I once spent months unable to eat and prayed that I would be able to stomach a plain croissant again. My grandfather had throat cancer and towards the end of his life he longed for nothing more than his favorite burger and milkshake from his hometown diner. Food is a gift and your health is a gift.

They can't destroy your domain when your domain is vibes.

My 24-year-old cousin with a motif for our times.

Beautiful as it is, you do not want your morning sun to look like this.

This is such an great feature (Rebecca is great!), and I've been thinking about it for a few days. IMO, "Influencer" in the ten-years-ago sense was really a LOT of jobs (spokesmodel/copywriter/etc.) but now it's morphing, at least in part, into "intentionally annoying person" which feels worse.

The Influencer Recession

Once upon a time, lifestyle influencers could post cute photos and make millions. Now they are forced to pivot.

vulture.com

Been thinking about this dude in Nebraska a lot lately

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

thinking about buying a new notebook. does anyone know which notebook will fix whatever is wrong with me this time

Camp Kawaii in progress w/ Claude (Fable)

The revolution came to my doorstep. Camp is no longer happening for the rest of our summer. I told my daughter we'll do "Camp Mama" at home, which was quickly vetoed and replaced with "Camp Kawaii." God help us.

Seens like a tall order but OK

Bay Area friends: would you consider opening your home to these two cuddly cats? A friend found them behind a gas station. Their sibling, a black cat, got adopted, but it appears no one likes orange cats. They are being kept in a bathroom for the time being and need a home.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4w ago

A friend of mine found these three kittens behind a Bay Area gas station. They are tame, vaccinated, and incredibly affectionate. Unfortunately, she's unable to keep them and I'm trying to find them a home. They are at risk of going to a shelter. Bay Area people, are you open to adopting?

The Spokane fires were confirmed to have been started by an arsonist. We’re 200+ miles away and even with Moderate air quality you can feel the smoke on your lips today. Outdoor camp activities have been canceled for my kid for the rest of the week. Insane.

Me: “I remember being excited about Singularity University when it launched. Wonder what they’re up to now.” Wikipedia:

Bumping Slayyyter singing about drugs and getting up to untoward things in elevators after dropping my kid off at camp as a 42-year-old lady who goes to bed at 10:30pm and worries about her ibuprofen dosing.

Ignore my own hair and style for a second... I'm convinced that Seattle's mayor would be doing better with voters and the media right now if she had a more flattering haircut. It's all right there in The Diplomat! These things matter. They shouldn't, but they do.

Interesting things are going to start showing up in court documents now that Google searches include entire prompts and agent conversations and not just “Thai food near me.”

ICYWW how weird the past few years of post-divorce dating have been: a therapist once asked if I was sure there wasn't something in my profile leading people to say such unhinged shit to me straight out the gate. 😂

You haven’t yet met all the people who will love you and you haven’t yet heard their l o r e.

I need some kind of handyman + maid + interior designer + babysitter to help me out, which might just be a wife. Got a wife I can borrow for some odd jobs?

One of the most reliable sources of gold bars in America is also the place that sells $1.50 hot dogs. Of course. 🇺🇸

Being a Humanities major who is extremely online and went to a weirdo grad school at NYU for programming + art certainly *feels* like it should be a winning combo rn...

The EU AI Act definition of a deepfake is so general as to be useless. If taken literally, it would cover all AI-generated objects that convincingly look like that real-world object, which at this point is most AI images.

I'm not even a journalist and there are 7 PR people for every one of whatever the hell I am

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2d ago

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Wut?

Smoke from 50 large and uncontained wildfires in the Pacific Northwest will fill the sky once again this week. Expect degraded air quality in Seattle, Salt Lake City and Portland, Oregon.

The wildfire smoke won’t quit: Poor air quality to expand across West

Smoke from 50 large and uncontained wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, including from what may be Washington’s most destructive fire in state history near Spokane, will fill the skies this week.

washingtonpost.com

There’s a YouTube meme from a few years ago where “playing Minecraft in Ohio” = the world becomes all surreal. I was born in the Midwest and I wish. Just corn. youtu.be/W1A5tDTeMzA

can't even play minecraft in ohio 💀

YouTube video by Alexa Real

youtu.be

7-year-old: “Tell me a story.” “About what?” “A crossover.” “OK, of what?” “PaRappa the Rapper and Enchanted.” “I… uhh…..”

Everyone is wondering who caused this! The platform literally has a "Write with AI" button...

404 Media@404media.co · 3d ago

Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it. www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

MILFS in Your Area are being overcome by endless waves of the banal, reconciling the depths of their full capabilities with the limitations of their capacity, separating the weight of expectation from the significance of goals, rewriting their histories, contemplating mortality, etc…