it's lizzy

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

A book of my Creased Comics is coming this spring from NYRC.

Imho one useful way to think about like artists/creators and parasocial relationships and stuff is like this: you have a relationship with the art object, because you've devoted hours to listening/watching/experiencing. the creator has their own relationship to it. your relationship is not to them

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

I’m at the Dr. Burke episodes of my Friends rewatch so here is my little Friends fanfic which was previously retweeted by, among others, the former television critic for the New Yorker

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper.
Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...

France conducted its last guillotining the year Star Wars came out

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

Opinion: With humanities funding vanishing, stories and those who protect them remain our greatest hope Opinion: With humanities funding vanishing, stories and those who protect them remain our greatest hope

"What I do know is that we need the #humanities now, perhaps more than we have ever needed them, because we live in a time when so many of us have forgotten this crucial truth: We are a fangless, clawless, furless species, & we survive only in community." - @margaretrenkl.bsky.social #NEH #Tennessee

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

I just…I can’t believe we haven’t made stronger norms around this stuff

Extremely un-friendly reminder that "credit scores" are predatory, discriminatory, controlled by for-profit companies, and should be abolished.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book The ‘extremely significant' text was hidden for centuries.

I love that the Zoology department was integral to finding text about Merlin that was otherwise invisible to the human eye.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Idea: keep the inhalers, get rid of half a million cars per year.

Drawing of two Therizinosaurus, one attempting to reach out for a handshake but piercing the other instead. Caption says “No one tried to shake hands for another 70 million years”

6: Pierce (Therizinosaurus)

Wow #yyc!

(Pics by Kelly Hofer FB)

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

Apologies Sensei

I have taken
the beers
that were in
the backseat

and which
you were probably
saving
for driving

Forgive me
they were Modelo
so small
and so few

they're calling her "the coolest person who has ever been alive"

lmao destroyedddddd

whoa!!

An image in the rare book room featuring a temperature/humidity sensor and a desiccant pack used to stabilize room humidity.

An image of a shelf in the rare book room in which four archival boxes containing historical records are stored.

An image of the door to the Rare Book Room at UW Archives, where archival records are securely stored.

An important part of archival work is ensuring that historical records, regardless of format, remain safe so they can be accessed far into the future. This includes keeping them secured from theft, but also safe from the risks of environmental factors like pests or high humidity and temperature.

give this lady a sock and a piano accompaniment and she would tear the party UP

Manitoba government proposes torture timeout up to 72 hours for people on meth.

I mean definitionally torture: the International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy define cold-turkey withdrawal as torture.
www.humanrights-drugpolicy.org/guidelines/o...

Cycling couple struck, injured 2 days apart at same Winnipeg intersection | CBC News A Winnipeg couple is raising safety concerns after both were injured while bicycling through the same Winnipeg intersection two days apart.

Sherbrook and Westminster is one of the busiest cycling intersections in Winnipeg. I pass through it everyday and it’s never made sense to me why the next intersection (at Maryland) DOES have a leading signal for cyclists and pedestrians but Sherbrook does not. #BikeWpg

I’m Diana From Anne of Green Gables and I am Fucking Drunk Holy shit holy shit holy shit. That cordial was cor-dialllll, right, Anne? Anne? ANNE! ANNNNNEEEEEEE! Hahahahah, oh my god, I’m just here like scre...

"Oh my god, it’s like… WHOA, you know? Ugh, where is all the DICK! I’m so horny I’d fuck Fred—what’s his name? The pink-faced one? He’s like, ugly hot, you know? Like, you hate yourself, but that’s part of it."