Susanna the Artist 🌻

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/

A bunch of Republican lawmakers, including Lindsay Graham, have now tweeted praise for this idea, which they know perfectly well is completely bonkers.

It turns out that not using a crap Ethernet cable for the last 2 meters is the difference between ~80 Mbps at the desktop and 1 Gbps at the desktop.

An orange treasure flower faces the sun

A cluster of white petunias

My last rose of the season is yellow fringed with red

A single foxglove flower in profile

An arctic blast is due Tuesday so it’ll be a final bow for the garden this year.
#bloomscrolling #gardening

#Trump hosted one of the more attention-grabbing press events of his term in the Oval Office this week, announcing price cuts for weight-loss drugs, only to be interrupted when one of the attendees collapsed in a faint.
Before that dramatic turn of events, however, Trump appeared to struggle to […]

Someone asked if I have been shadowbanned on here, because they haven’t seen my posts for weeks.

I am not shadowbanned, I’ve just been quiet on socials and substack.

I’ve focusing on teaching and navigating the fallout from my firing from @washingtonpost.com — it’s been psychologically hard.

@Snaggy I had never heard of Liquid Ass. Yikes! You could choose random pieces of trash to send.

A scammer saying they are from Rogers tried to get me to buy a phone through the Rogers app, then mail it back to "them". Reported them to fraud agencies, but so far having fun wasting their time. What should I mail them instead of a phone? I do have a quantity of Liquid Ass I've been saving for […]

"The Spiders to Worry About"

1. Agatha: She lives in a small town in upstate NY in the canoe shed of a summer camp. She is a massive fishing spider and doesn't understand how shocking this can be.

2. Ricardo: Never listened to his mom when she taught them what a good web site looks like. He […]

Multi colored cat and elephant

Curious what these character or colors symbolize, if anything. (Among stickers for LGBTQ advocacy) #stickers

the problem with using things like Wins Above Replacement to guide party strategy is that electoral skill can change quickly in response to new events and dramatically out of step policy choices. jared golden support trump's tariffs in a seat where they're probably -10 or -20. that's gonna cost you

A dramatic lithograph showing a grieving starving mother with a skeletal baby on her lap. She sits Cross legged, breasts visible as if no milk to feed her child. Her hands cover her eyes. Rendered in a German expressionistic manner.

Today I discovered Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), an amazing German artist whose power anti war work spanned the turbulence and dangers of two wars.

In July 1936, she was visited by the Gestapo and threatene with arrest and deportation to a Nazi concentration camp. She […]

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Judging middle school entrepreneurship fair applications and it doesn't get any points on the rubric, but gotta appreciate the kid who crossed out the "how many items to break even" question and wrote "I just want to do this. There's no way I'll cover my costs."

The Insider Politics Sheets Are Scurrying for New Conventional Wisdom One of the most important things to understand about politics is the...

Deep inside-baseball coverage of fallout from the Dems big election night. This is the kind of thing I subscribe to TPM for: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-insider-politics-sheets-are-scurrying-for-new-conventional-wisdom/sharetoken/d8f3e4b5-4c42-4cc0-be03-bdc821dbcc30

#USpol

Meme photo. In a drab soulless office setting with depressing fluorescent lighting and depressing brown industrial carpet, a person in a Hello Kitty costume - an enormous white cat head with a pink bow on one ear and a pink sparkly dress - wields a sledgehammer at an open laptop on the floor at their feet.

Good morning

Aaron Swartz should have been 39 years old today
#AaronSwartzDay

A fluffy gray cat with big eyes sits on a wooden table in a well-lit room, gazing attentively at the camera. Background elements include partially open doors and a bulletin board with papers.

Orion jumps up here & begs me to play with him. So I get out the string and he ignores it. What’s the deal, cat? #caturday #catsOfMastodon

@ai6yr Remember a family reunion at a B&B somewhere up in New England. Waze absolutely mangled the directions and we ended up on the wrong side of the lake.

Walked right into an unlocked house before a few clues told us we were at the wrong place. Fortunately the clues weren't measured in caliber

A sleeping short-haired brown dog with floppy ears is curled up on a plaid blanket, resting on a leather couch.

Ivy says good night. #dogsOfMastodon

Sometimes you meet a parent of a kid you teach and it takes all the self control in the world, when they say "I'm Joe's mom" NOT to say "I can see that!"

It's still so weird to me that the idea of universal healthcare is so political here. It's a given in so many other places, and I miss it. And people don't realize how good it is for innovation. You can take so many more risks when your health and well-being aren't tied to a salaried employer.

A lot of tradies, certainly in Australia, now invoice via Xero.
When I clicked thru to pay using the convenient link from the Xero invoice page, I noticed the merchant fee to process the transaction was A$49.

I paid by bank transfer instead.

Why is the Bowling Green basketball team wearing orange? #basketball

@w7voa did anyone find out where the alligator Alcatraz detainees were disappeared to? The only thing I read was shortly after closure their attorneys and families couldn't find out where they were.

Congratulations to the albums & artists I liked who scored Grammy nominations!
Tropicoqueta - Karol G
Debí Tirar Más Fotos - Bad Bunny
So Long Little Miss Sunshine - Molly Tuttle
God Does Love Ugly - JID
#Grammys #music

@CultureDesk @Billboard @THR A lot of albums and songs I didn’t even know about were nominated for Grammys. Time to make myself some playlists and see what they’re all about!
Also, how did I not even know that Lady Gaga had a new album?

Nominations for the Grammy Awards were announced today. @Billboard breaks down the snubs and surprises. At the second link, find @THR's list of all the nominees.

https://flip.it/b-gd59
https://flip.it/KWJ8KF

#GrammyAwards #Grammys #Music #Entertainment #Awards #KendrickLamar

@docpop You mean 3 year! Hold a wake for the Internet of old.

@docpop Damn, 2022 was a bad year for the Internet.

An example search result of the term "pixie cut". The results are a bunch of photos of women with short haircuts, but the results are all from 2022 or earlier. On the right hand side is a the interface for "Slop Evader", a browser extension that helps filter search results to only show things from before the relase of ChatGPT.

Weird internet find of the day:
Slop Evader, a browser extension that filters generative AI search results by only showing pages from before Nov 22, 2022 (the day ChatGPT launched).
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/slop-evader/mlofdhcgaaimlpbjlhpfnpjfpebjpdpp?hl=en-US&pli=1