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Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

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in Today I Learned: "nationist" is actually a word, meaning "A language used for the day-to-day functioning of government – official forms, intra-government communication." en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nationist

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Welcome to the new operating procedure, not like the old operating procedure.

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In today’s episode of #FixTheForms, @cakedesignstudio.bsky.social points out a major challenge of phone-based 2-factor authentication

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May I present some ways that we might ask for our users' sex/gender on our forms in order to comply with new EOs: codepen.io/buttermilkbi...

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Reminder: If you feel like you're losing everything, remember that even trees lose their leaves every year but still stand tall and strong, knowing that eventually better days will come. Stand tall and strong. I'm proud of you

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Watercolor skies

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Had a convo recently where the other person--an educated liberal!--was shocked to learn <2% of Americans are trans, puberty blockers are temporary & reversible, and virtually no minors get gender-affirming surgeries. The right is so, so good at inflating things into boogeymen.

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It is very easy to call your representatives’ offices. They have to log your calls and the call numbers are meaningful. You don’t even have to try to convince anyone; just call and tell them your concerns. They are there to represent you. Let them know what that means. www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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you can change your sex. it's pretty easy and really fun. i recommend it

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Another satisfied subscriber of recall emails.

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According to the Minnesota Management and Budget website, federal grants make up $39.84 billion of the State of Minnesota's current two-year budget.

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To put the OMB grant freeze in context, roughly 17.5% of Wisconsin’s revenue comes from federal grants in aid last I checked. Overall, federal grants account for roughly 36% of all state government budgets in US. In a number of states the federal share is even higher.

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I am "accomplishing-border-radius-with-4-gifs" years old.

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In work and in life, boundless positivity and collaboration are my weapons against toxic negativity and competition.

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Cicero was a very wise man

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If I won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone - but there would be signs the signs:

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🙌 Everytime you wash your hands, you honour this Trans+ doctor, whose scientific significance was nearly wiped from history. His story deserves to be told: https://www.wearequeeraf.com/holding-out-for-my-trans-masc-hero-will-i-find-one/

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Still completely surreal to me that Google chose to light its search engine on fire

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My poor, tortured heart is at ease any time I see a device that still has a 3.5 headphone jack 🥲

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I love them

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The homes of three Black women from Chicago who deserve to be better known: Florence Price, Willa Brown, Alice Browning. Composer Florence Price lived at 3835 S. Calumet Ave. Google her--she's amazing.

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Anyone here good with computers? Trying to figure out how to attach a swarm of bees to an email

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OK, we're gonna get on Flickr. We're gonna start blogs. We're gonna share our bookmark lists and start doing meetups.

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not sure if this is in the library of congress or not but it is also an incredible image in the public domain

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As of the 2020 US Census, only 22 states had higher populations than Cook County (5.275m).

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deep inside, we're all internet explorers

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the negative effects of fireworks on bird are known for long. Dutch researchers have followed birds by radar and you can see quite impressively how many birds are in the air - when will this madness be stopped ? 🪶🦤 vimeo.com/887618127

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The reason emails have a CC: line is because of a technology invented in 1801 by Pellegrino Turri: the CARBON COPY. If an office memo was sent, and copies distributed, the additional recipients were noted on the CC: line, a format we follow today for electronic memos/emails.

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Noted this elsewhere, but not here yet, so: this was an exciting mistake to sort out.

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Support Your Local Sense of General Unease

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For some reason people love to inform me that you had to sit for 10+ minutes to get photos in the 1800s. That was really only true in the 1840s and earlier - exposure times got exponentially shorter after that. This is "Kitty playing 'Hide and Seek'", 1871. www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

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Every time I come across another study that highlights the fact that up to 20% of the global population has ADHD only to follow it up with “very limited research - especially focusing on women with ADHD - exists”, I want to flip a table. Being neurotypical is a privilege on the labour market.

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If you ever visit the British Museum, a fun game to play is to take a picture of every cow you see and then text them one by one to your friends

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Btw artists if you want to help combat AI slop sneaking into your research I am begging you to STOP relying on Pinterest for reference gathering. Familiarise yourself with the free online collections of museums of which there are several and how to search them effectively

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new John Wick movie about how congestion pricing forces assassins to adapt or go out of business

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In Chicago instead of saying “bread-and-butter issues” we say “Italian beef and giardiniera issues”

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Bro why is your leitmotif playing in a minor key. Are you ok dude

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