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Cogito, Ergo Sumana

Python Software Foundation, National Science Foundation, And Integrity

I know, from personal experience, that it takes a significant amount of effort to research, write, revise, and submit a decently plausible funding ...

Python Software Foundation, National Science Foundation, And Integrity

The New York Groove

Society broke down and all, but you really still need to stop at red lights

I can't believe we need to explain this one, but it seems that we really do

!!! Reminded of this after reading

Bluesky Social

MC Nietzsche (@mcnietzsche.bsky.social)

Agree, I've seen people in the outer boroughs start treating lanes and stop lights like suggestions and it's legit unsettling. How can I drive safe...

"Agree, I've seen people in the outer boroughs start treating lanes and stop lights like suggestions and it's legit unsettling. How can I drive safely if I cannot rely on you to stop at a red light?"

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Em Dash Appreciation Society

The Em Dash Appreciation Society for Humans. by @npub1c859...g8us .

recently watched episode 2 of the 2002 educational reality show "Frontier House" - cried HARD during the last 2 minutes - and am reflecting on: how completely villainized a particular participant would have been if Twitter had been around in 2002 all the rationalizations we come up with for why others deserve their own misfortunes (The Fundamental Attribution Error stuff) and are not acting in the precise manner that would obligate us to help them

@npub1zawf...lhr3 this made me think of you, of course

Small Wonders - Science Fiction & Fantasy Flash Fiction & Poetry

Ink Reviews - Small Wonders

This ink is perfect for making lists. Use it to jot down what groceries you need, or all the heinous ways your former boss continues to harm his em...

Donate to the Otherwise Award to support scifi/fantasy that explores and expands our ideas of gender -- and to support paying for more work than we used to, because we want to make sure that we are fairly compensating the people who make the award possible. (I sit on the board.)

The Wandering Shop

Otherwise Award (@OtherwiseAward@wandering.shop)

Otherwise supports the very sort of fiction that we need today more than ever: visions of possibilities through the fog of the present. Please dona...

beyond the "report spam" option in my email client, today I wanted an option to indicate "and this lie made me audibly scoff"