Marc

@not-mark.bsky.social

Mathematician. Amateur photographer. Cinephile. LA native. he/him

I can't stress this enough: Your local library. You would be amazed how many different groups, clubs, and orgs use your local library for holding events, publicity, teaching classes, or just a communal space. Libraries have never been more tech savvy. Go to their website. Look on their calendar.

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 3h ago

[Someone asked how I find classes but has quotes off and I think it's a Q of broader interest] Sometimes I just pay attention to what friends are doing or what orgs around me are offering, sometimes I think of a thing I might enjoy and then I search for whether classes are available in my city

NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Actually disgusting that nurses were treated like utter shit, overworked and dying during the pandemic and now RFK is on TV telling everyone that didn't happen. I can't even imagine a more thankless, hostile job right now.

It seems inconceivable... IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA premiered 21 years ago, OTD 8/4/2005. More unbelievable... Still ballsiest, bravest, most irreverent show on TV. Holds a mirror up to society & doesn't care who it offends. Best comedic cast on TV. Upcoming season 18 on 8/17 🔥. #tvsky 📺

Rob McElhenney, Kaitlin Olson, Charlie Day, Danny Devito, Glenn Howerton.

">900 people in Washtenaw County, MI, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called >100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced." kffhealthnews.org/public-healt...

Nurses Chase Cyclospora, Aided by Interviews, Fast-Food Receipts — And the Messy Details - KFF Health News

Yes, they’ve heard all the poop jokes. Public health staffers are painstakingly tracing the sources of this massive outbreak, combing through fast-food orders and lettuce purchases as they listen to p...

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Hey guys, Perez Hilton performed self-harm and may have attempted a suicide on TikTok and screenshots are flying around, so if you are sensitive, go put "Perez Hilton" in your mutes right now.

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion