Before I wrote this last year I knew a lot about the horrors of dairy but didn't truly know what it means to be a herd animal. We think humans are intensely social, but cows are another level entirely I think it's pretty much impossible to do dairy farming humanely, but the way we do it seems 1/

Such cool artwork.

Some really big news dropped in animal rights world last week that was made possible only by extremely competent activism—a top breeder of dogs for lab experimentation will shut down. So I wrote about it and what it means and says about science, etc. gift link: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Trust me, this is his happy face.

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consil... #smbc

We spent 2023-2024 building an arcade game (software and hardware) from scratch. We spent 2024-2025 doing research on card games and creating a life path RPG system. We cost about 5-6k a year. Become a supporter of a cool thing. den.mercer.edu/mercer-stude...

I am looking for a game company or someone who is interested in games research to make a contribution to my research lab because: we need money. If that’s you please DM me.

I might need to add an extra chapter just on this post to my book manuscript on ecofascism and animals.

I was recently invited on Vas and Devs Stanescu podcast, How We Win. Our focus was on “Slaughterhouse Capitalism.” This is Vas’ recent article for @currentaffairs.bsky.social It also grows out of my own research.

Wow.

DC’s warehousing of kids is cruel and counterproductive. Meanwhile, there are common sense alternatives available. 51st.news/opinion-ware...

Truth.

That article that argues art history has better economic outcomes than finance is a lie. www.criticalanimal.com/2025/05/art-...

The fake Percival Everett book sounds cool, hopefully he gets on that soon. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/c...

1. This is a thread about why Food Waste is so often, and wrongly, identified as the major problem with the food system. Yes, it's an issue, but in the rich world, it's far smaller than many others. It’s massively over-emphasised, while other, far more important problems, are ignored and avoided. 🧵

Been saying this for years! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/flesh-2

Song for times.

Frédéric Keck (fredkeck.bsky.social), Solidarity Between Species: Living with Animals Exposed to Pandemic Viruses - @politybooks.bsky.social, May 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Good morning. If you have an April fool’s joke planned, stop it.

Painfully true.

Ada Palmer, Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, March 2025 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

One of the reasons I've been quiet recently is I've been supplying care to my disabled bf, but the other main reason is that I'm deep in a new book about the occult Atlantis, and I've been rediscovering the joys of proper research. I want to share some gems here. 1/

Never won’t share!

Great dating advice! youtu.be/mprkxTmMeAo?...

You got to click the red button for today’s bonus panel.

Another great.

“Across the blue waters of the Atlantic two hundred and fifty ships a year hurried to the west, with their crowded, half-suffocated cargoes. And during all this time Martin Luther had lived and died, Calvin had preached, Raphael had painted and Shakespeare and Milton sung; […]

GOD SAVE THE QUEENS! youtu.be/oJXSFIRPCHo?...

[mood] #davidbowie #itsnogame #scarymonsters #supercreeps #fascists #fascism #riseandresist

Bonus panel here: smbc-comics.com/comic/news-2

Happy birthday to the High Priestess of Soul, Nina Simone! youtu.be/MK0B9FXU72A?...

Happy TWENTY-FIRST day of Black History Month! Born on this day in 1933, the one and only Nina Simone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3F... #ninasimone #sinnerman #songoftheday #blackhistorymonth

I have a chapter on a similar topic based on this: www.academia.edu/118080627/Ma...

OK, this is amazing- "Gustavo Cañas-Valle, an ornithologist and birding guide, stumbled across a cave full of hummingbirds nesting and roosting together in Ecuador’s High Andes." Written by @rachelnuwer.bsky.social #birds #nature 🌿🪶🦉🧪

"Who is to say that the limits, opportunities, and emotional basis of typewriter-based knowledge making are not significantly different from those based on the personal computer and the internet?" Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump.

The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident; inept, frightened pilots with controls of vast machines they cannot understand, calling in experts telling them which buttons to push. youtu.be/ElgoP3JCGUE?...

Y’all remember this gem? youtu.be/EVBsypHzF3U?...

Been listening to on repeat. youtu.be/UFqo0LPTwBA?...

I have been really enjoying Death of the Author and enjoyed this interview with Nnedi Okorafor about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/b...

This might finally bring all of humanity together. A truly unifying message.

Laura Jane Grace & The Trauma Tropes got your Valentine’s Day song right here: youtu.be/7cOeooMYOOk?...

Were I a part of any of the Fredric Jameson reading groups, I would drive everybody nuts insisting we return again and again to his brief analysis of Altman's Popeye in Late Marxism, p. 102. I yam what I yam (also not).

This reporting is so important.

#SongOfTheDay this one is really special. Abel Selacoe performs "Ka Bohaleng." www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1OQ...

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

#SongOfTheDay www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ppi...

This probably should have been my song of the day.

#SongOfTheDay just some heartbreaking soul. youtu.be/T0zROagSE7U?...

On the latest episode of Knowing Animals, I talk to Professor Chloë Taylor (University of Alberta) about her 2024 Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals. We discuss animals in gender studies, feminist methodologies, and much more besides. knowinganimals.libsyn.com/episode-234-...