I will be very, very happy when we are not moving any more. Honestly, I will be completely fine when we are UNPACKING. Unpacking is fun. But the 'time to dismantle your house' thing we're doing now? christ on little crackers

my god, they've painted the Le Creuset black to appear ominous www.lecreuset.com/explore-colo...

how nice!

The Independent@the-independent.com · 5d ago

ChatGPT down: OpenAI chatbot not working in major outage

a) this is, unfairly, both functional and good b) the experience of listening to it is akin to some of the sequencing tricks I have witnessed @kierongillen.bsky.social pull in a Thoughtbubble set c) I would, in fact, dance to this

Jake Casella Brookins@casella.bsky.social · 6d ago

Also must share this Sistine Chapel of mashups:

Help fund 3LBE magazine for 2027 on Kickstarter and we’ll all get to read new stories by these amazing authors… and more on the way! 🖌 A.T. Greenblatt, Shane Hawk, Jordan Kurella, Arkady Martine, Sam J. Miller, Sarah Read, Eden Royce, A.D. Sui, Michael Wehunt, Kelsea Yu 🖌 kck.st/4x4r1oz

Still finding more ink that could be your ink rather than ours! Reply with interest and we will get the ink shipped to you ASAP. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Inks

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On my way to @laworldcon.bsky.social! Well, I will be, if my plane gets to the Second Smallest Airport I've Ever Flown Out Of. Here's where to find me:

Still some ink available that could be your ink instead of our ink!

Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller@byzantienne.bsky.social · 2w ago

things you discover while packing to move across the country: you have way too much fountain pen ink would YOU like fountain pen ink instead docs.google.com/spreadsheets... reply with your selections and we'll go from there; everything gets mailed next week. Sadly no shipping outside the US.

packing

I have always thought that Dolly Parton was one of the thirty-six righteous people - Judaism's lamed vav tzadikim, the people the Talmud says hold the world together, often secretly and unknown even to themselves. I am very sad she is no longer with us, and sure she is with her God, who she loved.

things you discover while packing to move across the country: you have way too much fountain pen ink would YOU like fountain pen ink instead docs.google.com/spreadsheets... reply with your selections and we'll go from there; everything gets mailed next week. Sadly no shipping outside the US.

Inks

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I highly approve. Social science core classes at UChicago were amongst the ones that taught me the most in terms of analytical skill, disciplinary breadth, and complex thinking. All of which are next to impossible to cultivate when outsourced to sparkling autocorrect.

Nina Metz@ninametz.bsky.social · 2w ago

All social science core classes at the University of Chicago will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students and professors

kittens AND unions for everyone

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 2w ago

What if we had kittens AND unions??

long duration vampire storage

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3w ago

No one talks about how effective captive vampires would be as a power source. Expose to sunlight, fwoosh. Drip blood, reconstitute, repeat. Probably at least competitive with coal.

I ... I don't think that's ever happened before. Not in a professional baseball game. I could be wrong. But. I don't think that's ... ever? happened? I was going to say 'blaseball' but like for fuck's sake

Casey Drottar@caseydrottar.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Brewers are up 22-0 over Seattle, and one of those runs came because Julio Rodríguez caught the second out and threw it into the stands thinking it was the third.

One thing that heartens me a good bit: my strong impression is that there’s a broad consensus among at least professional fiction writers that using generative AI makes you look like a lazy untalented hack, and we should do everything we can to solidify that

Sunny Moraine@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’ve been wondering for a while if there’s at least an outside chance that in some areas the threatened AI job loss will boomerang hard in favor of actual qualified humans while people who outsourced their cognition to the plagiarism machine will have a much harder time, and I think that’s correct

Maria of the Mongols https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/maria-of-the-mongols-1320

back in NM. now we have to ... pack. I am never more attuned to the Buddhist teaching about attachment to the material world bringing suffering than I am while moving house

Holy shit you guys are rockstars and I have to source MORE MAILING SUPPLIES <3 (keep it up, I'm enjoying having to pack up all these objects to send instead of haul back to Santa Fe) ~TODAY ONLY everything is HALF OFF~

Vivian Shaw@ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 4w ago

EXTRA EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! ONE DAY ONLY! 50% OFF SALE ON ALL BLEEDING HART STUDIO ITEMS! We're moving, so now's your chance to snag a piece for 50% off its original price, FRIDAY ONLY. Tell your friends! Shout it in exuberance from the top of something very high! www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

TOMORROW FRIDAY ONE DAY ONLY 50% OFF SALE ON LITERALLY ALL THESE JEWELS there is an absurd amount of semiprecious stone and uranium glass that can be yours for much less money than usual because would YOU want to move rocks across the country, no, no, that's the postal service's job

Vivian Shaw@ceruleancynic.bsky.social · 4w ago

EXTRA EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! ONE DAY ONLY! 50% OFF SALE ON ALL BLEEDING HART STUDIO ITEMS! We're moving, so now's your chance to snag a piece for 50% off its original price, FRIDAY ONLY. Tell your friends! Shout it in exuberance from the top of something very high! www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin...

as I said to some coworkers this morning what climate benefits? what actual, defined, measurable benefits? ('magic computer god will fix climate change because AGI' is not a benefit.)

PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide@tkovach.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Indirect rebound is the big issue...Unless we implement policies and actions that rapidly lower emissions across the economy as a whole, then any economic boost from AI will generate a lot more emissions, and the climate will get notably worse."

in the spirit of several other energysky folks: I am going to be at NYC Climate Week. What should I be going to that I don't know about yet? (pretty booked on Tuesday already though)

this is just cool. possibly literally. at a point. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

Mayor Mamdani, Governor Hochul and MTA Announce Plan to Lower Subway Platform Temperatures and Harness Thermal Energy in Lower Manhattan

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I remember this place! You totally introduced me to it, Alex. During the most dubious part of my 20s. 😆 Note: the dubiousity I was experiencing at least had nothing to do with exploding the restaurant

Alex T Singer, Arbiter of Bagels@moonsheen.bsky.social · 4w ago

The half off sushi place in the East Village, NY. Went there for the first time when I was 21. Introduced so many friends to it over the years. It...was literally destroyed in a fiery explosion due to an illegal gas hookup.

Took myself to MoMA to see the Duchamp exhibit. Again reminded that I mostly like 1910s-20s Duchamp on an aesthetic level, even if I think the rest of his work is intellectually interesting.

Cat vampires. That’s what I think. Boat of cat vampires, right there.

The Sacramento Bee@sacbee.com · last mo.

The Tacoma Police Department estimates over 30 cats were free-roaming on board a deserted watercraft Thursday - with no sign of the owner.

The article should mention that none of this would have been possible without support of Laborers’ International Union of North America Minnesota & North Dakota, which supported the project and ensured it was built by union workers. Learn more about this here awf.labortools.com/listen/minne...

Minnesota’s largest solar plant will be built with 100% union labor

The AWF Union Podcast is the nation’s premier daily labor program. Kevin Pranis of LiUNA Minnesota and North Dakota joined us on today’s show.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo@0lsi.bsky.social · last mo.

Minnesota just plugged a 710-megawatt #solar farm into a coal plant that once burned 30,000 tons a day. The unique approach to connecting the panels to the grid allowed it to sidestep a typically years-long connection process.

El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.

periodical reminder to check out Bleeding Hart Studio on Etsy for all your beaded necklace and earring needs! www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... :) Shipping a little slower than usual, but we're still open for business! SOME EXAMPLES ~

live from New York, it's... all the summer jewels you need at Bleeding Hart Studio! 😍

Vivian Shaw@ceruleancynic.bsky.social · last mo.

periodical reminder to check out Bleeding Hart Studio on Etsy for all your beaded necklace and earring needs! www.etsy.com/shop/Bleedin... :) Shipping a little slower than usual, but we're still open for business! SOME EXAMPLES ~