Young adult happiness is falling. Percent of young people who are pretty or very happy has dropped from 88% to 76% over the last 15 years after having held fairly steady between 1980 and 2010

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Replying to @miradoon Next: Why do large language models hallucinate? Part 10 of how language models like ChatGPT actually work! TikTok video by Professor Casey Fiesler

Reminder (this time with a TikTok by @professorcasey.bsky.social Fiesler) that ChatGPT is not designed to give you facts! It is designed to produce "plausible, fluent, highly rated text" - NOT truth!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkJqUDLW/

Ramadan has officially ended. Eid Mubarak! Hoping that we take the lessons of Ramadan into the year and that we offer more compassion to each other and commit to lessening suffering how we can.

I am so sick and tired of insurance companies telling me which pharmacy* I can go to!!!!!

*Yes, singular, bc that's been my experience so far.

You know it!

A cherry pie. The top crust is made of the digits 3.141592653589

Happy #PiDay!

"We Must Risk Delight": Jack Gilbert's "A Brief for the Defense" - tra•vers•ing It may seem odd that after poring through my poetry shelves this past week looking for works of joy and gratitude to befit this holiday season, I would land on and offer you a poem whose first two wor...

"We must risk delight. ... We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world."
-Jack Gilbert
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Art by Liberal Jane shows a person of color in a hoodie that says "freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. -Martin Luther King Jr."

Love this month's art by
@liberaljane.bsky.social !!!

@liberaljane.bsky.social

Thank you!

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

Gentle reminder that supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses - not some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Every trans person who refuses to shrink their identity to fit the room is expanding the world for everyone else.

Tonight is the night where I constantly refresh my phone to see whether our voters approved the school budget.

Imagine if corporations were held to this standard. Or if we could vote more directly on where our tax dollars went federally.

Instead, it’s us public school workers crossing our fingers.

Research participant invitation flyer for autistic parents and teachers of autistic students aged 8-14. Coloured boxes contain further information about the study, researcher, what’s involved and how to sign up.

Invitation to Participate in Doctoral Research with Elaine McGoldrick

• Are you an Autistic parent of an 8-14 year old Autistic student enrolled in an Irish school?

- Do you teach 8-14 year old Autistic students in an Irish school?

Find out more: mcgoldre@lsbu.ac.uk

Children's brains do most of their development in the early years because learning to communicate, to control your body/emotions and be more independent of adults is so hard. But all that doesn't develop in a vacuum and we should never underestimate the work of the people involved. ☺️ #EduSky

If I can keep even one father from dying in despair, believing he'd failed the thing that mattered most to him--

If I can give just one child the chance to give their father the gift of a happy child--

How can I possibly not?

Nobody should ever die believing what Dad believed. Ever.

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Discovering I was trans was the greatest blessing of my life. A simple explanation for a sense of wrongness I'd felt so long I thought that wrongness was me.

I credit the trans community for bringing society to the point where I could understand what was wrong and get help.

Every trans person who insists on being seen is a living map for those still finding their way.

How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory. n.pr/4ayRPUJ

"...when the government starts editing reality through language, that’s not restraint. That’s censorship..."

Me all morning long:
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Forgot to add alt text! It's a screenshot of this excerpt from a USA today article: “God Bless America!” Bad Bunny yelled, followed by his namechecking other countries as a multitude of flags from around the world followed him through the field for the closing “Debi Tirar Mas Fotos

Dear @usatoday.com , Bad Bunny did NOT list "other" countries after saying "God Bless America" - he SPECIFIED that America includes all those countries, from Chile to Canada!!

I want 12 more hours of Bad Bunny! That was SPECTACULAR!

Bad Bunny painted a musical portrait of his island, and put indigenous musicians on the global hot mic

Salvador Dalí would have loved today's blue category!

Connections
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We do not protest because we hate We protest because we LOVE. We protest for the beautiful future We know is possible. We do so with JOY, because the music of community plays in our hearts and we cannot help but sing. @joyful protest storypeople

Beautiful message and art by www.storypeople.com/sotd

ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital Nurses in Minneapolis doubted federal immigration officers' claims about a Mexican immigrant's severe injuries.

ICE claim that a man shattered his skull running into wall triggers tension at a Minnesota hospital

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