Dinosaur Keeper

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

A man standing in a neighborhood with literature for the Virginia Statewide coordinated ticket. He is wearing a "Briana Sewell for Delegate" t-shirt.

Having some excellent conversations with residents of the 25th district about @abigailspanberger.com @senatorhashmi.bsky.social, Jay Jones, and @brianasewell.bsky.social! People are frustrated with the federal general government and want Virginia leaders who prioritize them, not ideology.

Uncritical adoption of AI “undermines our basic pedagogical values and principles of scientific integrity. It prevents us from maintaining our standards of independence & transparency. And most concerning, AI use … hinder[s] learning and deskill critical thought.” openletter.earth/open-letter-...

A trophy made of grass and the caption, "the grass cup"

Competition for the Grass Cub is love!! Come watch some old gamers try to play Star Craft for the first time in 20 years for the chance to be called a loser and have to touch grass! Twitch.tv/HeyItsMrE! #twitch #starcraft

Semi finals underway! Big upset with the computer (programmed in 1998) be as ting out The Barrage, but that's just the kind of thing that keeps this interesting! Twitch.com/HeyItsMrE

#twitch #stsrcraft #goobrleague

The Zaynab Project: GAZA Relief Our name is inspired by Zaynab bint Jahsh (RA) — wife of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, renowned for her extraordinary compassion and generosity.She was called the shelter for orphans, widows, and the needy....

A good friend of mine [who is Palestinian] swears by this group doing work directly in Gaza: chuffed.org/campaign/zay...

It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.

HeyItsMrE - Twitch Your friendly neighborhood elder-millenial variety streamer, playing whatever I feel like, man.

Announcing the first ever Goober League tournament! Watch 7 adults (and a computer programmed in '98) who haven't played Star Craft in years compete to lose for The Grass Cup, live on #twitch, July 28th, 7pm eastern

Single elim tournament, the w̶i̶n̶n̶e̶r̶ loser takes home the cup and has to touch grass.

Team Kingbird here.

Can relate. One really fun thing I did once was, while reading a physical book, pressed my finger over a word, fully expecting the dictionary definition to pop up.

Thank goodness no one was watching me.

A #tricolorheron #heron bird stands on one leg with one wing outstretched. The sun is setting and is filtering through the leaves, which can be seen in blurs in the background. This artwork is drawn in #colorpencil on #draftingfilm, and is approximately 11x17inches

Finally finished my #tricolor #heron! The vivid sunset was so delightful to capture, I feel like I used every yellow pencil I own on it.

I will have prints available and the original will be for sale @ Arrowhead Gallery in Old Fort, NC.

#art #sciart #birds #nature #illustration

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

sounds like something a little bitch would do

By every metric, wherever they've been trialled, shorter working weeks are better for business, workers and the economy at large.

A quick update. It’s after midnight here in DC, and Republicans still don’t have the votes for their Big Ugly Bill. Keep up the pressure.

If you absolutely must watch Sandman season 2, pirate it. Even if you already pay for Netflix.

Watching this show not only supports royalties for a sexual predator, it also teaches Netflix that it’s okay to work with sex pests in the future.

🧵

Correct.

Red stater: Well if we give everyone welfare even people
Who don’t need it …

Me: I pay CALIFORNIA FEDERAL TAXES which subsidize your red state and here you are in all your whiteness complaining about the distribution and allocation of MY CALIFORNIA FEDERAL TAXES?

That’s some weird shit right there

Y'all when I tell you that this current paradigm of "AI" being shoved down our throats does real, persistent harm, and that said harm will fall first on the most marginalized and then on everyone else, this is the shit I mean. I mean god DAMN.

I'm so fucking tired can't we please just have good things I mean fucks' sakes we're all so goddam tired we're just trying to fucking survive and thrive and be happy and together and jesus fucking christ why can't we just have that just let us fucking have that you evil goddam BORING wannabe dragons

no joke: the fact that they ran this with a good picture is significant

as much as we rightfully crap on Dems who are not meeting the moment, Chris Van Hollen has been great and Maryland should be proud of him

this is the kind of rhetoric we should be seeing from national Dems

A meme. In the first frame there is a T-Rex from Jurassic Park pictured with the words "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING ZOHRAN MAMDANI." In the second frame there is an image of Barney the Dinosaur shrugging along with text that reads "DEMOCRATS FIGHTING DONALD TRUMP."

True story.

Great Egret in flight

I really liked the lighting on this Great Egret, with some extra shadowing on the wing feathers.

#Birds #Birding #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #Photography #Animals #PhotographersUnited

good morning happy saturday the sky is blue the clouds are fluffy the birds are singing and it's a beautiful day for that gutter racist Kirsten Gillibrand to go

I'm not going to reskeet the skeet that made me feel the need to say this but: NYC is a very Jewish city - public schools are closed for Yom Kippur. It's also a very Muslim city - public schools are closed for Ramadan. It's also one of the most Catholic cities in the nation.

HA HA HA EAT SHIT MOTHERFUCKER

GO HOME, NOBODY LIKES YOU

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.

The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?