Lauren C

Listen, I have a lot of feelings about American bathroom stalls. They're all angry.

It seems that I can no longer leave a voicemail for @fetterman.senate.gov outside of business hours. They just ask you to call back between 9-5.

Another disgusting part of all of this is the proof a blatant war crime to which the Vice President of the United States responded: Excellent.

You are right. The people of Pennsylvania demand that every administration official involved in this chat - who accepted it and participated - resign or be fired or be impeached, and punished for their incompetent endangerment of Americans. Be our voice.

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Just angrily called all of my elected officials to demand the firing, resignation, or impeachment of every administration individual involved in that Signal chat.

Sample text and phone numbers available at 5calls.org

ScienceWriters2025 conference An update for the science-writing community about a change regarding this year’s conference, [ScienceWriters2025](https://sciencewriters2025.org/).

WTF, University of Pittsburgh? Making a promise to a science writers conference, then withdrawing support after signing a commitment? Why did you all back out of supporting the people doing this important work? www.nasw.org/article/scie...

Called my reps again today to demand that they express support for Ukraine and to say that Trump's suspicious behavior on this issue makes the US look weak and unreliable. 5calls.org

I've had a hell of a writing day, in a good way.

This is why I practice writing, so that when I NEED to do it FAST, my chops are READY.

For me, it doesn't matter what kind of writing I'm doing. It all exercises the muscle. Today I had to handle a few things quickly, and I was in shape & ready.

Throw eggs.

Listen, infrastructure / software / tools, in general, do not DO anything. They allow humans to do things USING them.

Today's annoyance: Infrastructure is not going to ENSURE transparency. It might collect information together that allows a human being to ensure transparency.

YouTube video by How To Do Stuff LAST CHANCE to Bulk Download Your Kindle Library – Here’s How! (Upgraded Script)

You have a couple of days to get your books downloaded. If, like me, you have a LOT of these, this YouTube video lays out a very effective and easy way to automate the downloads so you don't have to click one by one. I did this and it worked great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4nR...

Now, these books are mostly still controlled by Amazon via DRM and their proprietary file extension, so you will have to do some extra steps if you want to use them outside of the Amazon ecosystem.

(This means that, as some gamers and other folks who have "bought" movies and shows via streaming services have experienced, your books could all just disappear with no recourse for you who spent money on them.)

Hi everyone, if you have any e-books that you bought through Amazon, you have 2 days to download them. On Feb 26, Amazon is ending the ability to download their ebooks and trasfer them via USB, basically rendering all of your Amazon ebooks cloud-only and controlled entirely by the Amazon ecosystem.

WTF soup night in my house.

Saturday night pasta. This was our first shaped pasta and it was a perfect pocket for peas to peek out.

The flesh was sweet, although it was hard to eat around the bitter pith. I would eat a pomelo again!

This is the largest citrus fruit in the world and the ancestor of the grapefruit. It is also known as a shaddock.

New Year's Fruit Resolution, post 2. I've seen pomelos before many times but never eaten one. I really dislike grapefruit so these seemed like a fruit that I was unlikely to enjoy. I was glad to be proven wrong. I let the fruit sit for a few days to get extra ripe.

Bro just walk past them it’s what the DOGE creeps did

Sen. McCormick to open seven Pa. regional offices They are all expected to be open by the end of next week.

www.pennlive.com/politics/202...

I got through to his Harrisburg office. Found the number in a PennLive article about him opening regional offices.

All that talk about transparency was bullshit.

I'm a constituent. Every nominee is working to implement Project 2025. Elon Musk is engaging in a coup. Please obstruct them and get in the way as much as you can. Stop voting yes for their agenda that hurts everyone in PA (except maybe Sen McCormick... if he was actually from here)

The NSF also supports so much open source software development that tech companies rely on.
Maybe it's time for, idk, those companies to ALL support open source software communities and developers with their profits instead of relying on government funding.

I do know that it's practice for the staff to tally up the calls they receive and the issues discussed in the calls. They send this in reports. Republican/MAGA callers historically outnumber others.

Don't let these assholes steal your identity and sign you up for whatever their latest cryptocurrency scheme is.

How to Freeze Your Credit - NerdWallet A credit freeze helps prevent identity theft and fraud. Contact each of the three major credit bureaus to freeze or unfreeze your credit files for free.

You can expect Musk & co. to take your personal information about as seriously as they take naming their group after a shiba inu meme. This article contains three links to online systems where you can sign up to freeze your credit and receive fraud alerts.
www.nerdwallet.com/article/fina...

How to Freeze Your Credit - NerdWallet A credit freeze helps prevent identity theft and fraud. Contact each of the three major credit bureaus to freeze or unfreeze your credit files for free.

Now that Elon Musk and some random college students who have LinkedIn usernames like "big balls" have access to your social security number and financial history—you should probably freeze your credit.