Razzies for fundraising communications. worst emails, worst texts, worst social media, worst calls, worst direct mail

Never clicked on something so fast in my life.

screenshot: April 2026 PACER Quarterly Invoice [PACER logo] with the words underneath: Public Access To Court Electronic Records Account Number: [redacted] Account Contact: Susan Rinkunas Balance Due: $37.80 Due Date: 5/11/2026

My quarterly bill is due for accessing federal court documents.

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Hello, Bluesky! We, the staff of Scientific American, are pleased to announce we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, we are the powerhouse of the publication, and we’re excited to have a new way to contribute to its success.

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

It is correct to spend all disposable income at your local independent bookstore.

A tuxedo cat half asleep on a blanket. His head is slightly lifted, his eyes are squinting and his tongue is out

When you are unaware of any geopolitical events

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www.youtube.com Detecting AI-Generated Content: Updated Tools and Techniques

Online search guru Henk van Ess led this @gijn.org webinar — part of our #TechFocus project — which offered up expert advice and updated tools for detecting AI-generated content and misinformation.

Check it out on our YouTube channel ⬇️

The FBI/MLK tweet is at the very least a contender, if not the greatest tweet of all time.

Maps: How Much Have Gas Prices Risen Across The U.S.? Here is a county-level look at where drivers are facing the highest costs.

how high are gas prices where you live? i scraped state- and county-level data so you can see average prices for regular unleaded gasoline across the country. and we'll be updating this page daily.

Woman In Giddy Honeymoon Stage Of Hating Someone New

Woman In Giddy Honeymoon Stage Of Hating Someone New theonion.com/woman-in-giddy-honeymoon...

A search index of expert podcasts, videos and essays. Explore our curated database of essays, podcasts, and videos authored by the world's leading experts and designed for the public.

Extraordinary new public humanities resource that curates in near real-time over 50,0000 items from sources/channels of humanities-related scholars who create pubic-facing essays, podcasts, videos, blogs, etc.: publicscholarship.org

Flora the Flamingo says, “I’m no good at shoes. I’ve tried ‘em. Twice. One on each foot. But these zori are cool.”

Despite being 6 years and hundreds of hours deep into ACNH, I still encounter bits of character dialogue that leave me wheezing:

the word " yolo " .... i will never say such shit

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The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been transforming a government that long championed vaccines into one that questions their safety.

This is what could happen over the next 25 years if shots are unavailable even to the people who want them.

They just tossed the jars in a bin!

I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

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how your email finds me

My large fluffy tabby cat upside down on my couch with one fang visible and one ear hidden

How your email finds me

Let me ask you about that specifically. I wasn’t at South by Southwest. We have a little baby. I didn’t travel this year, but I watched Instagram. I experienced South by Southwest through the magic of Instagram and TikTok. You had a suite there at South by Southwest. I looked at some of the videos. The caption on one of the Instagram carousels… I’m just going to read you the caption. This is from the Superhuman suite at South by Southwest. There were a lot of talks there. The summary of the talks was, “AI can’t replace human creativity, empathy, or emotion. It won’t take all of our jobs, but it will reshape how we work. And in the AI era, taste and judgment are more valuable than ever.” Valuable on what metric? Is it dollars? Valuable on every metric. Specifically dollars. Dollars are what I pay my mortgage in. Is it dollars? I’m sorry, I didn’t understand the question. If my “taste and judgment are more valuable than ever,” but it’s also infinitely replicable and you think I need a new business model or every creator needs a new business model or– Sorry, you made a big leap from that. How do I make more dollars? If my “taste and judgment are more valuable than ever,” where do the extra dollars come from? So just to be clear on the tagline for Superhuman, what we believe is that we can help all our users become superhuman by bringing them tools that allow them to expand their work. The main way we think about people is that Grammarly doesn’t do your work for you. Grammarly helps make you a better writer. And you still publish your essay, you still post your article. It’s our job to turn you into a superhuman. That’s our promise to our users. That’s what the banner’s about. Your question is a very good question.

All time Decoder sequence here. Dollars, baby. I love 'em. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

#writingopportunity | Rachel Courtland Freelance #WritingOpportunity: MIT Technology Review is seeking pitches for an upcoming print issue. The theme is Kids. We're looking for pitches for longer pieces: narrative features, compelling inv...

Freelance journalists and writers: @technologyreview.com has a new call for pitches, for its Kids issue. Pitches due Friday April 3. Please share! More details here: www.linkedin.com/posts/rcourt...

Just finished watching this and cried my eyes out the entire time.

birdsrightsactivist @ProBirdRights I am feel uncomfortable when we are not about me? 9:17 PM Aug 16, 2013

My cat sniffing and rubbing his face all over the new armchairs

finding out that i owe PACER money is so embarassing. deeply lame to get a letter in the mail telling me that i looked at too many documents and i owe the federal court system $40

Following independent journalists on here really highlights just how often major news orgs shamelessly lift the work of others.

Wondering how they're managing to produce content with all those newsroom layoffs? Wonder no longer!

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BREAKING: Workers at CBS are walking out.

The unionized team that works CBS' streaming service are going on a 24 hour strike in New York and San Francisco.

The walkout comes after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded.

This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

Correction notice from the New York Times reads: “A correction was made on March 13, 2026: An earlier version of this article described incorrectly John F. Kennedy Jr.’s religious affiliation. Mr. Kennedy was a Roman Catholic, not a “WASP” (an epithet used to refer to white Anglo-Saxon Protestants).”

This is one of the funniest corrections I’ve ever read