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This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns.

The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.

I think we should bring back vibe spelling. Just add extra letters wherever, as you feel ‘em. Things can be frantick or hectick if you need that superfluous ’k’ edge. Resist the tyranny of received orthography!

agree! metaphore has always looked more lovely to me. i can feel slempy or sleeby at night, i see birbs and borbs in the sky, and i greet people with a friendly hellow 😊

Excerpt of research spreadsheet of cutthroats. Lists about 20 cutthroats first cited between 2021 and 2025. The last on the list is move-me.

The latest @aoaoaoapod.bsky.social is about Hallmark movies and maybe contains a new #CutthroatCompound. Misspeaking, they call movies "move-me's, because they move me". youtu.be/R_574v-EU5k?... I have other verb-pronouns: WARM-HER, ARCHIVE-IT, CHEAT'EM, but no other -ME's yet. #AmResearching

(Mysterious Package Company thingie) blackmarket.mysteriouspackage.com/earn-credits

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Kaye @kaye@cathode.church Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. A vital shift is underway in juicing. The Juicero is no longer optional. It's tomorrow's future, today. 40% of jobs are impacted by the Juicero. The Juicero isn't the future, it's a present necessity. Nobody hand-juices anymore. To hand-juice is like an impairment. Everyone must now focus on the delegation and the verification of a juice. We become less juice producers and more juice enablers. Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. We are burning every forest and poisoning every river to produce more Juiceros. You will become obsolete if you don't get on the Juicero bandwagon. Students must not be taught how to hand-juice. 80% of jobs will be lost to the Juicero. Students must be taught to exclusively focus on how to collaborate with the Juicero. Education must focus on orchestrating agentic Juicero systems. The Juicero is inevitable. Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. Adapt or risk becoming obsolete. As the Juicero rapidly advances toward automating up to 90% of juicing, the skills that will matter most include juice design, Juicero fluency, juice delegation, and juice quality assurance. 110% of jobs have been replaced by the Juicero.

cathode.church/@kaye/114988...

The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

We've now crossed 3k - some of the offices people have looked up in the last few days:

- Kansas City School Board
- OH state house
- NC state house
- OH board of education
- FL state house
- Indianapolis county council

Among many many many others

YouTube video by Encyclopedia Briannica 5th of November

@electrolemon.bsky.social Thanks for being literally inspiring. I couldn't believe no one had done this idea yet, so I had to give it a shot. Happy 5th! youtube.com/shorts/v2Npe...

A person in a Guy Fawkes costume holds a black drag fan that reads "That's Today!" in white

Remember, remember, the 5th of November

AI’s medical diagnostic skills still need a check-up | Waterloo News You may want to think twice about using powerful artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT to self-diagnose health problems. A team led by researchers at the University of Waterloo found i...

“A team led by researchers at the University of Waterloo found in a simulated study that ChatGPT-4o, the well-known large language model (LLM) created by OpenAI, answered open-ended diagnostic questions incorrectly nearly two-thirds of the time.”

Don’t use AI for medical advice.

#Canada
#AI

Reading Rainbow revival four episodes on KidZuko on YouTube. Mychal smiles and holds the four books in the stills for each clip. They each have an assortment of views.

Filmed four episodes of Reading Rainbow, all are out on KidZuko on YouTube 😁

Thankful to still be in the world for this journey. Highest of honors for one of Reading Rainbow & LeVar Burton’s biggest fans ✨

Proud & grateful for all involved! 🦋🌌

“Take a look, it’s in a book!”
YOU can be anything 📚🌈

Defend Privacy and Free Speech Don’t let tyrants co-opt tech. Join EFF and help fight back.

Now you can become an EFF member for as little as $20! And, as our thanks, you'll get a Take Back CTRL Camera Cover set with any member gift to help spread the word. supporters.eff.org/donate/tbc

Thumbnail for Grammar Girl podcast episode titled 'Antedating Words with Ben Zimmer.' Features the female host with long brown hair on the left pointing at the words and guest Ben Zimmer with dark hair and a short beard and mustasch on the right against a green background, with a retro-futuristic blue time machine illustration in the center featuring a clock face and antenna.

This week, I talked with @benzimmer.bsky.social about the linguistic detective work of antedating words — finding earlier usages than those published in dictionaries.

Learn about the surprising origins of "Ms.," "scallywag," and the baseball history of "jazz"!

🎧 Listen now: pod.link/173429229

THIS. All of this, right here.
(the entire article is worth a read)

🎵 ERHU (ARR-hoo) is a Chinese instrument
🇵🇰 URDU (IRR-doo) is a language of Pakistan

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Uruk-hai-ami

An excerpt from the OED for the term stiffe-girt.

What's a GIRT? Girth? Someone sent me a clip of @susiedent.com discussing STIFFRUMP on Countdown, friend thought it was a cutthroat compound (not so), and now I'm down a STIFF- compound rabbit hole, learning that the 2nd half is often a body part... STIFF-ARM, STIFF-LIPPED, STIFF-MINDED, STIFF-GUT.

Uh… this was basically the leading cause of the British Civil Wars in the 1640s www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Jacket cover of Stefan Fatsis's new book, Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary

My new book, UNABRIDGED, published by @groveatlantic.bsky.social, is out! It took a long time to report and write and I'm proud of it and would be grateful if you bought it and would love to see people when I'm traveling to promote it. Consider this an official book thread

Many things are being destroyed & the news of it is a psychological & political onslaught.

So it’s important that you create things.

It can be art, cookies, a community pantry, a garden, a mask bloc. It can be beautiful, practical, silly. Just create & share.

It’ll do your brain & the world good.

Just Found Out I'm Chopped and Also Unc | Know Your Meme Just Found Out I'm Chopped and Also Unc refers to a TikTok sound from a viral video shared by TikToker Riley Hardwick (@rileyhardwick) in mid-July 2025, in

I got called a "chopped unc" last night in person by a younger internet woman (playfully), because I admitted that I was an Elder Millennial. Not an incorrect descriptor for me, just interesting to be labeled as if the worst thing you can be is old. knowyourmeme.com/memes/just-f... #AmResearching

Paid for by the NEH Public Scholars fellowship I was privileged to receive in 2022. Your federal tax dollars getting put back into the economy.

American Experience | Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act | Season 37 | Episode 2 The dramatic story of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990.

I'm planning to talk a bit abt the history of disability and the Ugly Laws in my intro lesson for our Misfits class. In my prep, I learned that PBS's American Experience (now "paused" thx to Trump's cuts) recently released a documentary about the history of the Americans with Disabilities Act

CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance.

Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna.

See how this works?

EFF, ACLU to SFPD: Stop Illegally Sharing Data With ICE and The San Francisco Police Department is the latest California law enforcement agency to get caught sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with out-of-state and federal agencies. EFF and

Even though it’s been against the law since 2016, the San Francisco Police Department has been caught sharing ALPR data with non-California agencies. Ignoring these laws exposes sensitive location information to misuse and puts entire communities at risk. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Welp, so much for teaching Shakespeare.