Oh good, we wouldn't want her to have skipped that very critical part of the manual.
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Oh good, we wouldn't want her to have skipped that very critical part of the manual.
We have no idea if it’s effective, but we do know it doesn’t cost as much as the things that are actually effective.
😞 www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Wowsa.
but there is an end to it, an eventual acceptance of grief, and it's one of the most beautiful paintings in human history: '89's unfinished painting. his body of work, like this work itself, is complete regardless of how "complete" it appears. the reality of life is that it will be cut short.
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
there are a lot of amazing indie pattern companies now but of course this news is so frustrating for us sewists. But happy to provide recommendations - Cashmerette for example is a great one!
This is one reason I don't really avoid tight clothing as long as I'm physically comfortable. It's not really a secret that I'm fat!
Every conservative principle that could have merit is already represented in the mainstream Democratic Party, not to mention fully abandoned by conservatives themselves. What's left? Bigotry, sadism, tantrums over corporate logos. This is what you're trying to find common ground with
"literally the only people who uphold any conservative principles are liberals" is a huge part of the story of how we got here, too — because they'd constantly do it *even at the expense of liberal principles*
My mom just retired from teaching 1st grade and couldn't believe how many of her students in her last few years couldn't read compared to years before. But these 7-year-olds weren't in school during the school closures! They didn't have "learning loss!" Something else is going on!
But more than that, I taught at the college level for almost a decade before the pandemic hit, and a lot of what we're seeing now, with kids struggling and being several grade levels behind in reading comprehension, etc., started well before the pandemic.
This whole thing grinds my gears so much. Like, my blue state still prioritizes education much more than a lot of red states, and our kids do much better, even with "learning loss." And also, who fucking cares about "learning loss" when lives have been at stake.
everyone who is treating unblur like science really needs to look at "white unblurred obama" again
If you have not been, now is a really good time to start tracing your multi-size patterns instead of cutting them out. This is a resource we'll never have again.
Met @ifycomedy.com at PAX and had him sign the 3D printed Um Actually sign I made! I am legally obligated to state I did not ask him to write “Eat My Ass Brennan” on it, he did it of his own volition.
The flaw in everyone who makes a Bluesky bad post is that they come to the conclusion that making the site better involves importing people with centrist politics to talk politics when the actual truthful answer is that we need less politics and more goofs but that’s difficult when the world sucks
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
one of the reasons I like to read great criticism across genres and mediums is that there is something comforting to me about realizing the problems that are plaguing romance are actually problems that are plaguing STORYTELLING writ large.
Hello, Massachusetts?! Now it's just us & Nevada that cannot vaccinate those even with a prescription. cc @massgovernor.bsky.social @saldidomenico.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov @whipkclark.bsky.social @universalhub.com #mapoli
People whose grandparents would not have been able to get into this country under current immigration laws are out here telling others to go back where they came from, LOL. People can be truly ridiculous.
My school bans phone use but expects kids to bring their chromebooks every day (although there's a lot blocked on the wifi)
"We're going to need a story about this accident. Say he was helping a woman. That should work. Also, is he wearing pants? Make sure he's wearing pants."
This is a HUGE motivation for me to be at a public opinion research firm because simply telling ableds "eugenics is happening, it will eventually come for you" wasn't working.
@massgovernor.bsky.social gonna need you do to this ASAP
Every single US city needs to do this, and enforce it.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
It's been actual *decades* of this crap, and at some point we have to learn that compromising with evil is not only morally inexcusable, it also does not gain us anything. Not anything at all.
the right answer here is courtney's. there are a few other people that mention bits and pieces of it, but please i beg, listen to an actual historical romance author when it comes to these questions.
You can argue, justifiably, opposing this regime is the only job and calling out Newsom is too divisive. But verily I tell you that attacking Newsom’s transphobia is attacking this regime. Because silently abetting it is abetting this regime and proving that we’re bigots, cons or cowards.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
Then meet him outside
so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!
This is exactly my experience after living here nearly 30 years. Most of the people range from OK to lovely, but the minority of horrible people are the ones who get pandered to politically. Oh, and the press is the most poisonous I’ve ever encountered.
They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning
Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
Making a calculator app where if you divide by zero then your local Indian food place delivers you some NaN
The perfect booth for national MLB games would be a play-by-play guy plus one former player from each team. Let them be as biased and homerish as they want. Maybe they fight. Maybe they kiss. Maybe both. Who knows?
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
I'M NOT AFRAID TO CALL IT ALLSTON CHRISTMAS.
MOVEAGEDDON WEEKEND IN BOSTON
hi, cis folks! this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love. hi, cis americans! this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
It's Saturday 📺 Post a cartoon TV series you love.
“Federal law enforcement asked the crews to line up to check their IDs, according to the firefighters. One of the firefighters said members of the crew were told not to take video of the incident.” DHS did this as flames actively raged. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
When it does happen, make sure your memes have alt text and your hashtags are pascal cased. I want to be able to like and share everything.
DO NOT VOTE 4 JOSH KRAFT
Nice run-through, friends. We’re gonna nail it when it really happens. Back to the top
you can put away the champagne
When he said he wanted to make America healthy again, he meant by unleashing a scourge that only the "healthy" would survive.
And this is extremely tempered!
This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: — virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — against increasing the minimum wage — buys foreign imports because they're cheap
End of week reminder that I’m running for California AD-72! We’ve already gotten over 700 contributions so far, and a huge thanks to everyone that’s pitched in. It’s time to step up and fight for our democracy. (I’ll do one of these on Monday and one on Friday so I don’t spam your feed too much)
Good make Susan Collins work for it.
My spouse is very hung up on the asking price of the house given its condition, and when I pointed out that I didn't send it to him because of that, he was like, "I mean, I can just remove the creepy dolls."
"It looks like it's not in the best shape, especially the exterior, but I don't see what the fuss is--uhhhhh oh NO"
The true horror hear is that you know the real estate agent tried to talk them out of those photos and failed.
the right celebrating a guy who was not qualified to hold his title i am starting to notice a trend here
*Colonel* Robert E. Lee. He was only a general in an illegal army
One of the less fun things about having kids is having to hem and haw about the weather today ("Well, maybe it won't rain until later in the day") because the kids want to go to Canobie SO badly.
Was someone on here talking about the ice cream museum in NYC being not great?
However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
NEW — My chat with @chriswarcraft.bsky.social about his run for California State Assembly:
@edflynnforboston.bsky.social is an embarrassment to the City. He has spent the entire summer carrying water for Trump. It's truly appalling, and he should be ashamed of himself. universalhub.com/2025/flynn-b...
For a story: looking to talk to Gen Z workers in different fields about how/if you’re pushing back against the “everything-is-an-emergency” approach to work. If you feel you can’t take this approach (because of your field, disproportionate pressure, etc) would also love to talk. Email/Signal in bio!
Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/h...
one of the best sentences
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
if we made immigration work how people think it works that would be the biggest liberalization of immigration in American history
Today was my first day of school as a new high school teacher, and it's really awful to come home and find out that there was a school shooting at another high school today.
CRISIS AVERTED but I am now in favor of the death penalty for MLB execs only
I think I really realized just what kind of job I've found myself in when I had to sit through a presentation that kept talking about HQIMs.
Just based on my first 5 days of work, none of which have involved teaching any students, I think teachers and paras should be paid $1 million american dollars a year.
I realize that "the cruelty is the point" has gone from incisive to banal to cliche but it cannot be emphasize enough that the actual deliverable of the Trump administration and indeed of all Republican violance is suffering and memes of it for the base to laugh at. It's the Bully State.
Drive the care out of large hospitals and then laden small providers with increasingly expensive and unnecessary equipment regulations. Welcome to the anti abortion playbook.
Finally giving up and ordering compression socks. I had a TON of trouble with them when I was post-op 14 years ago and eschewed them ever since, but my calves have been swollen almost all day today. Not sure I'll get through the school year without some kind of help.
This is called “charge stacking” Prosecutors will do this to ensure they secure a conviction by filing multiple, often overlapping, criminal charges against someone for a ONE TIME event or a series of related actions. It makes minor offenses seem more serious and increases the punishment for it
Australia and New Zealand have also suspended parcel services to the US
Brad Lander: “You bring your bike to a building believing that you will leave that building and go back home. Of course, that’s what people think. They’ve got a court hearing, they’re doing exactly what they’re supposed to."
To correct a point that DHS keeps obfuscating: Unlike Ghislaine Maxwell, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has never been charged with “trafficking” anyone. The trial the Trump admin is trying to avoid with its Uganda scheme is on smuggling accusations. www.allrisenews.com/p/kilmar-abr...
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
the “be warned, we are taking names” part is what has been missing from most major politicians’ responses
Ah the Facepunch Spex 9000!
Just got home from the Eric Adams scavenger hunt. We had to find 300 children’s teeth hidden in the alley behind Zero Bond, and use them to build “an electric chair for rats.” The winners got to keep the teeth. I hate this city.
Just saw alt text that, rather than describing the image, made a stupid joke, and so I am here to remind you of the basic guidelines for alt text if you actually want to be ADA compliant and helpful. www.section508.gov/create/alter...
OH thank goodness!!!! I read it like, "Wow can you believe someone didn't do this?" Awesome that R caught it, though, I honestly feel like I might break out in hives if a foul ball even comes near me.
I do like that idea! There are a few things we've tried before, and it definitely seems like "something to snuggle" always *seems* like a good idea, and then it doesn't work in practice. So maybe something that feels a little magical might work.
I haven't sat at a single kitchen or dining room table in the last year where he and his plans weren't the most urgent topic of conversation
I just started Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
5yo's separation anxiety is getting worse again now that I'm back at work and he's about go back to school. I thought maybe I could find a way to make a me-pillow for him, and everything I've found is like ... alarming.
Oh noooooooo who do I have to punish
Many blue states have state-level governance that is just ... so breathtakingly complacent that it is often embarrassing to live here.
Cuban explains why companies like Intel are happy to give fascists a cut. The wealthiest people in the country see it as a smaller sacrifice than what progressives are proposing in higher taxes.
this is good and all of course but can we talk about the actual ruling because it’s a lot storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This Cracker Barrel business is a perfect example of how the right wing can manufacture culture wars outrage over absolutely nothing.