Dan Boland

Duolingo* needs a Let Me Live mode. Fuck off, bird, I'm working 16 hour days right now. 🤬

*I know I shouldn't be using Duolingo anymore because their techbro goon boss has turned into yet another Bond villain—but god damnit I'm simply bedeviled with meetings et cetera

Imagine if they found out all us gatekeepers are crippled with self doubt and imposter anxiety constantly!

It's almost like life doesn't actually have an easy button!

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

incredible how many people are willing to say “for years I didn’t care about anybody but myself. then one day, I imagined what it would be like to be somebody else and it completely changed the way I saw everything”

A SKELITON AT WORK AND THERE THINKEN ABOUT HOW A.I IS FORCED INTO EMAILS, INTO SEARCHES, INTO ALL APP'S, AND IT NEVER MAKES ANYTHING BETTER, IT MAKES THERE JOB WORSE, AND DA TEXT SAYS "IF AI WAS ACTUALLY USEFUL THEN THEY WOULDNT HAVE TO FORCE US TO USE IT" AND THERE RIGHT TO SAY IT, SOMEONES MAKEN SOME MONEY OFF THIS AND IT SURE AS HELL AINT US - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

THINK ABOTU IT - dashare.zone ADMIN

Years ago I was at New York Pride and I remember running into this couple and they told me they drove like five hours to be at Pride and I was like, “Five hours? Why would you drive five hours?” And he said to me, “This is the one time a year and the only place where I can hold my partner’s hand and kiss my partner in the street without having to look around first. It’s the only place. I don’t have that anywhere else.” One time a year. One place. This is it. And that’s what Pride means. - bob the drag queen

Possibly my favorite summation of Pride

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

I seriously thought that students not using their brains and letting them rot inside their heads was going to be the existential problem with ai in academia, but now I see that the death knell is actually the total disruption of good faith and trust between teachers and students

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

advait.org/files/lee_20...

‘Stop making your writing political’ the privileged cry, whilst the existence of the authors identity is actively erased by the corrupt fascist government’s stochastic terrorism and hate crime rockets.

No.

If learning makes you uncomfortable, maybe reading just isn’t for you?

Todd Rutherford Portfolio A free, customizable template for Digital Agencies / Designers built with Framer. Interactive experiences for web and mobile by Dawid Pietrasiak.

Recently built a new portfolio site in Framer. It was a really great experience and I highly recommend their platform. Their onboarding is really well done.

Also, I need a job.

#ux #uxdesign #ui #design #portfolio #productdesign

Meta more like Beta am I rite

NO WHAMMIES

So very many of my friends & coworkers have lost everything / too much. Please support mutual aid efforts. It's very very bad here.

Appreciate you DC 🧡 I'm fine. I decamped to my sister's house about 30 miles away from the fires. My neighborhood is still fine despite fires on all sides—not worried about my home, just was worried about midnight emergency evac traffic so decided to get ahead of it

Jeffrey was very upset with the entire situation (yes my fake tree is still up)

This discussion prompted me to finally figure out a quick-rearrange solution to my living room layout (to give me workout space) and then I did 2 sessions from this series.

I also really love the "for Beginners" programs on Apple Fitness+ (particularly great if you take advantage of their incessant 3-months-free offers).

Quick question for the makers of dog poop bags that have aggressive adhesive on the roll sealing sticker that then upon removal makes a hole in the bag you use to pick up your dog's poop with your hands:

What's up with that?

Also the AI image fucking sucks compared to the real thing!

Eyes?!? I would only be so lucky. 100% of the time I slice and dice jalapeños—which is several times a week, every week—I almost immediately and for unknown reasons shove my hand down my pants while waiting for the jalapeños to sauté.

Dads in Boston describing their gay children

so we moved to bluesky

I checked my notifications for the first time 😅

YouTube video by NOLA Dre Drew Carey gets a family Puppy Bowl Price is Right

youtu.be/enGKL1JRarc?...

Once upon a time we did have 4 puppies Come On Down to Bidder's Row and play. The puppy that won and got to come up on stage, when the doors opened, the prize was...

...his adoption family in a living room set.

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