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  • A lovely story about Dav Pilkey, author of the Dog Man series: He paid for a whole school’s book fair!
  • I adore this brutally honest bio of Jane Krakowski from a recent Broadway production.
  • You need to read this behind the scenes article on Minnesota Timberwolves coach’s decision to start Joe Ingles in a “must-win” game so his 8-yo son with autism could see him play. – via @richarddeitsch.bsky.social
  • If you have an Apple computer, you can disable the incredibly annoying feature that attempts to guess what you’re about to type. Go to System Settings > Keyboard > Text Input and click the Edit button next to your input source. Toggle “Show inline predictive text” so it’s disabled and click Done.
  • Great reporting on how a false story about the Dropkick Murphys getting banned for mocking the administration went viral.
  • Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains – via @hpsc24.bsky.social
  • True MasculinityGross Stuff:
    • The story of what happened recently at the United States Institute of Peace is just inconceivable.
    • The USPS Union President has sent out an email to employees warning them of impending privatization concerns after [administration] moves to fire 10,000 postal workers. – via @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social
    • The Constitutional Crisis Is Here: By shipping men to a Salvadoran prison without due process, [the administration] has begun defying court orders in earnest. – via @kairyssdal.bsky.social
    • A lawsuit accuses the [current] administration of unlawfully shutting down the Voice of America and asks a federal court to restore the outlet that for decades has supplied news about the United States to nations around the world — including many that lack a free press of their own.
    • A CDC clone site with false vaccine claims is hosted by Children’s Health Defense, a non-profit, anti-vaxx organization started by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. – via YLE
    • “if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders“

#autism #bluesky #books #cdc #constitution #dailydavid #department of health and human services #dropkick murphys #el salvador #government #journalism #legal #nba #politics #radio #usps #vaccines

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Marketing 101

I bought something from amazon.com a few days ago and it just arrived. Included in the package were ten one-cent stamps with a nice little note about how they were saving me the hassle of going to the post office to buy more stamps (because the rates increased a penny). It is a ridiculously silly

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#amazon #customer service #usps

Postal Service Craziness

They knew that an item, say, a saucepan, normally would be in a package because of USPS concerns of entanglement in their automated machinery. But what if the item were not wrapped? How patient are postal employees? How honest? How sentimental? In short, how eccentric a behavior on the part of the sender would still

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#mail #usps

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