It's the sloppiness that kills me. They can't take the time to clean up the URL? www.ft.com/content/7d0f...
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CT 🏳️🌈 Have a torti Cat named Harrowhark Clinical Psychologist specializing in SUD Love theme parks, Halloween, carnivorous plants Still 😷 My posts do not represent my employer https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/136869476
No one wants to use your fucking AI and putting it first so someone hits it by accident doesn’t count
Holy shit I just saw a post about a company that is making washers and dryers with knobs and buttons. No screens, no shitzillion settings, no annoying little electronic song when it’s done. Could it be? They’re realizing we don’t need our laundry machines to post to Twitter or send faxes?
I’m a third of the way through setting up a couple of raised garden beds which I opted to begin right after doing a 5k on the treadmill and all my muscles currently feel like jello.
To commemorate the collaboration between Pokémon and the ESA, a special Pikachu plush was sent to the International Space Station from April 11th through June 17th What a picture. Absolutely stunning
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
i got my covid & flu boosters today! i love vaccines! get yours too! ^__^
A cat who is very wriggly who got mad at me for being too wiggly as I tried to sleep last night.
It is telling that Hegseth thought a 3 mile run plus some pushups and planks would be enough to stop female Marines. Dude, most middle aged people who work out can do that. His sexism is delusional. Women really aren’t so weak, my man. thewarhorse.org/hegseth-mari...
Hegseth Made the Fitness Test Harder for Women in Combat Roles. Most Female Marines Are Passing
Data shows almost all Marine females serving in combat roles have met or exceeded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's new physical fitness standard.
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A Connecticut mom detailed to me her son's "devastating year" in the care of a West Hartford psychiatrist who recently had his medical license suspended by the state. “I felt like I was almost witnessing the slow death of him." www.ctinsider.com/westhartford...
Mother says trust in Connecticut psychiatrist ended in despair
“I felt like I was almost witnessing the slow death of him,” she said.
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NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
If ULTA has Flock cameras outside all their stores (!) I wanna know WHO ELSE does cause it sure as shit isn’t just one company!
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · last wk.Bad enough to have Flock on the streets but in RETAIL STORES?!
This from the woman who kept Ooioiaa’s water treatment system from us. The fans need to know ann. Some of us are fascinated by water treatment systems and would in fact appreciate the information!
Ann Leckie@annleckie.com · last wk.And like making characters, observation of the real world is the best way to start. Not, like, physics or orbital mechanics, though that can be there too, but things like "how do people get food" and "what do people actually do when X happens" or
Here’s what I don’t get, these AI flyers for restaurants are everywhere and everywhere the food looks like it’s made of grubs and maggots. Now, I understand it’s fast and easy but then when they get done with their abomination do they not look at it and go hmmm, this doesn’t look appetizing.
Colin Dickey@colindickey.com · last wk.New nightmare burger just dropped
it is wild how, if you go far enough up the chain, every AI has humans greasing the wheels, maintaining the illusion
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last wk.New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
Made 17 Halloween horror nights friends bracelets today. I still have lots left over from last year because it’s not as much of a thing at HHN west coast.
This is a fantastic example of a 'rod' being caught on a camera doorbell. "Rods" are flying insects recorded over several cycles of wing beating. As the insect propels forward, it's wing and body movements are captured over several frames, creating an illusion of a single long, ridge-like body,
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
![A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sefgphqp2xqwh2hawaixykwz/bafkreigy6jrfjxyegrf7h4wzz3yptwmzobhjrd3k5zjoxwd75r6ulxzsyq)
A cat who brought a toy into my bed last night and had fun prancing all over my body while attacking the toy
Spot on as always! The reason we took this step is that higher ed has *dramatically failed* to coalesce around a set of shared values in light of Trump’s attacks. America’s Compact puts the bar on the floor and we encourage ANYONE who agrees to step over the bar and join us.
Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2w agoTake a look at the @standupforscience.net Compact for Higher Education www.standupforscience.net/sufs-compact... It is a powerful and important document. 1/2
"Pre-ordering is inherently a hopeful, forward-looking action that declares that we will survive, and there will be wonderful books for us to read when we do." My latest newsletter is about why book pre-orders help to make you more of a citizen of the book world: buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Pre-Ordering Books Makes You More of a Citizen of Literature
Recently on Bluesky, I was shouting as usual about Lessons in Magic and Disaster, my novel that comes out in about a month. (It's about a young trans woman...
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You can *already* pre-order my next novel, Good Things Are Coming Your Way! And if you pre-order from @barnesandnoble.com in the next couple days and use the code PREORDER25, you can get a 25 percent discount! (Must be a B&N Member.) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/good-thing...
DEA is poised to make selling 7-OH—a semi synthetic, opioid-like "supplement"—a felony that carries multi-decade sentences. 7-OH was marketed as "natural." That was wrong. But we already know what happens when something highly addictive becomes widely available, and is then suddenly taken away.
7-OH ban could lead people to something far more dangerous
People dependent on 7-OH could face severe pain and withdrawal if they lose access. The easiest way to cope could also be life threatening.
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