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I love languages and am bad at capitalism. Focusing on Japanese and French and finally putting some time into Korean. Mandarin is on the back burner for now. You can also find me in the fediverse @raen@friendsofdesoto.social 🖖
Someone on Daniel Lurie’s staff should really inform him that he won the last election because all of the competition was unqualified and incompetent and he only won by not being completely shitty.
Collateral facepalm
Alt: Collateral facepalm
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Well, if Daniel Lurie feels sf is too woke and progressive perhaps as a progressive I should consider never voting for this mid excuse of a mayor who was literally the only non-shitty choice last election. He should feel more grateful and act like the public servant he’s supposed to be.
San Francisco’s mayor tells CNN’s Dana Bash the city “lost its way” because it “got so entrapped in our progressive values” | CNN Politics
He may be running one of the most liberal cities in America, but San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says there’s nothing progressive about 810 people dying of overdoses, “there’s nothing progressive abo...
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Surely it’ll be fine. Public utilities are just inefficient and Marxist. And we can’t have any of that in the US. I’m sure it’ll go great, just like when Enron was around to sell energy to California homes. 🤔
Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish@dlbowman76.com · 20h agoUGH. This is extremely bad. The greater Indianapolis area is already facing significant cost of living issues. I shudder to think what this will do to residential electricity bills.
I should have scheduled my dental appointment for a different day.
Worst Bestsellers@worstbestsellers.bsky.social · 2d agoIf you're looking for the Crowdcast livestream link for tonight's event: here ya go! (It says it starts at 7pm but it actually starts at 6:30pm. Don't worry about it, time is a flat circle.) www.crowdcast.io/c/zgx3uv0blnao
Gif search in signal is somehow worse than bsky
NatGeo Wildlife photographer Martin Greguš Jr. captured this polar bear getting comfy somewhere in northern Canada. Scritches for their itches. The closer we get to the midterm election, the more I need *this* kind of Big Bear Energy. (📷: Martin Greguš Jr., mywildlive on IG)
It's very frustrating when experts write documentation. There's always a level of assumed knowledge and if you don't happen to have it the instructions are VERY difficult to follow.
Elysia crispata are also called "lettuce sea slugs". They utilize 'kleptoplasty', stealing chloroplasts from macroalgae. But the name 'crispata' means "frilled", referring to how it looks like a 1970's tuxedo shirt. Here the fun bit: it's an animal that evolved LEAVES. Let's talk about it!
![From a sea slug forum, an Elysia crispata showing purple and orange fringed animal with dark black and white spots on the body. it's on a bit of coral with some algae lawn beneath it.
"Rudman, W.B., 2010 (Mar 26). Comment on Two Elysia crispata from Saba, Windward Islands by Eric Kaye. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/23397"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r643qxafn6b3pxfffiodojbn/bafkreignx36k3jvozu5oivscu4qixmzkxi7b7kbtmdperpc7mrk7ryceyy)
Biology Open@biologyopen.bsky.social · 4d agoIssue 9 has now closed. On the cover: The tropical sea slug Elysia crispata is capable of stealing functional chloroplasts – kleptoplasts – from its prey algae. – from the paper by Paya et al. Explore the full issue here: journals.biologists.com/bio/issue/15/9
So I’m up to date on slow horses SPOILERS For Slow Horses S06E04 Below ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Since the fire department is sooooo concerned about clearance for their massive vehicles, how about we take away their massive trucks and replace them with the tinier ones used in Japan, and other sensible countries, presumably. Then they won’t have a reason to block traffic calming. 😡
Driver Kills Pedestrian on Lakeside in Oakland - Streetsblog San Francisco
Delays to a safety project contributed, say advocates
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You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid
IGN@ign.com · last wk.GTA 6 has received a rating of PEGI 18, revealing mentions of "decapitation," the ability for players to snort cocaine at any time, "scenes of sexual fetishes," and much more.
I wrote 4 "cats & more" books featuring The Bear. It was how readers got to know him, & one of them became a top 10 bestseller. But the best thing I ever wrote about him was not in a cat-themed book; it was in Ring The Hill (2019) You can read it here for free: tomcox.substack.com/p/the-lion-t...
The Lion, The Witch And The Dress Code
If I’m going to speak in depth about the Magic House, I should probably begin at the railway station.
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Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last wk.A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...
A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...
Until conservatives stop delighting in the suffering of others and start giving people rights, rather than taking them away, they can all go kick rocks.
Justin Wolfers@justinwolfers.bsky.social · 7d agoAt the risk of doing social media wrong, lemme suggest folks engage with what I wrote, rather than the 280 character summary. There's plenty to disagree with in the actual piece I wrote, but it's of a different nature than some of the reactions I'm seeing to this thread.
I thought it might be fun to find a kanji practice game on the switch and then I remembered I have the kanji kentei “game” for my DS Lite. I remember this being so hard when I first got it and now it’s the right amount of challenging. Also a good way to learn new vocab!
Removing entries from my saved google translations (Japanese/English) and seeing lots of words I know really well now!
I'M Learning I Am Learning
Alt: Spongebob: I'M Learning
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Bsky accounts I follow: having a conversation I have no context for spanning a year of time Me: contemplating time 🤯
Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...
Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico
A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.
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