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IT'S HAPPENING

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I was just trying to answer the question, "What is your favourite photo of a novelist with a cat?" I have probably forgotten some absolute crackers but right now the one that immediately comes to mind is this one of the genius Georges Perec and Duchat, taken by Anne de Brunhoff in 1978.

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Apart from the cravenness and cruelty of the thing, I am just amazed at how few leaders understand basic facts about human biology.

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KCRA: California has officially started using "biological girl" and "biological boy" to refer to cis and trans girls,in order to create a separate competition just for cis girls. They're scared of Trump, even though Maine legally beat his threats easily. www.kcra.com/article/cali...

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My dad once got up in the middle of the night because he was parched, found a clear jug of dark liquid in the fridge he was sure was grape juice, and guzzled half a glass of soy sauce.

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The first Memorial Day, May 1, 1865.

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Françoise Sagan is my spirit animal

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The last time I was in NYC, in April, I made a special pilgrimage to Gray’s Papaya, and it was magnificent.

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there was a point in my life when i was younger and snootier and thought "i'm too sophisticated for hot dogs" but these days, on the rare occasion that i have one (basically, today), my thought is always "damn a good hotdog is good as hell"

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One big reason I love this thread is that it illuminates just how contextual our talk about function and dysfunction is, and how hard it can be to jolt ourselves out of our own grooves so we can see the context.

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I just had a fascinating conversation with a stem-cell biologist about organoids. SCB: These cells are trying as hard as they can to make the organ. Me: I’m interested that you put it so agentially. So they are trying and failing? SCB: Yes, clearly. /1

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I have not paid a ton of attention to the uproar over RTO policies, bc we are all in on distributed teams and not going back. My impression (via social media) has been that these were shadow layoffs. Last month I asked an investor why they are doing RTO. He said: "Retention, mostly. And morale."

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I was in academia for a while and was surprised at how many professors are blissfully ignorant of the fact that they don’t know how to hold a basic conversation with someone outside their extremely small social network.

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I’ve lived in Colorado for almost thirty years and I’m STILL a Knicks Sicko, and am loving Tom Thibodeau even though he used to coach The Hated Bulls.

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After some thought, I’ve decided I feel very good about being older. Some people think you can see around corners, when it’s just that you know the neighborhood.

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When people here say “back in the day” I remember that I am very much older than them and am not sure how to feel about it

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Every time a new episode of The Shop Cats Show drops I get so excited. Let's go check it ouuuuuut! www.instagram.com/reel/DFvwQCk...

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🎯

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“Barring major (and in my opinion unlikely) breakthroughs in advanced AI, I expect AI to be much more a normal tool of incremental, uneven scientific progress than a revolutionary one.” www.understandingai.org/p/i-got-fool...

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You can read the amazing review of Fair: The Life-Art of Translation in The Observer online here observer.co.uk/culture/book... @prototypepubs.bsky.social

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Advertise your account with a Simpsons image

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WHAT just happened to me.

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Close reading is for everyone: defector.com/close-readin...

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Hours of darkness today.

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Listicles like this always make me think of Ruskin, in The Nature of Gothic:

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When Gwyneth Rowlands left Netherne hospital after thirty years, she wrote a document called Foxhunting, which she described as “my commentary on my life & stones.” It combines an extraordinary account of her life before Netherne with poetry & literature richly illustrated by paintings & photographs

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Honestly I learned the most (and became a much better dev) when I reinvented the wheel. Built a (simple) ORM instead of just using NHibernate (was a mistake.) Implemented own sorting algo thinking it would do better than built in (it did not.) Built own charting library. Etc All were worth it!!

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This week on the blog: The logistics of Road War in Mad Max (and similar) settings: given logistical and tactical constraints, how might we actually expect warfare to be waged in a post-apocalypse? The answer is...a little bit technical. acoup.blog/2025/05/23/c...

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www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

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Think I’d forget?

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ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely please read on 🧵

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Republicans scheduled our Rules Committee hearing for their reckless reconciliation bill for 1am. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. They know their Medicaid cuts are indefensible, so they’ll try to pass them in the dead of night. Whether it’s 1am or 1pm — I’ll be there to defend my constituents’ healthcare.

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From over a year ago, a tale of hiring and firing developers in the age of AI: Judgment Day by Teedy Deigh accu.org/journals/ove...

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Here we go

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my squishy boy

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ok FINE i guess it's time to address the ongoing discourse about my personal life: i am not the dog in my profile photo. i'm sorry to those i've disappointed.

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Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was forced into an Austrian asylum during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity #womensart

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Earlier today I told an interviewee that no one can deliver a sick burn like a middle schooler but judgy kittens are a close second.

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Delightful

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