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once again I spent my Monday evening baking six dozen cookies to deliver to the food pantry tomorrow. they have a weekly hot lunch program for kids, and every kid gets a home-baked treat. now my kitchen smells great (pumpkin snickerdoodles) and I spent several hours offline. win-win-win

Modeling often requires making assumptions and design choices explicit. Experimenters could benefit from such transparent thinking abt the design and knowledge of the range of experiments they are foregoing. They could also benefit from understanding how data produced is conditional on the design.

Threads screenshot: ceforys 2h In honor of Threads going all in on Edmund Fitzgerald lore this year, l'd like to share one of my strangest parenting moments. We took my then 4 year old son and his little buddy (whose special interest was maritime disasters) to the Dossin Great Lakes Museum in Detroit for a screening of a documentary about the wreck; we got some LOOKS when we showed up but the kids were great, save for one moment when my kid decided to LICK A PIECE OF RECOVERED DEBRIS as it was being passed around.

In case you wondered, there's probably exactly one person who has licked the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

this is the shit peter pan imaged when he ate with the lost boys and started to believe in magic again

btw, it’s just baja blast flavored key lime pie basically

I liked it!

Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.

First two episodes of Pluribus were interesting and promising! Excited for more. I never watched Breaking Bad or Better Call (by the time I heard Breaking was good I also heard it was violent and it didn't seem my vibe) so I think this is my first Vince Gilligan show since X-Files. Psyched for it!

Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman.

They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.

I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.

Social media is 2 for 2 in recommending House of Guinness (thanks @theferocity.bsky.social) and Physical: Asia (Wonderful! podcast). Now hearing good things about Pluribus on the Severance Channel (Apple TV).

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NEW ROBYN SINGLE IN TWO DAYS!!!!!!

what is even the point of you as a person

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.

The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.

The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.

Why?

It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Scarleteen has been doing sex ed for ALL since 1998 and is there with sex ed for ALL, to the tune of some five million visitors a month. The people who do this work deserve health care. I am so proud to support their work, and know many of you ALSO believe in sex ed for all, SO now's your moment.

Gorgeous! Here's my tiny little thing!

Label printer with the printed label sticker labeled "label printer" srickered to it

Bought a label printer, printed my first label.

If you click through you'll see that she says her email address doesn't have the accent.

I don't write articles but maybe you do.

New York’s Young Muslims Exult To See One of Their Own Elected Mayor Voters who came of age here after Sept. 11, 2001 found hope in voters rejecting a closing case against Mamdani that tried to tar him as somehow tied to an attack that happened when he was nine years o...

Articles like this one are why I make regular donations to @thecity.nyc and if you can afford it, I hope you make one too: www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/05/z...

They'll have to try to pry my em dashes from my bisexual— and neurodivergent— hands.

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A red hoodie with black hand-lettered text reading, "Axial tilt is the reason for the season"

A black hoodie with white hand-lettered text reading, "feral queer"

A black hoodie with white hand-lettered text reading, "make bad art"

A white t-shirt with black hand-lettered text reading, "I would prefer not to."

Your seasonal reminder that I design t-shirts (and related products) for grumps, queers, and weirdos.

Impress your relatives at Thanksgiving Dinner! Surprise Grandma with the perfect Hanukkah present! Support a queer, trans independent artist who's been job-hunting since April!

AI’s $5 Trillion Data-Center Boom Will Dip Into Every Debt Market, JPMorgan Says The furious push by AI hyperscalers to build out data centers will need about $1.5 trillion of investment-grade bonds over the next five years and extensive funding from every other corner of the mark...

www.bloomberg.com/news/article... it's giving "don't worry they're triple A mortgages"

A chart showing a 20 year price change between sectors.

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.

If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

Illustrated book cover featuring giant crabs eating people who are running in every direction. Copy and title read: On a distant planet of crustaceans exists a new and exciting economic system... CRABITALISM Humans go in - Crabs become more powerful! HORK MYXLN

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"A fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, Pedro decided to play along with the world’s suspense."

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Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.

www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

The piece is excellent, but I want to highlight a valuable thought early in it: Literature does not change people. Life events change people. Trauma changes people. Catharsis changes people. Literature provides new mindsets to shape those changes, and outlets through which to choose how to change.