Retired. Widower. Formerly "that FC with the voice." One of the most ancient shitposters on the internet.
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Today I spend 90 min. chatting with four fellow scholars who I feel strong solidarity with about an amorphous project. I did not record this conversation. While I know none of us have enough time to really do this on the regular, this whole HigherEd thing can’t survive if we don’t.
Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!
The 'program' I'm using and the art I'm making. #art #colorpencil #sciart #fabercastel #polychromos #birds #birdart #bird
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
anyway vaccines are one of the single greatest scientific innovations of human history and an unambiguous moral good and continuing to develop new ones is one of the best things we could possibly be investing research dollars in, BUT WHAT DO I KNOW, I'M JUST A DUMB BITCH WHO DOESN'T WANT TO DIE
Being alive right now is like a constant game of mad libs. Everything is just words and concepts thrown together in new, stupid ways and I'm tired of it
It ends at IAB26 Illegal Content. So do I have access to block categories beyond IAB26? No idea. I flag this for their attention. "Thank you for flagging that." So listen, if you hear shit ass ICE ads on a show you like, this is why.
I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans. What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.
It's possible to prevent that-- solidify the stuff and bury it deep, basically remaking the original coal beds-- and what the hell, we might do it sometime long after we've hit zero fossil fuel use. Right now? More solar panels and wind farms, please.
First time I heard of carbon capture I thought, it'll be a sloppy process, not very doable on a large scale, and anyway it'll leak back. But does anyone listen to me? NOOOOOO.
rather see it done by number of people who blocked you, because watching the couchfucker try to thread actual text, one character per post, would be hilarious
Drove across DC border to Maryland, and got flu shot and (new) Covid shot, at CVS. We qualify, by age. "A ton of people have been coming in for these." Go to hell, RFK Jr.
I hear that biking gives you great calves!
The Trumps' World Liberty Financial project has frozen WLFI tokens in wallet addresses belonging to Justin Sun that contain ~$100 million (on paper) in unlocked WLFI. Sun is a major backer of the project, which the Trumps say they founded to stop "debanking".
To the attention of the 70% of New Yorkers who voted against the current President: He really wants Cuomo to win. That's what you need to know. Cuomo = a NYC version of 47's administration.
Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."
They can be MADE to pay for them. Remind your local governor.
There's at least one state that included "Insurance Companies Will Pay For This" in their order, so. Don't remember which one.
BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests them, regardless of age or underlying conditions.
I am a soft hearted squish budget And ya know something RESISTING SACRIFICING PEOPLE OFTEN DOES THE SAME WORK AS YEARS OF RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCE BUT FASTER
Excellent sign.
Finally developed my roll of film from the 4/5 demonstration in NYC. Pentax MX, Auto-Chinon 45mm f2.8, Kodak Tri-X 400. #BelieveInFilm
Maybe you forgot to put on shoes? And then forgot to put on your other shoes?
A little commotion for this *ludicrous* slice of lemon meringue pie
Geier is one of the most cracked of crackpots. He was stripped of his medical license in MD and promotes wildly anti-science crankery. Having him work with the government using medical data is not just an embarrassment, it's a huge threat to public health. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Want to see the cover of my novella OBSTETRIX, which will be coming out next June? Design by Katie Klimowicz Retouching by Travis Commeau
That would count as "rent" though. The cat has PRIDE, it is a PROFESSIONAL freeloader. Also it is time for you to dangle the squeaky mousie toy.
sometimes a white-spattered-with-red people thing, but that's the "after" photo
I don't see authors talk about Scrivener as much as I used to.. did they do something Bad, or did everybody get used to it and now think "oh this is just how writing a book works?"
All authoritarian power grabs must be resisted. It's never about "crime," and it's never about how people respond to Trump's aggression. Those are just story points, and the administration makes up story points every day when reality doesn't fit. Remember this. Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Talk about how this is all being staged to set Chicago up for a military occupation. Talk about how they are planning to attack cultural gatherings, picnics, and parades, knowing that people will cling to their neighbors and family members—and that Trump will use those acts of decency as an excuse.
The administration plans to attack public festivities in Chicago around Mexican Independence Day (which may include this weekend's parade in Pilsen or related activities) because they want to attack folks in settings where people will try to protect and hold onto community members.
but, 60s! That's summer, right? (he says, in coastal PNW)
Ooh, does this mean he's going to flounce soon?
The dot-com crash was different, because there were a lot of companies that had things that worked! But about 3/4 of the money from all tech IPO's went directly into the pockets of rich friends of the brokers who *ran* those IPOs, and the companies starved. It's why Google ran their own IPO.
A lot of the "force" for the first wave of PCs was bottom-up. (Mom did some sales for this stuff in the 80s.) You'd show the receptionist WordPerfect, and the bookkeeper 1-2-3, and they'd go stomp into the owner's office to tell him YOU ARE SPENDING TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ON COMPUTERS NOW :D
Except, nobody *made* people use those. Every office in the country was like triumphant_screaming_baby.gif for several years, because you can make it ADD UP THE NUMBERS? By ITSELF?!?
Schumer is out of his fucking mind. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Well, I'm no JAG, but yes, I think illegal, for following reasons: 1. Civilian vessel 2. Not self-defense 3. No attempt at interdiction (i.e. disable engines) 4. Int'l waters 5. No PID on folks in boat (could be civilians) 6. No declared state of war or hostilities so unclear authorization
I want ALL the vaccines! I don't care if I'm not traveling past my front yard. Vaccinate me for Hepatitis A through Z, please.
Well, *anything* beyond "because Maduro said so" would be nice. Diffusion-model video typically has obvious problems if you actually look at it; have they seen some? People are often traceable; who were these guys? Just, SOMETHING.
Everyone is rushing to defend Graham Linehan as some martyr to free speech but don't actually state what he tweeted. He explicitly called for people to violently assault trans women in the bathroom. In another instance, he cyberstalked a trans minor. He's legitimately a danger to trans people.
I think it's important to note that Venezuela is saying this didn't happen. They've recovered no debris, and they contend the video appears to be a deep fake. Yet crucially, the US media is mostly avoiding reporting this, or examining the video. www.cbsnews.com/video/venezu...
That *is* a weird-looking boat, but I'm not an authority on the subject. I'd love to hear an explanation of why they think so, beyond "we didn't find any burnt boat bits."
Gives 'em a reason to not yell at the US, on the theory that Trump would take that as an excuse to bomb Caracas?
It doesn’t matter if you feed your kids organic foods, MAHA moms. It doesn’t matter if you lift every day, bro. It doesn’t matter how many supplements you consume. When polio, diphtheria, measles, mumps, and whooping cough come a calling, all that matters is if you are vaccinated or not.
Firefighters, famously, have a house they all live in, where they wait for people to call them, actually.
New England's doing a similar thing, y'all couild join with them instead if you'd rather. (Kind of hope those weld themselves together tbh.)
So if you look at other capsule hotels, specifically in Japan these prices are bullshit high, while also severely lacking amenities you get for MUCH less even in Tokyo. Also there's reasons we don't have these in the US, they're super illegal. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
It has a soft and approachable feel! Because when I see an oven, I should think, "how soft! I want to touch it!"
I think those are just a couple of big Polish sausages. I think.
He *is* also in over his face, so that works.
The OpenAI employee share sale at the BS $500bn number is now up to $10.3 billion. This is a cashout. This is the thing you do when you do not see a future for the company. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/o...
you are ALSO getting cat food, or at least that's what the cats say.
I thought this sounded familiar... (from the debate around the Wagner-Rogers bill in 1939 that would have allowed 20,000 Jewish children from Germany to come to the US in the aftermath of Kristallnacht. The bill was ultimately defeated) enc.wymaninstitute.org?p=523
NEW: The big ones are coming up in November, but before then: do not sleep on elections this month. It's the month of recall elections! But I'm also watching elections for mayor, city council, and Congress. My guide to 10 elections to watch this month:
In picture #2, the stem boy is undergoing mitosis to produce a catcocyte. ..or something like that.
The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.
it’s very telling how many of the people involved with AI research in the 20th century - most of whom seemed to have largely meant well - simply never seem to have thought about our current “ultra-rich sociopaths try to use AI tools to crush everyone else forever” scenario
They're descriptivists, they go with how the word is used in practice. Doctorow is just gonna have to sigh and shake his head over this one.
Isn't "the way" Mandalorians? Would it help if you got the cat a little helmet?
I'm Dan Hon, and I have Blueskyism.
This is incredibly gross, and LLMs are a blight on everything.
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
If every locality would simply stop building Cop Cities there would be a lot of money for them to build Troop Towns
Wrote about how the governmental health agencies are headed by censorial individuals who spent years screaming falsely about how they were being censored when people just didn't want to promote the nonsense they were pushing. But now THEY are actually censoring critics.
I wrote this five years ago. Today we heard the screams. lithub.com/in-patriarch...
Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California, critical of the Trump administration's CDC policies, have formed a West Coast Health Alliance that seeks to provide science-based recommendations on vaccines apnews.com/article/cdc-...
Would'a been nice if it were the federal government, but somebody has to do it.
"Let's Call the 'GREAT' Gaza Post-War Plan Exactly What It Is: Ethnic Cleansing" The ridiculous and leaked 'Riviera' proposal offers Palestinians just $5,000 to leave & includes projects like the 'Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone,' writes Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu for Zeteo.
NEW: DC grand jurors reject more Justice Dept cases Former DOJ attorney: “Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening” www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
I finally read computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 classic “Computer Power and Human Reason.” This book deserves a massive revival in our current age of grotesque and largely thoughtless AI creep into everything:
Just a quick note: This #ebook #sale's being extended a week (due to local cash flow issues). So if you've been thinking about it, go grab yourself some low-priced #YA and #SF / #fantasy #ebooks from the author! www.tumblr.com/dduane/79340... #ebooksky #booksky
Listen, all I’m saying is that I’ve seen more pictures of Donald Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell than I have of Donald Trump playing with his children Barron & Tiffany.
to borrow from @hurricanexyz.bsky.social, a bunch of people tasked with covering american politics seem to hold this implicit view that executive authority is unlimited except for those limits placed by the constitution
hey UK friends! @lollardfish.bsky.social and me will be visiting to talk about our book OATHBREAKERS at the Wantage Literary Festival in Oxfordshire - Monday 27 October at 4pm Tickets are available but limited! come see us! #medievalsky #booksky wantageliteraryfestival.co.uk
...he's joined the army, hasn't he
scold him SCOOOOOLD HIIIM (oh good, he's back! Ridiculous beast, making half the internet worry for days..)
Comparing Rowling to Jones is *not fair*. Jones is actually funny and has likeable characters in her books! You can't tell where she's going to end up by the end of the first chapter! "Dark Lord of Derkholm" was even ridiculous in ways that made sense. Oh, the cruelty.
I have infinitely more respect for a fullblown Walt-is-capitalist-Jesus / second home in Orlando-owning Disney Adult than I do for even the lowest-key Harry Potter casual gcn.ie/j-k-rowling-...
It's not a signing bonus! It's $50K over 5 years at the end of each year. That's a retention bonus.
Probably Trump'll find some way to stiff them out of their regular wages too. It's what he does!
Remember this news? The city council was planning to hold this vote for mid-August, but they then postponed it, in part due to pressure they were facing. But the vote is now coming up again: It's scheduled for September 11, next Thursday.
they want to kill your kids
the kids (mid-twentysomethings) downstairs are absolutely losing their minds in terror because there's a house mouse in their apartment
I don't think rodents are recyclable; they count as "yard waste" instead.
Students being progressive is not a bigger problem than a sustained assault by an authoritarian president, please get a grip www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Portugal. Spain. Probably Greece. There are whole visa programs for it. If you've got a steady income, and dual-income SS plus a decent 401k does count...
At long last, the crack scienticians at PragerU have recreated the Duff Beer Hall of Presidents
This Day in Labor History: September 3, 1991. A chicken factory in Hamlet, North Carolina caught of fire thanks to nonexistent safety procedures, killing 25 workers and injuring 55, the largest workplace disaster in North Carolina history. Let's talk the criminal conditions that killed workers!
🚨 HELLO folks who care about science, health, and kids 🚨 👋 Can I borrow you for a sec? Public comment for ACIP meeting opened today and there are only THREE entries 😳 Can you add your input? Ok to do anon. Brief comments fine - deadline Sept 13. Please share! ❤️⤵️ www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...
America gets itchy sometimes.
this is the ass of the Shot Heard Round the World
Not surprising. I know two families who decided to retire to Europe after Trump got re-elected, and I don't know all that many people.
