Alexandra Jones

yeah I'll incorporate AI into my workflow. the workflow of my butt

they're launching phase one of the Donovan cinematic universe with Hurdy Gurdy Man followed by Jennifer Juniper, both in 2025, and then in 2026 the prequel Hurdy Gurdy Man: Histories of Ages Past where he first meets Mellow Yellow, setting up their showdown with the villainous Electrical Banana

rigging my casket to play the MST3K theme when it's opened so the grave robbers know I was down

Cosmopolitan Yogurt (1999-2001): The legacy women's lifestyle magazine decided to branch out into the dairy case, releasing a line of higher-priced yogurt, branded as “sophisticated and with an aspirational nature” which only lasted around 18 months.

*whiny voice* "I don't want measles! I don't want another great depression!" What happened to being tough. What happened to suffering and dying needlessly

btw one thing I learned at the training i went to this weekend is that bc ICE isn't allowed anywhere in a business that a customer wouldn't be allowed, an employees only sign on a door is enough to cause them to need a warrant. "closed for a private event" guarantees the same

You’ve been clear in saying that Covid has not gone away. You ask people to wear masks at your events. But that attitude is not necessarily where the rest of the world is. How do you think about continuing to take precautions and advising others to do so when it feels as if society has moved on? I do it for a bunch of reasons. Firstly, I have learned that I enjoy not being sick. I know that the cost of long Covid is real and substantial, and I don’t want to run that risk lightly. I also know that I have many friends and people I’m close to who are immunocompromised. So for the sake of the people around me, I also don’t want to get sick. When I do events, I wear a mask for those reasons, and because I know that every time I do a talk, while the vast majority of people in the audience have probably moved on, there are going to be other people who haven’t. I think it makes a huge difference to them to have the person at the front of the stage wear a mask. It tells them, It’s not weird. So I do it for that reason, too. In terms of holding this line at a point when a large swath of society has moved on, I have written a lot about the panic-neglect cycle.

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

A popsicle molded into the shirtless torso and head of Daniel Craig, with a Del Monte popsicle stick on the bottom

Del Monte Daniel Craig Popsicles (2009-2009): To celebrate National Ice Cream week in the UK, Del Monte decided to release cranberry, blueberry, and pomegranate "ice lollies" modeled after the shirtless torso and head of actor Daniel Craig

Mr. Gorbachev…

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

I love how putting rushes on the floor is a historical mystery that has not been definitively solved.

It’s incredible. If you haven’t seen ‘em yet Tudor Monastery Farm/Tales from the Green Valley are basically the same thing (sub humble farmhouse for castle). The most soothing television

Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu (Gift Article) A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows.

BREAKING: Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds over the last year

w/ @emilyanthes.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

Stolen cow creamer and Gussie fink nottle joke

Sir Roderick cat joke

Bassington bassingtons branches versus my knowledge of math

Bertie trying to wear a straw hat and Jeeves saying hold up but it’s the fallout guyv

yall wanna see some PG Wodehouse memes

studies show threatening houseplants helps them grow

What my family lost in the Eaton Fire Altadena, avocados, and new flavors of climate grief

Today's newsletter is about how the Eaton Fire affected my dad's family, who made Altadena home for nearly a century. It's also about childhood memories and avocados and how rippling waves of climate grief can still reach you after you've already said goodbye.

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every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

John Fetterman’s a disgrace to the oaf community. He does not represent America’s lumbering buffoons, ham-fisted galoots, or men whose heavy footsteps are soundtracked by a tuba.

All of your creative friends wish you would stop interfacing with AI entirely

found it

You've just been thrown to your death by the Beatles.

Feeling Tired and Alone? You Might Be Suffering From Being Alive

5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.

It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says “im gonna fuck a hamburger”

This image shows a big reason why we haven’t confronted the climate crisis.

Most people don’t think it actually threatens them - even those who live in high-risk areas like CA, FL, LA, TX - so they don’t push governments to act at the speed and scale required by science.

I love how people think those little cheese knives are for serving cheese, like awwww that's cute no those are for *defending* your cheese, trust no one

I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya

State will not require testing of raw milk that's sold to consumers as part of bird flu program The Agency of Agriculture is about to start a USDA-mandated testing program to see if there is bird flu in the milk supply. The state will not require farms that sell raw milk directly to consumers to...

Two things can be true:

Public health travels at the speed of trust. Responses built on trust will be more effective.

Viruses can exploit trust within rural communities. "Trust your raw milk farmer" is not the basis of an effective public health response.
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