in case your company uses Google Workspace and is despairing at how Gemini A.I. is getting pushed into everything—fear not! Slate's indefatigable IT chief embarked on a successful journey to get it removed from our end and wrote a detailed guide for the curious: slate.com/technology/2...

by @juliusgoat.bsky.social

do the crossword
go for a run
watch cartoons with your kid
listen to an audiobook instead of the news
eat the whole pint of ice cream
stretch in the morning
go for a walk
buy yourself a record
pet a dog
take five deep breaths in a row

self care itself isn't resistance, but it's necessary to resist

It’s Friday! First two letters of each word in the lines today. There might be a red herring in there somewhere. Might not. Good luck!

Today was a very, very good day

(on a micro level… but on a macro level… things are pretty rough in the U S of A)

NEW: The Department of Labor report found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.

propub.li/4aue7qi

If you manage to get an abortion in ID despite their near-total ban, Gov. Mike Braun wants to know about it! This turd nugget just signed an executive order to TRACK abortion patients as part of enforcing their ban & reversing protections that kept these reports private https://buff.ly/4g9LIH1

Instead of just reading summaries on news sites, I highly recommend going through these executive orders and really absorbing the intent and language. It's fucked.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...