And “use” instead of “utilize”

red flag | noun | a warning signal or sign

Josh Shepperd My email sign-offs:

- May the gods not smite you
- May the wombat of happiness snuffle through your underbrush (ancient Aborigine blessing)
- May you be unburdened by fuckery (modern English blessing)
- (Doing my) Best
- Have the day you deserve
- Without further adieu
- Or else

syzygy | noun | the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, and earth during a solar or lunar eclipse) in a gravitational system

if you’re ever confused about who are the bad guys in real life, just ask yourself, “do I know of any groups that are attempting to de-fund libraries and ban books from school shelves?” and if the answer is yes—those folks are the baddies.

It's a cold, blowy, wet morning, but the Water Taxis are back in weekday service for the first time since 2020, so none of that matters.

Widespread Severe Columbus

This is a thread of my all-time favourite literal translations, starting with this one…

In Hungarian, the word for a shark, hiszékeny, translates literally to “sea bastard”

computers used to yell at us when we connected to the internet, but in our hubris we ignored them.

You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction.
I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.

Tried to read that piece in The Cut but decided this is not how Mary Oliver would want me to spend my one wild precious life.

We Had the Tools guinesspig.ghost.io/we-had-the-too…

It really is a beautiful city.

Wild to me that it’s been 14 years since the ACA was passed which means there’s an entire generation of people who have no idea that health insurance used to just kick you off if you got a “pre-existing condition” and that included like, asthma, obesity, depression, being alive

If nothing is wrong, & everyone is overreacting, this Kate Middleton issue is STILL teaching me fascinating things about OSINT. (Open-source intelligence)

For example, here's a site w/tutorials on how to detect different types of Photoshop, & the very VALID reasons why....

we lost an hour today under president biden's watch

Unlike FB and IG, these bad boys never go down.

Tragic to say this out loud, but here it is:

As a #LongCOVID researcher, I strongly urge the public to ignore recent CDC guidance and input from Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH on the topic of #COVID . It is NOT based on consensus science and it has NOT been designed to protect you. Disgraceful

The CDC recommends putting your tender heart in a blender, and watch it spin ‘round to a beautiful oblivion