we’re just $1700 away from this goal!

www.paypal.com/pool/9owqDRD...

gonna pitch an airport business book called Human-Centered Work Culture; its tenets will include things like "remember that the workers are human beings who need some non-meeting time to actually get work done" and "people need to go to the bathroom"

the book will fail

Nobles County Board votes against zoning change, preventing massive data centers The Nobles County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to reject a zoning change that would allow data centers to be built on farmland. The county's planning commission rejected the measure earlier th...

A standing room only crowd at the Nobles County Government Center applauded the 3-2 vote, which will, for now, prevent any data centers from being developed in the southwestern Minnesota county.

question:

a family I know paid rent for their immigrant neighbor as he was out of work for during the ICE surge.

he still needs help. he is a contractor. the family needs an urgent bathroom repair and can't afford his rent this month. BUT he has the skills to do it.

could we crowdfund this?

I need someone in Minneapolis to apply for this!!!

That was unexpected to me but utterly delightful to see!

Reminds me of this post: AI is so hyped up that it's reached many people who have been entirely unaware of the world of automation over the past 40-50 years, and so they think it's something entirely brand new that needs LLMs.

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”

My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

Quote from screenshot of a research article: “Hippocrates (460-375 BC), almost universally considered the father of modern medicine, provided the earliest report of a condition that appears to be comparable with what is currently identified as ADHD[36]. Approximately in 493 BC, he described patients who had “... quickened responses to sensory experience, but also less tenaciousness because the soul moves on quickly to the next impression”[37]. Hippocrates attributed the condition to an “overbalance of fire over water” in the patients bodily humors and prescribed as a remedy for such “overbalance” lots of water and a bland diet, barley rather than wheat bread, fish instead of meat, water drinks, and many natural and diverse physical activities[36].”

haha whaaaaaaat

From “Who says this is a modern disorder? The early history of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder”

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

If you see this, post something orange from your gallery.

Al Overview: This image depicts a moment from the play Casting for Murder. The scene features Dave Tilsen and Josh Martin on a stage. The performance was described as "seven rat bags" walking onto a stage, acting, and drinking. The play was produced in April 2026.

Another case for avoiding AI at all costs...

Preserved Roman bread (panis quadratus), a circular loaf divided into 8 portions, bearing an inscription stamp.

Happy #BreadDay to all who celebrate! 🏺

#OnThisDay - 19 April - someone in #Pompeii felt so excited that they just had to record that:

"XIII K(alendas) Maias panem feci" (CIL IV 8972)

'On April 19, I made bread'

Wonder how it turned out? 🤔

Image: National Archaeological Museum, Naples (84596)

Life being hard to you isn’t necessarily an excuse to close yourself off when you have the ability to help others. That’s trauma preventing you from realizing you the best person to help.

A new post acuity.design/ai-and-facil... based upon one session at #Facilitate2026 yesterday about #AI and the future of #facilitation.

What I’m trying to present is a more positive view on the value of human facilitation and where there are gaps that AI cannot and should not be deployed.

I loved that show. Never done a rewatch!

Feels like two sides of the same magical-thinking coin. It’s a frustrating coin.

In honor of Tim Curry’s 80th birthday today, here is one of the queerest scenes I’ve ever seen, accompanied by Whoopi Goldberg (National Lampoon’s Loaded Weapon 1, 1993).

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

I finally read the CNN rape academy story.

We really DO need to flip the shame equation to those who need domination to get off, rather than letting shame fall on those who are drugged & raped.

I think the patriarchal evangelical culture supports this & other evils through bad theology.

One. ONE.

This was decided by one Republican who hasn’t been brainwashed by anti-trans propaganda

By homoerotic I mean obviously the creature is Victor and Harlander’s baby. This movie could be called “a tale of two fathers”. It was long... but it was good.

Joe vs the Volcano

Now what about all these providers and hospital systems that obeyed in advance?! Cowards

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

ngl I keep thinking that this stuff happened in Mesopotamia thousands of years ago. all the time. Like maybe not every ruler/reign was like this but every once in a generation you get shit like this.

Holy crap I’m watching del Torro’s Frankenstein and holy shit

SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ART HOMOEROTICISM

SNAP work requirements don’t boost jobs, but drop participation, research finds • Missouri Independent As states enact stricter work requirements for the federal food stamp program, a new analysis suggests those requirements won’t enhance employment and will push more people off of food assistance.

Yet another study showing that work requirements don't increase employment and instead serve to kick people off their desperately needed assistance.

missouriindependent.com/2026/04/10/r...

It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

From the minnesota community on Reddit: A quick visual reminder that Minnesota’s outdoors are worth fighting for! Explore this post and more from the minnesota community

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