Today we remember the horrific tragedy of the Columbine shooting. 27 years later, it is a disgrace that gun violence is still the leading cause of death for children in America.

Literally one kid thought a "calculator" was "A.i."

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

Babe wake up new crustaceans just dropped

So seventeen years later Shazam is still the pinnacle. I HAVE seen someone post a video about how they asked ChatGPT a long division sum and it confidently told them the WRONG answer. So ChatGPT is not only less impressive than Shazam, it's less impressive than my phone's built-in calculator app.

This got me

I came across this post without context and I heartily endorse every part of it.

I would love it if those of you who do not have library cards will apply for one at your local branch during #NationalLibraryWeek. Then let me know about it. 😇

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Please! If you haven’t read Ijeoma Oluo’s moving 2016 piece on just this, today’s a good day to do so.

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Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

In 3 days!

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“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political,

I must listen to the birds.

And in order to hear the birds,

the warplanes must be silent”

- Marwan Makhoul

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Please don't use speaker phone while in library. Ask for headphones at the front desk.

Only a fallen society needs this sign

A brown glazed fabric with a decorated shoulder connextion

Raincoat, late Edo Period, 1790–1800

Dirty dirty dirty kitteh 🐱#rocky

In the US you can't even take off a day to care for an ill human lmao

Photo of a tree in the woods where the inside has rotted away so that mainly the bark remains, resulting in it looking like the tree has been deflated and is sagging to the ground

Photo of a carpet of wood anemone flowers in the forest

Photo of a cluster of blue scilla squill flowers

Photo of a couple of grazing sheep through a wire fence, with more sheep hanging out in the background

Springtime in the woods, the sheep are back! 🥹

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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲

“One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.”

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Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.

A colleague of mine at expatalachians also named Nick wrote about the Pittsburgh section of this a few years back

😂🐻

His mom probably came and picked him up after dismissal so she didn’t have to wait in the car line, he knew he had time for a quick snooze

A brown bear who was totally minding its own business and just napping in a corner of my daughter’s elementary school got everyone all on lockdown mode… I’m sure it had a great nap and just went on its business last night and never knew the chaos it caused at dismissal 🐻😂

In case anyone was still wondering whether Amazon disabling older Kindles was really about DRM: They’re discontinuing Kindle for PC now too. (It was the last remaining way to back up a Kindle library.)

OK I don't usually just cold-repost creatures, but I have a deep affection for kakapos (whom I will never meet) just in general, I have a deep respect for the humans who are collaborating w/them on their recovery, & I did want you all to see this very relatable baby

It still shocks me how many people get mad when I drive the speed limit