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"There's still good in the world, Mr Frodo."

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

no king but biking

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

It's really easy to remove the DRM from kindle books with a software called Calibre, so if you've purchased any kindle books you should download them so you can actually own them!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I taught an undergrad class for the first time today and I must just have a really nice batch of kids because it was actually so fun? They're so nice??

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons: -We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S. -The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous. 🧵⬇️

submitted 11 days ago • 596 comments

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

submitted 254 days ago • 1244 comments

🧶💾 Punch cards aren’t just relics of computing—they’re still powering knitting machines today! Discover how hobbyists & archivists are preserving this blend of tech + textile. ⁠ 🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/12/vanishing-culture-punch-card-knitting/ ⁠ 🕳️ #VanishingCulture⁠

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Btw; just to break toxic fanboys brains: here is Gene Roddenberry literally saying he wished he had gay sex and wishing that he was nonbinary.

submitted 16 days ago • 133 comments

Turn it off: cancel your subscription, when you go to renew it, they'll offer an AI-Free subscription. Easy. Co-pilot is garbage and a terrible privacy breach for your documents.

submitted 16 days ago • 65 comments

One of the most important websites in America right now.

submitted 17 days ago • 395 comments

Bat signal: If you are a researcher working on topics related to sustainable and equitable transportation whose work/funding is being impact by the Trump administration, please hit me up today or early tomorrow if you'd like to talk about it on the record, or just post thoughts in the thread. 👇

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Please, science Bluesky. I am begging. I need to know the most ridiculous looking species. Please tell me what the weirdest little weirdos on the planet are. Give me your weirdest animal facts. My feeble grip on sanity is dependent on you.

submitted 19 days ago • 379 comments

It makes me so happy when I can get an assigned text on audiobook so I can knit while I read for class 💖😭💖

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Truly a movie for 2025 🫠

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

HANG IN THERE BABY!! #art

submitted 31 days ago • 39 comments

People are hungry to do something that isn't doomscrolling or texting money to dems, they just need an invite, a plug, an on-ramp. It needn't be (and won't be) an epic battle. It'll be a grind-- meetings. But you'll have more power in that room than you did separately, and you'll feel better too.

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

What are our thoughts on knitting at the movies? Because I brought a project I’m working on with me to see Nosferatu again and it was delightful!

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

For all of you longing to clog up govt bureaucracy, here's an email address. Note that plausible sounding reports that are difficult to machine filter will take more effort to handle than eg the Bee Movie script. Also it's possible they'll wind up just binning everything not from a dot gov

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Well, I think that settles the question.

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell and 17 other state AGs filed a lawsuit to challenge President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship in the United States.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

Waking up every morning in 2025:

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Use Signal to talk about protests Use Signal to talk about your wordle score Use Signal to talk about abortion Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club Use Signal to talk about parties Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care Use Signal to talk about the weather Use Signal

submitted 33 days ago • 74 comments

Your annual reminder that Dr. King believed in guaranteed universal basic income that gave all people a dignified life, guaranteed housing for all, guaranteed access to a high quality education, and said that “no one should be forced to live in poverty while others live in luxury.”

submitted 34 days ago • 12 comments

Happy Birthday.

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Today and in the coming days, remember

submitted 34 days ago • 292 comments

tomorrow is going to be rough. the future is going to be rough. we can’t pretend otherwise. but they want us fleeing, they want us demoralized and terrified, and morale is a terrain of struggle.

submitted 34 days ago • 13 comments

I went through all of my facebook photos yesterday before deactivating and found some real gems. Yeah, that's right, I met the wienermobile 😎🌭

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments