Things I Would Mandate If I Actually Ran English:
• A factoid is a popularized false fact. It is not a cute little fact.
• No one would ever write "begs the question" in any of its meanings. It's just gone.
• People in Ingrid Bergman's predicament are not gaslit. They're gaslighted.
This ought to be engraved somewhere.
Kenvue stock price plummeting at the opening on Sept 22
So I'm assuming that financial journalists are hard at work figuring out who in the administration shorted Kenvue today, right?
if the former host of "The Man Show" is too woke for you, that might be a personal problem
if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved
You pissed? Good
Get creative
Get strategic
Get organized
Obviously I talk a lot about bike/ped safety.
But something that is really crazy is how much less safe you *in a car* since 2010.
In spite of all the additional safety technology, vehicle occupants are less safe today than they were 15 years ago.
The shooter is still alive and turned himself in. Why do they need to “reproduce” it when they can just ask him?
This is out-Sovieting the Soviet Union. "You are free to express any opinion at all as long as it's the right one, and the consequences for all the others will be severe, and ratting out is an important part of our free society."
This is so sad
so we had two days of "murder every leftist" and now that it turns out to have been another nazi it's "gosh well shucks whaddyagonnado"
Bolsonaro convicted for attempted coup!
Congrats, Brazil. Way to have rule of law.
Embarrassing for the US by comparison. Both Brazil and South Korean handled coup attempts better than America, and get to still have a democracy.
good god this is crazy to watch side by side
After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE
Brutal. Photojournalist Madison Swart is doing a longterm project documenting the presence and tactics of ICE and federal agents at 26 Federal Plaza.
Follow: @madisonswart.bsky.social
Like most photographers, their best work is on Instagram: madisonswart
Tufts University announced that undergraduate students from households that earn less than $150,000 a year can attend Tufts tuition-free starting next fall. trib.al/dBiIEST
Almost hilarious combo of anti-Constitutional theocracy and grifting
I feel like more ppl need to know that one of the tells for an ostensibly “objective” news org souring on one of their heroes (or attempting to normalize a previous villain) is how flattering or unflattering their photo choices are
Yeah sure there are billionaires but let me tell you what, if you have a master on main with full bath in a home with no steps to the entry on a block with sidewalks to main thoroughfare in a walkable university town? You’re basically Tony effing Stark.
The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from.
(Published April)
Virginia Tech is in hell right now, man
Department of War web page footer: no mention of Veterans Crisis Line
Department of Defense web page footer: sizable link to Veterans Crisis Line
The thing that upsets me most about the design changes from defense.gov to war.gov is that the Veterans Crisis Line has been removed from the footer of the site. Every design choice is a values statement.
(Screenshot from DoD website is from September 4, courtesy of @archive.org)
NEWS: via @politico.com: We uncovered that VA Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears failed to disclose thousands in luxury gifts
5-star hotels
Flights
Meals
We used a FOIA to get the truth — & just filed 7 more
If there’s no transparency, there’s no trust
I explained on @weeknightmsnbc.bsky.social👇 -TN
i am obsessed with watching videos of people who run and manage school cafeteria kitchens. it’s such an undertaking!
Gross dude
Tomato plants with a tax software CD hanging from it
My mom started hanging old CDs in the garden so that if a bird comes over to peck at a tomato it will quickly become distracted by its desire to learn QuickBooks
Just a note that they wouldn’t be doing this if they didn’t believe they will make this much money by using these copyrighted works and cannot make it without using them.
Or at least a better method of mentoring folks so they feel empowered to seek out these roles.
