Lttrs
@lttrs.bsky.social
Bluestocking, web 1.0. Cats belong inside, and "AI" is theft. Here for real people with real posts. I'm not competing with anyone-- I hope we all make it.
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"As part of the partnership, users will be able to authorize Intuit to pull the right data and return tailored results, like estimating a tax refund, finding the right credit card, or generating QuickBooks insights off real-time business activity."
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
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Intuit to pay OpenAI over $100 million a year for model access, ChatGPT integrates with TurboTax
Intuit has struck a $100 million-plus annual deal with OpenAI to bring AI into its financial products like TurboTax and QuickBooks.
www.cnbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"As part of the partnership, users will be able to authorize Intuit to pull the right data and return tailored results, like estimating a tax refund, finding the right credit card, or generating QuickBooks insights off real-time business activity."
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/i...
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I won’t stop posting this.
Andrew Johnson — a Jan. 6 rioter who went by "Am🇺🇸rican T🇺🇸rrorist” on Elon Musk’s platform — has been arrested on child molestation charges, with police saying he used the promise of a taxpayer-funded payout from Trump's DOJ to try and keep one of the victims silent.
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
theintercept.com/2025/11/17/p...
Pardoned Capitol Rioter Tried to Hush Child Sex Victim With Promise of Jan. 6 Reparation Money, Police Say
Pardoned Capitol rioter Andrew Johnson tried to keep a child sex abuse victim quiet with claimed $10 million Jan. 6 reparations, police say.
theintercept.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I won’t stop posting this.
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Good story on the records of those taken during the Chicago raids. Contrary to the administration's claims, few had records or reasons to be arrested.
I know it's not surprising to many of us, but it's important that this type of in depth reporting is done so it's on the record.
I know it's not surprising to many of us, but it's important that this type of in depth reporting is done so it's on the record.
The information contradicts the Trump administration's narrative that it is targeting the "worst of the worst" when conducting immigration enforcement. and seems to violate a 2022 federal consent decree that puts strong conditions on warrantless arrests. n.pr/4i6rNLX
DOJ records show hundreds of immigrants arrested in Chicago had no criminal records
The information contradicts the Trump administration's narrative that it is targeting the "worst of the worst" when conducting immigration enforcement. and seems to violate a 2022 federal consent decree that puts strong conditions on warrantless arrests.
n.pr
November 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Good story on the records of those taken during the Chicago raids. Contrary to the administration's claims, few had records or reasons to be arrested.
I know it's not surprising to many of us, but it's important that this type of in depth reporting is done so it's on the record.
I know it's not surprising to many of us, but it's important that this type of in depth reporting is done so it's on the record.
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Lots of people been asking for book recommendations for help with background context for the Ken Burns RevWar documentary, so I’m very grateful to my past self for putting this together so that my current self can be lazy:
angrystaffofficer.com/2024/08/22/u...
angrystaffofficer.com/2024/08/22/u...
Understanding the Revolutionary Era: Recommended Reading List
As many of you know – and are no doubt really excited for – next years begins the semiquincentennial of the Revolutionary War here in the United States. Or, for those of us who have tro…
angrystaffofficer.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Lots of people been asking for book recommendations for help with background context for the Ken Burns RevWar documentary, so I’m very grateful to my past self for putting this together so that my current self can be lazy:
angrystaffofficer.com/2024/08/22/u...
angrystaffofficer.com/2024/08/22/u...
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Fall colors in fall light. 🌱
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Fall colors in fall light. 🌱
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GIFT ARTICLE
The Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com, a public benefit corporation, and the largest American newspaper owned by a nonprofit, is an alternative to WAPO and NYT.
This article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social is a fine example.
GIFT ARTICLE
The Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com, a public benefit corporation, and the largest American newspaper owned by a nonprofit, is an alternative to WAPO and NYT.
This article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social is a fine example.
Epstein’s emails are the end of America as they ruined it
If the evil banality of the world's most powerful people exposed in the Epstein emails doesn't cause a revolution, nothing will.
share.inquirer.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
share.inquirer.com/reWm4W?utm_s...
GIFT ARTICLE
The Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com, a public benefit corporation, and the largest American newspaper owned by a nonprofit, is an alternative to WAPO and NYT.
This article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social is a fine example.
GIFT ARTICLE
The Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com, a public benefit corporation, and the largest American newspaper owned by a nonprofit, is an alternative to WAPO and NYT.
This article by Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social is a fine example.
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Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
Then they came for the Dreamers
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
www.motherjones.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Immigrants brought here as children were told they wouldn’t be deported. Now, they’re being targeted anyway.
Crumpled tube Caturday.
November 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Crumpled tube Caturday.
Shadow, left. Currier's "The Favorite Cat," right. I see no difference.
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Shadow, left. Currier's "The Favorite Cat," right. I see no difference.
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
Happy 2nd adoption-versary to my sweet friend Shadow, and thanks to the Animal Rescue League of Boston for taking good care of him until I could meet him and bring him home! #cats #blackcats @arlboston.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Happy 2nd adoption-versary to my sweet friend Shadow, and thanks to the Animal Rescue League of Boston for taking good care of him until I could meet him and bring him home! #cats #blackcats @arlboston.bsky.social
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November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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With the attacks on the SNAP program that the US are having, this timely piece on their dinner ladies via @bittersouth.bsky.social is very apposite.
And I’m in love with Peggy Davis, the lady in the photo, who’s done this work for 50 years. Finest kind.
bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
And I’m in love with Peggy Davis, the lady in the photo, who’s done this work for 50 years. Finest kind.
bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
All Praise to the Lunch Ladies — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children.
bittersoutherner.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
With the attacks on the SNAP program that the US are having, this timely piece on their dinner ladies via @bittersouth.bsky.social is very apposite.
And I’m in love with Peggy Davis, the lady in the photo, who’s done this work for 50 years. Finest kind.
bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
And I’m in love with Peggy Davis, the lady in the photo, who’s done this work for 50 years. Finest kind.
bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/...
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Nov. is such a busy month…so I’m posting this to spur myself (& friends?) to get over to the MFA for this soon!
There is exactly 1 month left to see “Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, Pioneer” at the @mfaboston.bsky.social - the show is on thru Dec 7.
www.mfa.org/exhibition/r...
www.mfa.org/exhibition/r...
November 8, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Nov. is such a busy month…so I’m posting this to spur myself (& friends?) to get over to the MFA for this soon!
Fancy, cozy caturday. #cats #blackcats
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Fancy, cozy caturday. #cats #blackcats
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“We’re tackling that tech utopian idea of 1950s California, where it was considered progress to convert rivers into concrete canals and computerize the distribution of water, and no one really questioned this.” —Rowan Wernham, director of “Pistachio Wars”
The Museum Donors Accused of Sucking California Dry
Pistachio Wars argues that billionaires Lynda and Stewart Resnick are harming California’s environment as they artwash their damage.
hyperallergic.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“We’re tackling that tech utopian idea of 1950s California, where it was considered progress to convert rivers into concrete canals and computerize the distribution of water, and no one really questioned this.” —Rowan Wernham, director of “Pistachio Wars”
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Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner.
As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!
#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩🔬🗃️📜
As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!
#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩🔬🗃️📜
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Happy birthday to the only two women with elements named after them on the periodic table: #MarieCurie & #LiseMeitner.
As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!
#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩🔬🗃️📜
As I do every year, I will once again repeat my proposal that November 7 should be International #WomenInSTEM Day!
#histSTM #chemistry #physics
#OnThisDay #OTD #PeriodicTable👩🔬🗃️📜
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this is not internationally known
The Rob Base Postulate:
Given that a number greater than 1(x) is required to make a thing go right, and that the exact equal number (y) is required to make it out of sight (x = y), what is the minimum whole number required to achieve both outcomes?
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/pop...
Given that a number greater than 1(x) is required to make a thing go right, and that the exact equal number (y) is required to make it out of sight (x = y), what is the minimum whole number required to achieve both outcomes?
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/pop...
Pop Song Math Quiz
Answer all questions in the form of a song title. 1. The Rob Base Postulate Given that a number greater than 1(x) is required to make a thing go ri...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
this is not internationally known
Chilli with ground beef, chorizo, black beans, and lots of oregano from the garden with brown rice for supper. Spice mix is a home blend of died chipotle, coriander, cumin, salt & pepper, cayenne, and garlic powder. A pantry & freezer supper with canned fire-roasted tomatoes.
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Chilli with ground beef, chorizo, black beans, and lots of oregano from the garden with brown rice for supper. Spice mix is a home blend of died chipotle, coriander, cumin, salt & pepper, cayenne, and garlic powder. A pantry & freezer supper with canned fire-roasted tomatoes.
Shadow says stay floofy in the windy cold today. #cats #blackcats
November 1, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Shadow says stay floofy in the windy cold today. #cats #blackcats
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