I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by federal agents was my childhood best friend.

Well, Kristen Radtke of The Verge just made me cry with this remembrance of her childhood best friend Alex Pretti.

"Alex was an easy playmate: generous, curious, sweet. His mother always ensured he had a tidy haircut and a clean room."

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Cooling Sleep Mask made of TENCEL| Tree Dreamer Our cooling sleep mask fully covers your eyes, temples, and ears, has a silky soft padding that promotes airflow to keep you cool and smooth. Made of TENCEL™.

ordered the bearaby mask during black friday & sleep better when i remember to wear it. tencel fabric stays cool & is washable. band is comfy & the colors are pretty. ☺️ (also tried their weighted mask which felt too heavy for my eyes.)

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Background of fluffy clouds in a bright sky. Text reads: so until the courts catch up… Add a sticker! Make sure it doesnt cover any part of the diamond. Be prepared to remove it if asked. An America the Beautiful Pass is in the middle, with the image of thomas jefferson, and a sticker of a bear over what should be donald trump’s face. There is a diamond on the left side of the pass that says “resident” within. An arrow is drawn from the word “diamond” in the text to that diamond on the pass.

Background of fluffy clouds in a bright sky. Text reads: Add a window cling! Easy to remove and re-stick. May be slightly transparent. An America the Beautiful Pass is in the middle, with the image of thomas jefferson, and a pig transparent image over what should be donald trump’s face.

Background of fluffy clouds in a bright sky. Text reads: Put it in a sleeve. Covers the whole image but allows rangers to remove the pass to verify its authenticity. Pictured is a plastic sleeve with a Resistance Rangers logo

Background of fluffy clouds in a bright sky. Text reads: keep it simple use removable tape. Let us know your ideas below. Remember, don’t cover the diamond! Pictured is an America the Beautiful Pass is in the middle, with the image of thomas jefferson, and a photo of blue tape what should be donald trump’s face

So in the meantime, we’ve got you covered. Scroll through for tips ‘n tricks on how to fix your pass without invalidating it. Make sure you don’t cover any part of the diamond!

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Someone on Twitter writes: "Why are we normalizing $85-90 hoodies?" The attached photo shows a woman who looks exasperated.

Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵

it got better once we got through teething but took a few years to recover from the severe sleep deprivation. 🥱

mine was like this then dropped naps at 2yo. hopefully, it’s just a phase for your little one. 💕

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Quick Tip: You can control who replies to your post on Bluesky.

Just tap the 🌐 icon on your post to choose: everyone, followers, people you follow, mentioned users - or turn off replies entirely ✨

Small brass butterfly.

The underside of the butterfly, which has little pockets to store sewing needle packets. The underside of the wings are decorated with two plates. One carries an inscription of the drapers company: "Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co. - London." The other has a gilded head of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, art, trade, and war.

The butterfly can be folded up, like how a butterfly flaps its wings.

A close-up of the butterfly's wings.

Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.

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To help you avoid AI imagery, go to @aimod.social and click “Subscribe.”

This will put warnings on accounts that use AI slop so you can ignore. unfollow, mute, or block.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Sen. Maize Hirono (D-Hawaii) channels all of us with one bracelet.

I’m sorry for the long post but a lot of you have followed me for a long time, since 2016 when I was one of the first to repeatedly call out Trump for being a Russian asset.

I don’t know how else to say this, as a person who has studied cults (wrote a bestseller about it) and totalitarian states.

"Bluesky is dead."

Meanwhile, on Bluesky...

The caption from Instagram reads: "I was commissioned to create a gift for a 50th wedding anniversary. I repaired a large chipped piece of a tea bowl using urushi lacquer and decorated it with peonies and Karakusa using Maki-e. The white peony symbolizes a happy marriage, and the Karakusa represents vitality. I hope they will continue to spend many happy years together." The photo shows a light grey tea bowl with a gold colored repair. There are decorative florals.

A painted ceramic has been repaired with gold lacquer. The repair looks like a leaf.

A tea bowl has been repaired with gold lacquer. The lacquer covers the areas where the bowl was previously broken.

A ceramic human skull is repaired with gold lacquer.

Really dig Yuko Gunji, a kintsugi artist in NYC. Kintsugi is the Japanese method of repairing broken ceramics with lacquer and gold. Instead of trying to make things look new again, it highlights the faults, showing how something can be beautiful even after it was broken.

IG gunjiyuko.kintsugi

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

A photo of the Southwick manufacturing plant before it closed. The photo shows a bunch of people at various sewing stations. This was located in Massachusetts.

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

A photo of a bunch of Nike shoes.

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

The (translated) Ostsee Zeitung headline: High school graduates in prison Rostock women end up in Trump's deportation prison in the USA: "We felt so powerless"

Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...

Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media X and Facebook are governed by the policies of mercurial billionaires. Bluesky’s C.E.O., Jay Graber, says that she wants to give power back to the user.

for this week's @newyorker.com magazine issue, I wrote a Profile of Bluesky, the site we are on right now! It's the deepest look yet at how Bluesky started as a Twitter side project and how CEO Jay Graber went from welding Bitcoin rigs to running a social network www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company

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Today's Headlines

siri: play king george’s song from hamilton. 🎶

The Gen X Career Meltdown (Gift Article) Just when they should be at their peak, experienced workers in creative fields find that their skills are all but obsolete.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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love the dark coffee scotchmallows. do these remind you of an andes mint (but supersized)?

designmom always has a way of shifting the conversation into everyday actions that would be world changing.

so pretty! 😍 where exactly do we find this lovely confection?