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Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one. When Alyssa Liu got up to hug Ami Nakai after she knew she didn't get gold, I started tearing up. What a sportswoman.

So much this: www.sfgate.com/olympics/art...

Elmo Traumatized

My face if I was forced to stand next to a Tkachuk 🤮

What does creative rest look like? I have a job that requires creativity. My hobbies mostly consist of making things, arts and crafts. If you're like me, what do you do when you're feeling burnt out?

OMG cut this guy off and do play by play.

I don't care about the Tkachuks. Show the Winn Brothers!!!

Hockey! Hockey! Hockey! Let's goooooooooo! #usahockey

We were watching men's skeleton last night and the commentator is like "This is the safest of the sliding events" and I'm like HOW?????

a facebook post from Ashon Crawley on February 13, 2021. It reads: i am sympathetic to folks that say *the* reason why the black panther party of self defense was a threat was because of the breakfast program. i am also sympathetic to the folks that say that is too reductive, that they were more than a breakfast progrum.* i think it’s in the middle: the BPP was a threat because they practiced care. and care showed up *as* a breakfast program, yes, but also as health clinics, as armed defense, as reading groups. care work as political organizing. care as the grounds for its emergence. care. one reason i’ve focused on care in my own work for years now is because black feminist thought informs my own, and black queer critique. and because care is often considered the antithesis of “serious things” and i’m just fundamentally against this. if care is soft or frilly or whatever, we need to have a preferential option for softness. care is something white supremacist capitalist patriarchy cannot give nor withhold, even when it tries to privatize care as an industry that is primarily about making money and exploiting workers. care is not private property, it only exists when it is shared. care is the antithesis and alternative to white supremacy, to riff on cedric robinson, because it must be. but it is so much more. it exceeds the logic of reactive response to practices of violence. it precedes the violence and political economy of extraction and exploitation. care, even if soft, ain’t easy. it takes courage. and conviction. and clarity. (i’m a former preacher, so the alliteration is a throwback lol.) you only have care when you share it. and sharing it is difficult precisely because the political economy of racial capitalism wants us to privatize and hoard what we consider it to be. care. let it flower and bloom. selah. 🌸💕

Five years ago @ashoncrawley.bsky.social posted a thing about care that feels really timely again. www.facebook.com/ashon/posts/...

I watched that yesterday and was like WTH, how can they use an AI song???? OBVIOUSLY that wasn't from the nineties.

If I didn't have to work for a living, today I would read books about the Science of Reading, work on designing a logo for my imaginary coffee shop to put above my espresso machine, I would watch so much Olympics, and do some clothes altering. Alas.

How much of this year is going to be spent finding alternatives for companies that have gone all in on AI? *spoiler - a lot

Linkedin Post from a Pinterest designer reading: "Yesterday I was impacted by the Pinterest layoffs. I was Pinterest's only icon designer and product illustrator. In his email to the company, the CEO said "we’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working". I WAS working on AI projects including the Pinterest Assistant that soft-launched in October. If you haven't heard about that feature launch, you can find it on Pinterest's own newsroom or with a Google search. I was vocal internally about how our users don't want AI slop or features on the platform, how we as employees are feeling uncomfortable and discouraged about AI, and what I wanted from leadership. Last year, I told my manager I was worried about AI-based layoffs. I was told not to worry. At an onsite, we were told that "in the future", we would all be "managers of AIs". That I would be expected to manage some sort of AI employees, rather than craft and design my own work. Human-made art and design matter. I am never going to stop creating, even if the "home of inspiration" decides that creators are secondary to profits. If you want to support me, you can follow me on threads or instagram @bonniekatewolf where I post my hand-knit sweaters and oil paintings. If you want to hire a human illustrator, designer, or iconographer, my email and DMs are open for freelance, contract, or FTE roles."

Pinterest CEO says in layoff email: "We’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working"

So it's time for me to move to another platform to save images

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Not even $7k has been raised. The fucking guy that murdered that white lady had how much money at this point?

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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

The older I get, the more I'm like let the kids have a snow day. Don't make people go out in the extreme cold. Let's stop letting capitalist profit first mindsets ruin our lives.

Ditto!

Thinking about you @sarahcastic.bsky.social this morning, as we are blasting Ben Folds Five as our get ready music (and by us I mean me and the cats and dog) 😄😘

I like 2048 and Alto's Odyssey. Played both a fair amount when I was stuck in hospital waiting rooms with my dad when he was going through treatment.

Hey #YouthLibs and #Skybrarians, have you applied for a Dollar General Literacy grant? Do you have to include specific info about teaching/literacy/measurable outcomes? Any info is helpful

This. This makes sense.

100% yes always

I have had this dream! It's time to close and I'm trying to lock the door and people keep coming in and no one will leave.

Serious thing for folks to consider is, particularly for marginalized people, Grudges Are Self-Defense. What you may be interpreting as pettiness is probably closer aligned to "You have demonstrated you're not to be trusted." And knowing who REALLY has your back is more important that ever.

For example, we have barely had a Freida McFadden book on the shelf all year. Are they books I would read? No absolutely not. But that's what people want right now.

I just saw an article noting the lack of big buzzy bestsellers in 2025 and I have to say that it is entirely possible that is true but it also seems like the books people are reading are.....not the most literary, more escapist easy to digest.

Nothing like us learning at the beginning of the season that Jacory Croskey-Merritt prefers to go by Bill and us yelling at the TV every single gd time when they call him Jacory instead of Bill.

Screw you, Netflix. Stop trying to make sports betting more popular.

Didn't have the highest hopes for Vikings this season, but I also didn't expect him to have glass bones. Dude hasv had more injury time than play time.