Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

Guaranteeing affordable prices for essentials addresses inequality without dividing society. Free buses or childcare are universal. They benefit everyone and create solidarity across income, race, and religion — a unifying rather than exclusionary economic agenda.

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”

We’re hearing helicopters and word is spreading of massive ICE raids tomorrow and Friday particularly in Gwinnett. These excessive raids put all of us in danger. Spread the word, look out for each other, and remember your rights.

Larry Summers cozied up to the rich and powerful — including a convicted sex offender. He cannot be trusted in positions of influence.

It violates the natural law of “all dog boy and all cat girl”

Everything I've learned about horrible men's penises I've learned against my will.

The rage I feel at the thought of people ignoring Patsy Rodenburg. Her technique is how I was able to do 8 shows a week of Shakespeare with no mics. I would give anything to learn from her.

If someone buys this thing for any of the kids in my life it will be taking a very long bath soon after.

It was a crazy busy in the bookshop today. I took almost four times what I'd expect to take on a normal Weds. I guess the ramp-up to Christmas has started, which is good news. Independent bookshops make around a third of their yearly income over the seasonal period, so remember to shop local!

LAUSD: Now’s your chance to tell the district we want AI slop & Big Tech out of our schools. EdTech listening sessions today & tomorrow at 5pm. Show up! www.schoolsbeyondscreens.com/important-ev...

Paging @thatrabbicohen.bsky.social for an important inquiry.

"UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE GIRLS "UNDERAGE WOMEN" ARE CHILDREN thank you for your attention to this matter

What's going on in New Mexico???

If you have a predatory history, you shouldn’t be in a position of power.

A necessary spin off of the Magic Tree House series.

On this Trans Awareness Week, I wanted to shout out 2 organizations in the UK that are doing really good work for trans kids & their families and could really use donations: Mermaids: mermaidsuk.org.uk?form=donate & @genderedintelligence.co.uk: localgiving.org/charity/gend...

Larry Summers needs to retreat from teaching life too.

Texas' abortion ban has killed yet another woman. Here's exactly what the anti-abortion response will be: They’ll claim doctors were legally allowed to “intervene” or “treat” Tierra Walker with "care." They won't say she could have had an abortion because they don’t believe in life-saving abortions

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

About 30 cars of ICE and DEA agents staging st Newell park in St. Paul

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

I saw a video of otters being used for search and rescue and I immediately went looking for corroboration because how is that real, but it looks like it is! Meet Splash!

Genuinely, though. My mom died right before the 2024 election and that national grief superseded the personal so I’m not quite sure when I’ll be able properly to mourn her.

BRB adding "do not put my essence in the glass rectangle" to my will

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

Also, the weirdos are the ones who will tell other people about your freaky art. Weird little guys are the best cheerleaders.

Q: It’s starting to sound like underage women are children. What’s the difference between underage women and children? A: Nothing. Absolutely nothing. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/faq...

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

“Struggling” and “making an effort” are not the same thing. Trying to work when you don’t have enough food is bad. Having to revise the same paragraph several times until it’s just right is good. Having to practice for a long time to master a complex skill is also good.

NEW — I spoke to DoorDash about the White House claiming the company's report shows "inflation has been tamed" and whether that's an interpretation one should make. An economist also weighed in, pointing out dictatorships use data obfuscation as a tool, and right now they're "grasping at straws."

This is the real reason they can’t make another Bond movie.

'But much to the detriment of learning... we have seen education redefined as something else -- as a product, not a process. As certification, not transformation. The liminality has been shattered; instead of ritual, society has demanded “outcomes” and “optimization.”'

I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

once again, the smart thing to do and the morally correct thing to do are both identical and straightforward Nazi tattoos are a hard line. fail. next candidate

yesyesyesyesyesyes

What. The. Fuck.

Excuse me, I need to go double my monthly donation to @runforsomething.net

#BookSky 📚

Ooh! Something to listen to on well-lit walks in only the daytime and nowhere near the woods.

The Golden Compass. I moved to adult lit far too young and read voraciously but not joyfully until an aunt of mine gave me Golden Compass calling it “a grownup book for bright young people” and I devoured it. That book is one of my oldest friends; it knew who I was before I did.

New Bond walks in and drops a destroyed bit of tech on Q’s desk. Q: I heard you blew up. Bond: No need to go to pieces over it.

The number of curable ballots from Seattle has edged downward a little since midday yesterday. There's now just over 1,700 curable ballots, which still skew younger.

Had occasion, as one does, to think on Shakespeare's sonnets this morning, which called to mind this bit of absolute gorgeousness from Judi Dench. In case you need some beauty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XKS...