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why can't all food trucks also have jingles and roam neighborhoods

submitted 22 hours ago • 75 comments

Just a reminder that the "Fox News Channel" is just a name— it does not describe an actual news channel. The FNC's own description of its services is here, from its terms of use:

submitted 11 hours ago • 163 comments

Everyone in the Trump administration has really intense Pyramid Scheme Energy.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Periodic reminder: if you get a letter from a collections agency saying that you owe a debt, always, ALWAYS send them a letter to make them validate that a) you owe the debt and b) they are legally entitled to collect it from you.

submitted 18 hours ago • 29 comments

Hear! Hear!

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

instead of pouring cocaine into the plagiarism machines could we get a couple of tech bros working on making robot vacuum cleaners like 30% quieter

submitted 19 hours ago • 22 comments

Rolled a natural one for a saving throw against this sinus infection wtf.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

The Majority Leader is lying

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Chat, I am not a lawyer, but if you're going to be an expert witness in forensics, don't lie about your degree on your employment website, your CV or your LinkedIn profile. The defense attorneys will absolutely find it. 🙃

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

there's a small subset of people here who are driven mad whenever they aren't allowed to quote or reply to something. they think everything they see on their phone is their property and they just short-circuit. they'll bust through the floorboards to yell at you. it's really something to see

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

My painting SPRING RIDE

submitted 1 day ago • 276 comments

@drneilstone.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

The Press Secretary is lying

submitted 1 day ago • 330 comments

The Press Secretary is lying.

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

REMINDER: We've got less than three weeks to go until our event on June 7, and only about a hundred tickets left - get yours today, before we sell out like we did last year! www.eventbrite.com/e/bsides-buf...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

A full day of technical talks, lockpicking, stickers, swag, lunch, soldering, robots, networking, and more for just twenty American dollars. Western New York's favorite hacker conference is nearly here!

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As an older person, I see a lot of posts by somewhat distressed younger people saying “omg, I just turned ___ years old!” Well, we only get older. And that’s if we’re lucky. My perspective changed when I stopped comparing myself to my younger version and focused on the older self I want to become.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

it would be cool if some members of the mainstream media cared as much about this administration lying about who's running the agency dismantling the federal government as they do about the former president’s age

submitted 1 day ago • 226 comments

So it turns out the sinus infection I've had for the last month might be related to the tooth I'd had extracted a month and a half ago. I'm sick of being sick.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is about UK universities but the parallels to US universities are very clear. And in the US, our Land Grant university model breaks the ivory tower barriers down even more, through Cooperative Extension (funded by USDA) and USGS climate science centers.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Among the many "are you kidding me" aspects of American politics is the rampant hostility in red areas to university funding and federal employees. I'm in the Philly area, we'll take a hit from those cuts, but we'll manage. A lot of local economies in MAGAland will be obliterated.

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Not exactly the main point of this post, but when people say the university isn’t part of the “real world,” I want to scream. Partially this is semantics (i.e., any part of the world is as real as every other part). But it’s also for the reason laid out here.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

According to a 2021 report, the University of California system: • generated $82B in economic activity in California • supported 529K jobs in the state • generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

Death rates in pregnancy DOUBLED during 2020-2021, and there are mountains of evidence showing COVID infection leads to significantly worse outcomes for pregnancy & baby. There are also mountains of evidence showing COVID vaccination has no adverse effects on pregnancy or baby but does protect them.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

I'm very aggravated by this restriction. I really don't understand the reasoning behind it especially when the same doesn't exist for the mRNA vaccines.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Another young male hummingbird that hasn't developed its full adult plumage yet. He still has some white whiskers around his bill. The Bronze-tailed Plumeteer is a large hummingbird that's easy to identify because of their red toes. #hummingbirds #birds #costarica @tapirvalley.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

rewatched All Quiet on the Western Front and man, that film really does justice to the fact that those kids in the trenches lived like, some of the top 1% worst lives of any people in history

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

Consider learning an instrument, badly. Bad habits become engrained, movement is inefficient and slow, and it takes a lot of time and effort to unlearn those engrained bad habits.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Government legal guidance urging retailers in England to offer millions of consumers deals and discounts on minimally processed and nutritious food was dropped after a lobbying campaign by the world’s biggest ultra-processed food firms […]

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Companies are spending so much on generative AI tools and services (many of them cost more over 3 years than a laptop - it’s a proper money furnace) that they will demand staff use them.. as the CIO at most orgs have bet their budget on it, and doesn’t yet realise AI doesn’t equal productivity […]

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

art throwback #art #ink

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

"I did the math and it checks out. 8+6+4+7= 25th amendment"

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

A reminder that if the minimum wage had kept pace with worker productivity gains since the 1960s, it would now be nearly $26 an hour.

submitted 2 days ago • 472 comments

The $2.99 ebook sale on THEY KNEW continues! From what I understand, today is the last day of the sale. Get your copy while you can: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

Holy quivering bowels, Batman!

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It was only a matter of time

submitted 3 days ago • 143 comments

This. The US system is pretty bonkers, but patients don’t bill Medicaid, providers (and maybe insurance companies?) do. The patient generally has NO IDEA what the provider is billing for; I’ve never seen diagnosis or Current Procedural Terminology codes for in-network doctor visits.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Late stage capitalism is creating new disabilities in people and also endangering the lives of those who are and will become disabled. All forms of marginalization are disabling and once you’re disabled most people will think of you as disposable. We can’t fight fascism without disability justice.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Not a lawyer, but STFU is free. Arguing with border agents will not make your life easier. Knowing what to expect & how to prepare is more useful. lockdownyourlife.as.me/travel

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"Results underscore need for vaccination" www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments