Reposted by jadelennoxBeth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 22hThere is a good bit of work to do after a campaign is done. Closing out accounts, filing the paperwork. Recycling lawn signs into mushroom-themed larp shields. 2194
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When I read In Other Lands my reaction was “imagine if someone started writing HP:MOR but knew the terrible protagonist was massively broken and then gave him a deeply endearing growth arc so by the end he was a deeply worthwhile person.” 010
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If your fave obsolete english letter is thorn, ash, or long S, you’re a little nerdy. If your fave obsolete English letter is eth, wynn, yogh, or insular G, you are ruler of nerdville and your subjects adore and fear you. 120
Reposted by jadelennoxJesse Sheidlower @jessesword.com · 01/10/2026Attention everyone I know! Perfectly accurate, no notes. (Forwarded to me; ultimate source unclear.) 14477187
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ugh ugh, I went to sefaria to find some appropriate commentary to snarkily post about the editorial's author, and that's how I learned sefaria's been AI-botted like everyone else. 010
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The quoted post is likely ragebait, but I’m so sad for anyone who genuinely thinks this. I wish we could do an intervention. Get them a pot brownie & bring them to a great outdoor concert. Set them up to do karaoke with their besties. Play a series of bangers from when they were 16. 250
Reposted by jadelennoxJasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NEW JWST IMAGE SHOWING GRAVITATIONAL LENSING!! 🌌 gravity bends and magnifies light from galaxies behind massive objects, sometimes making the same galaxy appear over 4 times! jwst found this happening TWICE in one cluster, for the first time! 09024
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am very tired and my comprehension is poor but this is good. 030
Reposted by jadelennoxMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026they are trying to erase our history 😢 9434
Reposted by jadelennoxStreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 28/09/2026Wild Idea: @mbta.com Could Enlist Raptors To Help Make Its Stations Less Crappy mass.streetsblog.org/2026/09/28/w...mass.streetsblog.orgWild Idea: MBTA Might Enlist Raptors To Help Make Its Stations Less Crappy - Streetsblog MassachusettsThe MBTA is seeking information from falconry experts to help them reduce pigeon populations in their facilities. 6227
Reposted by jadelennoxCity of Somerville @cityofsomerville.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The rumors are true...DPW is giving away free latex paint on October 9! Between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., anyone can stop by the DPW building at 17 Franey Road to grab some paint (and help DPW save on the recycling fees). Somerville residency NOT required! 🧵 268
Reposted by jadelennoxYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Any future for the Jewish North American diaspora and Israel demands a divorce between these two centres of the Jewish world. Or in the words of a great Jew, "conscious uncoupling" 3535
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I reach into my the dustiest corners of my told-you-so bag, & gently bring out one of the most venerable denizens. It blinks several times and brushes off the dust before it opens its mouth to squawk. 010
Reposted by jadelennoxGet To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Birds are the best. They may look at you like this but they’re never gonna send you unwanted texts or emails (Osprey) #birds 🌿 318331
Reposted by jadelennoxUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Jaime" is harvesting figs at min. wage in Madera CA. "There isn't enough good fruit. Usually we harvest through November but many locations have already stopped. We expected to be working longer. Now we need to look for another job as we need this income to pay rent." #WeFeedYou 23848260
Reposted by jadelennoxRhonda Howard @1184outdoors.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Northern Harrier flyby. #Airborne #BirdOfTheDay 🪶 #ECK 3618
Reposted by jadelennoxEmily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 27/09/2026Having pets is weird because what do you mean this little gremlin lives in my house 920310
Reposted by jadelennoxSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A drawing from this evening. Something that might be a bird in flight. I never know, when I start, what I’m going to draw (and sometimes, when I get done, I still don’t). But I very often wind up drawing bird-like things. 414822
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This Steller sea lion in Resurrection Bay, Alaska had just won an argument with its buddy over who go to be in top of the rock. The loser had just fallen into the sea, & the victor was about to join them. 022
Reposted by jadelennoxCharlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I long for a back-to-basics web: Markdown for text, JPEG images, no video, no Javascript or other client-side scripting, writable by a human being with a text editor. Make it as advertising/corporate hostile as possible. And above all keep it *small*. In other words, web like it's 1996 again. 4751370
Reposted by jadelennoxAnna E. Cook @annaecook.com · 27/09/2026Once again the Trump regime is attempting to skirt federal laws and hope AI can just magically do things. This will not work but they do not care. fedscoop.com/trump-team-a...fedscoop.comA Trump team wants to automate U.S. Web Design System accessibility testing. Experts are worried.GitHub community and accessibility experts are concerned about a reversal of progress amid potential AI reliance and plans to “automate as much accessibility testing as possible.” 32111
Reposted by jadelennoxThe Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Harvard has begun restricting access to the plaza outside the Smith Campus Center outside of the building’s operating hours, displacing homeless residents who have regularly stayed there overnight. Shawn A. Boehmer and Claire A. Michal report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...thecrimson.comHomeless People Displaced as Harvard Restricts Overnight Smith Center Access | The Harvard CrimsonHarvard has begun restricting access to the plaza outside the Smith Campus Center outside of the building’s operating hours, displacing homeless residents who have regularly stayed there overnight. 12117
Reposted by jadelennoxBoston Public Health Commission @publichealth.boston.gov · 26/09/2026Please look out for one another during this weekend’s storm. If you see a neighbor experiencing homelessness or someone out in the storm who appears immobile, disoriented, or underdressed for the weather, please call 911. 092
Reposted by jadelennoxPhoto57 • AndreaM 🇨🇦 @andreaphoto57.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Late September #textures. 1141
Reposted by jadelennoxCity of Somerville @cityofsomerville.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One (1) income-restricted condo available for resale at 143 Cedar Street. Applications are open until October 9, 2025, at 12 p.m. Visit somervillema.gov/inclusionary for more information about the property and application process. 143
Reposted by jadelennoxSpace Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 25/09/2026Astronomers estimate that there are 500,000 stars within this #NASAWebb image of Sagittarius C. One of the most densely packed areas lies within the dark, U-shaped region at the top left of the cyan-colored cloud of ionized hydrogen: bit.ly/4zeme64 15619
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Scripps replaces all the children in the Spelling Bee with chatbots, leaving all the LLMs to battle over the number of R's in "strawberry". When asked why the kids couldn't compete as well, Scripps responded that, on the advice of their legal team, they couldn't allow children in a room with Grok. 040
Reposted by jadelennoxSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Walmart Family-owned museum hires "Museum Think Tank" founded by investment fund manager David Booth to figure out how to make something museum workers and visitors do not want happen. The question "why do something ppl don't want? isn't asked bc the reason is to strip mine institutions for profit. 34213
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 25/09/2026All Greenfield drama should be fights about contra dancing, as the Pioneer Valley gods intended. 010
Reposted by jadelennoxChris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the current state of police accountability in Somerville. www.boston.com/news/local-n...boston.comSomerville has been trying to fire a police detective since 2018. He's still getting paid.After prosecutors said the detective will never be called to testify in court because of alleged misconduct, he was placed on paid leave. 2139
Reposted by jadelennoxAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542341626
Reposted by jadelennoxRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano 11767611626
Reposted by jadelennoxQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The suggestion that the White House grounds are not subject to DC building codes opens up all kinds of new YIMBY possibilities. Bulldoze the White House and build single staircase high rise apartments 1015127
Reposted by jadelennoxGet To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A juvenile Cooper’s Hawk outside the dining room window for the #BirdOfTheDay. #raptors #birds 🌿 1331728
Reposted by jadelennoxGet To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In case you were curious how similar the Great Egret and Great Blue Heron are in size, these two lined up perfectly for comparison. Apparently it was a desirable fishing spot #birds 🌿 1234659
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I was so compelled by the ending Shannon Chakraborty's The Tapestry of Fate (the second Amina al-Sirafi book) that despite covid making it difficult for me to think, hold the book, focus my eyes, or concentrate, I could not stop reading until I was finished. 121
Reposted by jadelennoxAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026one of the most beloved characters in american pop culture is a big bird named Big Bird 1035622
Reposted by jadelennoxPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Software developers think "if AI automates coding, I will be able to spend less time on producing widgets, and more time on strategy and architecture." Bosses think "if AI automates coding, I can get my devs to produce 100x more widgets." 7707150
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I do actually miss microfiche TBH. When you got to the article it was an Achievement. 030
Reposted by jadelennoxJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Zakariya ibn Muhammad Qazwini (ca. 1203-1283), and Scribe: Muhammad ibn Muhammad Shakir Ruzmah-’i Nathani. Illustration: A Cat. 1121 AH/AD 1717 (Ottoman), from a Turkish version of The Wonders of Creation, The Walters Art Museum, W.659.105A 25511
Reposted by jadelennoxPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us. The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what people actually want.nytimes.comOpinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps. 14466111
Reposted by jadelennoxAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death" 14813219
Reposted by jadelennoxNullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Peat moss, and some brown cups on stalks, idk what they are. 📍 Lahemaa, Estonia #moss #naturephotography 3435
Reposted by jadelennoxDaryll Marie @daryllmarie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Red-breasted! Nuthatch! On a! Boat! 🌿🪶 434925
Reposted by jadelennoxAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 19/09/2026i am not generally the kind of person who can diagnose car problems from the sound the engine makes. but it's easy when the sound is incessant meowing 1438738
jadelennox @jadelennox.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This. I don't care if your chatbot—or driverless car or automated drone targeting system or Officer Friendly the robot murder puppy—has perfectly coded morals. I care that a human being with authority can be convicted of a crime when someone dies. (Or when something is hacked, attacked, or robbed.) 0103
Reposted by jadelennoxNullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I’ve always had a weakness for animals with little hands. Red squirrel in Lahemaa, Estonia. #squirrels #estonia #naturephotography 0253
