Ethical Hedonist

For a moment I was sure this was an “AI has stolen your job” shirt.

The internal announcement to FDA was 100% focused on his cancer research. No mention of vaccines. Concerning.

I mean, there’s gonna be cases…

Check out Bona Terra and Wildside Nursery in MD. Both are native plant nurseries, mostly or all local ecotype. No or few cultivars.

This is the way.

Utter garbage

YouTube video by MinuteEarth Your Favorite YouTube Channels Might Not Survive This

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Statistically, very true!

Senate phone system just went down under the strain. My calls were going through until a few minutes ago. On to local office numbers…

So, is there going to be a protest on President’s Day? When all the federal workers have the day off…

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This needs an immediate response by the appropriate oversight committee in congress.
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I’m just realizing I should have showed her my card:

Oof

Harsh! But yeah it was a weird snap reaction.

When I told a lady yesterday that I plant native plants, her immediate response was “they don’t look good as other plants.” 🤷‍♂️

The only person in the world with a functioning pig organ is thriving after a record 2 months An Alabama woman is thriving a record 61 days and counting after receiving a pig kidney, a new milestone in the quest for animal-to-human transplants.

Some good news!
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Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4 billion in settlement of lawsuits over the toll of OxyContin Members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma, and the company itself, agreed to pay up to $7.4 billion to settle lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller.

Perhaps lost in the shuffle, this accountability for the Sacklers is a big win and sets a good example for other executive wrongdoing.

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I thought this was a pretty sober analysis of what could come next for Democrats.

The nice thing is how many plants you can get out of a small clump of blue eyed grass, if you can get a few going. I frequently buy a gallon and make 50 plants out of that. So a little will eventually go a long way.

Gotcha. You might consider blue eyed grass as a border plant.

Have you grown bluets before? I haven’t seen them in someone’s garden before.

Santa's annual train visit delivers hope and magic to one corner of coal country Since 1943, the people of Appalachian Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee have looked forward to Santa’s arrival. Not in a sleigh on their rooftops, but on a train.

This is a heartwarming thing I never knew about!
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Repealing no-fault divorce has so far stalled across the US. Some worry that'll change under Trump Warnings have been popping up on social media urging women who might be considering divorce to “pull the trigger” while they still can ever since President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect ...

If you live in a state that even sniffs at this kind of thing, go show up and tell them how you feel. Not only do we need the right to decide who we marry, but also to decide who we are not married to.
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I’m in the Greater Baltimore chapter :)

I just read Loose Change, the @ynabofficial.bsky.social (verify your account already!) newsletter, and I loved the bit about caring about your money with the same effort you put into earning it. If you think of it as part of our scarce, collective resources, too, I think it helps a lot. #ynab

Tesla won the plug war. Enter the age of the EV charging adapter The auto industry is embracing Tesla's charging technology in order to share its vast Supercharger network. This is going to be a slow transition — expect to see a lot of adapters.

An update on the #EV charger plug wars. I am not interested in giving any money to Tesla, but I’m looking forward to Rivian opening up their chargers one day.

Gross

Trying to keep the momentum going, but ran out of steam at 3p. On the plus side, led the first retro at my new job, to positive responses!

We have to find a new line between municipal order and humanity. This is hopefully the saddest thing I’ll read today.