ana is tired

i'm confused how things went from the vibe in this video to the one in this article in the first place. can we not have a snow day anymore? did folks start targeting noncombatants outside the park boundary?

there are rules to our seasonal city combat sports! we have snowball fights in a society!

i think the difference between a 7 and a 9 is the increase of speed at which pain consumes your willingness to endure it

potentially the exponential increase

either that or whoa was my will to live reserve already in the dredges

.......mmm y'know what, i fear this is a ¿por que no los dos?

ow :(

true story i have gotten so decision fatigued during the character creation stage of games that i noped out and never played them. now i know if i have to choose traits or design a character model i need a friend on stream for emotional support.

game ceo guy: it's just like real life. infinite possibilities!!
me: *sobbing*

some of the olympic women including maddie mastro have been reposting this if you’re curious about the vibe in response to the US men’s little display

I'll be locked in!

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

BREAKING

Former ICE agent:

On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

i cannot troubleshoot live, either, so just started crying from stress and crashed it to go have a panic attack in peace. DOING GREAT TODAY! at least this banana bread is edible...

i fear i never will

Happening Now: A snowball fight is taking place at Washington Square Park in New York City

what's it like to have confidence?

Here is @aoc.bsky.social thankfully telling everyone exactly what to do to stop a concentration camp from being built where you live.

Please take it to heart and take action.

me, having horrific pain day thinking maybe i'll just stream a video game since everybody's cooped up lonely anyway:
nobody:
obs: /METALLIC SCREECHING FEEDBACK NOISES BUT ONLY WHEN LIVE, recordings sound clear and beautiful
me: ..................kay, i can take a hint, universe

Why anti-Zionism can't properly be treated as antisemitism for purposes of federal civil rights law, in ~ 2 minutes

....yup this sure is a blizzard

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

I just got a call from Brittany Pettersen's office (presumably to ask me if I'm going to caucus and if I will caucus for her) and they started with "you're a strong Democrat and we want to know how you feel" and I just unloaded.

i'm so stressed out about how bad my pain is and how i'm gonna deal with shoveling the once-in-a-decade blizzard with this spinal injury (that i've already aggravated thanks to the first terrible storm) that i missed all mentions of this morning's mar-a-lago incident until just now. huh.

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

For those not familiar this isn't cute. Massachusetts officials only do this when they're extremely distressed.

congrats, you're an expert!

(wiggle...? i'm still trying to figure out how it's 8 hours late and estimating 4x more snow lol)

maybe i should have gotten groceries... but in my defense the estimates were still low until yesterday and i did grab milk and zucchini and cat litter.

"how is that a defense--?" I'M TRYING MY BEST OKAY

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

the state of rescue right now is i get pinged to a post about an abandoned pet chicken, left alone in a box when we're forecasted to have a 'once in a decade' bad blizzard.

(it's been brought in already, the chicken is not on the street pre-blizzard anymore.)

but someone dumped A FUCKING CHICKEN.

we need you, buddy!!

thinking abouit how in korean traditional theater there is a monster called yeongno which eats rich people and if it eats 100 of them it gets to go to heaven (I'm sorry, I'm not feeling well and I can't explain what it looks like, sort of like an anteater) Like can we summon this m quasi-normalcy replies - go little fellow!

I believe in you, little guy

i always thought rimming as a sex term came from rimming salt/sugar rather than the other way around, is that not the case?? the replies and qrps to this post have me questioning if i know that as a fact i learned at some point or just assumed it 😂

tame search query by my standards, at least.