I painted this in honor of my hometown & then i got super depressed and plans for making prints fell apart. the original started growing mold because my apartment is a swamp, so I'm putting this up here for everyone who enjoyed it while I work on fixing or remaking it.

“Curriculum for Girls Who Will Survive” by @nadiaradovich.bsky.social from @othersidespec.bsky.social, “The Things You’ll Wish You’d Known” by @kkoopman.bsky.social from @smallwondersmag.com, and more short fic recs from @mariahaskins.co

If you're in Lawrence, KS, come see me and my friends read some short fiction! The working title for my piece, which I hope will appeal to the KU audience: Generic State University Requests Consideration by the Dark Academia Accreditation Board! lawrence.bibliocommons.com/v2/events/6a...

Still not over Dead Boy Detectives. Netflix has crossed the trust thermocline for me.

Tragic: Millennial Realizes General Tech Know-how is Insufficient for Current Task; Consults Manual

Florida folks: If you have O- blood and are of African or African American descent, OneBlood is searching for donors who have a rare antigen that matches with a teenager with sickle cell disease who needs 50 units of blood so she can have a bone marrow transplant.

Hey if you’re an AFAB person with a need for masc shoes, Tomboy Toes is tragically going out of business and your time is now. There are 1,000 pairs left and no restocks www.tomboytoes.com

Great paper by a 🌟 group ( @posada.website) that shows the "annotation pipeline as a site of epistemic contestation" & how 'ground truth' is "a sociotechnical artifact manufactured through a sequence of deliberate & often invisible choices," including labor conditions dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Just had the best dumplings I've ever had in my life in Lawrence, Kansas, at Lucky Seb's. Good Lord, what a gem.

Coming from DC this feels downright refreshing

Just finished "Against Technoableism" by @ashleyshoo.bsky.social. An amazing book that has made me totally rethink my perspective on disability and accessibility. Plus, the last chapter on disabled futures is going to completely change how I read & write sci-fi moving forward.

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

College roommate was *so* insistent that I should watch Ratatouille, that I would love it, constant undertone that she knew my taste better than I did, that to this day I've never seen it out of spite. I have no doubt that it's an excellent film but I will carry this ridiculous grudge to my grave.

I just met you and this is crazy but I’m selling shoes that were for a baby

I read a whole lot of short SFF, and khōréō is easily one of my favorite magazines; they publish incredible + important work. The field needs them. Please consider joining me in backing their Kickstarter + sharing the word! They still need $13,215 to meet their goal and the campaign ends July 15th.

Here’s Why Weather Forecasts Have Seemed So Inaccurate Lately. Meteorologists simply aren't able to gather as much data as they used to, and you're suffering for it. gizmodo.com/heres-why-we...

720 Ollie xkcd.com/3264/

Mayor Mamdani took the mayor's Inaugural Swim in east Harlem this morning to open the city's pool season. (Look out for sea hags, Zohran!) Naturally, he wore his swimsuit.

MEL BROOKS IS ALIVE PLEASE BEAR THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU SEE BIRTHDAY POSTS ABOUT HIM TODAY I REPEAT MEL BROOKS IS VERY MUCH ALIVE

We need merch @nickseaver.website

So I remember when we were drivin', drivin' in your car Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a person in need of a hair tie will never be able to find one, no matter how many they possess.

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two millennia ago Socrates postulated what is now regarded as an ancient truth of philosophy - the only thing we can know is that we know nothing. and today the SEPTA trolley tunnel late night schedule reminds us of that truth each and every day

Check out this sword stuck in a stone!!

Tethys xkcd.com/3259/

“Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds” —Reviewer 2, probably. #academia

What do you mean by “good”?

Purdue Faculty right after receiving the email granting us a free gemini enterprise license which includes "one data rule you can't skip"

me, walking into the British museum

But does it also talk over women in department meetings.

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

Have you read? The Things You’ll Wish You’d Known by Kristen Koopman at Small Wonders A story of loss, of choice, and loss again.l smallwondersmag.com/piece/the-th...

Fresh tomatoes. I said what I said.

Is it carbon monoxide

My cartoon n this weeks @newyorker.com

WHOA. At least three passenger jets appear to have had rejected landings/go-rounds in ~30 minutes while that UFC light show was going a mile away. @aaronparnas.bsky.social previously reported a commercial pilot filed an FAA safety report about being “nearly blinded” by a test run of the lights.

We are going to be making some podcasts like you've never seen before. Bringing together several different stories that exemplify the colonial relationship between the US and Puerto Rico, American Colony drops its first episode July 4, then weekly after that! Very excited to be working on this!

oh hey, happy pride month 👋 🏳️‍🌈

looking at it today i am still only barely not sacrificing it to the garbage gods sigh

Some STS colleagues and I have put together a list of talking points to help folks submit public comments on the proposed OMB rule jeopardizing federal research grant funding. (We also explain why submitting the comments are so important.) Please circulate widely and submit comments *by July 13*!

Wait, Farscape's just up on YouTube in (seemingly) its entirety? Huh! ... Iunno watch Farscape it's pretty good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJQl...

There we go!

Sorry for the threads screenshot i stole, but this is important. I knew a dude who got his master's degree in religious studies in his eighties. People come out start dating or transitioning in their 90s. Life is wild and can be so wonderful, and as long as you're drawing breath, change is possible

…How can you claim to sincerely and in good faith claim that your politics don't matter to your scholarship and vice versa in a moment in time when your colleagues are having their scholarship defunded or outright eliminated because of its perceived political valeneces? How can you wonder out loud…

Aw, don’t tempt me to get on threads.

"Landmark German ruling declares Google's #AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers": the-decoder.com/landmark-ger... #ethics #law #internet #tech #business h/t @garymarcus.bsky.social

This might be the universe's sign that it's time, at last, for a re-read (I haven't done one since I was about 13 so there will be many that aren't re at all, he published a fair bit after 1995 right??)

Yikes, this sounds bad. 400+ papers researching aging in cells apparently used an antibody that recognizes a completely different protein than the one they were looking for--but still many somehow got the "right" results.