Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Feel free to send this to all your Presidents!

I've been obsessing over House I at Nippur. Through a handful of texts excavated back in 1951-52, we're able to reconstruct the division of an estate from the years 1742 to 1733 BCE, dating to the last years of Nippur in the Old Babylonian period.

In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following?

Get in, losers, we’re flipping Texas.

This is the best sign I saw today.

Oh, this is fun. A lot of Japanese language, so I'll leave that aside: 1. Genetics and Molecular Biology 2. Heads and Tales: Classical Coins 3. Edo/Tokyo: Arts and Culture 4. The Meiji Revolution 5. Age of Cathedrals Also, Ornithology. Turns out, I am real bad at identifying birds at 7 am

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years

You don't have the be an avowed AI hater to be impressed without lifeless and unwatchable this is.

putting Darren Aranofsky under Natasha Lyonne on the list of "people who have done interesting work in the past, but whose future work, all of it, AI or not, should be thrown in the trash". Use AI, get fucked.

PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine against-a-i.com

They’re so fucking fragile.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Mood in minneapolis right now

Reminder in the face of all the angry gaslighting propaganda.

I will just keep repeating. I have never never never seen anything like this. 30 years of reporting.

Sepulveda modified alt 5 approved. THE MONORAIL IS DEAD.

PSA: You do not, under any circumstances, fund the Gestapo

The rare Racism Straight Flush

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Reminds me of one of my favorite memes:

I, for one, welcome our new Danish overloads

Incredibly emotional to hear my poem has been turned into a song of resistance and is being sung in Minneapolis right now. Please do not give up.

Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"

Be the goose you wish to see in the world

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

If not Gestapo why Gestapo shaped?

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

*2026

i think the world would be better off if certain people were more afraid. is there a like hex we can do to summon the spirit of "you're existentially fucked bro" here

Here's to finally deactivating my moribund-but-still-extant account

Finalizing my grad seminar in Mesopotamian Ritual and Religion and just you can fit so much theory in this syllabus Also have I mentioned I hate the quarter system because dear lord do I ever hate the quarter system for planning grad seminars give me my 14 weeks you coward

Yeah let's please just memory-hole the entire platform

You should definitely read this thread, but I've bit my tongue almost to bleeding about that "...no one has anymore"

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...

Oh, really. You're writing a book, you say? Me, too! You're doing research, you say. Me, too! You know what I rely on to find primary sources and "piece them together"? My own brain. You know who "looks things up for me"? Me, that's who. You know who writes it, from beginning to end? Me.

we're wee but y'all know @religiondispatches.org absolutely does not fuck with AI

Had to explain Ea-Nasir to my therapist

We should bring back scrolls, books are great but scrolls would be cool

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

The other thing I’ll say is…OK, how do I put this. If you have ever tried to get faculty to do anything…you become aware pretty quickly that “reading instructions” is not real high on their list of skills. I love every single one of you but.

Torn between delight at a Mesopotamia reference, no matter how tangential, and insulted on Mesopotamia's behalf given its superior shoe and sandal game