Ah the joy of finding out how amazing reading glasses are going to be. Getting old is silly, but that's going to be a miracle change for all my crafting.

I really appreciate google's AI explaining references a 7th grader would get instead of giving me the search results I'm looking for. Very useful. Jfc. Amazing to watch them utterly destroy the tools they built.

The magic crafts of my great grandmother are still just cool. Magazine adds to beads with a toothpick and some glue? Definitely seems like it shouldn't be real, but works beautifully!

I just had the strangest (good) customer service interaction. My Oura ring is being weird, so I gave their bot assistant a try. It looked at my data, told me it was broken, and confirmed the size and color to replace it in like 3 minutes. I feel like I just stepped through a mirror to another time.

Look, no one should be surprised Crowe participated, but these presidents should be booed, reviled, and made to feel utter shame and exclusion every time they try to speak to serious people. This is repulsive.

Megan Zahneis@mzahneis.bsky.social · 2d ago

The presidents of WashU, Arizona State, Kansas, and Johns Hopkins, in concert with the Association of American Universities, helped draft a new version of last year's White House compact. “We’d much rather be a partner than play the guessing game as we have been,” Kansas' president told Bloomberg.

Look women’s clothing brands. If you talk about "inclusive sizing" but every one of your models has a B/C cup, I'm not even bothering to try anything. Clothes for women with larger chests are not just bigger. I need DARTS. I need PRINCESS SEAMS. I do not need the same shirt xeroxed up.

Life goals.

Boredwalk@boredwalk.com · 2d ago

I refuse to age gracefully; I am going to age like one of those fairytale witches, only growing more powerful & notorious with each passing year.

This definitely ties with the punk nights in DC for favorite library outreach activities.

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 2d ago

I've mentioned in the past that I sponsored a local female race car driver and put pro-library messages on the car. They did a "pit party" where kids could come through, see the cars, etc. Andrea got book stickers made so all the kids could sign her car. Truly some of my best library outreach work.

I'm always jealous of people who have gorgeous and fun shaped nails, so since I've been off the computer taking care of family I figured I'd grow mine. So yeah, I'm not coordinated enough for this. Not only can I not type on a keyboard, I have stabbed myself several times. How do people DO this?!

We're putting all this human effort into building AI most people don't want when we could be doing something useful like eliminating mosquitoes from earth. What a waste! Context: I have so many mosquito bites, my mom's joking it's good she knows I've had chickenpox already.

"Oh we're you trying to do something that wasn't about a cat?"

Almost a year into the federal occupation of D.C., we want to hear from residents like you: What memory sticks out to you most about the past year? What questions do you have about the ongoing takeover? And what are you seeing in the streets? Take our survey here:

It's almost like people who have never experienced real consequences don't believe there are any downsides to their behavior. There are too many of these people in the current government and it's designed to reward them.

Democracy Dies in Dorkness@lizamazel.bsky.social · 3d ago

“He would get in trouble and just—nothing ever seemed to happen..." “Because he is Max Miller,” said another classmate. “He gets out of stuff" “He’s rich, he’s well-connected, his family is well-connected. It’s not surprising to me that he doesn’t pay consequences for the things he does."

Anyone have ideas on where I could buy a replacement box for an old Yahtzee set? Ideally, I'd like one that that is the same size on top, so I can paste on the original box top (14x8) and made of wood. I am having no luck finding things and may just be searching the wrong thing maybe?

This headline could be more dramatic honestly. "US Military Kills Medivac Crew During Exercise" is more accurate. We cannot have 400 mile sections of the country lose navigation randomly because our security forces think they're the only thing that matters.

WIRED@wired.com · 3d ago

Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.

From the article "Flock chief executive Garrett Langley said misuse of its systems is inevitable and that the company is focused on providing tools to catch perpetrators after the fact." So they know they're making a stalking tool and are assisting anyway.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

This seems like a solid target for lobbying state legislators and one that is achievable with bipartisan efforts (different reasons - same goal). Someone better at internet legislation would need to look at the Delaware law, but it sounds like a good move from this reporting.

ACLU@aclu.org · 5d ago

To preserve privacy in the digital age, high tech government surveillance tools — like reverse warrants — must be reined in. The Supreme Court recently issued a ruling to help protect our privacy, now our lawmakers must finish the job.

The way disability works in this country makes it so unbelievably hard to take care of family members that it is ridiculous. Inherit money to guarantee long-term care if something goes wrong = lose Medicaid. Figuring out how to keep someone safe is just too hard in this legal regime and shouldn't be

Every time I have a convo about COVID with an idiot, I think about this. My level of rage is still so high from working public health for this one I'm not sure it will ever go all the way away.

🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽@rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 6d ago

Some of us had to watch all of these horrible things playing out at were traumatized by it (me) and some of us were people being forced to live out all the horrible things the rest of us were watching (healthcare workers, public health officials, teachers, grocery store workers etc)

Can we finally have a conversation about the need for evaluation of things like this as policy failures? We're subsidizing corporate profits while citizens starve and what EXACTLY are we getting in return at this point?

Paula Wirth@paulawirth.bsky.social · last wk.

Pixar receives a $26.2 Million Tax credit to keep film jobs in CA, and immediately lays off 10% of its work force, after making over a billion from Toy Story 5, the highest-grossing film of 2026.

In the 1920s? Sewing, farming, singing, acting/writing. I'm a terrible farmer tbh. Sewing is the only one I'd be good at really. Though I wouldn't mind being in the bit that was sparkling intelligentsia, I'm not sure I have the personality for it.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

At some point in the escalation of this kind of behavior, the Union becomes untenable. Politicizing disaster aid is just pure evil. It is a fundamental function of and reason to maintain a national government.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 7d ago

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Ah yes. The ever joyful moment of "Soooo.... I pinned this to fit really nicely and uh did not consider which direction those pins are going in taking it off." Woopsies. Sorry mom! 😬

"We didn't *mean* to say you shouldn't have Home Rule, just that you shouldn't have Home Rule on issues about your own city taxation. Why don't you think that's different?!" Yeah, their letter should net them a permanent boycott. Glad they're feeling the heat and I'll never use them again.

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 7d ago

In a letter to the D.C. Council, Door Dash says its recent advocacy for a House GOP bill that restricts D.C.'s ability to determine taxes and fees reflected its opposition to a new 20-cent delivery tax in D.C., "not D.C.'s broader ability to... govern autonomously."

Awhile ago, I attended a conference at which one of the speakers argued that this exact move was the only way to force manufacturing of these things in the US and when asked about patients in the transition said "I suppose we could subsidize or just live without the drugs." INSULIN FFS.

Jack Nicholson: I'm Not Angry!

Alt: Jack Nicholson: I'm Not Angry! (while sending things flying off a table in anger)

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Tyler King@tyleraking.com · last wk.

I dunno but it should probably be a bigger deal that the White House announced it wants to slap a 100% tariff on drug imports at the same time it is eliminating Medicare drug subsidies. And we’re talking about critical life-saving drugs like insulin, blood thinners, antibiotics, and heart meds.

This is AWESOME. So many lives could be saved if test strips and Narcan were easier to access everywhere.

Lissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀@lissaharris.bsky.social · last wk.

it took like a year of nonsense and we had to get a concrete pad poured for it, but my hospital now has a Narcan free vending machine and I am its restocking goblin what a beautiful day, Alexa play Stayin’ Alive

OR we could expect that someone doing the "just asking questions" routine has read any of 40 years of discussion about food deserts and why money for individuals hasn't solved them. JAQ posts from policy people are only useful if they've bothered to engage - otherwise it's silly AND dishonest.

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner)@danlehner.bsky.social · last wk.

if there’s anything I would want to drill into the public consciousness it’s that there are almost always like a dozen ways to approach any given problem and some of them will be more effective than others and we have to stop acting like the questions around it are against fixing the issue

These poor response people (and it's probably like 2 or 3 people). Apparently people call 911 to report power outages now? Just got a text begging people to use 911 for emergencies and the non-emergency number for power or tree limb reports. This is the 3 giant storm in a month. They should know!

DaemonSky@dsky.bsky.social · last wk.

The people who update my home town's Facebook page during major storms sound really tired. "We are aware of electrical outages and multiple lightening strikes. We will assess the damage when it is safe to do so AFTER the storm passes." = "Fuck off. I'm not going out there either dumbass. Shoo."

The people who update my home town's Facebook page during major storms sound really tired. "We are aware of electrical outages and multiple lightening strikes. We will assess the damage when it is safe to do so AFTER the storm passes." = "Fuck off. I'm not going out there either dumbass. Shoo."

Lightening maps are cool except when the lightening strike says "0.0 miles away" for the last 3.

DaemonSky@dsky.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out I really prefer my lightening strikes where I CAN'T see them. Holy shit that's loud! Totally get why every culture has some kind of storm god now. Nope. Nope. That's sky murder.