I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

If there are folks who would like to design a couple of "FUND OUR LOCAL PUBLIC LIBRARIES" posters, holler at me at niapoetry@gmail.com and please tell me your rate for this. Poster size would be 11 by 17 landscape size.

I need to print some posters for a forthcoming event.

Georgia O'Keeffe Pink Moon over Water | 1924

Georgia O'Keeffe
Pink Moon over Water | 1924

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

National Library Workers Day sign

Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚

Can't help but wonder what percentage of folks up in arms about eugenics in this case threw their masks out [if they even wore them to begin with] the second they heard 'smiles are back'

This is the way. But as stated, it's REALLY hard to hold yourself to it. The temptation to wring every last minute out of a trip is a real thing.

There are times when lengthy exposition on how sucky it is doing the right thing isn’t appropriate, sure. But hating it and doing it anyway bc you know it’s the right thing to do is a stronger indicator of real moral fortitude than doing the right thing when it’s easy and fun.

He was so wrong.

Both of my parents and my in-laws have moved steadily left in their old age. My sis and I have always been firmly left and I would describe both of us as extremely progressive and myself maybe as radical left?

My dad told me in high school that I would move to the right when I had to pay taxes.

This would be incredible anywhere. In Minneapolis because of the long winters, in DC because of the hot and muggy summers…put them everywhere

No! ICE must be abolished! Pretending these agencies just need guardrails means you just believe they are poorly trained. They are not. They are trained to be corrupt & brutal. But you know this Senator. You know this.

You know how your greatest enemy is the person who lived in your house before you? New version just dropped: the person who set an alarm in your hotel room for an hour before you needed to get up

Come on, why do we infantilize Trump supporters? He was always dysfunctional & they always could have seen it if they wanted to. They chose not to because they were on board with his bigotry & shared it. They're mad because he's coming after them too & that's it. White folks are not poor babies!

unusual whales @unusual w.... 5h BREAKING: Businesses can claim refunds starting today for Trump tariffs declared unconstitutional, per AP Tim @trouble man90 So businesses raised their prices ta offset the tariffs, we the consumers paid those higher prices, and now those same businesses can get reimbursed from the government for tariffs we already covered for them by paving higher prices?? And *they* get a refund and we don't??

America, in a nutshell

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

"The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and take our jobs are the people who are hoping that will be true. They may be hoping this because it makes them feel important, or because they want to be billionaires, or because they simply do not understand other people."

I'm so sorry for your loss. It's so hard to lose a family member.

It’s a problem that the party that’s supposed to be the one that doesn’t hate us can’t hide their disdain for us. Can’t make a single promise. Can’t stop condescending.

What irks the heck out of me is there are no arguments about use cases. It's never "here's a task that you need AI for." It's all vague "you'll be left behind" nonsense.

It is fundamentally dishonest and completely delusional to be going around saying "ah, someone is not technically correct about their reason for disliking AI! AI skepticism is therefore very much like the anti-vax movement!" Go fall in a hole

A lot of people need to appreciate the distinction between "I enjoyed this" and "this was worth it."

We do stuff that we don't enjoy that is nevertheless worth doing nearly every day. The scale of the positive impact doesn't eliminate the part that's unpleasant, even if it makes the decision easy.

Every introvert I know had a hard time with the early part of the pandemic. They typically did better than extroverts, but that’s not saying much.
Missing your friends and family is *normal* if you have friends and family that are nice to you.

It is incredibly hard to get antibiotic ointment to stay inside your nostril during allergy season, in case you were wondering. (Fucking might finally have solved this non-sinus nasal infection tho! fingers crossed times a million.)

Living through the COVID lockdowns alone is why I was able to call out the George Floyd protests as a time of collective mourning and catharsis, not true racial reckoning.

I hate that the past six years have proven me correct, but so many people in my personal orbit showed their asses in 2020.

Chris Kluwe for Assembly Chris Kluwe for Assembly's campaign

So, uh, gotta do the campaign fundraising stuff because it’s gotta get done.

Who wants to chip in $4.20?

i have a hot take about "literacy" that's related to this thread (which i have nearly retweeted comprehensively already lol)

i think people understand AI plenty already. i think formal auditing tools & CS degrees are pathologically revered. i think you can understand automation as a worker!

big day for all the tims out there

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Tim Onion might know the answer!

Orange fluffy cat inside my car.

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.