Our youngest cat Walter, and part of my right arm #cats #arms

The Pennsylvania lottery commercials feature an animated groundhog that interacts with live actors, it's unsettling.

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

We already have a submission that's only a couple of hundred dollars more than the lowest submission we got in the AY19-20 spreadsheet.

I feel like I was super naive, but it wasn't until recently that I really made the connection between the Epstein files and, well, everything else that's going on. I think during the pandemic, a lot of people figured out that a) our work lives mostly suck, or at least could be better and...

Bro literally came out and said “it’s our labor and culture that has always made the Americas great: y’all are just the beneficiaries of slave owners from sea to shining sea,” and I am here for it.

Any recommendations for book/article about the #disabilityrights movement? Thanks

I would be a regular at a restaurant that only serves garlic bread.

I keep seeing that low inventory is the main reason housing costs are so high. But I'm also seeing a bazillion new places being built, nearly always quite expensive, of course. I get how having more availability makes things cheaper (yay capitalism), but housing here...

One thing I've noticed in Pittsburgh that I haven't seen other places I lived is that even people from here tend to make no great distinction between the city proper and suburbs. Any zip code starting with 152 can be called "Pittsburgh," even if it's a separate municipality. But even then...

Get ready for my new shoegaze band called No Likes Yet

New profile pic is "concerned face". (Really just "I don't know what my face is actually doing when I take a selfie face.")

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I see a forecast of 42 on Tuesday. Going to get a Speedo this weekend to prepare. #buckleup

“A wrestling event in Las Vegas on Wednesday night briefly went off the rails as fans broke into an anti-ICE chant, apparently taking even the wrestlers in the ring by surprise.” www.thedailybeast.com/trump-body-s...

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone. www.swarthmore.edu/u... please share!

can’t not hear and see:

I thought we voted for people who were supposed to represent us. This is not what the majority wants. Abolishing ICE is a mainstream opinion.

Near Reading, PA, roughly 90 minutes northwest of Philly

I don't need AI chatbots to summarize a page for me. There is this thing called "reading." If it is so unimportant that I don't really need to read it, then I don't need to read it.

Oh, if you're looking for something to read, I recently finished James Baldwin's Another Country. Fantastic novel. Then I read Sarah Kane's play Blasted, which is also fantastic but violent and disturbing. But it's about war and genocide, which are violent and disturbing.

This is a little bit east of the big Oakland corridor here in Pittsburgh, where it is truly terrible for pedestrians, but it's still not great around here, either. triblive.com/local/woman-... #pittsburgh

Good piece on Minneapolis hotel workers who clean up after ICE agents. www.notus.org/immigration/...

I lived in TN and NC for a few years, and I got *so* tired of the idea that all of the South was some conservative monolith. Yes, conservatives/right-wingers are there in big numbers, but their numbers are shrinking, and they know it. This win was in a solid Repub district. Fight *everywhere*.

It's...snowing...again.

It's not "thorny" at all if you have a shred of humanity. Jfc.

never mind the jobs you had, tell me 5 classes you took in college: 1. Aspects of Poetry (Spanish peninsular poetry) 2. Roots of Modern Spain and Latin America 3. Swimming 4. Shakespeare 5. Trigonometry

Sometimes I stare wistfully out the window and think about all the awesome sign-in experiences I've had. 😏💻

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

I think on OkCupid? One of those. I was in DC and he was in Baltimore. I lived near the train station and he worked near the train station, so it worked!

My prediction: In three years we'll have "Melania, the Rusical", if anyone actually remembers it.

Oh, this is what conservatives meant when they cried their eyes out about free speech on campus

What's up with the spam accounts that are just reposts of news? It's weird. The world is weird.

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

I've been playing cello for quite a while now, I'd say I'm solidly an intermediate player. But I'm learning more about "cello culture," and I swear there is a big segment of players who just want to look cool playing the cello on social media. I love it, but it's a pain in the ass, too.

I wrote about Senate Dems’ proposed “reforms,” which range from superficial to likely unenforceable to actively harmful; the grip billionaire-backed anti-“abolish” Groups have over Washington and the conspicuous absence of any attempt to touch DHS’s obscene budget.

"Please do the baseline of what we already expect law enforcement to do" is not "reform". JFC.

Hey, if you need a book to read, I finished James Baldwin's Another Country. Super duper recommend. #litearrycriticism #superduper

"I ate every story, I ate every myth And when I finished with the Minotaur, I ate the Labyrinth" youtu.be/jXgAIGrRs4Y?...

UPMC should be paying for the City of Pittsburgh’s snowplows to be fixed and/or replaced. They’ve avoided paying billions in taxes over the years. It’s the least they should be required to do.

Maher Tarabishi, who has been detained by ICE since October, was the primary caretaker of his disabled adult child, Wael. On Jan. 23, Wael died from complications related to Pompe disease, a rare genetic condition. ICE has now denied Maher’s request to attend his funeral, his attorney says.

I think shitty insurance websites are enough reason for single-payer healthcare.

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Photographs by Jeff Wall, including a couple of newer works: gagosian.com/artists/jeff...

The last song Sonic Youth put on an album is one of my favorites. I think this album is underrated, too. "Come with me / To the other side / Not everyone makes it out alive" youtu.be/hFIF_mtB3BQ?...

A bloodbath at The Washington Post. What a terrible day for journalism.