Pansies every year to remember my mother. Les pensées deux fois.

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using your second Reichstag Fire-style opportunity to justify a ballroom is a wild move

Important work!

When power is built on disinformation, data become a threat.

Strange that I get a 403 Forbidden message when I try to log onto to Bluesky on my laptop.

As is traditional, I celebrate Liberation Day by reposting my thread on the final days of Mussolini for newer followers who may not have seen it. Buon 25 aprile a tutti! "Fascism is not an opinion; it is a crime." Sandro Pertini

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An outstanding, comprehensive rebuke of AI mania in K-12 by @winterjessica.bsky.social that rounds out by highlighting the growing coalition of parents, educators, and other concerned humans that is working fast and hard to tamp it down.

Trust me, you'll want to give this a read:

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

An amazing scholar, writer as well as editor. Glad to have this website, @brionyneilson.bsky.social 🗃️

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Yikes! Always something… We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI. 📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Democracy lives to fight another day: "New South Wales’ highest court has struck down an anti-protest law brought in after the Bondi beach terror attack which gave police the power to restrict marches..."

BREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked my War Powers Resolution that would have ended Trump's unnecessary, unjustified war against Iran. These cowards have had four chances to stop this chaos in the Middle East. And they put Trump's ego before America. Every damn time.

The section that the Guardian censored… By Prof Judith Butler

i was so happy to talk to laura yuen for this piece, because it lays out the major difference between the uprising in 2020 and OMS—people have changed how they are in relationship to each other. many non-immigrant minnesotans never had to interact with the injustice of immigration. now they have.

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

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Looking for a third person to join a panel for WSFH in Memphis. Currently both papers touch on the Dreyfus Affair and after, organized roughly around moral claims and political action. 🗃️

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

jfc

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there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.

HEART ys the art of fierce hope. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, bold dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. Fund higher educacioun yn the HEART disciplines: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eachinge

the bargain that put RFK Jr in charge of American health in exchange for putting Donald Trump back in the White House may go down as the single worst deal in all of human history

Exactly this!

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Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

posting this shit when you’re owned by a billionaire is basically a recruitment ad for socialism

Oh, this is good. Idaho passed a bill banning local cities from flying the Pride flag. So the cities decided to wrap the poles themselves in pride colors. This is amazing.

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted. To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

do we honestly have no way of ending a presidency for posting “a whole civilization will die tonight”

Yep, that's how I feel.

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Valuable 🧵 (say I as a former RC who endured grades 1-8 in the midst of Vatican II chaos).

way past time to slap people like this with the most horribly punitive punishments you can think of

Experiment: planted Japanese indigo seeds in hope of fall dye projects.

Trump and Hegseth halted funding for research to get blood to wounded U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy sailors: "When someone is wounded and survival depends on the availability of blood, this software would have made that survival more likely. Now it will not." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/s...