I know this is sincere. It just blows my mind how people cannot imagine a person being…different from themselves. I mean, the answer is they aren’t you and they are making choices based on their needs and preferences. That’s always the answer.
So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d ago“.. It was a rare display of unity by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, who have been spending tens of billions of dollars to develop evermore powerful artificial intelligence models.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
In the latest edition of #AskABoss, a letter-writer says they feel like a parent to their younger colleagues, who seem to have no emotional self-regulation skills and are oversharing about their personal lives. Read columnist Alison Green's response.
‘My Gen-Z Employees Treat Me Like Their Mommy’
You’re not alone in this trend. The key is to communicate empathy while setting firm boundaries.
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Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.
Restaurants around the country are pursuing the cooperative ownership model. Here’s how they did it (and how you can do it, too).
A Guide to Worker-Owned Restaurants
Restaurants around the country are pursuing the cooperative ownership model. Here’s how they did it (and how you can do it, too).
buff.ly
We used to think that once ovaries had passed through the menopausal transition, the scarred (from making all those eggs!), shrunken organs sat inert in the body. NOPE. "What we found was super surprising.” says Francesca Duncan at @medillschool.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/2533...
this is correct: the USPS rule is about mailing *to* voters (not *from*) we have an explainer on this! boltsmag.org/mail-voting-...
Michael Anderson@michaelander45.bsky.social · 2w agoJust to be 100% clear here I just read the source materials and the whistle blower is describing the process for handling ballots that the state is mailing TO voters.
Black, queer, radical, female, femme people & orgs literally diagnosed the problem so well that "them goons are coming" became accepted wisdom and so now everyone thinks THEY had the idea and don't need to acknowledge the work that so-called Woke Movement damn near killed themselves to teach you.
Nicholas Mitchell@nicholasemitchell.bsky.social · 2w agoAll of these think pieces about the woke movement (for lack of a better term) yet none ask the first question we ask about any socio-political movement- The woke movement claimed there were individuals and institutions who wanted to erode civil rights protections. Was the movement wrong?
One time while he was on tour in Australia Sinatra called a woman journalist a whore and her union got all the others to sympathy strike so he couldn't stay in his hotel, travel anywhere or leave the country until he apologized, I can't remember why I thought of this
John Michael McGrath@jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 3w ago"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger
10 years after Standing Rock, Native communities are leading on clean energy. People of the Sun event will honor Blue Lake Rancheria for micro-grids that kept their community powered through a 6.4 earthquake. Energy sovereignty in action. ictnews.org/news/standin...
Standing Rock anniversary event will feature clean energy awards - ICT
The People of the Sun event, which will take place September 16-18 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, will focus on Indigenous energy sovereignty and draw celebrities such as Mark Ruffalo, Shailene…
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Really interesting and useful interview with @bendybrain.bsky.social about neurodivergence, chronic illness & hypermobility, on The Hidden 20%. podcastaddict.com/the-hidden-2...
The Hidden 20% - ADHD, Chronic Illness & Hypermobility: The Hidden Link? | Dr Jess Eccles
Listen to The Hidden 20% - ADHD, Chronic Illness & Hypermobility: The Hidden Link? | Dr Jess Eccles by The Hidden 20% on Podcast Addict. Psychiatrist, researcher and brain-body medicine specialist Dr. Jessica Eccles joins Ben for a fascinating conversation about the overlooked physical side of neurodivergence - and why ADHD and autism are often talked about as “brain-only” experiences when the body is deeply involved too.Dr Jess is an Associate Professor in Brain-Body Medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, a Consultant Psychiatrist within the Sussex Partnership NHS Neurodevelopmental Service, and co-leads the world’s first Neurodivergent Brain-Body Clinic. Her pioneering research explores the links between neurodivergence, hypermobility, chronic illness, inflammation, autonomic dysfunction, pain, fatigue and mental health - challenging the long-standing divide between “physical” and “mental” health.Dr Jess explains the growing research linking neurodivergence with chronic illnesses, pain, hypermobility, fatigue, inflammation, eating disorders, nervous system dysregulation and temperature sensitivity. Together, they unpack why so many neurodivergent people describe feeling physically overwhelmed, burnt out or “unsafe” in their own body - and why those experiences are so often misunderstood
podcastaddict.com
One of the revelations I treasure most from going through my dad's things was that he was an absolute spreadsheet fiend, but he did his in PENCIL AND PAPER. The discovery that I "got it from him" without *knowing he did them*... an unmatchable feeling.
lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4w agoif spreadsheet people was ever meant as an insult, i am reclaiming it. my columns and rows are beautiful even if others don't see what i see within them
"The process is the punishment" is a *VERY* revealing phrase, coming from someone who advocates for long involved medicalised routes for trans people to transition.
Geoffrey Hughes@geofffhughes.bsky.social · 4w agoPeople who were saying a week ago that we are all duty-bound to demand accountability without fear or favor now claiming that "the process is the punishment"
On Earth, life may have emerged not once, but twice. A new study pinpoints ancient genetic differences between our planet’s earliest organisms, bacteria and archaea, which hint at a common origin from a single, deep-sea source that was itself not yet truly alive.
Life’s ‘last universal common ancestor’ may predate life itself
A groundbreaking study hints at a hazy boundary between “life” and “non-life,” as well as two distinct origins of biology on Earth
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op-ed columnists should have to submit to an annual quiz of some basic facts about the world and be fired if they fail
Receipts: atlantablackstar.com/2026/08/13/a...
'Don't Sweep Under the Rug': At Least Six Black People Found Hanging, Families and Communities Question Quick Conclusions from Police
At least six Black people have been found hanging in publicly reported cases across the U.S. in 2026. Several deaths were quickly classified as suicides,
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"Increasingly, studies indicate that insect pollinators other than bees, such as flies, beetles, moths, and butterflies, are equally if not more important for the production of some crops. Nonetheless, the contribution to crop pollination by non-bee insects has been largely unnoticed" Poor non-bees
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
data4democracy.substack.com
the media when the centrist loses by 1% vs the media when the leftist loses by (less than) 1%
@oolong.co.uk Hi! Delighted to see you here! I wonder if you can point to more info/material on what on earth the polytropic experience is like? I feel like I have curated a life (i'm 52) devoid of people like that and have no one to ask! I so don't understand what it'd be like to NOT be Like This.
Shock: Oh no, they shipped DHL Denial: I got a USPS code so maybe it's not with DHL? Anger: DHL is gonna lose my shit again Bargaining: Does the DHL website seem better? Guilt: Buying local would have avoided DHL Depression: It's gone. It's gone. It's gone Acceptance: DHL app says Thursday now
cis person: i’m just concerned about women’s sports other cis people: reasonable! trans person: i’m just concerned about restrictions on passports and id, job discrimination, movement being restricted due to bathroom issues, being harassed or worse, etc cis people: you’re being hysterical
Consumer Reports advocates are at #NCSL in Chicago! We're engaging state leaders on pressing issues facing consumers—from data privacy and surveillance pricing to energy costs and unsafe products. Learn more about our state-level work: advocacy.consumerreports.org/research/con...
You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS
Control theory is something circuit designers had to work on for a long time because, guess, what, we worked on creating STABLE systems. We never called the resulting instability "rogue systems" or whatever else is en vogue during IPO times.