I don't think I'll ever have as wholesome an excuse to be late to a work meeting ever again: I was dropping off my mom after taking her out to lunch for her birthday and got delayed when I found and returned a lost dog to its owner.

This is the first hopeful thing I've seen about the Internet itself potentially improving in a while. I retried a couple searches I did on regular engines and found this way more useful and way better at sorting away from AI-generated slop

www.drewlyton.com/story/the-fu... or, why (and how) you should own your data but also be able to easily make a shared photo album with non-technical friends.

My wife and I just played Kids by MGMT on my phone at the dinner table. Our daughter hopped down, ran to the other room, and quietly asked for Chopin.

She is a little over a year and a half old. I'm not sure whether to be proud or concerned.

We need to get across that #USAID is saving lives, and that ending it kills people. If you've got concrete examples of food aid rotting on pallets and medicine expiring in hot trucks for no apparent reason other than spite, here's a place to submit them:
globalaidfreeze.com

I felt a lot better after reading this

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

It's hard to fathom what goes into removing all photos of how the US was saving and improving lives of people living in poverty. Even more so taking each one from the frames and then leaving the frames behind to make... some kind of point?

Sabe sus derechos: Si está usted en los EEUU independientemente de su estatus migratorio, usted tiene derechos garantizados por la Constitución. Aprende más aquí sobre sus derechos como inmigrante y cómo expresarlos.

Just got a second opinion from a different retina specialist who fundamentally disagreed and said this is a known condition that will likely resolve on its own, possibly in two months or less.

I'm feeling much better!

Jessica Jones meets Elf, in a podcast. What more do you want for Christmas? Highly recommend, NSFW.

I used to work in mysterious ways but now I'm unemployed.

I've spontaneously lost some of the central vision in my right eye 11/13, and a retina specialist told me this afternoon that it's probably never coming back. We don't know why it happened except "maybe stress" and I should call right away if it gets any worse.

I'm not feeling great rn.

I didn't know the Harris campaign lets you phone bank on your own schedule- Main catch is you need a training thay say takes 1 hour, but after that sounds you'll be set: events.democrats.org/event/698746...

Guys? @mikeduncan.bsky.social just dropped a new episode of revolutions. Listen to it, then go to r/revolutionspodcast. What's happening right there is almost magical

I guess it makes sense that Angelinos drive the way New Yorkers walk

This swing district volunteer op looks unusually fun and easy (meet your neighbors!) Check elegibility here: www.majorityovermaga.org/neighbor2nei...

Poll: How much are you paying per hour of streaming video these days? In other words, what do you get if you divide your monthly Netflix, Hulu, etc. bills and divide it by the hours of content you watch on them in a month?

I'm here for the funny people. Who should I follow?

Posting this on here, Threads, and Mastodon. May the odds be ever in your favor, network.