Pigeons tend to respond 'at the edge of chaos,' study finds If you were rewarded for following a particular pattern of behavior, wouldn't you keep doing it? The answer turns out to be more nuanced than you might think. In a new study, University of Iowa…

Learn from pigeons:
Nothing that has happened will prepare you for what will. Keep your
options open just in case.

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This counts as tool use, surely

This won’t happen, of course, but it should.

Quilt as Verb, Noun, and Concept Ancient art/craft of quilting given new meaning in “Remixed: Entwined Histories & New Forms,” at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

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Some Marines graduate without their parents' presence amid ICE fears News that ICE would be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events upended family plans, elicited national reaction and drew out protesters, including Marine veterans.

“They were going to come. It was going to be a big thing. We were going to go to the beach right after. All those plans had to go out the window because they said ICE would be here."

Pam Bondi’s portrait was taken down at DOJ and tossed in a trash bin soon after her firing. MS NOW obtained the photo. The move reflects how deeply unpopular she was among career officials. Ken Dilanian & Carol Leonnig scoop www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...

I Signed Up for 100 Craft Newsletters Expecting to Learn. Here's What I Got Instead.

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The Generals are gone.
The AG is gone.
We started a war.
Gas is up.
Healthcare is up.
Prescriptions are up.
The rich are richer.
The poor are poorer.
Protesters have been killed.
Service members have been killed.
The law is a suggestion.
The constitution is a memory.

We. Are. Not. Okay.

I heard someone say that we should be registering voters at gas stations.

African Joke : How Many Goats? A teacher in Tanzania asks his class: “If you had 10 goats and a hyena came and ate 4, how many goats would you have left?” One student raises his hand confidently: “None” T…

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Yet never has so much been seen, so precisely, by so many people who understand so little of what they are seeing. A system can tell you where a man is. It cannot tell you what his death will mean for a nation. Such systems are trained on behavior, not on meaning — they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honors, remembers or would die for.

I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

People aren't picking up crochet hooks to be productive.
They're picking them up to breathe.
If you teach crafts, you're in the wellness business whether you call it that or not. Lean into it. 🌿 #CraftEducator #MindfulMaking #HandmadeHeals

Solar panels being set up by 3 men

China donates 5,000 solar energy systems to Cuba, government prioritizing hospitals!

Beyond the hospital network, which includes more than 280 hospitals and 430 clinics, the project will also reach some 2,000 homes in isolated rural areas.

He warned us he would run our country like his businesses.

Barack Obama pays tribute to Robert Mueller, calling him one of the finest FBI directors in history and honoring his unwavering commitment to the rule of law

How a knitted protest hat sparked a nationwide shortage of red yarn The yarn industry isn’t quick to meet a spike in demand.

Knitters are fired up - and red yarn is running out as they are knitting ICE OUT hats - www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

Washington state just passed a law banning law enforcement (including federal ICE agents) from wearing masks or face coverings while on duty. Gov. Bob Ferguson signed it Thursday and it took effect immediately.

Real President vs. Temu President.

Oh. Stage an assassination attempt, you say? Interesting.

13 craft industry leaders just made their 2026 predictions.
Every single one mentioned the same thing: community.
Not Reels. Not hashtags. Not follower counts.
Community.
If you're a yarn shop owner still betting on Instagram to do that work — this is your sign.
#knitting #yarnstore #yarn

As she and Cesar Chavez made history, Dolores Huerta carried a shocking secret Dolores Huerta said Cesar Chavez raped her in the 1960s, which she kept secret until allegations surfaced that the UFW leader had sexually abused two girls in the 1970s.

As she and Cesar Chavez made history, Dolores Huerta carried a shocking secret

Powell: "The thing a good number of people on the committee are concerned about is very very low level of job creation. If you adjust the trend job creation over the past 6 months for what we think is overstatement due to overcounting, effectively there is 0 net job creation in the private sector"

Ossoff: "The American people need to know that the president is fundraising for his political campaign and his PAC using images of American service members killed in action, and it's a disgrace"

Your weekly teaching email shouldn't feel like a content sprint. Pick ONE knitting technique, ONE problem, ONE solution. Teach it well. Link to your relevant pattern or yarn kit. Done.

Clearly, he spoke to a former president using a Ouija board.

Let's elect people who have put gas in a car and shopped at a grocery store.

💯 on 🎯

Perfect Your Process Summit 2026 Write Better. Revise Smarter. Finish Faster. Perfect Your Process Summit

I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 summit.yourwritingprocess.com

I've seen social engineering work perfectly through code review. The most dangerous PRs I've approved weren't tricked past me - I was convinced they were good ideas. Technical gatekeeping is the easy part. Protecting against persuasive engineers with bad judgment is way harder.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.