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Writer and folklore devotee from New England. Author. Poet. Editor. Chronic illness bard. 2x stroke survivor. Forest wanderer. Lifelong pagan. Dog person. Amateur baker. Occasional balladeer.
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Love watching the Halftime show with ASL performers

submitted 13 days ago • 38 comments

Samuel Hammond argues that NSF should use AI to pick which proposals are funded—the NSF would only need 10% of its staff. This is not an Onion article.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

"The Congress shall have Power...To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures" Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States. Which apparently the editors at the NYT are unfamiliar with

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

it would be nice if the NYT would in fact state the topline in the headline when trump illegally uses the constitution as toilet paper for trivial shit.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

During Kendrick's halftime show a man unfurled a Palestinian flag and was chased off stage and eventually tackled and removed by security.

submitted 13 days ago • 83 comments

Have finally discovered the trick for getting Tricycle to leave something tf alone: A ‘brooooooooooooo’ with an uncomfortably long sustained ululation that sounds like the soundtrack for an establishing shot of a hostile planet in a prestige sci-fi television show.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

submitted 13 days ago • 160 comments

Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month. Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.

submitted 13 days ago • 90 comments

If I came back from two strokes to write these books and can't publish them because it's gonna be a felony, I'm flipping a fucking table.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

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This is like self parody

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

submitted 17 days ago • 508 comments

This is super real. My teacher friend in LA says his class is empty and he’s proud of the kids

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

as adults and former children, it is imperative that we do everything we can to make sure these students feel safe and supported—making sure they’re fed, hydrated, corking, providing medics, and protecting them from the violent bigots who disagree with them is a place to start.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Weird how Republicans support the guy who let all the criminals out and let an illegal immigrant steal their social security numbers and bank account numbers.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

the Nazis were ultimately the bad guys, but people are still pretty pissed off at Neville Chamberlain and Stalin for caving to the Nazis, and so they should be.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

“The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes [...] there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.” ― D.H. Lawrence

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