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We picked our top 3 schools, looked for the cheapest apartment within those districts. It’s crazy how much it drives real estate costs!

I love this post - thank you @scripting.com for bringing this energy to blogging, for decades!

Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeves looks focused from the sideline and says “I don’t give two shits…. I don’t give one shit.”

it was legit fun and interesting and there are a ton of upcoming trainings in all five boroughs if you want to join in

also you get a hat

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For me, this is the most remarkable Backlisted episode. After seeing the 1989 movie (which was … a lot), I started this show unenthused and knowing for a fact I would never read it. After @salenagodden.bsky.social’s spectacular reading, though, I bought the book and rated it 5 stars.

I’m interested…..

One 5K monitor.

RIP Yiynova

"When beings and the world are full of evil, transform unfavorable circumstances into the path of enlightenment, lol" —Chödrön, with Dobkin

🧨 New @wired.com cover package dropped

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This week a Republican congressman called for the denaturalization of a Democratic elected official, invoking a key mechanism through which the Holocaust was perpetrated.

In response, Democratic Party leaders have rushed to cable news to declare that the Republicans have a point about that guy.

Screenshot of kottke.org on October 20, 2004

If you’re wondering where the past several days of Classic Blogs have come from, it’s from Jason’s blogroll in 2004.

kottke.org on October 20, 2004
https://web.archive.org/web/20041020081358if_/http://www.kottke.org:80

if i dismissed that young dev, we both would have missed out on that nice connection. i noticed more new folks in the chat starting to engage and ask questions too, ones they can ask an ai - but i was approachable to them in that moment so they didn’t have to. just something i have been noticing!

I see a lot of contradictions and small hypocrisies in both how tech is built and in how we, you and me and all the other individuals out there, engage with this tech. We say we hate algorithms but then we get overwhelmed by all the content or angry that the new space we want to inhabit is empty, isn't filling up with content (inventory!) like the old place did. We say we hate social media but then we demand the new platforms behave like the old ones. We say we don't like how much tech has taken away from us but then we don't want to do the work required of us to help build spaces together, to create a healthier culture, to engage with each other in more human ways. We talk about how angry and horrible the Internet has become but when was the last time you were kind to a stranger online? Yesterday on Bluesky, I posted a photo of my cat, and it was very popular. A lot of people responded to it, enough that I could not bring myself to respond to each one. But I tried to reply to some, and when I did, one person said "Thank you for responding." I sat with that all night. Thank you for responding. Thank you for acknowledging me, acknowledging that I exist and that I matter. Thank you for extending one small bit of kindness.

I hit my limit so I wrote a call to arms. It's called We Are The Internet.

I hope you will read it and share it. Thanks.

www.leahreich.com/we-are-the-i...

‘“I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable. I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this,” said U.S. District Judge to the #Trump admin!

“accustomed to remaining free”

It’s A PHYSICAL EDUCATION parade hour. I have only ever seen people say “no please go ahead!!” when anyone is nervous about promoting their book, so I am going to promote with a penetrating unblinking stare until someone admits verbally that they cannot take it anymore

The core is VERY good actually! Kinetic, humorous, uplifting, and at times challenging.

I am glad you are here! Thanks for writing.

State repression of peaceful protests can subject activists to injury and even death but—when broadcast to the world through media—often turns mass opinion against the state. bsky.app/profile/owas...

Brilliant

There’s no plan, no forethought.

An Interview With A Public Health Researcher Whose Funding Was Terminated By The Trump Administration | Defector In a third-grade classroom exercise, Patrick Kelly wrote that he wanted to become a scientist when he grew up. With that interest came an attention to the people that science can help. “I’ve just alwa...

Sabrina Imbler spoke with Patrick Kelly about his research improving the health of people who use drugs and how the new administration's cuts threaten people impacted by the opioid crisis. defector.com/an-interview...

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I was also thinking he was gearing up to becoming a “centrist Republican.” What a sham.