For the Ea-nasir fans, Assyriology podcast 'Thin End of the Wedge' just released a special episode about everyone's favorite copper merchant, featuring @gvkonsta.bsky.social, @gabemoshenska.bsky.social, and Steven Garfinkle, and yours truly. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1338718/epis...

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

BREAKING: PROP 50 HAS PASSED IN CALIFORNIA

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BREAKING: MAMDANI HAS WON according to Decision Desk

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻 Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place. Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

omfg portland, that's genius

I’ve been reposting all of the crowd videos of today’s NO KINGS rallies because at some point they’ll try to say it didn’t happen.

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

Happy No Kings Day, America. It couldn't happen at a better time.

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

even amidst intersectional apocalypses, the bear has got me

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?

Sometimes I wonder what the point of it all is.

New Yokai sculpture alert!! In Japanese folklore, Kasa-Obake are old oiled-paper umbrellas that become alive when they reach a certain age, becoming a Tsukumogami. Not too dangerous, they enjoy surprising humans by sneaking up on them and delivering a large oily lick with their long tongues.

And now for something completely different (and really, really fun if you’re into this sort of thing!)

throw a California NEH in there and I’m all for it

A good literature review doesn’t just list citations. It shows: ✔️ where the debates are ✔️ who disagrees with whom ✔️ how the field has evolved In my latest post, I break down how to map debates in the literature: www.raulpacheco.org/2025/09/how-... #RPVSky

This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.

My op-ed in the @chicagomaroon.bsky.social on the University of Chicago’s appalling plans to gut the humanities and possibly eliminate the South Asian studies department chicagomaroon.com/48353/viewpo...

Get much weirder fast, folks, you’re letting us all down.

"The closure of Religious Studies and other departments at the University of Oregon and Virginia Tech also come with serious *cultural* costs that ripple into the future." required reading for all humanists, not just those of us at UO, IU, and VT.

This is why I have no patience with the “but you don’t understand, this tech can automate coding tasks!” sigh-ers. If there are any circumstances under which your technology can operate *specifically* to encourage a teenager to take his own life, it ought to be pulled until you fix it.

on the one hand I should absolutely put my phone down but on the other hand what if the forces attacking democracy operate on weeping angels logic

Support your public library. Defend your public library. Slay the enemies of your public library.

Here's the wager: invest your time in reading and writing and, if they're right, then you haven't lost anything; if they're wrong and you go along, you've lost a skill you should have been developing *and* you've been distracted then whole time

I’ve been trying to explain to people the full extent of assfuckery accomplished by the ending of the de minimis rule Small businesses, independent creators, publishing companies, Etsy-style shops & just plain ol’ folks in the US trying to buy stuff from anywhere else are royally fucked

brrrlhhhhggggggh

Tinycat has Some Thoughts about the heat today, and they are mostly 'why am I made of floof'

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

Breaking: NSF is suspending roughly 300 grants with UCLA, following a DOJ finding on Tuesday that the university violated Title VI by "creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students."

Glad my graduate alma mater cut 60 degree programs in subjects that require people to think so that they could offer this. Looking forward to living in a world full of Prompt Engineers.

Me, everytime SCOTUS issues a new shadow docket opinion:

Fuck yeah Lambda Legal! lambdalegal.org/newsroom/us_... U.S. Government Restores $6.2 Million in Cut Funding to LGBTQ+/HIV Organizations After Lambda Legal Win - Lambda Legal

Blessed by one of my favorite native moths The hummingbird moth, snowberry clearing or also called the flying lobster. 😍

i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

7 years later and I still whisper, “We’re disabled, Daniel, not werewolves” to myself like a sacred mantra whenever I see a non-disabled person discover ableism like it’s the latest hipster indie band.

If something can be destroyed by the truth, then let it - be it a person, a government, or an empire built on lies.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

It is now my mission to flip these seats and take back the house. You can help defeat them, too.