my brain saw “whistleblowers” and “leave“ and told me FEMA got rid of leafblowers so make fun of me all you want but it’s better in here RE:

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Zahra Hirji (@zhirji.bsky.social)

In a reversal from this morning, FEMA puts whistleblowers back on leave after reinstating them Gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...

This year’s holiday recs request: Moar Books for child (12) who finally got to read the Murderbots and loved them the most, but is not ready for Locked Tomb levels of grief and death. Preferences in next post.

Another fantastic recs thread, this one for kids RE:

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Erin Kissane (@kissane.myatproto.social)

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The hour comes round again for winter mysteries RE:

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arguing about AI on here today is the coward’s path and you know it, you gotta go do it with your worst uncle

We’re out till December. I am so grateful to the folks who do this work with us, and to all y’all who read and pass it on ❤️❤️❤️ RE:

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Unbreaking (@unbreaking.org)

Unbreaking will be taking some downtime for the rest of November, so you’ll see our next briefing in December. In the meantime, you can catch up ...

I do think homemade cranberry sauce is better with a little molasses and a little ruby port and a verrrry long simmer.

The main thing that has improved my cooking in the past ten years is brain medication (fewer forgotten ingredients and burned pots). Doing that also helped me learn to do more things the long way, which is, unfortunately, usually worth it.

a late November holiday is a bad idea, actually, this is all just a bizarrely delayed harvest festival and you’re supposed to finish those by October

I finally thought of the right Chotiner joke for yesterday but now it is too late.