Shan McBoeckman
@shanobi.bsky.social
Rogue librarian just trying to survive in deep maroon rural Ohio. Thanks, all the cool kids, for letting me hang with you here.
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
Republicans and Dr. Fauci still disagree on covid origins.
my feelings on this are pretty straightforward: if you have a problem with poor people having greater access to less expensive food then you’re a fucking psycho.
mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.Weird how much discourse around the Mamdani grocery stores ignores the existence of the Green Cart intiative (launched under Bloomberg) that provides subsidized fruit and vegetable stands across the city under the exact same logic as the grocery stores
look at the guy behind Trump (who is asleep). it smells crazy back there
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
Folks complaining the actors in The Odyssey don't look Ancient Greek are oddly nostalgic for the era when John Wayne was apparently the most qualified Mongolian on Earth.
trump being led off the platform like the old lady with the walker meme
I wasn’t ready for this. ☠️ 😭 Low T Pete will never live this down.
You just voted to give these thugs another $70 Billion. You’re complicit in this and every other murder committed by Trump’s secret police.
Dodge Ram is the Official Truck of Family Court
Defector@defector.com · 4w agoRam is for the suburban alcoholic who fancies himself the toughest man in the world.
What happens if Graham Platner and Mitch McConnell are gone?
James Talarico spent the Fourth of July in Texas with American icon Willie Nelson. Ken Paxton spent the Fourth of July with the British.
there are very few jobs in the world where you can disappear for weeks without providing an explanation, and "member of congress" should not be one of them, imo
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · last mo.¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last mo.Kraken has temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals of Bonk due to an ongoing incident affecting the token, according to its website.
Directing President Trump’s “Storytime” interview with Usha Vance.
Apple is passing the cost of “Apple Intelligence” onto its customers.
You know who else has never assimilated? Everyone who keeps flying that fucking Confederate flag.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."
Algae is loving this news cycle. They’ve never been more relevant. Microzooplankton sitting at home changing the channel like, what about us? we even have cilia and pseudopods, this is bullshit.