Leah Shaffer

seconding George's suggestions: Get to know the tools available, only allow followers to comment, or even just mutuals, lots of options to limit being overwhelmed by the testy masses. If you want better engagement on posts, start engaging with mutuals and follow more. Mute and block freely.

Gold medal in DOG!

Hell yeah! Now let's impeach RFK Jr., because I'm tired of tax money going to his weird little obsessions (shirtless sizzle reels with deranged clowns, hanging around roadkill burn pits, become the human avatar of E. coli via dark necromancy).

Would be interesting to correlate use of "Mumsnet" and vaccine hesitancy. And transphobia for that matter. Mumsnet is like the Mines of Moria, seems like alot of evil shit got unearthed there.

I got pens and lots of paper, I take really good notes and doodle birds. I have a knee-jerk dislike of authority and constantly question everything. I can grow tomatoes and cook eggs. I do believe these skills will prepare me for Jobs of the Future!

It's all working out for me, a feral bog witch who mostly uses sticks and bones for work and entertainment. The classics always return.

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These episodes of BtB were certainly a window into that mindset. The more people dwell on AI "potential," the more unwell they seem to become. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mJA...

AOC all the way, baby! Fueled by the classic backfire affect from a country that brought you both Obama and Trump. She's well known, attractive, clever, and a dem socialist at a time when apparently the only well-liked politicians are dem socialists. Vance is such a turd.

I am once again asking, how does one transfer billions of dollars away from Tulip Mania and back into programs where the $ could be used to vastly expand housing, clean energy, education, public health etc.
How does one do that maneuver? Asking for a republic.

I think this meme is basically true to the story thus far. Which is bananas. #RAM #Gaming #AI

X is just a dumpster that is on fire but many still insist on climbing into the dumpster to look for trash juice. Quite strange.

"Westin Taber Center" more like "Westin Tater Center!" haha

this was the only joke I made with the farmers, I did not know how to cover a potato growers convention for a produce industry news pub, my very first job out of J-School. But I did write four stories about it somehow.

threads gives me the vibe of a dead mall that's been converted into a flea market, mostly just a free-for-all of haggling over junk

Bluesky: Exactly like the potato growers conference hall I visited during an anti-carb craze. Organized but everyone is stressed and pissed off.

Surveillance Cat makes that weird clicky noise while imagining pouncing on Flock.

lol Colbert is such a treasure, and Talarico!

Stunning

I always joke that me and my husband of 25 years "imprinted on eachother" like swans at age 20 and mated for life.

Two tortoise shell cats snuggle together on a grey chair like chocolate babkas

Contemplating presidents, as is mandated

A meme with a photo of a cute possum looking like it's in a happy little daydream. The meme reads: When my brain goes on a little adventure. Instead of attending to the conversation I'm having.

meme o clock
My goal to write three press releases today might have been too ambitious.

Real newsrooms keep rule books or style guides to ensure their standards are consistent. And the "standard" is to remove the vocal tics and include the core message of a quote.

Trump gets edited for sanity, all weird noises, all nonsense is excluded.
AOC gets every "um" printed.

Email style is generational, to some extent, in that boomers tend to treat email like a telegram. I think I read that in @gretchenmcculloch.com 's book.
I feel like it's opposite with millennials, we email like we're chatting, it's conversational, with fully formed sentences, digressions, etc.

K, got pr written and it appears we can grow muscle fiber in vats of goo. If we could transfer all that AI money into the goo vat industry, we'll be in good shape.

Yep, seems like Linkedin serves as the main gathering spot for "polite society" after X got gross. Good portion of science twitter also fled there. Friendly vibes, everyone on their best behavior for the boss.

Monday mood

Yes the athletes should not "wax the skis" which is what this is.
Yes, we still need to ban petrochemicals from the vast majority of manufacturing and subsidize bio plastic production.
And YES, I gotta go write a press release about new biomaterials for clothing based on muscle fibers. #ChemSky 🧪

if this house of cards could just go ahead and start crumbling, bubble start a popping, that would be great. K thanx

Yeah, I guess it's like greasing the skis, it's just seems silly to put the hammer down on a few winter athletes while the entire petrochemical industry gets to do a free-for-all.

Won't happen under this Admin.
Under this Admin, Coalie, the lovable coal mascot, will visit all the lucky children and smother them under microplastics and the dead souls of dinosaurs. That's Coalie!

Ban petrochemicals from being used in most plastic manufacturing, and subsidize the bioplastics industry and we'd get a circular economy up in running in no time, just sayin. #ScienceSky #ClimateSky #ChemSky