This was a pleasant surprise. I was bracing for bullshit.
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 4h agoI encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
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Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 4h ago
This is team player shit, beat the bad guys shit. I love it. No fucking around with it, just let's go.
Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 4h agoI encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.
thinking back fondly to that time in 2012, 16 years into florida's charter school experiment, after almost 500 charter schools had already failed, when the republican legislature simply made it illegal to examine what happened to someone's last charter when they applied for a new one
Tampa Bay Times@tampabaytimes.bsky.social · 7h ago4 Hillsborough charter schools close amid financial, enrollment challenges
Also, the in-flight part of air travel actually got better too. If you pay the equivalent amount now, you'll have a very nice experience. Actually, it would be hard to pay the equivalent amount now without flying private. You also have the option of paying less and having a less nice experience.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
Taking my time to really listen and learn from the very valid concerns of the MAHA movement:
Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙@mementomorty.bsky.social · 3h agowe should hear MAHA out about this they might be onto something
NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more
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.
wired.com
If your "charity" is a 10% mandatory tithe that will cause you to lose a bunch of perks if you don't pay it? That's not charity. Those are membership dues.
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
chicago.suntimes.com
And in fact, that the opposite is true seems to be becoming more and more obvious—that if you use AI as an assistant when you're doing a thing, you get worse at doing that thing.
Every once in a while I regret not being able to support a few of the writers at The Athletic. Then I see something like this. And I regret it considerably less.
The Athletic@theathletic.com · 8h agoAaron Rodgers spoke out about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Sophie Cunningham spoke out about transgender athletes. Caitlin Clark chose not to weigh in. Three different approaches, one common result: criticism. Steve Buckley on how athletes can't win on social media: nyti.ms/3Sa9A7D
Talking about the giant ad spend against him: "Turns out, commercials are part of the television show no one wants to watch." lolol
"I can't fathom why anybody would buy [shitty product X]. You can make a better version of [X] at home just by adding [a bunch of ingredients and possibly introducing a lot more steps]" Yeah. You pay companies to do that for you. It's often not as nice. You also consider the time and effort...
after they called it for el-Sayed this person changed their handle/display name to “have to earn my vote”
Ernest Penfold@penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 6mo agowow!
Of course they're on the Very British Bigotry blocklist.
hey @joshuajfriedman.com if there's one thing I might beg you to communicate internally - the (a?) core of bluesky users want opt-in instead of opt-out, because we don't trust social media corporations to ever do good thngs. It's a learned distrust, and it might not be fair, but it's there.
I think we can all agree that no matter who wins the Michigan primary, the polling was pretty inaccurate. Especially the poll that showed a 100% result for Mind-Your-Own-Business-You-Nosy-Bastard.
All coffee is good coffee. 3 or 4 1 or 2. (I suppose 3 is okay, but I'll be less thrilled about it.)
TwoSense@twosense.bsky.social · 18h ago1 4 2or3
Susan comes out against Todd Blanche now that he's got the votes. So tiresome. (We called it: tinyurl.com/3bepafkz) #MEpolitics
I've seen enough. I'm projecting that the winner of the Cat of the Week is Millie, The Emergency Backup Cat. She won largely on the strength of having broken no keyboards and chewed through no battery charging cables.
Note to self: don't try to make jokes in the secure chat with the accountant. If they were the sort of person who appreciated jokes, they wouldn't be an accountant.
MAHA is a eugenicist movement and you do not negotiate with eugenicists. This is a thing a high proportion of people who will tell you not to frequent the Nazi bar apparently forget when the patrons of the Nazi bar share their priors about food dyes or whatever.
You actually don't have to do the "well, you know, I disagree with MAHA but they're right that there are real problems with The System" thing. That's a concession you absolutely do not have to make.
It seems like serendipity that I just got a youtube algorithm push of this video. (Very good male club tennis players playing against an excellent female college player.) youtu.be/1_Ze0G4VqWs?...
3.0 to 5.0 Men Take on the #1 Women's College Tennis Player for $1000
YouTube video by Winners Only Tennis
youtu.be
Micah@rincewind.run · yesterdayI wrote a thread about this in tennis a while ago - that professional men's tennis players could destroy serena means nothing at lower levels, I was a mediocre varsity tennis player and absolutely could not hang with a decent women's college tennis prospect