you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

hell yeah

Jane Horrocks should've played The Joker

Lately, it feels like the values of higher education (those written and quoted by the institutions) were all financially dependent.

“The reality is that the court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power.” To understand the Supreme Court's role in Trump's authoritarian project, I turned to the idea of a dual state: an authoritarian regime that keeps up a facade of normalcy www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Tim Dillon has never not been a piece of shit

Microdosing going off the grid* * Leaving my phone in another room

I felt compelled to make this and so I compel you to look at this

Everyone that uses the term Transformative Agreement should put out a list of all the journals that stopped charging subscriptions. It's disingenuous. It's just double dipping #OASPA2025

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Uh, did anyone else know about Chrome's AI-powered "Homework help" thing? This sucks and I really don't see this as anything other than cheating. It shows up in the URL bar. If you click on it, it allows you to select a quiz or question and then it will generate answers for you. 📚

You ever drink a bottle of wine and then think "man I could really go for a bottle of wine"?

They had to call this place Bluesky because LibChat was already taken

If I never have to see Ricky Gervais' face again it'll be too soon

told everyone in the club

Sleep apnea boyfriend, sleep paralysis girlfriend

THANK you

Sorry, the "ultimate soldier" is not a 53-year-old pervert

Meritiktokracy Is this anything?

MJ's @helloitsclayton.com says, "THE BALCONETTES is a genuinely entertaining film." #TheBalconettes is now playing in NYC and Los Angeles, expands August 28.

Palm trees grow too tall. It's unnatural.

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58

New from @radishpress.bsky.social 🗯️✨ An Attempt Is Made: Publishing a Zine Through Scholarly Channels. Follow along with an experiment in sneaking non-traditional scholarly formats into The System outsidethelines.pub/publishing-a...

Out now! Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers from @alaeditionsns.bsky.social Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno! alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

Made it myself

Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" has been popular movie fodder for over a century. It was first adapted in a German silent film anthology released in 1919 and the latest adaptation was in Dario Argento's Two Evil Eyes (1990). @helloitsclayton.com talks all about it here!

In Spain is she called "Azuly"?

shout-out to the guy wearing a shooting sleeve on this 2-hour flight from Columbus to New York.

Why the FUCK have I been forced to listen to the Manfred Mann cover of "Blinded By the Light" all my life when the Springsteen original exists?

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

Mostly this all seems like a compelling argument for ceding the US in its entirety back to native populations

Our pamphlet 'Publishing Activism within/without a Toxic University' is now live on the @openhumanities.bsky.social site: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

Had a dream my magic the gathering cards were too small

Scared by frog today

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Open Letter to College & Research Libraries from the academic wing of #CripLib

Every time you buy a Harry Potter product, you are financing the dismantling of trans rights

Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.

"the power/data center concerns are overblown!"

Whenever I encounter discussion of ASD/symptoms I often come away with at least one that sounds like something I've doing for decades

Wife's out of town for the weekend so it's time to get WILD* *watch italian horror movies and drink wine

BIRTH (2004, dir. Jonathan Glazer)

Sounds like someone is learning about Christian Science.

I still find it really hard to understand how so many academics have uncritically adopted the use of "AI" as a term

Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."

MJ's @helloitsclayton.com says, "Chew-Bose’s first feature makes admirable strides in some ways, BONJOUR TRISTESSE ultimately felt like a puzzle whose pieces didn’t quite fit together." #BonjourTristesse is in theaters Friday.