Mockingbird, MPH, CHES

Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They're Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell Realtors are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties, inciting anger.

The primary use case is fraud.

Massive oak tree with people inside the hollow trunk

The Major Oak, Sherwood Forest in the 1950’s 🌳

1,000 years old, and one of England’s greatest trees. Still going strong

Lastly, if you want to support this book (or any others), PLEASE PRE ORDER! DO NOT WAIT UNTIL WEEK OF TO PURCHASE!!

Black authored books don't be getting published partially because people don't show initial interest. How do you show initial interest? YOU PRE-ORDER! lol 😭

As expected, dispute appears to be over White House demands to break the law. These aren't 'disputes'. Law is clear on this. Only mystery is how it was that Long, a very Trumpy guy and not part of the ethics community, seems to have not gone along, or not enough.

Apollo 13: An Accident in Space Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr.,’s 1972 chronicle of the Apollo 13 mission, during which three astronauts were almost lost in space.

The commander of Apollo 13, James Lovell, died Thursday at the age of 97. In 1972, Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr. wrote about how Lovell’s crew got lost on its way to the moon—then made it back.

Vinnie is a gray and white bohunk with his head sticking out the front of a bright blue taco truck cat/scratcher called El Gato Fish Tacos. Novella is a dainty brown tabby hitching a ride on the corrugated cardboard roof, looking quizzical.

A blue and purple field with the cover of the pirate romantasy "The Sea Witch" by Eva Leigh. Above the cover is the text, "Rakuten Kobo, one of Kobo's Best Books of the Month"

Woohoo! THE SEA WITCH is one of @kobobooks.bsky.social Best Books of the Month!

Just two and a half weeks before my swashbuckling pirate romantasy hits shelves--look for it August 26, and pre-order now!

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We’re doing the moonwalk.  

#Rhodes #Travel

🧪🩺 All the controversy about the best "social distance" to stop virus transmission? It depends a lot on room temperature. And basic physics, says @charlescmann.bsky.social and some smart university students.

Happy Moomin's Day!
🎨 Tove Jansson
#Moominsday

To paraphrase Kate Moss, no foraged mushroom can taste as good as having kidneys feels

I’ve had my library request in for a while now. Just waiting for them to announce they’ve bought it so I can put in a hold.

A photo of an orange cat dressed in a black suit with a brown wig and bear to emulate author Henry David Thoreau. The cat sits next to a collection of Thoreau's writings and a copy of "Walden."

171 years ago today #Walden was published!

Considered Henry David Thoreau's masterpiece, the book compiles essays about Thoreau's experience to "live deliberately" on the shores of Walden Pond, focusing on self-reliance, individualism, nature writing & transcendentalism.

#Caturday #HoratioTheCat

IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.

🚨 WaPo EXCLUSIVE

Hours before Trump removed Billy Long as IRS commissioner, his agency clashed with the White House over sharing immigrants’ tax data.

Confessions From the Group Chat NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

Time to remind you that my next book, CONFESSIONS FROM THE GROUP CHAT, is available early on Edelweiss and Netgalley, and if Indie Next is a thing you do, the deadline to nominate for that is 9/3.

www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

I’m listening to Human Rites by Juno Dawson, and reading Fear Stalks the Village by Ethel Lina White.

Rent control vs. rent stabilization in NYC, explained Everything you need to know about rent regulations in New York City, including how to find these somewhat elusive apartments.

For out of towners, here’s a handy, friendly guide. There’s a LOT of rent stabilized housing in NYC. The last time I moved, about two years ago, half the apartments I looked at in the neighborhood were stabilized.

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In my piece on Gov. Greg Abbott’s suit, I briefly addressed why his allegations that the Democratic legislators committed bribery are entirely meritless.

But I’m so annoyed by this that I might have to write more. It’s just so unserious.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/a-le...

The release of GPT5 is giving off strong Apple Vision Pro vibes.

There was like a full year where critics of VR/AR/XR headsets were cautioned “just wait for Apple to make its move. Whatever they release will be a step-change. The present is just prologue.”

(…)

Half the graves I need to shit on haven't even been dug yet.

I remember Hildy doing that on Trading Spaces, and I’ve seen upholstery videos from TikTok, there are people on there doing it really well so even less excuse.

Been saying this for a while. Now the internet confirms it. Monchichis forever.

for all its faults, god do i love the internet

The #1 domestic terror threat in America is right-wing terrorism and white supremacist violence. They echo the conspiracies that have been mainstreamed by Trump, MAGA and right-wing media.

No accountability. No scrutiny.

They just keep doing it because it fuels their agenda and brings in $$$.

These sterling silver earrings have a stack of three beads. The smallest, at the top, is a faceted Czech glass rondelle with aurora borealis finish which makes it look aqua with flashes of blue and purple. The middle bead is a slightly larger pointed cylinder (a big rice bead) of clear glass with wisps of blue glass trailed through it. The bottom bead is a larger tablet bead, rectangular with rounded corners, of black glass with aurora borealis finish, etched to show a black cat on both sides.

"The Cats Who Had an Understanding with Water" earrings: blue and aqua glass, and those wonderful black Czech glass beads with the aurora borealis matte shimmer and black cats etched into the finish

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Ugh, I am so sorry. I remember a friend in a fb group describing what the expanders are like and I hurt just thinking of it. Are they giving you enough good pain meds to sleep while uncomfortable?

It's astonishing how much people who suggest that trans rights are just a political cost we simply can't afford right now sound like the people who didn't think fighting for integration was urgent enough to risk alienating voters. And these are people who would be HORRIFIED by that comparison.

Paula Poundstone
@paulapoundstone
Kristi Noem says it’s lazy of SOUTH PARK to make fun of women, specifically her for how they look. Maybe. But she seems to think it’s fine to arrest and assault people for how they look.

Post from user orthanc.nz: “Ons thing that's really bugging me about the "PhD level intelligence" is that a PhD isn't a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of commitment to study and specialisation in a narrow field (and opportunity to do so). "PhD level intelligence" isn't really a meaningful phrase.”

Literally a thing both my parents told me before I started grad school was that PhDs were for people too dumb to know when to quit

Both my parents have PhDs