Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Trans Day of Visibility is tomorrow. #TDOV #ProtectTheDolls

we need more places where he can exist in public without being expected to buy anything, not fewer

In honor of Twin Peaks day, give yourself a present.

Rather than feed a megalomaniac with your attention, try:

•Dancing slowly with your arms out
•Stacking donuts
•Eating pie
•Befriending a tree, or part thereof

Shout out to everyone currently experiencing everything

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time.

It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

Hero of 2025: Alice Wong The disability justice icon's last message: "Don’t let the bastards grind you down."

“I’m honored to be your ancestor and believe that disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

Yet another example of using “AI” but mixing up GenAI and other forms of machine learning.

The polls they cite about AI attitudes? People are talking about GenAI

The examples where AI is working? Non-GenAI machine learning.

The latter, more speculative ones? Back to GenAI

Fave trick of AI fans

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and my town is flooded with cocaine now that Trump pardoned all the traffickers. But at least the State Department is using Times New Roman again.

I love kids. I have two of them. They’re amazing. However, kids are the absolute least self aware, clumsiest little puffins on the planet.

Please don’t drive tonight unless you have to, and if you do drive, drive super slow and pay 100% attention at all times.

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 💀

#PublicHealth

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy. Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach.

To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat.

And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

Be the Chotnier you want to see in the world.

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women.

Someone, plz ask him.

Jia Tolentino writes some really funny lines. " On social media, many of the most chaotic and emotionally lawless people you’ve ever known are posting on a regular basis about having at long last achieved inner peace."

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because

a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked

b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter.

Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting.

#art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

slurpee machine with one crashed screen

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

I wish private equity could buy climate change so it would stop
working

The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

see, the thing *i’m* genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

Let’s not forget that earlier today, this day was known as “we cannot build bananas in America” day. That is, until everything went bananas

trump threatening to nationalize spacex would be something i tell u what

the enemy of my enemy of my enemy oh the hell with it

the number of times i was told i did not really want a simple chronological feed

this is obviously quite minor but the more i hear rfk jr. talk about anything the more bewildered i am by the entire nuzzi thing