In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

43 years ago today Minor Threat at Irving Plaza, New York City, November 5, 1982. This event was enhanced by two other hardcore punk rock bands, SS Decontrol and MDC #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunkrock #hardcore #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Max Bill, Expansion in Four Directions, 1961-62 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137008

Made this shawl for a friend!! (I learned so much and am very proud of myself!!) (the blocking here looks weird but I swear it turned out good)

Back to school means I panic-check my email/WhatsApp/texts on a rotating cycle to not miss a single academic thing and then completely neglect messages from my friends on every other social media platform 🙃 sorry y’all

A charming chem lab warning sign (cc @allthebeset.bsky.social)

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

I’m shocked having someone write your essay doesn’t make you smarter

Horrifying. They'll do this to anyone.

"The survey, conducted by Public Policy Polling for Democrat Justin Brannan’s city comptroller campaign, found Mamdani beating Cuomo 35 percent to 31 percent — a difference that is narrowly within the 4.1 percent margin of error." good things are still possible www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

The last ten minutes of the NY mayoral debate had me SCREAMING. WHAT was THAT.

In personal news, I tuned my chromatic mountain dulcimer too close to the sun (read: A=432) and now I like it too much. Oh no

Good morning, NYC. We have some very exciting news to share.

It is increasingly weird to read hugely popular psychoanalytic texts and see my professors cited in them. I know my profs are legit, but it's hard to connect the cited expert to the real man I know who is probably (as we speak) excoriating my 20 page history final. Perks of being a Derner student.

Analytic psychotherapy is not a set of techniques that operate independently of those who practice it. Relatively untrained people with good instincts and a good heart can be effective therapists. Highly trained individuals who lack ordinary compassion can be disastrous ones. - Nancy McWilliams

This is bleak reading

You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.

Ah, yes, the 6 PM finals week iced coffee. Surely I will not regret drinking the 6 PM finals week iced coffee.

Please please please please do this

vegans begging God for inner strength to be cool about this and maybe gently draw a few new curious onlookers

Church of the Crucifixion, Harlem New York, USA r/brutalism

I saw DK live last week. Quite honestly they could be going way harder considering the political climate and I was disappointed they weren’t. Toothless interspersed jokes about DOGE aside 👀

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

watching white ppl freak out because america has “become” fascist

Dear God. I miss the Athens Eastside Jittery Joe's. No study spot on LI can compare. No barista here could ever hate their job (and me, the customer, as a proxy) as /palpably/ as the one guy with the bandana who worked there for years. The vibes were unmatched.

Also I am so deeply, deeply sad that the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art closed recently after twenty years. I get that they have traveling exhibitions etc but it's just not the same

The Cleveland Museum of Art is also free to visit—what a gift, and one I wish I had taken greater advantage of during my four years in Ohio. My favorite "small" museum will forever be the Allen Memorial Art Museum of course (also free, also in Ohio)!!

467 days. None of us will ever be the same. Nor should we be. Nothing will ever be the same. Nor should it be.

Seeing that I was misgendered in half of my evaluations from professors last semester was not surprising but it did make me pretty sad. I sit in the front row, am very engaged, and wear a pronoun badge daily. This will happen throughout the rest of my life, I'm just trying to get used to it now 😭

Katherine Porter, I am an American... Uneasy Dreams, 1981 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135057

aaaaand that’s been January so far. I look forward to not actually finishing a single book this year 🫡

the progression of AIDS treatment in my lifetime, from how terrifying it was as a child in the 80s to stories like this 40-odd years later, is genuinely one of the human race’s most awe-inspiring scientific achievements. it was a nonnegotiable death sentence for SO LONG

If you're a psychoanalyst and appalled by the silence from psychoanalytic institutes and organizations, you can sign here: docs.google.com/document/u/1...

The fun thing about living near(ish) the Met is that you can go to the Met

42 years ago today Minor Threat supported by The Mob and Urban Waste, CBGB Matinee, December 18, 1982. And all for 3 bucks 👍 Photos by the brilliant punk rock photographer Glen E. Friedman #punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #cbgb #minorthreat #history #punkrockhistory

So glad this was retracted but it is also /devastating/ to consider how many lives were lost before it was (and will continue to be lost because of this paper). Ai yi yi.

This is wild, it means a grocery store on a slow day has someone with an active COVID infection. It means every other bus or train car has one. Every daycare, congregation, school. For every crow you see there are dozens of infected within a mile of you.

Anyone complaining about how Bluesky is eating itself alive may need to take a good look at themselves and the company they keep. How do you consistently find this drama on /every platform/…

Does anyone still listen to School of Fish because if not holy shit we’re sleeping on something incredible

🧵 Yesterday was Frantz Fanon's death anniversary (6 Dec 1961). I want to credit what usually gets little attention: the fact that he was a psychoanalyst and a psychiatrist. And that his critique of colonialism can only be understood as being build from his clinical experience...

This has been the theme of my last week (through classes, a symposium, complicated case presentations...)—very astute

Irreparable damage of puberty blockers but half of American boys get concussions from repeatedly running into each other and call it “football”

Cannot possibly recommend highly enough going to someone else's family Thanksgiving where you only know one (1) person and have absolutely no beef with anybody. I think this was the greatest holiday meal of my entire life. I ate so much mashed potatoes and nobody criticized me for it??

You are either a man (in a normative; ideological sense), or punished for failing to be one. That is the only real gender "binary". The more abjected from manhood you are, the more punished you will be. But you will still be expected to serve patriarchy; and disciplined into doing so.