Apologies for no Alt-text but please note this is a Daily Tar Heel student newspaper ig caption that refers to "H-Baddies," people going all in on the humanities 😂🥰👌🏻

100% this. Autistic people (and Autistic communities and cultures) exist in ways that scramble all lines of class, race, gender and disability. Very threatening to a lot of forms of power.

The devaluing of infrastructural labor all kinds, the ceding of the ground of human truth to machines, its definitely part of it.

It’s too much and too fast for socials but Trump as perpetual slumlord often helps me clarify his inconsistencies. For example, taking money from HSIs & giving to HBCUs makes the most sense as a scab tactic a slumlord would use with racialized skilled labor in a city with strong inter-ethnic strife

Donald Trump's Crypto & AI Czar already has HUGE conflicts of interest. Now, he could be overstaying the clear time limit of his role so he can keep influencing crypto policy. We're launching an investigation into yet another example of possible Trump admin corruption.

Appreciate the resources linked in this post. Also: PBS Kids! both shows and games for kiddos with tablet access.

the rapture is a hilarious idea that the american protestants made up in the mid 19th century as a way for chickenshit losers to spare themselves the miserable horrors they liked imagining for other people skipping suffering??? NOT VERY CATHOLIC TBH

The President wants me to worry about Tylenol but he's allowing forever chemicals to fuck up hundreds of communities, military and civilian folks alike? BFFR. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/c...

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-

google has been trying for months to build a new data center not far from my house. tonight was the final city council meeting and they officially withdrew their proposal! the data center isn’t moving forward! public outrage works!!!

Today, I was laid off from Cascade PBS along with my entire team and most of the newsroom. I'll have more to say, but I have loved my time as news editor alongside some of the best journalists I have ever worked with. Every time a newsroom closes, stories go with it. The silence that follows is loud

Huge age range here, something for everyone -- 📚

"Make cities better" may be the best direction for climate action in these grim times. 80% of Americans live in urban areas. Creating neighborhoods with reliable, frequent public transit, protected active transit, and dense, affordable housing could make US cities *so much better to live in* while..

It's newsletter time, and you already know the topic: Marginalized voices are still being silenced, and this industry is not up to defending them. But why, and what can you do? Patreon subs get it tomorrow: www.patreon.com/halophoenix Everyone else on Monday: buttondown.email/alanhenry

Keep canceling

For our friends celebrating today, Shana Tovah! 🍎 🍯 ✡️

Any recs for guidance on managing book collections that's (a) modern (b) for poor wee archivists who don't know books <I don't know her dot gif> tysm! 📜 📚

USCG seizes drugs at sea all the time (they put little leaves and snowflakes on ships' exterior to demonstrate how much) - not sure how they "interdict" without violence but zero injuries mentioned here: www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releas...

Also I appreciate Max directly saying "civilian vessels" I noticed article headlines say "suspected drug boat" and thought, you can just say boat. You know that to be true, and you know the administration lies constantly, so your headline doesn't need to even suggest there's a reasonable suspicion

Fun story this morning. I spoke with Curtis Evans, the retired Marine in the viral photo below who took part in the anti-ICE protest at Broadview. He's a thoughtful guy, well read and with a dry sense of humor. Story @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-...

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Don't love this orange situation

Excellent thread w/ practical advice on taking antihistamines as COVID prevention, to help with side effects post-COVID vax, & to take during an active COVID infection to prevent long COVID. With science to back it up. (Long, you may want to seek out the last post in thread to properly read it.)

That's a good kicker

This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

And what I mean is, Klein is out of the coalition. No matter how good his ideas may be, Black voters will not trust him to preserve our interests, and there simply aren’t enough white voters who will convert. Worse, Klein has basically indicated that he’ll accept segregating policy to enact it.

Go off, Disney adults

There have been *so many* Academia[dot]edu warning signs over the past decade; I’m glad these new terms of service — claiming world rights to your work, your voice, your likeness, your signature, etc — are driving even more people away. May it advance the Ed Tech Luddite Revolution ✊

There’s a whole chapter in my book about these digital resurrection / zombie / necromancy practices and why they are harmful. Just let people rest in peace.

Through all of For the People's efforts, so far at least three dozen people across the country have joined their local library board. You can be #37, 38 or 50: www.librariesforthepeople.org

Some of the best news story sharing comes via @kidadaewilliams.com, often archives related 📜

My apt complex requires the use of 6+ different tech products with an optional 2-3 more, plus an AI vending machine. I want a front desk where a sentient human can help me and take my rent check, and a corner CVS, like it's 2006!

I promise you that E. Klein doesn't have a clue as to how to get anyone out of this current fascist predicament. He really doesn't and he is demonstrating it in public for any sentient being being to see. You follow his lead at your peril and everyone else's. Don't be misled.

As Elon Musk eyes a new flood control project in Houston, here’s what to know about some of his companies’ past projects that have faced scrutiny from regulators and environmental advocates. By @taylorkatebrown.bsky.social

TIL the Turing Test had a third party, a woman Cassandra-type who, *if you listened to her*, would make the game very simple because she says the other guy’s actually a computer. The parallels to today, with the gender divide in AI ethicists/skeptics (as discussed in threads off this post) are 🤯

Talking on a real phone has always looked so cool to me, lmk if we're all getting tincans to chitchat tincan.kids

Vanity Fair's hiring of Olivia Nuzzi and WaPo's firing of Karen Attiah in the same week is a bit on the nose. Deeply unsubtle times.

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you know when the news broke I predicted it was a matter of time until some millennial disney adult posted something to the effect of "MY Disney CEO (michael eisner) would NEVER" but didn't expect the man to do it himself

Good Place screenshot “Michael Eisner figured it out? This is a real low point”

With the news cycle focused on ABC's suspension of Jimmy Kimmel, a journalist with a valid US work permit and pending green card application is about to be deported for the crime of reporting www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The least of the problems BUT sounds like this impt fed committee either doesn't have documentation about how it works or doesn't onboard ppl (I know it said some joined a week ago but onboarding could just be an hour!!) Archivists should run the world, or at least be seated on every cmte 📜

I know Upton Sinclair is pissed off on the other side

If this keeps up we're all going to be so bored we're going to start reading books and talking to each other in person.

another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good it's not about what you do, it's about who you are