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Please enjoy this photo of our new kitten Bobby and our mostly confused dog Ralph

submitted 10 hours ago • 728 comments

does anyone else have trouble getting students to post to course forums? it almost feels like they are allergic or something? even my people who have a lot to say in class are noping out, and it's just me and the crickets.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Apparently cops saw Vance Boelter sitting in his faux cop car near another Minnesota state rep’s home an hour before he murdered Melissa Hortman and her husband and those cops just let him go. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

submitted 4 hours ago • 72 comments

it's delightful how often the answer is MAS*H.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I guess MASH plus his entire sci-fi collection. But really it was asking very-little-me for the answer to a NYT crossword clue and I was _so hyped_ that I knew it, that apparently the actual NYT crossword was within reach, that I’ve liked them ever since

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

The existence of an agency like FEMA says, "we're all in this together; when one of us is hurt, all of us are hurt; we will all chip in to support one another." That, more than any detail about FEMA's operations, is why it offends Trump's sensibilities. It runs counter to his core ethos.

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

oh, this is a perfect example of @hypatia.bsky.social's co-authored post on the Al Capone Theory of Sexual Harassment: hypatia.ca/2017/07/18/t...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

I just want to go troll them. "auditioning to replace you as their grandparent because I have all my vaccines." (seriously. I've reupped my MMR and TDaP in recent years. I am good to go.)

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Infants can literally just stop breathing and die with no warning from “whooping cough” (pertussis) infection. They do not necessarily even get the infamous cough that older children and adults get (and can be severe enough to break ribs). Do not let unvaccinated people around your newborns (or you)

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

Alberta’s measles outbreak is the worst in half a century, and it’s the kids who will pay the price. As of June 7th, 75 people hospitalized, 12 in ICU This doesn’t have to happen. Get your vaccines. Get your boosters. Talk to your doctor if you think you need an updated dose. Wear a respirator.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

oh boy, yeah. we see this all the time with Long COVID POTS. I was only finally diagnosed during the pandemic, but I have had POTS symptoms for decades and pre-learned a lot from disability activists here. ask us old-timers.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I believe that the team get together in-office once a quarter & the rest was WFH 100% was the best & productive in-office mandate. I got so much work done just by cutting commute time, able to make healthy ethnic food for lunch, go for treatments, & reduced setup & tear down workstation times /1

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Vance Boelter, the suspect accused of killing a Minnesota state representative and attempting to kill another, is in custody, according to the Associated Press

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

I gave pre-COVID POTS. every time someone asks me why I mask, it's because I don't want worse POTS or ME/CFS on top of my POTS because life is already harder.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Disabled and especially chronically ill people warned everyone that you did not want to get Long COVID specifically because of this phenomenon that we have been yelling about for, you know, decades. We did say. A lot.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

imagine relying on ChatGPT, which will give you bad answers and is incapable of caring that it did, when you could help another human being bring meaning to their lives through letting them help you.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

yep. I wish you the peace I felt in almost completely forgetting about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

even some of the scientific uses of AI made scientists bored even as they increased efficiency and discovery rates (can't recall details, maybe someone else can). turns out people in thinking jobs enjoy thinking?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 1 day ago • 113 comments

It’s hard to escape the dawning realization that part of the goal of Google’s AI Overview is to simply eradicate the concept of anyone else having any kind of website at all. Why click on a link & explore when Google told you the answer & you didn’t know it was wrong?

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

dear neighbour: I am at home so I know our condo is not on fire, so there is not a single urgent thing you could possibly be calling me about. please text me like a normal person.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

student teacher ratio is the stickiest & most important metric when determining academic success & we’ve known that for, like, 40 years

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

God, I wish we actually regulated homeschooling the way it ought to be so y'all can't disappear children into the void under the guise of "parents' rights."

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

For those unfamiliar, Fortunate Son (a banger) is a song about how the poor are taxed and sent to die in Vietnam while the rich dodge the draft and taxes at home.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

we only deal with two citizenships and two tax codes, and simply pay experts to sort it out for us. it takes a lot more than 20 minutes just to round up the relevant forms to give to them, so idk what this guy is on about.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Punk rock kid buskers (‘The Whops’, tiktok) near the Edgware Rd. They run into Paul Simonon, play Death or Glory for him. He asks if they know The Guns of Brixton. They do -

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

Conservative protests are always treated as an organic cry of anger that manifests the distress of the unjustly ignored American heartland; protests from the center-left are always written off as noise from inside the bubble.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Genie: ok what do you want for your birthday Trump: a military parade, oh, and also millions of people on the street chanting my name Genie: okie dokie

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

Chicago ✊

submitted 2 days ago • 724 comments

okay holy shit actually

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I grew up in New Orleans and the street sweepers after a Mardi Gras parade were more exciting than this looks.

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NEW: The suspect in the Minnesota shooting of Democratic state legislators is linked to a security company and evangelical ministry. According to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.”

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

I fucking love Jarell cus this man is a whole ass NFL level athlete and gets humbled daily with these challenges cus it shows that fitness requires not only an aesthetic look, but actual practice into mobility and form.

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From the No Kings protest in my hometown:

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments