Kathy Applebaum

When Zohran wins and NYC doesn’t collapse please remember how hard they leaned into the greedy, racist fearmongering so you can ignore it next time too

Thankfully my HOA didn't make me get signatures, just made me do the form.

This is an important corollary to "If you have values except when it's inconvenient, you don't have values".

I stopped allowing cheat sheets in my classes when I realized it wasn't helping students. They'd spend too much time trying to find info on it and weren't finishing the test. Grades went up after -- nice to see.

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

Are the daily protests starting tomorrow (10/20) or next weekend on 10/26?

Hilarious that Republicans are calling “No Kings” anti-America when the whole point of the United States of America is literally NO KINGS.

Dude never hears other opinions because people like me, who have an advanced degree in AI and say LLMs don't live up to the hype, are immediately piled on by the hype bros.

A hill I will die on is that stacked bar charts and pie charts that have more than 2 categories are often terrible ways to present information.

And don't get me started on line graphs where the Y-axis doesn't include 0.

I've bought several of the Diamine forever inks and they are all winners in my book

Don't threaten us with a good time.

I stop there every time I drive through Richmond because the people and dog watching are so excellent.

I've never seen any of the Godfather movies.

Again, fuck ICE.

My first semester teaching night classes at college one of my students was someone who I'd fired a decade before. Awkward.😳

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Like I said, this has not been our experience, even with recent versions.

I'll be hiring a number of juniors over the next couple of years, but I'm not looking to have them use AI. We have a large legacy codebase and AI has been very disappointing with it. If any of our devs want to use it, good for them, but it has not made us more productive.

You all should order one of these. I love mine and it's gotten nothing but positive comments.

Here's a thought:

Actually stand up to the GOP. Stop pretending they aren't shredding the Construction

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say.

If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court.

I do not say this lightly.

I remember seeing an episode of Marcus Welby M.D. about autism when I was a kid. That show's been off the air for 49 years.

Trump's social circle was the kind that put anyone different into an institution to hide them away. So of course he thinks this didn't exist.

A washing machine in the streets of Akureyri, Iceland. It's painted in rainbow colors and has a sign saying "Free bigotry rinse"

The Icelanders are all right.

Screen showing the VLC media player

Some things are the same all over the world. At the Husavik Whale Museum.

A whale tail (tale?) taken from a boat in the inlet at Dalvík, Iceland

Waterfall only visible by boat in Iceland.

If you need a break from the news, here's what I did today and it was totally awesome.

I always wonder what they think I'm getting at the dentist that isn't eligible.

Side eye from a sweet dog who wanted to know why I stopped petting him and picked up the camera

The place we're staying at in Iceland comes complete with a sweet dog.

That sounds great in theory, but the reality is the other side doesn't see me as fully human or deserving of rights. Where is the middle ground for that?

Medical examiner Gina Kadinsky and a corpse.

The nurse who did my vaccines this morning looked exactly like Gina from The Brokenwood Mysteries and now I'm worried I'll stumble across a body.

Mine is scheduled for tomorrow morning. Kind of glad to see a long line this afternoon when I tried for a walk-in -- means people really want to get them. (Also glad my HMO doesn't have any requirements for adults other than "I want it")