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Thanks. We’ve done all of that and are hoping he comes back soon. It’s just so scary not knowing…

Beautiful gray tabby cat sitting on hind legs with tail wrapped around front legs. He has big, golden green eyes and a white muzzle. He is sitting on a colorful rug with an abstract pattern, on a medium brown-toned hardwood floor.

Our Rude Boy Rudy is missing and my heart is broken. 💔 We realized our basement door was open (probably for hours) after we got back from my birthday dinner last night. Please share all the positive stories and statistics of indoor cats finding their way home safely after escaping!

In the best possible way!

An image, in the style of B-movie posters of the 1950s, with large yellow block letters reading “Stop the Slop.” In the upper right corner are two red text boxes reading “Save the future” and “Don’t use AI!” Below the text is an image of a screaming woman in the foreground and several people in the distance running away from an oozing red blob with a distorted, screaming face. Text at the bottom reads “A public service message from Alternate Histories and artists everywhere.”

One of my favorite Pittsburgh artists (and self-proclaimed curmudgeon) @alternatehistories.bsky.social knows that AI “art” is garbage and an existential threat to humanity and the planet. Help spread the word and #StopTheSlop

An image of a teenage girl standing on the steps outside a high school, surrounded by smoke. She is wearing a blue shirt, gray jacket, and dark colored skirt, tights, and shoes. She is covered in soot and has bleeding wounds on her face. She smokes a cigarette.

Question for the under-40 crowd: If you went to a Halloween party and saw someone dressed like this photo, would you know who they were?

*so many people

It makes me sad and sick that so people around me are eager to outsource their creativity—and humanity—to AI platforms.

Here's where to get help with food in southwestern Pennsylvania When SNAP benefits expire because of the federal government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of Western Pennsylvanians will struggle to afford food.

When SNAP runs out on Nov. 1st, hundreds of thousands of people in Pittsburgh and across SWPA will struggle to afford food. I compiled (with the help of community members) a non-exhaustive list of where people can find help, including sites in Pittsburgh & outer counties.

Please spread this.

Unrealistic dialogue.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Libraries are political!!!!!!!! !!!!

Costume in Spirit Halloween package with a person dressed in a traditional ghost costume — except the sheet is made to look like a piece of cured meat. The name of the costume is Gabaghoul.

Perfect. No notes.

He announced wanting a ballroom months ago and the Dems announced today they want to know what's going on. WTF too late. It's always late. Every Dem should be shouting "HE IS BUILDING A BALLROOM WHILE CHILDREN STARVE". Where are they?

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

That I’m not sure of… but I would think the whole garment. Do they show it on a model? The knit material drapes a little differently than denim since it’s less stiff.

Based on previous experience, I would guess something like jersey/T-shirt material. So, softer and more flexible than denim.

"It's YOUR BBC. It's Google's YouTube" also work for PBS!

Love this simple framing for people about public goods. IT'S YOURS. YOU OWN IT.

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

Call me a luddite if you like - but I don't want a bed that stops working when Amazon Web Services goes down.
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This. Is. The. People’s. House. Something about what he’s done to the White House and rose garden gets to me in a different way than every other travesty. It feels like a violation; like he broke into my own home and trashed it.

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

Well this sure feels on the nose www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It’s the best by far!

In addition to all the grandmas and normies at No Kings I was very happy to see a lot of Columbus' venerable benign weirdos. Bagpipes guy. One of those dudes with hundreds of action figures glued to his 1994 Saturn SL3. Those kinds of folks.

Weirdos are an important part of the municipal fabric.

“The only Donnie we listen to is Donnie Iris!”

YouTube video by Pavement - Topic No More Kings

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Usually when people say that the implication (or next sentence) is “there’s no money in a cure.” I thought that‘s what you were getting at. Apologies if I misunderstood.

The recommendation was 50 until 2024, when the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force updated it to 40. That surprised me! Also, cancer is hundreds of diseases with varying risk factors, survival rates & some cures. It is simply not true that Big Pharma is sitting on a cure & saying that sows distrust.

A series of still images from “Derry Girls” in which Erin pitches story ideas for the school newspaper. These include photos of animals and “Shoes of the World.”

Shoes of the world!

There is not a single reason to outsource your creativity to a computer.

Not one.

To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.