The cruelty is a feature of this administration, not a bug. They want this. They are actively trying to kill disabled people.

CJ Cherryh has announced retirement, everyone, raise your cups to a legend of the game. Thank you for your service www.facebook.com/groups/Balti...

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

1/3 I'm looking for a few longterm contract journalism and content writing gigs, preferably focused on but not limited to the built environment and cultural life in Texas. #journalism #freelancejournalism

BREAKING: The Pentagon has fired the Stars and Stripes ombudsman — the role Congress created to protect the military paper's editorial independence — after she publicly criticized the DOD's overhaul of the publication. w/ @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump wants to eliminate an anti-poverty program helping 600,000 people in Massachusetts with career development, early childhood education, and housing every year. Nationwide, it costs just 0.0005% of what Trump wants to spend on his bloated “Department of War.”

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

I went to Antioch College and, as Hampshire does, they have narrative evaluations. Which is lovely, but it does mean that when I applied to grad school, admissions saw my evaluation for College Algebra that said: "She tried really hard." (Thanks, CT)

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Did you see that little Antioch College in Ohio is offering guaranteed admission and three years of transfer credits (and more) to Hampshire students? And it's as easy as filling in a web form and sending your transcript. Pretty wonderful. antiochcollege.edu/info-for-ham...

News: a leading NSF supported University of Oklahoma atmospheric science summer undergraduate research program that has mentored hundreds of top atmospheric scientists over two decades has been canceled for 2026 due to funding loss. (repost w/correct link) More: tinyurl.com/3zjzf7vu

Pretty frustrating that the New York Times is crediting AP with uncovering the existence of Aadam’s archive when I reported on it 15 months prior. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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Hey @nytimes.com, I already reported this earlier this week. And the G650s you mention? I reported on those in FEBRUARY. You credit NBC News and WSJ for first reporting parts of your story. Please credit me, too.

I've seen comments on other websites saying this is a good use of AI because typesetting is just grunt work. No it isn't! There is a lot of skill and craft to good typesetting and this is aiming to take jobs from people to automate what should be a human process! This sucks!

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth gave a sermon (❗) at the Pentagon (‼️) where he quoted a fake Bible verse (⁉️) from Pulp Fiction (‼️). In his sermon, SECDEF embodied a hitman (‼️) who works for a crime lord (‼️) who murders his business partner (‼️) as an analogy for Donald Trump's war with Iran (⁉️).

This is an important point to remember every time some yahoo politician who wants to defund the NSF reads the title of a grant in dumbstruck tones: "They're studying the venom of Gila monsters? What? Who's *that* for?" All of us, Gomer. It's how science actually works.

Ohio Gov. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy claims that his opponent Amy Acton is running on “complaining about what someone else did to her,” referring to Acton sharing the story of her sexual abuse as a child

"Marvel Studios Moves Film Production from Georgia to UK's Pinewood Studios" "Reasons for the move include cheaper labor and studios not being required to subsidize workers’ medical expenses, as the U.K. has universal healthcare."

"In war, you cannot be defeated if, whenever anything happens in the war, you say that it was no big deal and also everybody else's fault and also good actually and due to your genius." defector.com/president-ex...

Tylenol in pregnancy not linked with autism, Danish study finds https://fascinating.news/r/Mvzix8xL

As an alum of the also unconventional Antioch College, I am deeply saddened by Hampshire College's announcement today. Holding all the alums, staff and faculty in my heart

This is what the future looks like. A ninth grader solving problems people with millions haven’t. While others talk, she’s building. Take notes. 🔥 #SheShed

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

Sounds about right(-wing) to me. This @schwarz.bsky.social article confirms your elder friend's assessment. theintercept.com/2022/08/25/s...

So, no bird graveyards at the foot of the turbines?

Something with Doug the Vulcan.

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Today would've been John M. Ford's 70th birthday. Here are his two most famous sonnets.

Here's an official statement from the Hip Hop Alliance:

Unresolved anxiety

Bookstore owners want each other to succeed. We are all working to create a dynamic and diverse culture of literacy that benefits all of us. Those other bookstores are not, in any real way, 'competition.' Happy Black Bookstore Day! Here's to thriving together.

TODAY IS TUESDAY IT IS TUESDAY

Hey WHCA, u up?

There is a path. It’s the path that Michael Vick walked. He has worked with the Humane Society for the last 17 years to educate folk about animal cruelty. He says he’ll do that work for the rest of his life. Call me when Louis or Kanye devotes even one weekend to making reparation.

man it sure was bad that Joe Biden had cognitive difficulties

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Got an email from Adobe saying that they were nearly doubling the cost of my creative cloud subscriptions and adding a bunch of Gen AI dogshit I didn't ask for! If you don't want to get charged you have to log in and downgrade to a "standard" plan that's just the fuckin apps.

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

@pennyvixen.bsky.social Just read "A Theory of Haunting." Great stuff! Thank you!

The Washington Post’s annual Peeps diorama contest is back by popular demand. The first Post Peeps diorama contest was held in 2007. The tradition continues today with these entries. See the winners here:

Rightwing dudes: "Women shouldn't be in leadership. Women shouldn't vote. They're not rational like men." Also, somehow, rightwing dudes: "The hand of God teleported me to a Waffle House."

Mexico’s overwintering monarch population grew 64% this winter, with butterflies covering their largest area of forest since 2018. The recovery remains fragile, but suggests there’s been a positive impact from conservation efforts in the butterflies’ core habitat. buff.ly/XoPKQ9d #ShareGoodNewsToo

I read a lot of conservative media, and let me just say that this Washpost house editorial is one of the most shameful pieces of unsubstantiated, free-market claptrap that has been published all year, by anyone. Barely a mention of the thousands of deaths caused by US aid cutbacks.

i just think Watering Flowers While Black should not be an arrestable offense nor do i think this should be controversial ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

NEW: The President once again called to eliminate federal library funding in his federal budget proposal. We have been here before. And when we make our voices heard, we can overcome this again. Tell your Senators to reject the cuts & #FundLibraries in next year's federal budget: ala.org/showup