My 8 month old had better hope I don’t remember this post years down the road when he asks for a phone.
(38, only a tech but two extra class brothers)

OP: Let’s take a break from the constant, overwhelming horrors to remember that sometimes good things have happened and maybe we can make a good thing happen again someday.
Commenters in this thread: Acknowledging good things must mean you don’t know about the bad things, for shame.

Oh that’s just inexcusable. I’ve accidentally bought scented trash bags because I didn’t notice the label, but selling somebody that degree of chemical harassment without warning should be illegal.

Every time someone mentions Michael B Jordan I think of this story and how right that girl was.

A gravel road curves through a clearing, disappearing into woods in the distance. On the road are a smallish (maybe eight inches nose to tail), smooth, dark colored turtle, approaching the safety of the shoulder, and a man leaning over and reaching his hands down to persuade the turtle to keep moving. The man is wearing jeans and a gray t-shirt and his face below shoulder-length hair is obscured by a turtle emoji.

I married one and have had this picture of him favorited for three years.

I don’t understand how anybody could deliberately buy scented trash bags, or things like air freshener sprays that are just scent. Are there people out there who only smell the perfume and not also the unpleasantness it’s trying to cover up, creating a permanent mental association between the two?

Yesss, I love this. Move over, carcinization; all Bluesky will eventually become Birdsky.

Campbell Soup admits to violating Clean Water Act 5,400 times, polluting river Campbell Soup Supply Company admitted to dumping waste into the Maumee River, and violating the Clean Water Act over 5,400 times.

And that’s why I can’t quit buying Prego over this, because I already quit buying Prego over that. (And also the news that Campbell’s had just gotten caught doing some pretty egregious water pollution www.usatoday.com/story/money/... )

Happy National Library Week! This week you should:
1) Donate $ to your local Friends of the Library

2) Write to your public library director to thank them for standing up for diversity or to condemn them for caving to fascists

3) Plan a similar public comment for the next library board mtg

Seriously, as many as you can find or think of and please repost. I need like 100 of these

I just went through a reshuffle at work too, and while the changes are definitely for the better, everything’s still weird and will be for a while. I hope things settle quickly for you.

Two 👀

Sometimes I feel guilty about how much I’m enjoying my small, specific life amidst all the world’s suffering and deliberate bullshit, so I log on here to find something to feel bad about.
It always works.

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

Unfortunately I read all the way to the end of this story and found the note at the bottom: “This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI.”
No more clicks from me until there’s a headline reading “Channel 7 News bans all AI use.”

Extremely discouraging, even when that one time is as an adult! But also causes no lasting harm, which is key.

How to make Pride meaningful. Especially important for those of us whose queer identities aren’t queer enough to affect our privilege, I think, because not having to fight much on our own behalf leaves more time and energy and resources to fight for others.

Who sells nettle seeds? (A decade ago I would have just googled this but these days I think asking people is more reliable again)
Seems like I could get a double benefit from growing nutritious greens that also discourage my kid from playing near the steep-sided drainage creek our yard backs up to.

🤢

Ooh, yes, I hate this in a very enjoyable way. Thank you.

I especially love that The Blender is a proper noun.

As someone who never formally studied animals but who follows lots of animal-studying scientists here, and often gets a little bogged down in academic jargon when I read y’all’s papers, I love this! You clearly conveyed so many definitions without clutter or ambiguity.

See also, baby human who’s just woken up

This is the first I’m learning about thatch finials, and I’m delighted. But I have to ask: does “a hint at their number of children” suggest that when thatched roofs were more common, these were the stick figure family decals of their time?

Northern short-tailed shrew - Wikipedia

Today the 12yo has declared it Northern Short-tailed Shrew Awareness Day!

There’s a venomous echolocating mammal who lives where we do in northeastern North America and we’ve never seen one or really been aware of them!

Today we fix the awareness part if that.

As the dream continued I found people talking about their special bottles of special drinks and that’s when I realized. Left my office as people at work were streaming into an auditorium to watch news coverage and celebrate. Every desk I passed was empty.
Never wished harder for a dream to come true

I dreamed that It Happened and there was so much joy. I found out when my friend posted “everything has stopped” in our group chat. I thought she was talking about having nothing to do at her job because the latest Iran announcement fully tanked the economy, but then I realized, and it was beautiful

I had to scroll through his photos on IMDB to get a complete picture, but now I think you’re absolutely right.

I was hoping there would be alt text to tell us that

The country has been bracing for a Final Cataclysm that hasn't occurred, can't fully dismiss the idea either. What happens to your job if the Iran War drags on for months? Will your job replaced by AI in a year? What about the next five years? Will your field of study even exist in a decade?