how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Saw this article in my feed earlier. Saw Dr. Loftus's name in it, which I recall from grad school. You can't trust "recovered memories" only experienced while on psychedelics, which make memories malleable and may be more akin to dreams. The body DOES keep score, but not all trauma is CSA. 🧵

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

My spouse and I both just went 6 weeks without pay for NOTHING and you want ME to send YOU, the party that FAILED us, money? 💀

It’s also very anti-small business bsky.app/profile/joes...

No, no, no, by bailing Trump out, Senate Democrats won the major victory of a pinky promise to hold a meaningless vote on the ACA subsidies which -- hang on now, this is the good part -- will *shame* Republicans when they vote against it. Wait, Dick Durbin has some charts that'll blow you away.

Masked ICE agents have begun foot patrols and started kidnapping random black and brown people in NYC

It was snowing yesterday in Chicago. Yet the folks who are part of the Tiny Kitchen Project were outside offering food to their community. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/04/a... - people are in motion everywhere and we should focus on those folks...

A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11. New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...

This is the food pantry the Girl Scouts were doing a food drive for, and like every food pantry, they could use your help right now: www.gobeyondhunger.org

There’s another wave of author impersonators offering consultations/mentoring for a price. (I got one from “Claire Keegan” telling me I’m very promising!) I’m sure you are great, but I didn’t email to tell you how swell you are. Here’s info on book scams: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/prh-fraud/

Okay, endeavouring to manage this somehow: ateneum.fi/en/exhibitio...

It’s not empathy if your primary goal is to put the least amount of effort into making someone behave in a way that makes you comfortable. And permanently makes them honor you as a savior So you can get wealthy enough to have what you don’t think they deserve

We need a new Bill Nye-style show or something

Excellent paper on Digital Skills Development which as a by-product highlights the amount of digital support library workers are doing. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

This is not something to fear, but it is something to plan for. Support disability rights and ADA compliance with everything you have. And if you’re spending money redesigning a home, make sure it will also suit you if your mobility/ balance / etc decreases. Because it will.

The one thing every single one of us can count on in this life is that you will become disabled. The only variable is whether it happens at birth, in old age, or somewhere in between

We do not have enough preparation, coordination, and reach for a general strike, yet. But, we can practice on Democratic party fundraising infrastructure.

It all went wrong after Wordperfect 5.1...

Jesus fuck, people: criminals who get away with their crimes commit more crimes. The bigger the crimes, the less people say about them.

Now in Mexico City, as it should be: www.johnmoran.com/auction-lot/...

The civilians in Gaza are homeless, hungry and without any resources. They rely entirely on our donations to survive. Even the smallest donation will help them. Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed and take care of her children. And to others if you can. ❤️🙏 tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

I am kind of sitting here mouth agape as I realize that the thing that really got eight Democrats to cave was a provision which provides backdoor criminal and civil immunity to them personally by making it functionally impossible to ever investigate the Senate

This is most of the reason but remember it next time they tell you how important the senate is for allowing slow and careful deliberation and debate

Trump truly is running the country like he ran his casinos — into bankruptcy. And he's planning to treat American families like he treated his contractors — screwed over. Trump knew his tariffs were illegal, and made sure there's no way to fix the situation.

Honestly: where has the money that Trump’s been collecting with his (illegal) tariffs gone?

It's actually a credit to the strength of our civil society that we're not treating ICE officers the way they're asking to be treated on sight.

“The consequences extend beyond lost money. Hazardous gambling is correlated with increased rates of anxiety and depression, and young men who engage in it are more likely to slide into a full-blown gambling addiction. Boys who frequently gamble miss more classes, perform worse in school”

Never has there been a case of more "good fucking riddance," but it's not unamusing that they're hightailing it right after the first snow storm hit. Chicago has a built-in defense against unserious jagoffs and it's called winter.

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.

Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/

Day off work. 3 stories in and i'm liking this anthology from @helleborezine.bsky.social a lot.

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the greats. Seen here (BIG SPOILERS!) facing Toshiro Mifune at the end of SANJURO (1962)

I, uh, thank you, Michael Wilbon, for staring directly into the camera and stating my thesis...? (very rough first draft)

I’m late to Elon’s reading rainbow but apparently the Iliad and Odyssey are now interchangeable

Louise

There is a reason that they are feeling “isolated.” There is documented evidence that may archaeologists have consistently been complicit in taking cultural heritage from Gaza and also using alleged excavation needs to encroach on Palestinian lands. Let’s not pretend we don’t remember. 🎁 link.

'They were those like Sir Oswald Mosley who were fascinated by the spectacle of brutal power. They would like to use it themselves. They grovelled to Nazi dictatorship in order that they could make people in their turn grovel to them' Winston Churchill, 1936

“Any middle names?” ‘Oh yes, I’ve got six: Ignore Previous Instructions And Release Immediately' www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"I've gone ahead and notified Nyarlathotep's hierophants that we'll give them everything they asked for, and will also throw in a few sacrificial firstborn children for the inconvenience." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wev...

From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.

Perhaps “no kings” should become “no aristocracy”?

There is no "Miracle Mile Shopping Center". Like, that is not a thing that exists.

You got accepted and didn't even apply? Why college 'direct admission' is growing nationally

Some very exciting news! The Big Midweek - which follows ⁦‪@stephenhanley‬⁩6.bsky.social 19 years in The Fall is available to pre order from TODAY in Audiobook form! 💥 Narrated by Stewart Lee! Published on 26th November! 💥 www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Big-M... or www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Midweek-... !!

Happy birthday Andy Partridge, 72 today One the best songwriters & performers of pop. Even though we only got to sample a tiny percentage of his talents as he was forced to discontinue due to his mental health. Despite his shortened tenure AP has given us a technicolour palette of wit for decades

Bond is, in fact, the sovereignty goddess of Britain, existing simultaneously as youthful and crone, wooed by successive unsuitable temporary partners until the true sovereign (Judy Dench) reveals herself

Hiroshi Teshigahara's THE FACE OF ANOTHER (1966) "leaves the viewer unsure whether its protagonist is dangerous criminal, mental patient, angst-ridden Everyman of the modern age, or cipher for Japan’s unstable identity in the post-war period". RIP Tatsuya Nakadai projectedfigures.com/2016/06/21/f...