it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone
a worn copy of The Complete Guide to Electronic Games by Howard J. Blumenthal lies on top of a colorful Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey program. The 1981 book has a black cover with bright red and yellow lettering, a white plastic comb binding, and a library label at the bottom left. Its cover is crowded with photos of early handheld and tabletop electronic games, while the circus program peeks out behind it in bright blue, red, and yellow.
Now that I own The Complete Guide to Electronic Games, I will never need another electronic games reference guide again.
My own folksonomy of watching every UFO video at the time was: Mylar balloon, stars, planets, flares from planes, planes, cars, rockets, infrared or not camera artifacts, satellites, UAVs, blimps, sky lanterns, any of the these in mirage, pranks, but also mostly Hedburg style "Blurry" and more, lol
If you're ever lost in a trackless forest, try saying out loud, "My laptop is too slow."
Follow the voice calling out "Install Linux!"
Us skittering across this uncertain world
Baseball 1. Thunderstruck 2. All I Do Is Win 3. Up! 4. We Will Rock You 5. Big Dawgs 6. HEAVEN ON THIS EARTH 7. Lose Yourself 8. The Largest 9. Enter Sandman 10. Thunder Softball 1. Row My Boat 2. Pretty Girls Walk 3. All I Do Is Win 4. Golden 5. Girl On Fire 6. Unstoppable 7. Up! 8. Thunderstruck 9. Takedown 10. Roar
Once again the only pop chart that matters is BallparkDJ's monthly ranking of walkup songs for Little League baseball and softball
Removal of persistent failure even without reason is encoded in your brain as learned success ? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Can an infinite amount of typing monkeys eventually create a benchmark that even they can't pass, who you were probably saving for breakfast? Forgive me they were delicious
Two boxes of Churu treats, one of which is salmon with tuna and one of which is tuna with salmon
hmmm
Super nice coincidence to be in a quiet room planning on how to enjoy the pretty day, skimming the email of the postal mail for today and hearing the contented idle earpiece phone conversation noises from the mail person dropping it in the box at the same moment.
Congratulations ! 🥳 🥳 🥳
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Opinion from the Washington Post Editorial Board: What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy
Opinion from the Washington Post Editorial Board: Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss. The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it.
The Washington Post -- left, last August, right today -- has you covered
Mii versions of Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn enjoying a meal in a restaurant.
Mii Dinner With Andre
For the Midwestern new world struggles to be born kind of cats my local school board public radio foisted this on me on the way to coffee yesterday
youtu.be/UHFdtQU-16U
my preoccupation for the last 13 years.
my preoccupation for the next 5 weeks.
likely my preoccupation for the next 13 years.
too cool lol
when Musk bought Twitter I mentioned repeatedly that a BIG part of it was right wing information warfare
and I got a lot of odd, cocksure replies about how I was "overthinking it," "it's not 4D chess," "he's not that smart" "he tried to back out, so how could it be true," etc.
weird shit
I love that building design I was around some buildings that it reminds me of ... Mid century haha
Exactly how?
How is expertise supported by it? Do they blend with our minds, order & fortify them? Do they organise our neurons into critical thinking? Just Idiotic!
"Used thoughtfully and transparently, generative AI may support[] human judgment, expertise, and critical thinking "
rdcu.be/feuu1
Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.
HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.
Congratulations on the tour !! Travel safe !!!!
a short meme about getting dirty when you're eating, showing two chopsticks, a bowl of pho, and a white shirt
you can also skip the chopsticks and pho and just drink a cup of coffee
We had a mass longevity movement in the 20th century. It was called public health. It included vaccines, antibiotics, nutritional programmes, maternal support, cancer research.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.
Marshall McLuhan observing modern society: haha holy shit lol
Alex excels at avoiding consequences in ways that mere mortals could only dream of. Great work from Anna, as always.
There's actually a fun story behind this: the guy who was NYC superintendent of school buildings from 1891 to 1923 was an architect who believed in holistic learning, and wanted to inspire kids to rise out of poverty by giving them a sense of the possibility of granduer through construction.