"POLIO IS NOT 'SITMAXXING'"

New to the idea of adding Alt Text to images? This is the best thread I’ve seen explaining what and why. The basic idea is to write a brief description of any image you post. For people who can’t see the image well and need a text-based option.

LLM minus homonyms

shouldn't it just draw a rectangle

* then do a u turn

We also have roundabouts, which, also oof

Now I live in Ohio where they just throw you to the wolves.

Thanks for introducing the jughandle concept! It is indeed a cute name.

Diagram of Michigan left from state DOT

Sent me to google and this looks so much more efficient than the "Michigan left"
Everyone turns right, those who wanted to go left the do a u-turn.
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Vintage Sixfinger toy (“The most amazing toy ever!”), which is a toy gun that looks like an index finger, that had swappable functions - including a cap bomb, a ballpoint pen, SOS, shooting a secret bullet, shooting a secret message, and shooting a fragmentation bomb

I don’t want to point any fingers, but we used to be a country of genuine innovation.

If you kill your wife, you don't get to be a husband anymore Some lessons from the media coverage of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer's murders.

My latest.

"These men made the choices to change their relationship status from being these women’s life partners — to being their life-takers. & our coverage should reflect that."

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I briefly interviewed him back then for a story about his hs coach.

"That's you -- what the fuck are you talking about?"

"Benny god?"

Taz sitting nicely on a dog bed wearing a cone of shame just to pose for the photo

Selfie I took in back seat with Taz wedging his body between my shoulders and the headrest and looking back at me

My profile is Taz as parrot, and there's Taz posing nicely for what our news site uses as stock photo for "veterinarian"

a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.

Even when I uncheck the "sign up for updates " box, there they are in the inbox

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Oh! I just realized that means the nice deli people would probably crack a bag and portion you a pint.

Sometimes they're out, might be the problem

Right, start at the ice cream and go all the way to the last cooler before they ask you to man the slicer

I think the bags are in the end cap off the prepared food cases. I mean the ones along the wall. Under the packaged cheeses.
(We are fans. Although I kind of gave up on pizza because I never get it right )

Weiland's has Ezzo in pint containers in the lower shelf of the cooler to the right of the deli counter. Choice of cup and crisp or cup and char.

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

a two panel meme panel 1 - geordi signalling 'no' with the text data centres and images of data centres Panel 2 - geordi signalling 'yes' with the text "data centaurs" and a crudely edited image of the character data from star trek pasted on top of a centaur

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

whenever you see something like this you need to remember that some people are so naturally dull that anything that isn't boredom feels terrifying to them

I cleaned the basement for the length of Beethoven's Ninth and that's enough for today

Belle's Bread! Best French toast

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

“What are the best and worst Morrissey lyrics?”

There's an important bit of journalism ethics here: do your best to minimize harm. This means taking a trauma-informed approach, not rushing the story and shoving survivors into the worst, period, hell, period before they're ready, and it means getting it right the FIRST time, not later