Yes, dual purpose 🥵
01.02.2026 15:15
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Yes, dual purpose 🥵
I have this one and love it. Fits in the water bottle pocket of my backpack, and I tied a string to the top so I can hang it on the airplane/bus seat in front of me.
“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
14 colorful, abstract quilts hang on the walls of an art gallery.
I make abstract quilts and tomorrow is the opening of my first solo gallery show!
I swear to god, if I get one more JPEG job opportunity text
"It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." Meta removed that language from its internal guidelines after I raised it.
AI experts worry financial incentives will blur the line between human relationships and bot engagement.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
It’s a beautiful show, Ben, congrats!!
Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”
Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**
Oh yes, my parents threatened to kill me on sight if I applied for one of those.
Fucking right!
this is the writeup you get when you ask the ad agency to undo the thing you forced them to do
NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money.
"If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”
"The relationship to handcraft is a beautiful one. You are related bodily to a solid block of metal letters, to the weight of the trays, to the adroitness of spacing, to the tempo and temper of the machine. Each triumph a conquest by body, fingers, muscles."
www.themarginalian.org/2012/08/30/a...
There’s a recent piece —maybe on wire cutter? About a journalist who wore one of the new AI enabled all day recorders. It records your every conversation & transcribes it all day. I just want you to know that once basic social trust is broken in this way? It’s over
“They will pass salmon swimming upstream in places the fish had not been able to reach since the early 1900s. They will pass through the ancient territory of their tribes … they will be celebrated as the first to descend the full length of the Klamath, source to sea, since the dams went up” 🎁 link:
Adds to watchlist
The FDA has updated an ongoing recall of tomatoes distributed in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to its most severe warning, saying there is a higher probability that potential salmonella contamination could lead to “serious adverse health consequences or death.”
Not to mention the Trump administration also slashed funding for food banks.
BREAKING: FDA says covid boosters now only for those over 65 or with preconditions. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...
Yes! I really missed these kinds of interactions during the early days of the pandemic and still think about a piece @amandamull.bsky.social wrote about them then.
NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —
New Buying Power: I wrote about how America built the postwar world order and its own society on “consumer choice” and cheap goods, and what happens if Trump strips that out while also gutting the social safety net. Gift link:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The video cliff notes of everything just bums me out. So much if public engage t these days is people asking you to tap dance for them in their personally preferred style and also for free and happily because they pay you “attention”.
I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price.
Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.
This is me, I prefer it because I can type faster with 10 fingers as opposed to two.
Let’s talk about fraud, waste and abuse. Measles outbreaks are expensive to society. The human costs—hospitalizations, potentially severe long-term effects, immune amnesia, and death—are bad enough. But some aren’t swayed by this. So let’s talk about the financial costs of a measles outbreak.
I think so, too!!
Playing around with CBP airport processing data this morning to see how much air travel by non-US passengers is cratering.
