there's a translation of an old hindu myth I am reading where the word for beauty is the same as the word for salt water, because the more you drank of her, the more you thirsted (with the implication you may go mad and die) and a large language model could never yearn like this
AHHHHHH!!!!!!! I have been wanting to see this for so long, I can’t wait!!!
A 3 colour risograph print using blue, yellow and fluorescent pink ink featuring a raccoon. It is walking across some grass covered in flowers, dragging a grocery back which is spilling out food. We see the words TORONTO in bright yellow letters above the critter.
Quick little 3 colour risograph I printed today - I will be hiding these around a park in Toronto tomorrow for Art & Found Day!
An Edward Gorey drawing showing a morose looking black bird on a branch. He (and this feels very much like a he) is pointing downwards with one scraggly wing, and looking straight ahead with debt-filled eyes. His beak is long and sharp, like winter on the Great Plains. He is pointing with his right wing, but this means he is pointing to your left. Your wicked, sinister side. This is no accident. The Bird makes no such mistakes. But he is talking, and the text tells us that he is saying, "Beware of this and that." Honestly, you feel his message in your bones.
Some days I just feel like this Edward Gorey bird gets it.
What other resources might we think about providing to asylum seekers, if we really cared?
For ex:
respondcrisistranslation.org
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lmaooooo sloppelganger
Orange tulip with pointed petals. The points are greenish and the inside of the flower is much darker than the outside. You can just see dark streaks in the very center of the flower.
Congratulations! You have made it to Wednesday.
In more than half of US states, Republican and Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation that would boost adoption of small plug-in solar panels that sit on apartment balconies and plug directly into household outlets. Canary Media buff.ly/5B79fOA #ShareGoodNewsToo
I think it’s notable that 2025 polling showed Americans of almost every stripe moving toward the anti-DEI side of things. As soon as they saw it play out in government and academia and elsewhere they hated it.
The constituency of Americans who see DEI as detrimental to the country is vanishingly small, the sort of constituency that can easily be ignored if politicians want to ignore it.
I want to thank Timothayy Shalomarayy
for bringing so many neat short videos of skilled ballet and opera practitioners to my feed of late though
I'm aware @officialgrammarly.bsky.social has said people can opt out of this, THAT IS ALSO ENRAGING. LLMs have already coopted and stole and plundered creative people's work, now we also have to contact YOU after you steal our identities? Fuck all the way off with that! It's MORE THEFT YOU CLOWNS
Joke's on the economy I already don't have a job
Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
Bright spot.
Struggling to find a word to describe my feelings about this.
Horribly amused? Philosophically looped?
(Let's ask humans to point at which part of a slop image are 'real', makes perfect sense.)
Please educate your loved ones on the benefits of Libby and Hoopla.
Also: Library workers! Check out libro.fm and the PRH Audio app! Free audiobooks if you work in a library!
Every time I read a new Chotiner interview I think of how easy it would be for other journalists to do what he does. Just do your homework, ask follow-up questions and don't move on until you get a response. It also doesn't seem to have cost Chotiner that most precious journalistic resource: access.
a box of little brown balls of clay and dirt and seeds in a philly pretzel factory box
Ready to supply ~100 cyclists w/seed bombs for our city's abandoned lots at tonight's @wednightrides.org!
They contain 6-7 species of native plant seeds to juice up the biodiversity of our city, incl.
Ironweed
Echinacea
Partidge Pea
Bee Balm
Blue Vervain
Blackeyed Susan
Swamp Milkweed (sometimes)
Projects like this are born from collaborations! It's a lot of talking with other people, making connections, and getting creative to make things better together.
We fund this work through donations and merch!
Donations can go here givebutter.com/SupportSAS26
Merch shop is SquidFacts.net
A new study examined Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels to see if they could detect changes in his writing prior to his tragic Alzheimer's diagnosis. Here's what the study says, and what it doesn't say 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/03/did-...
I'm hardly the first to point this out but: This is why it's absurd and deeply cruel and cynical that dental insurance is not included in health insurance
Your dental health is directly related to your physical health and, yes, can be fatal if untreated
It's autocorrect's religious obligation to drink until it can't tell the difference @akivamcohen.bsky.social
A photo of a whale effigy
Legend from the whale effigy exhibit: California, West Coast, Chumash, about 1200 to 1600, steatite, shell inlay
I saw this guy in a museum in Montreal
Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
@mcmazey.bsky.social Bundled up:
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