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I got the biggest size of sketchers light-ups about a decade ago & they maxed out at size 5, but this is the kind of thing that fluctuates a bit. Good luck! 😁

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

eeeeee! 😍

I think having mines in a major global shipping channel is *also* something to worry about.

When you hear it said
(and you will hear it said)
that the number of people
still wearing face masks
in the year 2026
is genuinely concerning,
kindly and firmly agree,
for it is genuinely concerning
in the year 2026
that the number of people
still wearing face masks
is so low

Top tier glorious! Reminds me of the kinds of things people put up at pennsic, only you get just a little more when you don't have to take it all down again & store it in 2 weeks.
I feel like someone should serenade it with "To Anacreon in Heaven." 😆

I read the “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Most of the media apparently *hasn’t* read it because, if they had, they would be sounding the alarm about the provision in Point 1, below, which almost none of them have even mentioned. I hope this summary helps raise awareness. 1/

FUCKING WHY

And why do I still have to pay taxes, then?

This is amazing.

When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels.

That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.

This is fecking great.

you get to be human OR the "ai" youraislopbores.me

Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGO® Ideas The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge was…

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?

They look so cool!

beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

once again, the dark outline cut away to reveal light-colored patchwork words: MAKE SOMETHING, now with a matching piece that says BETTER.

Day 11 of sticks & string: a better Better:

"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people.

If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.

It took 12,000 years for us to give wolves anxiety, so I see this as a testament to the unrivaled creative power of the human imagination.

Team "The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet" here!

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

The dark-outline-patchwork-cutout-letters saying MAKE SOMETHING have been joined by a strip with barely-legible crazy-quilt pieced letters saying BETTER. This is *not* going to be the final version.

Day 10, quilt-piecing letters! There's a little voice in my head-- I think it's Arthur Dent-- saying "That's not better than *anything*!"
(there's potential for this style, I think, but it'll require a little more color planning...)

same piece of driftwood as day 8, but now as well as the kind of net-like section with some beads, it has an irregular blob of crochet lace with frilly edges attached to it.

Day 9 (discontinuous... I didn't say *which* hundred days I was doing...) crocheting lichen, or something:

a smallish piece of driftwood with off-white string crocheted around it & some blue glass beads sewn on.

a smallish piece of driftwood with off-white string crocheted around it & some blue glass beads sewn on. From this angle you can (sort of) see that the driftwood is actually two branches that grew together while they were alive.

Day 8 back to playing with driftwood, now with crochet cotton which does not catch & shred when pulled through things:

a small purple electric spinning wheel with a nearly-full bobbin of string in blue & gray. (one strand of each twisted together.)

Day 7 was plying:

I try to preach the opposite of imposter syndrome to creative people. Know that you are literally the only person on the planet equipped to tell the very specific stories you have to tell in the way only you can tell them.

Ending world hunger costs less than 1% of military spending Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — well under one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to UN estimates.

With the US military spending $1 billion a day on a pedophile's whims, remember that the UN estimates that it costs about $93 billion to end world hunger.

The *first* 93 days of this decade+ war, could be spent ending world hunger, if anyone in power actually wanted to

news.un.org/en/story/202...

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

I would absolutely trust a kid to know who they are better than, say, the doctor who delivered them as an infant & hasn't seen them since... 🙄

I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:

Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.

If you can provide $3k checks for the entire middle class of America by taxing 900 people a little more, not only should you do it, but you should take it as a signal that your monetary system is broken

Word of caution, my husband aged out of this around 40. (& the viral stuff can still screw you up if you're unlucky.)

Obviously this isn't everyone, so fingers crossed for you.

That would be hilarious! (is there anywhere that has good photos of the originals online? I've only really seen Bes in the square faience stylizations, & I love the personality on these.)

I think — it's up to us — to use it —
— in an increasingly —
unhinged manner — of course pre
— empted — by its biggest — stan
Em — ily — D—i—c—k—e—n—s—o—n

*winces in how is that even a thing people think means something, ugh*