Okaaaaaaayyyy so now my faculty is officially telling me I can’t open my datasets because the presence of copilot means I would be processing data outside the purposes my participants have consented to. Which (a) I told them in the first place and (b) given we can’t opt out is mind-bendingly stupid.
we all know I have no life, so:
This gutted me.
“That’s why herd immunity is so important. If there hadn’t been an outbreak when Renae was a baby, I don’t think she would have contracted it. She was eligible for the vaccine just seven months later”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Squee! These books are all so good! I loved Translation State - the Presger are some of the most alien aliens out there. I thought I’d miss the Ancillary but all the books set in this universe are great.
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
All federal wind power R&D at the Department of Energy is $0.137 billion. So the government is paying 7x the amount it spends on all wind power R&D just for a fee to kill one wind project. Seems bad.
was once New Amsterdam.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.
Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).
An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.
An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.
'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!
BREAKING: DOJ investigating Iran for Mortgage Fraud.
Text of a NASA over the air message from Artemis 2, accompanying an image of the Earth rising over the lunar surface: "No joy seeing the device in the list of available devices when I attempt to re-pair it after doing the Bluetooth forget."
Damn but this sequel to the Apollo Mission Reports is deeply disappointing:
Just remembering the time we were out for drinks with a friend and this grindset bro was totally pitching her at the bar and kept talking about the pressure of running his start-up and then asked her what she did and she said "I'm a Medevac nurse on the helicopter team at CHOP" and he left
"They have fixed the toilet, and the crew will soon prepare to boldly go where nobody has gone before."
-- Direct quote from the Artemis II livestream i have playing in the background of my computer.
You've never lived until you've done a Swedish pub quiz on an overnight ferry.
Truckers take this shit seriously.
What other Times readers did: No one in our sample of 58,982 completed Wordles faced this scenario!
i just kobayashi marued the wordle
Stern Pokémon Pinball
despite very simple mechanical design i was mentally overwhelmed the entire time. i lost every battle for unclear reasons while it gave me way too much information about a hundred different little guys. got the same score each time. incomprehensible to me. a perfect adaptation of the source material
Wharton School Alum
"Countries heavily reliant on US aid see a 10.5% increase in maternal mortality following a switch from a Democratic to a Republican administration—about 44.7 additional deaths per 100 000 live births."
gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...
Ship of Theseus-ass post
Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.
A friend went round to his neighbours’ for Eid last night and apparently the wife slightly panicked about hosting white people because she disappeared for a couple of minutes and came back with half a pint of whisky for him. This, to me, is multiculturalism
lots of jarring statistics and heartbreaking stories I could share from this story, but this particular anecdote made me tear up when @jonathanwosen.bsky.social first shared this story with me
For more details from our survey of ~1000 nih-funded researchers, read the report below
We only rate dogs. This appears to be a kangaroo stuck in your trunk. Please release him he doesn't belong there. And only send dogs. Thank you... 12/10 (TT: saussagedawggg)
Indivisible Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Says NO KINGS! Saturday, March 28th, 12:00 City-County Building, 414 Grant St, Pittsburgh Co-sponsored by 1Hood Power, Pittsburgh Women for Democracy, Common Defense, Stand Up for Science, Pittsburgh Healthcare Workers Scientists and Scholars, CMU Democrats, ACLU Pennsylvania, TransYOUniting, Pittsburgh Indivisible Regent Square, B-PEP, Indivisible Grassroots Pittsburgh, Pittsburghers for Progress, Indivisible Black Neighborhoods United, Casa San José, Steel City Stonewall Democrats, League of Women Voters (LWV), Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW).
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There will be peakers and also groups tabling -- let's raise our voices, and connect to action!
Primary voting for governor, Congress and much of the Pennsylvania legislature is on May 19 — and each chamber is narrowly divided. Do you know who’s on the ballot? Check out Allegheny County’s midterm ballot. buff.ly/Lwvc99I
He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.
All 3 books in this series are great.
Bellevue, Sunday at noon. We're at Tavern Pizza and the floor is yours. What does your neighborhood need from local journalism? Come talk. Register (space is limited but tickets are free): buff.ly/L8XONsr
Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:
