EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 14h ago

Might post some good environment news every so often to showcase that it's not over yet and there are good things happening, we just have to fight for it First: beavers are basically magical creatures that help with drought and flooding, and we're reintroducing them more and more

Things the Appalachian Mountains are older than: Sharks Saturn's rings The Atlantic Ocean Bones

we should bring back “my partner has her period” as a valid excuse for missing work mymodernmet.com/ancient-egyp...

3,200-Year-Old Egyptian Tablet Shows Work Attendance and the Absentee Excuses Are…Very Interesting

This ancient attendance record includes some of excuses for being absent from work that we definitely don't have today.

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“Warranty coverage no longer includes sleeping on hotel pillows” sent me.

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2d ago

"Thank you for updating to Woman™ 51.0. This release includes important security updates, several unexpected hardware changes, a completely redesigned relationship with alcohol, and expanded support for saying 'absolutely not' without explaining yourself." buff.ly/31NgFok

I sometimes find myself wondering how many societal ills could be improved (if not fixed outright) if we just built an epic f*ckload of new housing in every major metro

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

San Francisco banned RealPage two years ago. Now prospective tenants bid on apartments—this article talks about a group of young people paying $10,000 a month for a 4 bedroom advertised at $8,000—because housing prices are set by supply and demand and SF has not built enough homes to meet demand.

capitalism is increasingly the 'how much sawdust can we add to this sausage before people notice?' experiment, but for EVERYTHING

Catbus@catbus.phd · 5d ago

the skeleton key to understanding contemporary consumer culture is that doing a good job costs money so corporations have abandoned the concept

Decadence and “late rentier capitalism”

Decadence and "late rentier capitalism" - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Several commenters have flagged an interesting essay by a British (?) writer, Henry Fudge, entitled “Degeneracy is a Symptom.” I know nothing of the author’s politics, but his account of what The Problem now is across the developed world has a sort of marxisant flavor, in that it insists — no doubt correctly — that […]

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Threaten me not wyth a goode tyme www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

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klingon bloodwine confirms star trek is fantasy, meaning it absolutely is justifiable to dress up in Starfleet uniforms for the renfaire

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 5d ago

if they're drinking nounwine it's fantasy. if they're snorting a verb it's sci fi

Post the best picture you’ve ever taken of your pet.

"Stumpus Well"@philipmarks87.bsky.social · 6d ago

Post the best picture you’ve ever taken of your pet

I really want to highlight that both the childcare worker shortage and this nonprofit work debt trap share the same root, which is that preschool teaching and "charity" work are feminized and therefore devalued labor.

Gwen Snyder is uncivil@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 6d ago

YES. I got an MPA (degree in government) and the entire pitch made by the grad school was, "yeah tuition is ridiculous but it's a degree to launch you into a nonprofit or public service career. You'll qualify for forgiveness" Except, who can afford quality childcare on a nonprofit salary

No! NO! You can’t just ignore—this isn’t—THE OCEAN HATES US ALL MOTHERFUCKERS GAAAAAHHHH

Michael Love@elkmovie.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m on a small-ship Alaska cruise with my son; our boat rescued a stranded vessel last night and apparently we did that after the Coast Guard radioed Mark Zuckerberg’s yacht - which was closer - and they repeatedly refused to respond. (There was near unanimous booing when the captain announced this)

Co-signing! I went without for quite a while after my first knee injury, just limping around. It took a long trip and my mom's insistence for me to try it.

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 7d ago

THIS THIS THIS. So many people tell me "I don't know if I really NEED a cane..." and friends, as a Certified Disabled Person (tm), I am begging you, if you think there's ANY way it might help you even a LITTLE, try it! If it helps, keep using it! You don't even have to use it all the time!

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

During WWII, the Dutch national library was forced by the Nazis to change its name from Royal Library to National Library, but there was a paper shortage, so instead of printing new paperwork, they just crossed it out and scribbled it in

locked in the house due to smoke outside derangement level at hour 12: brian has gotten his trombone down out the attic and is attempting to teach the two 3 year olds to play it at the same time

Insane that democrats keep trying to cave on this issue rather than amplifying the fact that it’s being spearheaded by bigots and freaks

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2w ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

15,000 years ago, in one of the the earliest settled communities in the world, a child collected fine clay from the slow-moving river by her home. She then committed an act familiar to all inveterate play-doh enthusiasts; rolling and and pinching the squishy clay into tiny round balls.

Calling it EyeMax in honor of poor Polyphemus.

Disastrous situation in Spokane, Wash. where a wildfire is burning through the northwest side of the city amid extreme dry winds. Gridlock traffic as emergency management rapidly expands evacuation zones eastward. Follow on @watchduty.org: share.watchduty.org/i/112554?ts=...

Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts

Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

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For Rahaeli and @elsieyork.bsky.social, who both asked: My professor was working as an assistant county attorney very early in his career when he got assigned a nuisance abatement case. The owner of property in an unincorporated part of the county was keeping exotic animals without a permit.

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am asking you about evicting an emu farm as requested!

I have zero opinions about who should be the 2028 nominee at this point (you have to finish your 2026 midterm before you can have dessert) but I am all for normalizing the idea that the fight needs to be about how many seats we're adding to SCOTUS and what channel we air the corruption trials on

it is very noticeable that historical movies are often far more willing to put female characters in costumes that have dynamic color, shape, etc. men are more likely to be costumed only in styles that look appealing to the insecure masculinism of the call of duty playerbase

I wrote about the hotass mess that hundreds of recent law grads in Washington are going through for no good reason! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Wi-Fi Fiasco Transforms Washington Bar Exam Into an Even Bigger Waste of Time Than Usual

Yet another reason to move beyond the legal profession’s annual hazing ritual.

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It’s really starting to grind me down

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.