Betty Cracker of Florida

Eurasian Waterhen on shore of park pond

#CootsandMoorhens is #birdoftheday today, so I’ll share their Eurasian Waterhen from Da’an Park, Taipei, 2023..
Cheers!

Gallego: "This administration, since they started striking these boats illegally, has been very happy to show their snuff films . Now suddenly they're willing to show the first hit but not the second. Why? ... they're afraid the public is going to see the military killed 2 men that had surrendered."

I've been putting a dash of Worcestershire sauce in my coffee for the last 5 years, it is an absolute game changer but I think it may be one of the many reasons my wife left me

If this mofo collapses on the sidewalk in a puddle of piss while in cardiac arrest, don’t call an ambulance. Hand him a price sheet of all available ambulance companies and ask him to compare prices and choose.

< Bari's CBS Bunker,... ヘ The Dokoupil promotion is telling in that regard. On some level, Tony is Bari's ideal anchor: a strong-jawed white man who harkens back to an earlier era of broadcast TV and thus subverts the industry's recent preoccupation with identity politics. He is

Hiring a Black woman: “identity politics”

Hiring a white guy for a job that has been held disproportionately by white guys, because he is a white guy: “subverting” identity politics!

(The author of this sentence is Dylan Byers; you will not be surprised to learn that he is a white guy.)

The Democrats’ New AI Panel Is Led by Big Tech Allies Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of the AI commission, owns up to tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in tech giants pushing to block states from regulating AI.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of new House Democrats' AI commission announced by @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, owns up to tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in tech giants pushing to block states from regulating AI.

You don't say!!!!!!

Ossoff: "She got her new insurance quote & it's $700 more per month than what she's paying now. She's diabetic. She had surgery a few months ago for something else. She told me she cried again bc she realized she's gonna have to cancel her insurance. She believes she might die bc of a policy choice"

God bless the kind coworker who pitched in to navigate the insurance and billing pitfalls. But the U.S. system is a disgrace, and Republicans are reversing the tenuous progress we made to ensure it’ll get worse.

Man, that sucks. I enjoyed the Louvre account.

Maybe putting a deranged chunk of beef jerky in charge of public health was ill advised. 🤔

IBM ad touting AI that appears in a story about a disturbed man driven deeper into his delusions by a chatbot; the man eventually killed his mother and himself.

Whoa, unfortunate ad placement in a story about an allegation that AI-enhanced delusion triggered a murder-suicide! Might want to reprogram the ad-serving bot.

nearly one third of adults use chatbots daily. the rest are getting laid

"What is the charge? Eating a mouse? A succulent field mouse?"

We have a new coworker who got trapped in a room today. No matter how much she tried to turn the doorknob she couldn’t open it. She called for help and nobody heard her for several minutes.

Except it was just a sliding door and she was never trapped. She’s going to fit in here just fine

Honestly very difficult to figure out who is more corrupt between Trump and FIFA, it’s a real game respect game situation lol

Midnight duckling posting, for all who need it 💞 🪶

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

If it’s a Roku TV, use a Roku app, etc. I haven’t always been able to do a takeover, but more times than not I can!

You’ll outlive all of us, is my guess. 😉

Co-signed. Also, it's often possible to use your mobile as a remote to change the channel. And no one else has to know that it's you who did it!

BABBY!!!!! 😭 😭 😭 🪶

Sen. Jacky Rosen on the health care votes tomorrow: "We didn't put any wish lists in. We could have. Clean and simple," she says of Dem proposal. "What do they put up? The most partisan shit you've ever seen"

Musk is whining about miscegenation again bsky.app/profile/seth...

Squeeeee!

🗺️ 🪶 🐣

After NIH grant cuts, breast cancer research at Harvard slowed, and lab workers left Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments.

Amid NIH funding delays, reversals and uncertainty, a scientist at Harvard who studies breast cancer has lost one-third of her lab employees and wonders if she can continue her research experiments. n.pr/4a4N3zD

I'm old enough to remember the right-wing freakout when Michelle Obama suggested it might be better if school kids eat more fruit and vegetables and fewer tater tots.

He has 10 kids. Needs the money!