Cathy W

I was radicalized by a kind elderly Presbyterian minister in a brightly colored cardigan who played with puppets and told me that people could like me exactly as I am and that everyone is different and that's great and we should like them exactly as THEY are.

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

“The workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.
Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex…”

Reminder:

if so I feel as though there must have been an act of desperation involved.

A digital illustration of a fictional owl. In form similar to a barn owl with the same heart-shaped face but with the addition of feathery owl horns. It has a whitish face and belly and its wings, back, head, and tail are shared of deep red with gold spots and details including a gold tracing of its face shape and out to the end of the horns. It has deep, dark blue eyes and is perched on a branch. Next to the owl on the right is an hourglass the glass of which is housed in a slightly ornate gold structure with an organic viney motif. Most of the sand is in the bottom of the hourglass. Above that is some gold interconnected, art nouveau-esque lettering set inside a rectangle with a red background. The lettering reads ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

Very few people realize congress hasn’t declared war since 1942

a lot of the comments are armchair dermatology. :\

*pounds the table* POR-TENT! POR-TENT!

today I am very happy to have the 'hide post for me' feature, there is a picture that was notable to see once but I do not want to see a hundred times over the rest of the day as people comment on it.
you probably know the one, I bet you've seen it.

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous

when it aired it was on ABC Family, sandwiched between two episodes of televangelist Pat Robertson's "700 Club". I suspect they were trying to annoy Robertson (Disney bought his channel from him - the contract specified that he got 2 hours/day) but they also wasted a gosh-darn masterpiece of a show.

2024-2025 Literacy Statistics | National Literacy Institute Literacy Statisitics

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.

You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*

www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

Almost Human (2013-2014) - a dystopian scifi cop show with Karl Urban, with Michael Ealy playing his android partner.

💯👍🏻

I am supposed to open the house and air it out for the first task of the Finch app's spring cleaning challenge.

it's 15 Freedom Degrees outside my house right now, which is about -9 in sensible units.

sorry, little birb, we're waiting until Friday.

chatbots are fucking stupid and don't do what they're sold to do but in the process of doing that dumb fucking stupid shit they're buying up theoretical hardware that hasn't even been fucking made and making it impossible for you to buy a laptop without remortaging your house.

Of course they do... genius.

On this basis, I'm assuming, there's a retired primary school teacher out there whose antibodies could do the childhood disease equivalent of walking into the Copland Road end at Ibrox in a Celtic shirt and offering to take on all comers.

Starting tomorrow, you can watch fish traffic via an underwater camera livestreaming from an Utrecht canal. If you spot waiting 🐟, you can ping an operator to open the Weerdsluis lock gate & let them through. Highly recommend this for easing elevated stress levels, or if you just like helping fish

Literally, at work this morning:

Clinician: Patient should stop medication A, but must keep taking medication B.

AI VR transcription of this: Patient should stop taking medication B.

Seriously NEVER LET A DOCTOR USE AI FOR YOUR APPOINTMENTS. NEVER. UNDER ANY FUCKING CIRCUMSTANCES.

I suppose I found women's hockey through Check Please...

The entryway and sign for the Seoul Sewage Science Museum

You will never run out of things to see in Seoul!

Bit of amusement today from the museum #LinguisticLandscape of Seoul, and a huge shout out to what proved to be a very interesting museum built over an operational sewage treatment plant!

“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it

anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

Tom Holland and Zendaya are now married, says stylist Law Roach

(via: @accesshollywood.bsky.social)

This is not a joke: I need someone to check for a lost stuffed animal on campus at UT-Knoxville outside Thompson-Boling. DM me for details.

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

I'm watching a PWHL game on Youtube and I've seen multiple people in the chat who said "I'm here because AO3 is down" and that was not a thing I ever expected. :)

They don't *need* AI to make these decisions. But they *want* AI to make these decisions. Because the tech gives them plausible deniability--something to blame (other than themselves) when things go wrong.

Lrs: I get there are issues with testing how things effect pregnancy but it sure feels like people just make up ways to say that if the mother doesn't live to their arbitrary standards it dooms their children. Pregnancy seems quite miserable enough without the demands to go full Yellow Wallpaper