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Hate those clickbaity articles that are like “12 minutes to an amazing ass!” And it’s always just exercise, and never a google maps location.

In late 80s I was social worker in Houston working in Verification unit for food stamps. Made unannounced home visits to verify applicants were qualified &had reported all income etc. Unit was dismantled because cost more to run than were recovering. Very little fraud.So many myths/lies about SNAP

Another host, Eugene Daniels, asked Mr. Cuomo what he meant by diversity being a “weakness.” “Diversity can be a weakness if you have antipathy among groups, Jonathan,” Mr. Cuomo said, mistaking Mr. Daniels for his co-host Jonathan Capehart, both of whom are Black.

You can't make this up.

+Silky smooth skin, almost with a water bend wave.
+Excessive noise/pixelation around the suspicious part. (Etc a knee hitting bare concrete will look regular but the knee/concrete will have pixels moving with it)
+Hair laying weird or not moving with the subject
+Transitions that make no sense.

As a teen or young adult in the 1990s you had constant encounters with people in their 50s-80s who were combatants, victims or perpetrators during catastrophes of the mid-20th century

That direct link to realities of Nazism and other forms of oppression such as Stalinism or colonialism is now gone

Why don't they just make a dating app for bigots? OK Coupid? Plenty of Fascists? eHate? Bummer? Coffee meets ICE?

I'll stop. But: if you find people on there, you can cross reference with regular dating apps (FEATURE) and red-flag 'em.

If greed was taxed the way poverty is punished, we’d have funded UBI a decade ago.

#UBI4ALL

I got this pop up on the Apple News app (that I’m not paying for and swore I deleted already) yesterday.

They keep trying to push this story every few months and NO ONE CARES B. The bigots being unable to get their various instruments and orifices wet is no one else’s problem. Feature, not a bug.

One challenge with pattern recognition is seeing stuff like a plenary discussion with no journalists of color, followed by a panel about podcasting that only has male speakers. In New York City. In 2025.

i genuinely cannot stand actual european elites condescendingly explaining american public opinion to americans. reminds me of when some british lady IRL tried to tell me she understood southerners better than i ever could, a southerner who lives in the south.

This man hates this city.

Imagine running for a mayor in a city where between 600 and 700 languages - some of whom are some of the last speakers in the world - and going "diversity can be a weakness"

You cannot say Americans aren't ready for socialism when Halloween exists in its current glorious form.

Volunteered to help trick r' treaters safely cross a busy intersection and saw several examples of the surprising generosity of teenagers giving candy they collected away to younger kids they didn't even know. A few even unpromptedly made sure I went home with a handful of candy for being out there.

Once you've gotten out of that site, I'd highly recommend checking out the open repository run by Knowledge Commons ( @kcommons.bsky.social )— a non-profit run by academics!

about.hcommons.org

No Time to Be Bored: Board Games in the Health Library You'll find educational games, phone chargers, simulated babies, and even Fitbits on loan at some hospital libraries.

You'll find educational games, phone chargers, simulated babies, and even Fitbits on loan at some hospital libraries.

If you're in need of positive and rather wholesome news, there's a high school teacher named Bryan who took a ton of freely licensed celebrity headshots at the New York Film Festival last month for Wikipedia, and I truly can't believe how drastic the upgrade is for some articles (thread)

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ChatGPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences.

You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Rendezvous on the Beach, by Edvard Munch, 1896

YouTube video by BOJTV LIVE Aerial Shots of St. Elizabeth | Prime Minister Andrew Holness & Other officials tours

Footage of the worst affected area, St. Elizabeth, in Jamaica, which took the eye of Hurricane Melissa. It's a credit to the preparedness efforts, with such devastation, that the loss of life isn't far worse.

If you wish to help, see the link below:

supportjamaica.gov.jm

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interior design where you're just randomly pressing buttons for yellow gold, white marble, and crystal chandelier to remind everyone you're very rich

One of my favorite things about Halloween in New York City is just how many kids opt for dressing up like their favorite subway line. Just spotted an A train holding hands with her mom.

Trump ends Canada access at shared border library In a picturesque town on the U.S.-Canada border, workers under dark clouds were building a new entrance for Canadians into a library to replace one that had long symbolized bilateral closeness.

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That’s Brent Bozell III, founder of the Media Research Center, nephew of William F Buckley and one of many Council For National Policy members who worked to oppose anti-apartheid efforts in the 1980s. Also, his son was one of the first rioters inside the Capitol on Jan 6. Got four years for it.

Nichelle Nichols, photographed by Joe Shere, 1967

Nichelle, 1967

Reading about deep human tragedy can leave you feeling despondent. For some people, helping is its own form of solace. If that’s you, this curated list by Sarah Elhassan leads to mutual aid initiatives and other verified ways to support people in Sudan. linktr.ee/bsonblast

somehow when I was a kid star trek and Superman convinced me that my job was to find a way to be comfortable around every kind of person and that's just how I've gone along ever since

An entire city of unsupervised theatre kids.

Scripps Research scientists launch new digital clinical trial to test repurposed drug for long COVID symptom relief

We've just launched the first large, site-less (home, direct to participant) randomized trial for treatment of #LongCovid, testing tirzepatide (a GLP-1 drug) vs placebo. Please help spread the word
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