On the one hand, I’m glad my daughters have aged out of youth sports so they won’t have to take their pants off for some sweaty creep in order to run track or whatever. On the other, why aren’t these people in jail yet?

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

I remember how relieved we were when the UNC helicopter started flying overhead again because it meant the hospital wasn’t too full to take new patients. He is obviously someone who was nowhere near what happened. A profoundly ignorant man.

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Bad bosses are why I quit the first three ft permanent jobs I had. Good managers are a blessing.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d ago

thinking about how ppl quit bosses but also the reverse- I know ppl who will not switch jobs because they love the person they report to so much plus in the current employment market a manager who won't throw you under the bus and stands up for you in the workplace is worth more than a salary hike

So, we tried to remind attendees at the #DH2026 conference that maintaining and developing a community-based standard needs resources from that community. Become a member of the #TEI consortium! members.tei-c.org/join

Never forget what Trump, his grifting cronies, and his psychopathic claque did to us during COVID. Never forgive. Fauci was a hero, and so was everyone else who fought tooth and nail against the virus, the President, his sycophantic servants, and the zombie hordes. I pray this GOP stunt backfires.

Even people not normally doing patient care were doing patient care. At UNC, there was a VP regularly directing traffic at the drive through testing. My wife (head of QA—that’s like ensuring compliance with govt regs, etc.) was assisting with infusions. It was like a war.

Jonathan Rigsby@ridetrips.bsky.social · 6d ago

One last thing, and I swear I'm done. A nurse at my ER internship told me about what it was like working in the ICU during COVID. Two patients per room, everybody on a ventilator or high flow oxygen.

Cobweb-Covered Skeleton Gripping Senate Desk Expected To Seek 15th Term

Trump couldn't even hold the trophy up. Infantino had to help him.

The Trump curse is undefeated

How will the ref disallow this one?

This is very dramatic

Great. They broke Licha

Shut up Tom Cruise.

I’m afraid this is very incorrect. Also, the Odyssey, notoriously, is epic poetry, not drama. But the drama is often quite sophisticated too.

Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱@djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 3w ago

Also, there's no such thing as subtext. There's virtually no situation, in ancient Greek dramaturgy, where the audience is supposed to have a different understanding of a given character's lines than the other characters on stage

Full disclosure: I saw the Odyssey movie yesterday. It’s totally worth seeing and very good. It does not manage the level of complexity of the original, but the medium has its own limitations, and maybe it’s not possible to tell the story in a sophisticated enough way…

Ok. That was hilarious

Tuchel fighting hard to keep his job

Public Begs Mitch McConnell To Stop Releasing Photos Of Himself https://theonion.com/public-begs-mitch-mcconnell-to-stop-releasing-photos-of-himself/

Daughter downstairs railing about Tuchel’s abysmal tactics from yesterday. ❤️

As I expected.

Preparing to be upset. #worldcup

Dostoevsky wrote Lindsey Graham’s epitaph in Crime and Punishment: “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”

Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 4w ago

US Senator Lindsey Graham passes away https://aje.news/1rnupi

Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.

Developers are funny. If you’ve created for them a simple and foolproof way to do a thing, they will insist on doing it in a more complex and brittle way.

Or maybe, hear me out, the chess moves were being made by all the people who endorsed him, thinking that bad call would pay off because he’d win. Maybe AOC has, as she’s always seemed to have, a conscience? Not merely savvy political judgement.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last mo.

AOC not getting behind Graham Platner looks like a chess move now.

That’s what you get. Humiliated by Belgians

Hello friends. Can any of you recommend a firm or consultant that troubleshoots and mitigates radio frequency interference problems in the greater NYC area? Please boost for visibility. #RFI #EMI #radio #NYC

#NYC folks: avoid the area around 235 E. 42nd St. (between 2nd and 3rd avenues) due to potential for high-rise collapse. Per FDNY according to ABC7. Please boost for visibility. abc7ny.com/post/midtown...

Workers find buckling beams inside Midtown building under construction; nearby buildings evacuated

Officers say the workers spotted structural support beams beginning to buckle on the 21st floor and self-evacuated.

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Speaking of user agent fun: a colleague has been fighting a bot claiming to be googlebot, but issuing a nutty request volume. So keep an eye out for that, kids.

Ah well, at least it was funny. The Trump curse is undefeated.