As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

GOOD NEWS! (For now) This got held in committee so the final vote WILL NOT be decided at City Council tomorrow. We've got more time to organize against Stonepeak's acquisition of our parking meters, but nothing is guaranteed. (I'll still be there for the Boutros vote tomorrow.)

They mowed the hay (alfalfa) next door. I miss the smell of fresh mown hay.

Warren Buffett stops Gates Foundation donations following Epstein revelations reut.rs/4hdvIId

Another giant of comics has left us. From 1965 to 1990, Oliphant was THE dominant political cartoonist in the US (even though he was an Aussie). A generational talent. A complicated guy. Often problematic, often brilliant, always scathing and funny.

Netsuke (Japan, 1701-1900). Hare grinding with a mortar and pestle. Refers to the ‘Hare in the Moon’, a messenger of the moon deity. The hare mixes the elixir of immortality with his mortar and pestle.

JK Rowling offers to fund lawsuits against Amnesty is a headline that will cut through.

MAINE marches against ICE…

professors of bluesky, if you can get me login credentials for online access to the gale political extremism database, I will do anything. I'll speak to your students every semester until I die. I will personally mentor your weirdest grad student. idk. I really miss my unlimited uva library access.

New: Core to its complaint against OpenAI, Apple accused a former employee of allegedly exploiting a security bug to steal reams of confidential files from Apple's network over several weeks. “LOL, I found out I can access the [network storage], so funny.” (Adblocker bypass: archive.is/rmPlh)

The Democratic Party's approval rating is in the toilet, and the main reason is voters see Dem leaders and prominent members acting like things are basically okay instead of fighting like there's an emergency. Slot "my friend Lindsey Graham, so funny, how great to work with him" comments into that.

If you’re worried about this explosive diarrhea and you have a Costco membership and you dislike the taste of pedialyte, go purchase an 18-pack of electrolyte waters to have on hand

But the cows....

Think. About. This. The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it gradually to Venezuela through the country’s private banks…. Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/u...

Anyone have a clue what this charm is about? Found in among random items I have collected over time and have never seen it before.

I am leading 80 Members of Congress urging Secretary Mullin to extend protections for Salvadoran TPS holders. Ending TPS for El Salvador would hurt our economy, tear apart families, and send 200,000 lawfully present Salvadorans back to a country where they face potential human rights abuses.

What if I told you one woman, with little accountability, is wearing the name of the United Nations to launder false anti-trans forum posts into global legal fights, including the US Supreme Court? Our reporter S. Baum investigates Reem Alsalem in our collaboration piece with The Nation.

Job Opportunity! The Department of Africana Studies at Wellesley College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Comparative English Literature with a focus on African American Literature, to begin in Fall 2027. networks.h-net.org/jobs/70122/w...

Universal basic income works. We have decades of studies showing the social benefits. I don't understand why this hasn't been rolled out everywhere yet.

F--k y'all. Impersonating reporters is not on! For many reasons, including it endangers journalists.

It would have been nice if @bloomberg.com had acknowledged I’ve been reporting on these planes for months — like they did for WaPo, my former employer, in another part of the story — but I guess I’m just glad Congress might acknowledge their existence now? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This looks so good.

these are pretty fucking serious allegations, holy shit, lol

Well I came in all hot to trot to dunk on another AI flood model, but this paper is actually a great example of both the promise and the peril of AI flood mapping www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

“Friday, the Interior Department and the Commerce Department announced a final rule that rescinded this longstanding interpretation. Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal.”

Hey faculty: my PhD student is graduating soon and my uni doesn't rent out faculty regalia anymore, so I have to break down and buy a robe and hood. Have any of you used capgown dot com to order robes? Reddit seems to suggest they're reliable and they do have Wisconsin robes...

Instead of changing the language in their legacy scholarship, the Upperman family has decided to pull their $1M endowment from a North Carolina university They plan to move the scholarship to a school where it is likely a Black student will receive it

The European Commission said its investigation into Facebook and Instagram found Meta failed to properly assess the risks of its “addictive design.”

"Screwworm is the threat we rehearsed for. What happens when the next threat arrives, one that doesn’t come with a playbook?"

Moraff was instrumental in getting Rep Lee to launch her first political campaign for PA state house in 2017. But by 2022 Lee banned him “from his previous leadership positions in her campaign & from even attending campaign events” and told ppl close to the campaign to stop communicating with him.

If you are (or you know) a recent PhD with an interest in exploring careers in emerging forms of scholarly #publishing, #digitalhumanities, or academic community building, this @cmupress.bsky.social / @library.cmu.edu role might be of interest. cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

Border collies don't just herd sheep. They are kinda manipulative towards their humans too. I see what Fern is doing so engage or not depending on how it helps our relationship, but this dog is a master and I can see how she would be an unholy nightmare for a non-border collie coded person.

National Grid "determined that installing a non-pipeline alternative like electrifying the [3] homes with heat pumps wasn’t viable despite it costing about 20 percent less than a gas pipe replacement..." commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/ten-c...

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and another, thanks @maria0065.bsky.social

The strangest thing happened today. We went to the uninhabited island of Lunga, west of Mull, to look at the puffins nesting there. I was just taking photos when I felt a thump as something landed quite heavily in my head. It was a puffin! It stayed for about a minute before flying off.

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

Gillian tracks ICE flights and makes the info public. She definitely deserves to be paid and we absolutely need work like hers. If you know how to connect her with someone who can make this a FT paid position, please let her know.

Recently in Texas, American secret police racially targeted a man, murdered him, and then disappeared the witnesses to their crime. These witnesses to the murder are interred in a concentration camp and being pressured to “self-deport.” Let’s be real clear on what’s happening here.

Many of the characteristics that make feral hogs a formidable invasive pest could make them an ideal super-spreader if screwworms take hold in the population.

Fern is mad at me because I am on here tonight. Fine. I'll get ready for bed instead of doomscrolling...

How much are we going to have to tax these damn billionaires to clean up the mess they created with this presidency? Frankly, they should pay for this since they created it.

My mom comes back from the Sr center exercise group today in a giggle. I'm getting ready for a meeting, but had to tell me about this 82-year old lady kept giggling when the instructor mentioned "ball" (I think a lacrosse ball by the sounds of it) in their exercises today...

Long day. Instead of doomscrolling again, think I will go touch grass/moss on some trail.

As you get older you realise that friendships can look different depending on the person - some friends are confidantes and supports, some are for fun and nonsense, some are event companions, some help you lure helpless sailors to their deaths with your communal enchanted singing, they're ALL valid

One thing I don’t think men understand is that rape and assault are so ubiquitous—and so perpetually immune from consequence or recognition—that many women learn to talk about these incidents as of they’re mere inconveniences. We are not allowed to treat them with more gravity.

Good. Rutte should absolutely be called out for his cravenness

repeating this @marisakabas.bsky.social line for emphasis: "for some progressives, the important markers of a candidate who displays “positive masculinity” are primarily aesthetic, with little concern for whether or not the man in question actually lives the values he presents"

Wow. And huh.