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crone. scientist. my glass needs a refill.
1. I love that she's still just doing her thing 2. How has it been 20 years?! 3. You should go read this now. It's fantastic.
Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com · 6h agoGot a dream piece today: I profiled Deb Perelman aka @smittenkitchen.bsky.social about 20 YEARS of food blogging www.weareravenous.com/smitten-kitc...
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
“While he says he understands that what he did was illegal, despite his arrest and still not having his work truck back, he says he does not regret his decision.”
Arizona man uses truck to bend flock camera in Apache Junction
A Pinal County man used his work truck to bend a license plate-reader camera in Apache Junction over privacy concerns.
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I feel like most people don't even know half of what Dolly is doing because she's too busy doing it and if you aren't paying close attention you'll miss it!
fulana de tal@soulamami.bsky.social · 4d agoIn a world of greedy billionaires, we should all aim to be like Dolly Parton. She’d easily be a billionaire too, but she gives away so much of her money to worthy causes, likes books for kids. Dolly is #goals for real
to add: The west is going to burn, fire has been here longer than the USA has, many Indigenous land management practices work alongside fire. Rather than focusing on who started a fire, we need to work out how to live with fire and how the city became a tinderbox and how to help people right now.
James Stout@jamesstout.bsky.social · last wk.Just wanna caution everyone posting about the Spokane fires that an arrest is not a conviction and if we look at LA they haven’t been able to convict that guy.
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
Doing the good work.
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 2w agoI 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
Who must we petition to have Betelgeuse’s companion star officially designated as ‘Lydia?’ #astronomy #filmsky www.eso.org/public/news/...
Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion - “The conclusion of a century-long quest”
At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), a...
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This week, @sesmith.lol wrote about how some books get deluxe multiple special edition treatment and what that says about publisher priorities. Art by @meowwwls.bsky.social!
A Forest of Special Editions and Influencers
What happens when books become aesthetic objects?
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Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense. /1 futurism.com/health-medic...
Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic's Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care
A former director at the Mayo Clinic claims she was fired in retaliation for reporting the network's horribly inaccurate AI tools.
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if we get to have future generations they will not believe us
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w agoIt’s so cool that the U.S. government posts like fucking psychos
My room temp and correct take on tipping is that if you make a comfortable living you tip servers always and you tip them well because who the fuck do you think you are
i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer
The Las Vegas skyline from Blade Runner 2049 vs the Toronto skyline from right now.
I am going to read this once a week like a goddamn affirmation.
Andrea Grimes@andreagrimes.com · 4w agoI got to resurrect the Bad Advisor for this week's Ask The Flytrap, by request
How am I supposed to work today instead of knocking off early to go make a time machine knowing that this will exist in the world?
David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 4w agoKeanu Reeves Officially Reveals New Sci-Fi Action Movie That Is 'Groundhog Day' Meets 'Jaws' | Shut up and take my money
when you tell us that the people who murdered comity and civility—who are trying to kill and rob and enslave us—are actually your dear friends, you don’t create civility, but despair; we see you don’t actually believe the danger is real, can’t be trusted to fight the battle that needs to be fought.
Today in Lazy Latin Translations: Sun's out, guns out (whilst on the run.)
Today at COYOTE: We spoke to a meteorologist about why we can't just fixate on how powerful this year's El Niño's gonna be. Every climate headline tells two stories: one about rainfall, and another about how it interacts with the human world it’ll land on. www.coyotemedia.org/a-climate-ex...
A Climate Expert on What’s Missing From Super El Niño Headlines
Rainfall inches are easy to quantify and think about, but what happens after it lands on us?
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The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
