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The fact that my husband and I EACH took some solo, primary-caregiver parental leave 19 years ago has continued to pay dividends throughout. It was only a month or two but it established that we both COULD. Priceless.

DO go chasing waterfall, apparently

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

Heyyyy #BookSky We don't have an event tonight so we've got time to do some... .... .... BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS!

Reply if you'd like a recommendation & we'll give you one based on your profile! (Apologies in advance if we see into your very soul)

I have finished several books in the last week and need more, go to town

Every book its reader, and I see @amalelmohtar.com ‘s The River Has Roots was written for me, specifically. grammar grammar grammar grammar grammar

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

A frigate with a crew of fewer than 200 is barely a "warship". The vast majority of that crew were cooks, deckhands, engineers to keep the turbines going. And to leave wounded survivors floating in open water violates the actual and moral law of the sea. You at least call for help for them.

well Boston has never taken a stand over government regulation of caffeinated beverages before, so I imagine this will go down easy

Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

A large block of sentient tofu

Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?”

Me (indie dev in this economy):
“Best I can do is sentient tofu.”

NOT JUST THIS:

Two other Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina who sided with the GOP to overturn vetoes of major bills (e.g. anti-trans legislation) are also losing in their primaries so far to progressive challengers.

This could be a major night in NC.

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

Reading this thread is like watching a tiny little bird puff itself up in a threat display every time the judge asks a question (only to fold when the judge insist he actually answer it). The only principle here, as with so much of this administration, is "we should never be held accountable".

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Four little dinosaurs printed in a pink and purple and blue gradient.

the same dinos: a bronto, a pterodactyl, a stegosaurus, and a triceratops. This time in Northern Lights vibed colors!

now the dinosaurs are RAINBOW

these are the OG dinosaurs, printed in my desert sunset colors. also so old the picture is from before I got a light box!

We'll be closing the store for the final week of March so I can recover from surgery, which means selling as much as we can now.

Great time to buy something & force me to actually recover from surgery by not working!

(hey I ADDED ALL THE DINOSAURS!)

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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Unassailable logic

OCTOPUS RING

Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

A large number of privacy and infosec researchers have published a detailed letter calling for a moratorium on laws requiring age assurance technologies until there is a scientific consensus on the risk/benefit tradeoff of using them

www.politico.eu/article/age-...

📚 go to town, digital preservation nerds

We all know what it means for something to be divine providence but what does "Divine Pawtucket" look like?

Now I am at my destination and my calendar tells me I need to take a run but my body tells me I really, really need to take a run.

Possibly she was a lawyer or journalist, who knows. But she had a windows laptop and terrible opsec and a boring yet belted outfit. Seemed kinda fed. As ever, frustrated that I don’t think fast on my feet in social situations (insofar as the amtrak quiet car is ever social…)

Pretty sure I was sitting next to a Nazi on the train. She politely asked if the seat next to me was taken, and helpfully picked up someone’s dropped pen, and worked on quiet little CBP spreadsheets.

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Hello internet stranger, I love your living room decor