Can we please stop treating what would be stalking and harassment as ‘boy gets girl’ romance??!

He says this like it's a good thing “Twenty or 30 years ago, real estate in New York City could single-handedly stop something or make something happen,” said James Whelan, president of the Real Estate Board of New York and one of the board members who was dismissed from the Mayor’s Fund."

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4h ago

thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge

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We had temporary morgue trucks outside the hospital in my neighborhood. Ambulance sirens 24/7. These Covid deniers can all f*ck off.

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Thus is a fantastic resource!

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Do you know how much money we spent on the stupid Reflecting Pool: 16.4 million. Waste: Every expert was like the Reflecting Pool cannot be fixed this way. Fraud: A No-Bid Contract Awarded to a Pool Guy. Abuse: 7 people—who had to pay lawyers—criminally charged and nationally embarrassed.

Say it again for those in the back. These are dark day.

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 6d ago

I am pleasantly surprised to see something politically relevant and morally upstanding coming from TMZ. Like Harvey Levin, I also lost many friends to AIDS in the 80s and 90s, but many are alive today because of the hard work of Anthony Fauci. This commentary is worth watching.

By Ursula K. Le Guin

Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.

Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...

A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

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Charles Molloy's Treatise on Maritime Law, 1682 edition: Birth in the realm is far more important than who your parents are.

wow the predatory "let us promote your book" scammers are relentless. I get dozens each day--can't block them fast enough.

"The jurisdiction is evaluating next steps, including whether testing can resume tomorrow or whether affected applicants will instead be offered an opportunity to sit for a future administration." Oh. My. God. WTF? How can they not have enough wifi capacity to administer THE BAR EXAM?

Ms. Rosenberg@msrosenberg.bsky.social · last wk.

Update on bar exam tech problems from NCBE www.ncbex.org/news-resourc...

Report on today's NextGen Bar Exam in Washington State: www.reddit.com/r/barexam/co... "TLDR; NextGen Washington Bar Cancelled for today; stressed out for over 6 hours and didn't even get to take the test; NCBE is nowhere to be found . . . ." Not a great start!

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Channeling my inner Japanese structural engineer for this one.

Thought for the day

Today is the 36th anniversary of the signing of the ADA –– transformative legislation that made it possible for people with disabilities to more fully participate in public life, as well as mandated changes to infrastructure that improved quality of life for all of us. #ADA36 🧵 1/10

Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18?

Trading Places: Eddie Murphy & Dan Aykroyd

Alt: Trading Places: Eddie Murphy & Dan Aykroyd

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Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

Without saying your age what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18

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Benjamin 🜬 (they/she)@enbyemu.bsky.social · 2w ago

For anyone who ever wants to read (or re-read) @trungles.com's Pride & Prejudice readthrough commentary w/o having to slog through needing to constantly expand the original thread, I put it all together on a google doc! 135 glorious pages! 💙📚 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Easy peasy. Public school

brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2w ago

Income - Taxes - Expenditures - Savings = 0 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

I think our train is broken.

Everyone coming on my feed and explaining to me that all is lost, I note what I have noted before, that there are no Negro Spirituals entitled, “Welp, I Guess It All Sucks and I Am Giving Up.”

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Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

this book is fabulous. Highly recommend

Pamela Toler (she/her)@pdtoler.bsky.social · 2w ago

For years, women warriors were treated as exceptions. Then I started putting their stories side by side. That's when the pattern appeared. 🗃️ Sometimes history doesn't need another example. It needs a bigger frame.

"Road rage" is what they call murder when a car is involved. It waters down the reality of the violence and the crime. When someone murders a fellow human with a gun, it's rarely called anything other than what it is: murder.

Gravel Influencer@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well the NY Post is flat-out calling it road rage but I see no reference to that in any of the law enforcement statements

matthew always brings the receipts

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 2w ago

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

the CDC has no director or senior leadership. the FDA has no commissioner and very few senior leaders left. and does anyone even know where the HHS secretary is? don’t get me wrong, it’s better if RFK stays away, but it’s also his fuckin job, so maybe he should be fired

Say what you will about Disney but long before Male Influencers were ever part of the public imagination they warned us about what a danger insecure aura farmers are to the community.