it really makes you think

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 12h ago

I have one answer.

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

if you ever want to see something really really funny, watch any hacking scene in a Hollywood movie while sitting next to an IT security person

The wire mother yearns for wire child: Sharp-souled, and neither meek nor meat and mild— Conductive, bright with heat and wire-wild, Not soft, domestic, insulated, wet. She'd love, instead, a glittering young net

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

Imagine working on a cure for malaria and accidentally inventing the first synthetic dye, a new color, and kick-starting a whole textile industry, all at the age of 18.

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Let's talk about the time that an 18 YEAR OLD invented the COLOR MAUVE (I am not kidding) and completely revolutionized textiles, fashion & eventually cancer diagnosis. The teenager was William Henry Perkin, a bit of a prodigy, who at 15 began studying with August Wilhelm von Hofmann at ICL.

Yesterday it was brought to my attention that some of you have cats but do not know about drug banana Behold: DRUG BANANA. www.chewy.com/yeowww-chi-c...

For all the focus on Diana DiZoglio's push to audit the Massachusetts Legislature, the 2026 public records ballot question has much more potential to crack open access to records under the State House’s golden dome.

Mass. is set to see 9 ballot questions this fall. One in particular that could upend how Beacon Hill works

For all the focus on Diana DiZoglio's push to audit the Massachusetts Legislature, the 2026 public records ballot question has much more potential to crack open access to records under the State House’s golden dome.

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This thread (which Robin pursues down a couple different, useful forks) is a great overview of the mess that is eBook licenses for libraries, especially 24-month expiring licenses for books in series! (Context: cost per circ = cost per each time it's checked out.)

Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social · 2d ago

Book 1 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 Book 2 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 I'm not buying book 3. If the cost per circ was $5 or $3, I wouldn't mind. But that is WAY too high, especially for a thing that expires after 2 yrs.

public libraries ftw

A new study out of Canada looked at four youth gender clinics. Out of 445 patients only four who started gender affirming hormone therapy ceased taking it, and only one did so due to a re-identification with their birth sex. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

A New Study from Canada Again Finds Less Than 1 Percent of Trans Youth Detransition - Assigned Media

Out of 445 patients across four gender clinics only one who started hormone therapy stopped due to a change in gender identity.

assignedmedia.org

So one of my hypotheses for the popularity of LLMs - as someone who's been doubling as my team's engineering manager the last few months, and listening to eng management podcasts - is that they give time-constrained eng managers the illusion that They Can Still Code. 1/

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@solomonrmissouri.com Ranger: You have my sword Elf : And my bow Necromancer: And my your brother.

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Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · last wk.

Ooh fresh batch of crawler pots online! Some very nice pink ones and a clutch of smaller white ones www.roseschmits.com Free UK shipping, worldwide available

It will be worse than this! Most websites will be forced to ask you to send your ID to a third party surveillance service, adding a credit card won't be enough for most. Bluesky asks for your *social security number* if you live in Texas now, due to this shit. Call in, and kill it.

Eromancer@eromancer.bsky.social · 3d ago

This will be the US if the SCREEN Act passes. Call your Senators before August 5 and tell them that you oppose the SCREEN Act, KOSA, and the KIDS Act. Use the official lookup tool at www.senate.gov/senators/sen... to find yours by state.

@bstevensonlab.bsky.social …spirochete lab? You don’t happen to know Dave Yelton or Nyles Charon, do you?

No one ever had to spend $175M on librarian misconduct settlements Not even when we drank that Dallas bar out of tequila

sara@saract.bsky.social · 3d ago

we're on pace to spend something like 5x the total public library budget on misconduct settlements alone. do we think that number will go up or down with 1,000 more officers? you cannot propose this kind of stuff and be taken seriously as a "fiscally responsible" candidate

In the same way that being bitten by a werewolf make you a werewolf, arguing with an academic makes you an academic

Women out here quietly crushing men and women’s endurance race records www.bbc.com/news/videos/... by *days*

Runner on smashing Alps ultramarathon record by 6 days

Sophie Woods ran the Via Alpina through storms, heat of up to 37C and dodged floods and wildfires across eight countries.

bbc.com

I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown:

You know, German cats have a single long word for that feeling where you want to be underfoot but also you get mad if the humans step on you.

this guy gets it

The magical #book trolley #Baltimore 📚💙 ✏️🖤

They’re married now! Perhaps everyone on Bluesky already knows this; if the reader isn’t, then they get to be one of today’s lucky 10,000. www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos

Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.

inverse.com

One of the striking things about studying sexual violence is realizing how many people became abolitionists *because* they were victims of crime.

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

watching Kylie Minogue's Come Into My World music video and thinking we should send out a new Golden Record with a space probe every 5 to 10 years bc the aliens need an update on how human pop culture is going

Anyway back to my ongoing theory that women use AI to get more done and men use AI to get out of doing more.