As a Black man with Tourette Syndrome, the Public Advocate has some thoughts on BAFTA, Pt. 1: Hear about his experience with Coprolalia, his thoughts on how BAFTA mishandled the moment, and the need for care for all who are harmed: Full video: youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs

It's been 4 years since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began. Since then, thousands of mothers in Ukraine are raising their children alone as a direct result of the ongoing war. As the fighting continues, it is mostly women who care for the country’s vulnerable children. Meet the mothers of Ukraine.

My patience with graduates whose reaction to "AI will crash the economy" is not "oh, we should work hard on open source, policy, and figuring out how to help each other" but "f**k, you need to run through the doors so we can slam them close faster" has dropped to negative values. You have FAILED!

BREAKING: Approximately 4,200 NYSNA nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian reached a tentative agreement late last night to end the historic 6-week strike. Nurses bargained all day and made their voices heard. Congratulations, NewYork-Presbyterian nurses!

Children are suffering in a for-profit prison. Send them home. Abolish ICE. And ban private, for-profit prisons forever.

I'm off Meta platforms and on @upscrolled.bsky.social! Follow me there.

The thing many people fail to grasp—the thing you are sort of prevented from ever having a reason to grasp until you put the effort in to learn or life demands it of you—is that a world in which you see a lot of disabled people is simply a world in which more people survive disability.

NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

📚⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @doctora-nature.bsky.social has grown as a writer, resulting in a book that exceeds its predecessor. She connects everything that feels overwhelming in the world at its single point of intersectional nexus, and provides us a universal solution - empower Indigenous women to lead policy.

📚⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"The Catch" by @yrsadaleyward.bsky.social (2025) is an extraordinary piece of fiction. I have longed for a novel about the responsibility of wanting to parent the children you create like this book describes in poetic clarity. Immediately receives an honored place in my 'favorites' shelf.

Brockman had to have INTENTIONALLY avoided inviting non-white scientists to these events where Epstein would show up because Epstein didn't believe in the intellectual equality of non-white scientists to white ones If you're a white scientist in an all white space, ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY

anyone who has had to think through the tradeoff between "recall" and "precision" in machine learning will react to this with complete horror

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

New: UAW reaches landmark tentative contract deal with Volkswagen in Chattanooga Tennessee, including 20% across-the-board pay hikes www.bloomberg.com/news/article... "This contract is proof that if you stand up and stick together, you can win a better life”

‘Novice workers who rely heavily on AI to complete unfamiliar tasks may compromise their own skill acquisition… We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.’ arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

Published the same day Noem announced all goons will wear body cameras. Incredible work @404media.co 👑

NYPL has 21 incredible titles (with 16 available as audiobooks) available with instant access through Feb 28th.

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Catherine O'Hara is as much of a "good in absolutely everything, no matter how good the thing itself was" actor as Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

Congrats to the Local 600 members nominated for their achievements in cinematography at the '26 Oscars: Dan Laustsen, ASC, DFF, Frankenstein Darius Khondji, AFC, ASC, Marty Supreme Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another Autumn Durald Arkapaw, ASC, Sinners Adolpho Veloso, ABC, AIP, Train Dreams

I'm proud to have banked with Brooklyn Cooperative since I formed my LLC in 2019. Their business loan at 9% interest allowed me to buy my steadicam in 2022, kickstarting my ability to make real money. I'll pay off the full balance this year.

I remarked early into the afternoon to a woman standing behind a table covered in organized boxes of hand warmers and coffee and masks how impressively fast these things came together. “We can do this so quickly because we built these networks in 2020, so now everyone just knows what to do.“

The Leslie Knope vibes are strong with this one.

We will keep parents updated on the latest with @nycschools.bsky.social. All New Yorkers should up for NotifyNYC by texting NOTIFYNYC to 692-692 to get real time alerts and information. Stay warm, stay prepared, stay safe.

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX

Did @resist.bot go viral somewhere? I've never seen it break 50k before. 🎉

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

🤞🏼🤞🏼Please, please be televised with @mayor.nyc.gov like Judge Judy🤞🏼🤞🏼

It's one empire, Michael. How long could it decay for, 10 years?

In the spring I joked that the real winner of the Mayor's race was @ny4childcare.bsky.social thanks to their organizing for universal childcare. Today's announcement is the culmination of that work.

Yesterday an undergraduate at my alma mater sent out a newsletter with the subject line, "goodbye 2015...hello 2016!!!" Can't explain why but made my whole day.

Worth making an acct here just to connect to these resources. go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

IMHO @jumaane.bsky.social's speech was the most powerful display of healthy masculinity I've ever seen.

A year ago, we had never heard of this man. 2025 was remarkable, in both disasters and miracles.

TIL my mother's custom ringtone when any of her children call is the audio of Stewie from Family Guy going, "Mom. Mom. Mom. Mommy. Mommy. Mommy. Ma. Ma. Ma....."

After six and a half months, or 198 calendar days, or 137 business days or roughly ~400 applications of job searching, I got hired into a role of my wildest dreams. I WANNA THANK ME 💅

It's the time of year where every night at 11pm, I look at the clock and realize it's only 6:30p.

Congestion pricing is working so well it has helped clear the air in all parts of NYC, according to a new study. And other links to start your day! hellgatenyc.com/new-yorkers-...

Know your rights. Protect your neighbors. New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.

I love the luteal part of the year ❄️🌖🌌

Any one of us could be in the next apartment building that ICE raids in the middle of the night. Any one of us could be on the next boat that Trump bombs on a whim. Any one of us could be detained for hours despite being a U.S. citizen. Authoritarianism hurts all of us.

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

When power went out across all of Puerto Rico on 16 April, a lot of the lights in the town of Adjuntas stayed on. A combination of experimental microgrids, solar panels, and storage kept power on for many businesses and residents. spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-rico-...

"People that are most affected [by] the climate crisis are the people that did nothing to [contribute] this crisis. So, how can we act in terms to protect their lives and ensure that the rich polluters will pay for that?"

2025: CMAT, Sabrina Carpenter, Lily Allen, ROSALÍA, and Florence + the Machine each drop a four star album... it's been an incredible year for fans of pop girlies.

I just want everyone to have the experience of living in dignity with access to sufficient food, safe housing, needed medical care, high quality education, and time to engage with what sparks their curiosity and spirit this should not be controversial 🫠