New episode of “Across Your Shattered Sky” available to read free! Kyo gains a cute & mysterious new companion that may be initiating their master manipulation plan on him~👀 #oc #indiecomic #queercomics #Episodes

Every pronatalist argument I’ve encountered seems like it could be solved by a robust immigration system that allowed more people to move here. The reluctance to entertain that solution tells you what the real concern is.

Prosecutors seized $1.7 million in assets from a Galveston head shop claiming they related to criminal activity. Now they can't prove criminal charges, which were dismissed w/ prejudice for lack of evidence, but have announced they intend to keep the money. www.chron.com/gulf-coast/a...

30 years ago tonight:

NEW STUDY: “Thanks to the influence of the road lobby, the harms of driving are underestimated & overlooked, while measures that make walking, cycling, & public transport the easiest option are viewed with suspicion. Policy responses to reducing population-level driving…can create positive change.”

Fun: ✅ putt-putt ✅ driving range ❌ actual golf

Welp, that's a wrap on 47, the year in which I bit off a rather a lot. Here goes 48, in which I attempt to chew.

30 years. This video should be on every network.

Here are two graphs that show either how bad humans are at predicting the future OR, just possibly, how oil money can motivate reasoning to bend public & private investments to its will:

Just an amazing string of coincidences that the Republican Party has so many pedophiles, pedophile enablers and pedophile protectors in its ranks.

Last month we raised over $100,000 to pay 82 families' rent, so they can remain housed while sheltering in place during this federal occupation. ICE is still here & active. The majority of families are still unable to work. Help us gather financial resources to keep my neighbors housed.

1) Haven't read this. 2) You shouldn't. 3) Here were "strongest" Dem candidates at comparable points, 2.5 years before elex that Dems won: —1974: Teddy Kennedy early leader. 1976: Prez Jimmy Carter. —1990: Mario Cuomo leading. 1992: Prez Bill Clinton. —2006: HRC leading. 2008: Prez Obama.

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Successful policies are ‘made’ to fail on political grounds all the time, in the case of drug policy this usually has deadly consequences. I’ve written about the ways governments construct those failures discursively and materially www.ijurr.org/article/from...

Really importance piece in the Times Higher on cuts to Geography at a time when it matters most www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...

I wrote about ICE’s concentration camps. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump’s repealing the endangerment finding endangers us all. He denies the obvious—we are already seeing and feeling the climate crisis. Summers are hotter and longer each year. Tropical diseases and deadly storms--floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes— are all becoming more frequent and intense.

#TeamPacey wins, I guess?

The US is deporting people back to certain death. There is blood on the hands of ICE. www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-abductio...

I'm grateful that Kyle surfaced all these extraordinary opinions slamming the Trump administration for the illegal detention of immigrants. This one leaps out in part because the judge is warning us that abuses being inflicted on immigrants now are a preview of what could be unleashed on citizens.

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

"The Dems have to do this because they know they’d never win a fair election, which is why we’re suspending fair elections." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-...

Kinda wondering what the discussions at Adobe are like regarding their best-known file extension being an object of disdain in an entirely new way of late.

The Trump administration's authoritarianism extends to transportation. buff.ly/tIkUz9s

I was a philosophy professor before I became a librarian. People from my former profession appear in the Epstein files, but none in my current one. As it happens, I’m happier as a librarian.

New frenemy just dropped 😮‍💨 #gradschoolproblems

Sitting here folding laundry, looking out at the ice, scrolling past even worse ice, dreaming of clement weather and precedented times.

At 7:04 PM yesterday, Babylon Bee Managing Editor Joel Berry told his 164K followers that “If Trump doubles down, invokes the Insurrection Act, crushes these feral Communist riots, and arrests the leaders responsible, his popularity will go up 10 points.” 1/ x.com/joelwberry/s...

one thing about Rafael??? he gon find a way to get the fuck.

Got trapped in an elevator with @brianmbendis.bsky.social @davidfwalker.bsky.social and @scottmccloud.bsky.social today, and I didn't even pitch anything!

I wrote about RFK Jr.'s war on moms slate.com/technology/2...

"Graphic Medicine International Collective is pleased to announce Dr. A. David Lewis, PhD, (@adlewis.bsky.social) as the newest member of the board. Dr. Lewis will serve as treasurer, taking over the role from Matthew Noe, who will continue ... on the board." www.graphicmedicine.org/a-david-lewi...

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

I guess we'll never know what the third shaker was for…

Bluesky users: they're here and you should block them. @ ice gov (without the spaces, obviously)

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A soup season thought *munching on a handful of oyster crackers* Man, these are basic, but good. I wonder why they don't come in ✨flavors✨? *imagines a cheesy oyster cracker* *realizes I have just re-invented Goldfish*

Look, all I'm saying is that if there's a place where people like Andre the Giant are unable to make friends and are going unemployed, I assume it's because he's a shrimpy weakling by their standards, which makes an invasion seem unwise in the extreme.

I sat in a fucking court room and heard Apple imply that a naked cartoon banana was somehow inappropriate but somehow Grok non consensually undressing women and children is ok?? www.theverge.com/policy/85990...

Yes, the U.S. government is fascist.

Stephen Miller exists because no one told him to stop. One person could stand up and change the world. They stayed sitting. Now Stephen Miller stands in that place.

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A short documentary titled “Bus Cuts” by Brown University student filmmaker Maya Kelly was screened! It follows five RIPTA riders & one operator, highlighting how service cuts have impacted them.🎥 SAVE THE DATE: Meetup & documentary screening at The Guild in Pawtucket on Wed., Jan. 28 at 5:30 pm🍺

Do live animated avatars in meetings give anyone else Waking Life vibes?

"Pre-emptive Self Defense" -- A euphemism for cold-blooded murder