Signs on the pumps at the fleet fueling place we use this morning asking people to please not put dyed diesel in their street vehicles. "You face heavy fines and open us up to lawsuits."

#OnThisDay in 1957, a Bothell man in a bear costume was almost shot and killed while perched in a tree. historylink.org/File/9219

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

clearly you haven't forsaken all earthly desires

gormless tomfool bea 💗💜💙@beesmygod.bsky.social · 18h ago

smug buddha on anthropeum today

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

Seriously, the jokes (and hopes) are not facts ⬇️

David Hood@thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · yesterday

Hooray, a source link. Some context: - Bot traffic from the whole of the Russian Federation is basically unchanged. - The specific AS13238 YANDEX — Yandex LLC source is mostly web scraping search engine indexing. - People's jokes about influence campaign effects are being read as factual statements

It’s a beautiful day in the tiger enclosure and you are a horrible goose.

Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 3d ago

Geese are insane: Example #2,987,304

Do you want good tortoise news? I thought so. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island

Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme

theguardian.com

We're all cloud fans here, and theres nothing better than staring at satellite images of the clouds blanketing the country. But sometimes something stares back at you...

My eldest son Geordi Louise Fink turned 11 today. We continue to be glad that he was the only puppy at the pound NOT covered in shit the day we went to adopt.

“The old Irishman taking his pig to market.” One of several novel banana-based creations found in “Quaint Dessert Dishes”, an article from a 1911 issue of American Homes and Gardens: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/quaint-desserts/ #thanksgiving

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

Do you love horror? Do you hate horror? Then we have an episode for you! Horror Neurobiology (WATCHING SCARY STUFF) deals with: political sociology of vampires v. zombies feminist narratives anti-war horror liminal spaces fake blood + horror having *a moment* www.alieward.com/ologies/horr...

Horror Neurobiology (WATCHING SCARY STUFF) with Dr. Austin Lim — alie ward

Thrills. Chills. Hiding behind your hands. It’s officially SPOOKTOBER month with a huge, fascinating (and I promise, mellow) episode on why humans watch horror, and what’s happening in your brain. Not...

alieward.com

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Of course the Trump Savings Accounts for kids turns out to be scam. In effect, "our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." www.rawstory.com/trump-accoun...

Trump rigs kids’ piggy banks so billionaires can dump falling stock on them: analyst

A quiet change to President Donald Trump's namesake savings program for children amounts to a gift for billionaires, according to an economic analyst.In an article for The Bulwark on Thursday, economi...

rawstory.com

If you see this post a witch.

🎃 Halloween Hils 🎃@hils.bsky.social · 4d ago

If you see this, post a witch.

I am having way too much fun reading the comments section of the scathing reviews on AppleRankings.com

"Replies" I have given my cat today when he's come to talk to me: - Have you fact-checked that? - I disagree with many of the points you are making. - I find that hard to believe. - Is that so? - Good luck with that. - Well now you're preaching to the choir.

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

find a job that’s right for you.

The thick fog tonight is doing strange things with light. For a moment I thought I might be seeing a faint aurora. Pleasantly spoopy, though. 👻

Tilly Norwood Moved To Trash Folder By Deranged Fan

Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out. www.404media.co/cops-can-byp...

Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims

Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.

404media.co

While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim

Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 7d ago

these are my only feelings about generative "AI." i do not care how much it "works," ever. i'll be over here scraping charcoal and ochre on the cave wall until they kill me

This sick-out wasn't about wages. www.kuow.org/governing/20...

Gov. Bob Ferguson@governorferguson.bsky.social · last wk.

I understand that thousands of Washingtonians are deeply impacted by what’s happening with our ferries. I’ve been meeting with @ferries.wsdot.wa.gov leadership. More details to come on how we’re going to resolve this situation

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LRP reminded me that I met my first out loud and proud ai user yesterday. He claims that having grok write his letter to a neighboring county got him a response in days -- but I have to wonder if it's because what grok wrote was batshit inanity and county was concerned.

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately