every single day
🚨🚨🚨NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS HAS CANCELED ALL FY26 LITERARY FELLOWSHIPS PLEASE HOLLER AT ME IF YOU ARE A WRITER WHO GOT THE EMAIL TODAY🚨🚨🚨
Please don't forget there are queer folks in Mississippi Please don't forget there are black folks in Mississippi Please don't forget there are disabled folks in Mississippi I hate this state a lot, but just- Yeah
My site is a part of this lawsuit (you can read my declaration at www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8zy9o... if you're curious) and it was deeply disappointing that the Supreme Court denied our appeal when the 5th Circuit overturned the preliminary injunction.
Saw that coming.
Did you know there’s work going on to add a `random()` function to CSS?? You can try it out today in Safari Technology Preview. Learn what it means, how to use it and see a bunch of examples at: webkit.org/blog/17285/r...
Biden would use almost none of these words. Biden got bodied. Mamdani would use most of these words. Mamdani is cleaning up. Democratic consultants don't know anything. "Change your words to appeal to the people who are mad at the Cracker Barrel logo!" is just bad advice.
a first step to organizing people to do anything right now is just bringing people together for anything—to vent. to eat together. to make art. to remind people we have each other. to ask what we can do together. to keep the despair at bay.
I wrote about American concentration camps. www.startribune.com/trump-admini...
White people aren't well. Period.
i have been on this story since february and no one cared until now
No surprise, but living under fascism is good for seed art. There was an expanded offering, better guidance with a roped-off aisle. Seed-art docents provided info, kept the line moving, and discouraged people who think lines are for other people. Well worth the wait.
listen the world is a mess but a judge ordered the Florida migrant prison closed, California passed their "fuck around, find out" redistricting, and James Dobson is dead this is the best net good news day in awhile, I really do think
It totally feels like Calvinball.
"Just stab them and leave to let the lockjaw work its magic."
I love my gaming group: "It is a 0 based indexed dungeon." "As it should be. Obviously, it is digital as in you are hung up by your thumbs"
As of 2025, @naomikritzer.bsky.social has joined an exclusive club of only 21 authors who have earned at least four Hugo Awards in the prose categories (novel, novella, novelette, short story, or series). It's the same number of wins that Heinlein managed.
(un)friendly reminder to my fellow faculty as the semester starts that accommodations for disabled students aren't optional, rewards for good behavior, some sort of challenge to see how much you get away with, or a challenge to your authority. it's your job to provide them. stop being asses about it
Same. Why wait for someone to do something foolish in my timeline when I can see they are already foolish in a mutuals?
I hope you liked having stuff on your grocery store shelves, y'all.
"When the donors don't get the outcome that they want through the party process, they go to a super party process outside of the norm to try to reverse the decision of the delegates," Payne said. "It's an extremely short-sighted thing to do, not just tactically but philosophically," he added.
"He has an incredibly strong track record in the Minnesota Senate fighting for working people across the state and his message of an affordable city accountable to residents has resonated with voters across the city who are tired of Mayor Frey's failed promises."
"While the state party put its thumb firmly on the scales of democracy, the results from the July 19th convention were clear and resounding: Minneapolis residents are overwhelmingly ready for a new mayor and the majority of them support State Senator Omar Fateh." -cont'd
Transcript of screenshot from taylr's skeet/post: "It is unfortunate to see the state DFL party overturn a democratically held convention and capitulate to frivolous complaints, at least one of which was made by a known GOP donor, on behalf of the Frey campaign." - cont'd