Ukrainians celebrate Easter today and it's traditional to paint easter eggs with incredibly elaborate designs.

You can search bluesky for писанки to see more.

#UkrArt #УкрАрт

anyone who says people opposing data centers are just nimbys need to stop echoing industry propaganda and see what it’s actually like to live near one

That's been my usual MO, but the last two years I've waited until April because I owe the Feds and I'll be damned if I give this administration a cent any earlier than necessary.

The rise of articles blaming Gen Z instead of Millennials makes me feel old more than just about anything else

That grill looks absurdly disproportional

Mass-market edition. A snowy, icy mountainscape at night. Prominent in the foreground is an ice-covered spire jutting out of the ground with two human faces, one feminine, the other masculine. In lovely 3D text is the name of the book

A starburst, bifurcated vertically. On the left half, it is white at the center and fades to a pale sky blue near the edge; the right half is black at the center, and fades to a slightly darker sky blue. Behind the starburst is a field of stars

On a reread of *The Left Hand of Darkness*. It's even better than I remembered.

Really wish they had used the wild cover from the mass market version for the recent paperback release. I forget why I first bought it 20 years ago (I had never heard of UKLG), but I suspect the cover played a role.

I think the most horrific example that I’ve ever come across was the doctor who wore shoes created from the skin of Black people. Just atrocious mind-numbing dehumanizing practices all throughout the history of this country
jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/question/201...

I am proud to be an autistic librarian, proud to be a librarian with ADHD 💚

1) Storylords
2) Tomes and Talismans

Can't really remember anything about these shows other than that they were low-budget public TV productions

Lots of people voting at Gordon Park Pavilion when I went. Hope this bodes well for Chris Taylor

About time. I like to take the bus when I can, but don’t ride frequently enough to remember where to hold the QR code, so I always get it wrong the first time

On a gradient background with the asexual flag colors, text reads, “Happy International Asexuality Day.” The HRC logo appears.

Happy International Asexuality Day!

Asexual, often called “ace” for short, refers to a complete or partial lack of sexual attraction or lack of interest in sexual activity with others.

Cameron Mitchell, Sam Carter, and Teal'c from late-season SG-1 in a Star Trek parody

At the Catholic church I went to 20+ years ago, some of the older women would talk about times they were arrested protesting at the School of the Americas, WTO, etc.

Gotta be Je Souhaite. I forgot the name of the title, but I remembered them putting the genie into photos with famous people

Fighting the urge to overshare Life Stuff on the internet, so instead I’ll ask the town square for some advice:

When something happens that steals your joy or your confidence, what are your go-to methods & ways to get it back? (Big or small)

I have no idea what "use my new video" could mean

My conspiracy theory is that *Divergent* used faction names like "abnegation" and "erudite" as a ploy to get schools to buy them to build students' vocabulary

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

Just pondering how hard it is to describe blindness to people.

Me: "I can't see shapes that well."

Them: "So it's blurry."

Me: "Nope, clear as a bell but I can't tell what it is."

Them: *bluescreen*

My cat has an uncanny knack of knowing how absorbed I am in reading. She runs up and starts demanding attention the moment I get engrossed in a story, then feigns disinterest and wanders off when I acknowledge her.

Typical cat nonsense.

24x24” oil painting of the Cat’s Paw Nebula in grey scale with 5 vertical rectangles in color. I’m standing next to the painting in overalls

Cat’s Paw Nebula in visible (greyscale) & infrared (colorful rectangles). Dropping this one off tomorrow to be photographed for prints!

#SpaceArt #SciArt

Especially for people who have limited diets (at least from my perspective as a vegan--not sure what the landscape is like for people who are gluten free)

"Idea generators" is such a weird way to describe writers

ICE detain mother at airport—traveling with young daughter.

First reported kidnapping at airport since Trump ordered ICE agents to report—refuse to show ID.

"I don't know who you are!" witness yells.
"You could be someone kidnapping her!"

San Francisco International Airport Gate E2.

"Floors in an apartment." She shook her head. "Moby you know you're the man." "Ha, thanks," I said. "No, not like that. You're a rich WASP from Connecticut and you live in a five-level penthouse. You're 'The Man.' As in, 'stick it to The Man.' As in the person they guillotine in the revolution."

Lana Del Rey said it pretty well:

A picture of a refrigerator with a screen on its door. Below it this blurb: "You've got food" Bringing the power of the Internet to the table-well, to the refrigerator anyway—e2 Home's Screenfridge lets you check weather and traffic reports, plan the week's menu, order groceries, and schedule family outings on its touchscreen. The Internet refrigerator is currently in trials in Denmark and could come to the United States as soon as next year. Price is not yet set. e2 Home AB, Lindhagensgatan 100, SE 11278, Stockholm, Sweden. www.e2-home.com

Another mini-article featuring a refrigerator with a screen on its door Today: LG's Internet refrigerator ($8,000) and TV refrigerator ($3,000; lge.com) come with a Web pad or a television in the door. Samsung's Bottom Mount Refrigerator/Freezer ($900; samsungusa.com) features two different cooling systems for the freezer and refrigerator. This allows for better humidity control, which keeps food fresh longer. Tomorrow: New cooling technology will keep fruits and vegetables fresh twice as long and will operate virtually silently. RFID technology will manage food inventory, and cameras will allow remote monitoring.

They've been trying to foist internet-enabled fridges on us for decades and I've yet to see one in the wild.

Here's one from 2001 and another from 2004 (both from Popular Science)

Google Slides is doing this too. When you make a new document, it "helpfully" offers to generate slides for you from a text prompt. Every page has a "beautify this slide" button. Every text box has a button to improve the text with AI.

It gets in my way and I hate it

Now reading: *The Wind's Twelve Quarters*, a collection of short stories by the inimitable Ursula K Le Guin. Every story has been a delight so far. And despite being 50–60 years old, none of them feel dated at all.

#sff #booksky #scifi

I teach HS. One of my (and my fellow teachers') battles with admin is to teach those kind of study habits during advisory/homeroom instead of doing endless standardized test prep