Old Looney Tunes with YouTube thumbnails like Yosemite Sam TOTAL MELTDOWN over Varmint
R.E. 2026
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📚 Print Designer making tech books and other goodies for Smashing Magazine. 📿 Yoga Teacher & Yoga Therapist in training. 💭 Overthinker. Klutzy. Caffeinated.
A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks
This is an old thread, but the responses and QPs just keep on giving:
weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo agolet's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?
You "finish" writing a book like 37 times before it is actually done, and each round is absolute hell
Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2d agoWriting a book is so weird because before it’s released there are half a dozen REALLY IMPORTANT DEADLINES for drafts & edits and each completely consumes you & is impossible to explain. “I just spent 72 hours locked in a room doing my copy edit review; I forgot what the sky looks like” “…congrats?”
"Currently, U.S. governments are projected to spend $6.3 trillion on highways over the next 20 years — substantially more than it would cost to build world-class transit, according to the report." www.governing.com/transportati...
What a Public Transit ‘Moonshot’ Would Cost the U.S.
A new report outlines what it would cost to bring world-class transit to America’s urbanized areas.
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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
“Can I ask you a question?” in dialogue ruins almost any book, movie, or TV show for me.
Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d agoWhat is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?
View from the kitchen window this morning. They’ve been using our (deliberately mostly-wild) backyard as home base since spring. 🥰
It only took 4 years for investors to actually pay attention www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
Spending more than you make isn’t an ideal business practice.
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IN A WORLD WHERE TWO ROADS DIVERGE ONE CHOICE CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
Even in the middle of summer, sometimes you’ve just gotta make the heavy iron skillet meal and a big loaf of bread to sop up all the juices because you really miss hearty winter food.
You know who else did this? Most of Europe in the 1920s
Brett Meiselas@bmeiselas.bsky.social · 2w agolots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism
Sorry to be Uncle Marxism but employer-based healthcare is a tool of social control for the ruling class
NPR@npr.org · 2w agoAbout 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E
Australia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations • Water usage will be limited • AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy • AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission • Proposals expected to be introduced in 2027
THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.
Everything including the planet is very weird right now and there may be no path back (or even ahead) to “normal.” We have to push for a more just version of “weird” instead
Okay, but which grandfather 🤔 Oliver Yogurt or Lawton Yogurt
kim@kimmymonte.bsky.social · 3w agoyour baseball pitcher name is your grandfather’s first name and the last thing you bought i’ll go first mine’s Dominic Sandals
This whole thread about reactions to the death of Lindsey Graham and what they mean is a good one, but the universal part is here: there are always a few “tributes” that emphasize the storyteller’s connection to the departed more than the person who died. It feels like theft.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3w agoIt's literally their way of saying: "This person was important. This person knew me. Here's a story about how we knew each other. So, I am important." Like buzzards picking off the last morsels of influence they can from him.
“The feminist case for rebranding menopause has long been clear. American health care largely treats every woman as if she were either prepregnant, pregnant or invisible.” I would argue that this is true for women’s health in most of the world. But yes, glad we are finally talking about this.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w agoAll of the branding finally got me to talk about menopause. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/13/o...
One hour and 28 minutes on hold and navigating phonebots just to make one simple appointment for my Mother. Caregiving is draining on multiple fronts, not the least of which is time.
Caregiving is a massive economic opportunity or a massive economic crisis in waiting because nearly the entire care infrastructure rests on the unpaid labor of women, especially.
Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 4w agoSharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone
To be in media history. Is to speak ill of the dead and ill of the people who helped hide it ! Take more history classes but sprinkle in some media and help us spread the word!
Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 4w agoTo be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
“Over one-third of American children and a staggering 53 percent of Black children will be subjected to a child protective services investigation at some point in their childhoods. The vast majority of accused parents will be vindicated, but only after a stressful, unjustified process.”
@silverlinks.bsky.social · 4w ago
My Mom had another fall while I was traveling. She is okay, but now that I have a clearer picture of what’s going on, it’s obvious they are trying to kick her out of PT rehab a little too soon. *sighs in US healthcare* Gathering strength for the interesting conversations I get to have this week. 🤞