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Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes *worldwide* because of USGS.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

have you ever been behind a driver who was so amazingly bad that you’re like “i gotta get a look at this person”

submitted 9 days ago • 36 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus while vowing to call Trump's trade war bluff on CNN just now, "This isn't gunboat diplomacy (laughs). I mean, this is like an Al Capone shakedown in his syphilis phase."

submitted 25 days ago • 149 comments

When you spend 9 hours a day on Redfin.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

fuck this specifically

submitted 29 days ago • 21 comments

Yup. Microsoft automatically switched me to the $99.99/year version with Spicy Autocomplete. You have to go all the way through "cancel subscription" to be presented these options and get the $69.99/year one you actually chose.

submitted 36 days ago • 199 comments

A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant. I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester. Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/

submitted 109 days ago • 38 comments

Here is how to disable Copilot in Word on a Mac. My version was slightly different. It was this: Expand "Word" menu > Preferences > Personal Settings > Privacy > go down to "Connected Experiences" and click Manage Connected Experiences > uncheck all the boxes > restart Word (cont'd)

submitted 44 days ago • 102 comments

You can also avoid it and a lot of Google's other search slop by typing "@web" and hit tab, then your search query.

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice. www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...

submitted 55 days ago • 86 comments

Molly, aka the Thing of Evil, prepares to pounce on intruders. Her motto: "DEATH FROM THE ANKLES DOWN!"

submitted 74 days ago • 1054 comments

Repurposed Assad tank in Syria.

submitted 75 days ago • 104 comments

My visual notes on the book The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins. Atkins is a BBC News journalist and great at explaining complex situations quickly with authority. Highly recommended. #infographic #dataviz #sketchnotes #sciencecommunication #booksky #book thisisjam.es/reviewing/th...

submitted 84 days ago • 2 comments

This response from @sbearbergman.bsky.social to @hildur.bsky.social’s post has changed my week— it is so wholesome, and human, and so the energy we all need right now. And Kerstin Langenberger, the naturalist who posted “I am on my way with the necessary equipment”? This woman is the hero we need.

submitted 81 days ago • 42 comments

Sure thing, Sharepoint. I want to open Excel in my browser. Why not. I want to open my powerpoint slides in minesweeper. I don't care anymore. I want to open a can of coke in a thirty foot concrete cube. Fuck it.

submitted 88 days ago • 56 comments

And Jesus entered the temple and said to the money changers, "You are an important part of the local economy and I'm looking forward to working with you"

submitted 88 days ago • 65 comments

The Illinois of Asia.

submitted 87 days ago • 17 comments

New Orleans out here innovating in bread shapes. Say hello to the challigator.

submitted 93 days ago • 164 comments

U mean like this?

submitted 95 days ago • 85 comments

A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.

submitted 95 days ago • 39 comments

You all MOCKED George Lucas and said this was boring or dumb but who’s laughing now???

submitted 95 days ago • 507 comments

It was the Busta Rhymes It was the Wusta Rhymes

submitted 101 days ago • 317 comments

My friend accidentally took a 150 milligram gummy (WHICH SHOULD NOT EXIST) and wrote down what happens when you take a ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLIGRAM GUMMY.

submitted 100 days ago • 27 comments