By far the most prevalent political signage spotted in this WV trip was anti-data center.
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Almost let the day pass without posting this one!
One of the beanie babies in our Battery Park City apartment was found to be contaminated with mercury, lead and asbestos.
Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 8h ago“More people are believed to have died from illnesses related to the attacks in the years afterward than on Sept. 11 itself.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/n...
“Several deportees who resisted disembarking said they got back on the plane after being told they would be returned to the [US). Instead, they were taken to Equatorial Guinea, loaded into a van, left at a hotel & barred from leaving. They are under constant watch by guards carrying…weapons”
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows (Gift Article)
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Podcasters Meribah Knight and Susan Berfield discuss their new investigative series, "Our Town," and how Gainesboro, Tennessee, became ground zero for a national movement. www.confrontthehate.com/p/a-far-righ...
Inside the Far-Right Experiment to Reshape Rural America
Podcasters Meribah Knight and Susan Berfield discuss their new investigative series, "Our Town," and how Gainesboro, Tennessee, became ground zero for a national movement.
confrontthehate.com
For Computational History I wrote about my AI workflow for turning photos of archival documents into OCR’ed PDFs and structured metadata in Zotero—a huge time saver in the archive and when I’m taking notes after.
Yesterday was 10 years since my dad passed. He worked with glass artists before he died to create a few of these sculptures with his ashes. Art wasn't what he did for a living but he could draw and always loved to play around on the guitar. So no better place to have him around than my art studio.
I found the best book: a 1963 dictionary of Italian hand gestures
just a reminder that alex jones made a good but relatively modest living when he was selling dvds and then started effectively printing money when he switched the business model to supplements
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 17h agothe reason the pushers are pushing this, in ways that are quite sophisticated, is that there's a ton of money in the grift. take the money out!
This Friday 11 September at 9am PT: join me and Dana Chisnell, co-founding member of the U.S. Digital Service (amongst many other achievements!) for episode 10 of How People Work, Live! register + previous episodes at verylittlegravitas.com/how-people-work/live
always here for a cookbook archive
UofGuelphArts@uofguelpharts.bsky.social · 7d agoMeet Dr. Rebecca Beausaert, professor of Rural History in the Department of History in the College of Arts! Her research explores food, gender and community life in rural Canada. Additionally, she co-founded “What Canada Ate,” a digital cookbook archive. Learn : www.uoguelph.ca/profile/rebe...
agi will arrive when you can enter four or five indiscernible keystrokes with an fbi agent looking over your shoulder and the computer processes a blurry image into the face of the killer
i am sick so i will leave this @ashihipar.bsky.social piece here for anyone who wants to know what i think
How to Save Public Health: Follow Labor’s Lead
The Trumpian ascension of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. carries the potential for vast harm. Fortunately, the playbook for lessening the damage has already been written.
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The most enlightening quote about racism I ever heard was "I decide who is a Jew" by Karl Lueger, about why he dined with Jewish people despite his very public and constant antisemitism. People really will go "I am special!" to an absurd degree.
Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · yesterdayThe AfD being led by a lesbian in a domestic partnership with an Indian woman is one of those facts that doesn’t really compute
Nathan Fielder treated Elizabeth Holmes' brain like it was ChatGPT, which it seems to be
Daniel Radosh@radosh.bsky.social · 17h agoIn case you're wondering what the twist in the Nathan Fielder doc everyone keeps talking about is I'm pretty sure it's the thing that comes up about halfway through this review
If you had some trendlines for this, you could pretty easily do a 'collapsing faith' in <<gestures>> story
folks, I want your input! what local elections are you following where you are (or anywhere else really) that you think are important and want others to know about? non-federal contests please: I’m hoping for the county executives, city councilors, state legislators, school boards you care about!
Another Labor Day reminder: Brian Goldstone’s book ‘There is no place for us’ is an amazing book.
Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 21h agoA Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.
A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
nytimes.com
Commenting on this because it's the second time I've seen an example of it tonight and it's a disturbing trend that I don't love: SA and date rape are real world problems that cause real world harm and not cute little trump cards to break out when you're losing an argument on bluesky dot app.
rhaco_dactylus, phd@rhacodactylus.bsky.social · yesterdaybill, if you've ever wondered why women don't leave their drinks unattended around you, this is why guy to guy, please shut the fuck up
TICKETS ARE LIVE, NERDS! Come take a very Lady Topham Catt walk through Morgan Park on 9/20 at 11. I'll be talking historic train stations! Architecture! Black Folks Getting Stuff Done! Women Getting Stuff Done! Neighborhood myths! And yes... there will be terra cotta! Grab a ticket & come through!
Morgan Park Walking Tour
Join Chicago for Chicagoans for a walking tour of Morgan Park, covering neighborhood history, architecture, and current events.
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Lady Topham Catt@ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 3w agoHEADS-UP, NERDS! I'm leading a walking tour of Morgan Park for Chicago for Chicagoans on Sunday, 9/20 at 11. It will start at this lovely station, allowing travelers to experience the delights of the Rock Island line. Free, but this is for a nonprofit. Please give them money! Tickets available 9/6.