Still a bit shaken about having to speak up in open court about the person who was trying to kill my rep in TTRPGs when I was in the closet than stalked me online for years. Prosecutor tried dismissing it all as not involving any physical threats during jury questioning.

Will it mean anything practical? No. But putting the President in a position where he has to veto a War Powers resolution from Congress so he can continue to prosecute a conflict is a genuinely remarkable political collapse.

Republicans who support this rule want to murder disabled Americans and must be held liable for their actions.

ICYMI, OMB’s proposed scientific grant regs are as damaging as you can get. Not only will things like *peer review* be political, but most ways of sharing research (publication, conferences, societies) are no longer funded. Oh, and internat’l collaborations are banned. Basically a death knell. ☠️🪦

Today SCOTUS allowing Alabama to press ahead with the use of a map that erases a majority Black congressional district makes clear clear that this Court has unashamedly set its course to dismantle the 14th Amendment brick-by-brick. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Jury selection got so weird today. I was the only one who got less than professional, respectful questions from one of the lawyers. Is it because I said I was nonbinary in court when explaining prior harassment and stalking? Only that lawyer knows if he's a bigot. If I had to guess, I say yes.

They’re charging more to watch Qatar play in Seattle than they were charging to watch the actual World Cup Final in Qatar

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

Somehow, I will live long enough to piss on their graves

Ahead of election day tomorrow*, I built an analysis of Los Angeles' political demography based on past voting patterns and projected neighborhood-by-neighborhood across the five main mayoral candidates three-las.talevy.soccer *(of course, results won't be clear until several days after)

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

We’re excited to announce the three winners of this year’s Diana Jones Award Emerging Designer Program: @classicalglaiza.com, @yesnogoodbye.ca, and @jaztice.bsky.social!

I have a game in this bundle! Come support queer creators in this fantastic collection.

Literally this. I have shipped as many trans books to red states as blue, if not more. Queer people live places.

“That’s what will stick with me,” Hernandez said. “Laying on the field, cheering for other girls, everyone being sweet.” I spent with weekend with AB Hernandez and her family and watching how the queer community uplifted her | @latimes.com www.latimes.com/sports/highs...

this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨

If you have a Git Hub account, go share your thoughts about this here. Be civil, but strong in our convictions. Let make our voices heard.

there are a lot of criticisms to be made of Walz's response to Metro Surge but he managed to avoid the staties *being more dangerous than ICE*. This is astoundingly bad politics.

Anti-porn, anti-sex worker, and anti-sex censorship directly corresponds to a tilt downward into a more ideologically conservative and oppressive society. Regardless of your personal comfort with nsfw content on the internet, it's absolutely critical to support it right now.

Pride month is coming up and I cannot tell you enough, cis people, that the best thing you can do right now is stand up for trans people financially, publicly, and in any way you can think of so this witch hunt ends, once again, with bigots on the wrong side of history.

I honestly hate the concept of debating. I'm not interested in adversarial communication with someone who has already decided they lose something if they learn something.

Mentoring new #ttrpg designers sometimes means showing them a style guide and template, and when elements of them are appropriate to use. We sometimes assume that folks new to a writing team should know about these things coming in, or know to ask.. that’s not always the case.

Best thing I have seen today!

An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?

Time and again, we've seen how much UCLA administrators hate their students. No one should donate a dime to my alma mater until they give up this anti-intellectual idea.

Democrats self-sabotaged in 2024 when they stopped talking about these guys as the weird perverts and assholes that they are. Most of the country sees people like Stephen Miller and think they're gross monsters. They will always respond well when leaders/institutions that affirm their gut vibes.

The civil service, and government agencies that can deal with things like modern science, simply cannot exist without effectively a complete revamp of our admin law. Project 2025 and the Roberts Court (allow for substantial overlap) killed our Constitutional guardrails.

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

Only a dullard criticizes someone for their appearance when there is so much more to say.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Grim but true...👇 "If there were a dictator of the internet who intentionally set out to destroy your ability to get accurate information, the result would look a lot like what’s already on your screen." You couldn’t create a more anti-news internet if you tried www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/you-...

he is monstrously corrupt, right wing, a lecher, a cheat, and is now embroiled in a scandal where his office gave sweetheart deals to pedophiles

🚨Bad news. A THIRD National book banning bill has passed committee in the house.🚨 Meet the CHARLIE act that will prohibit the teaching of what they call: equity ideology (not white supremacist jingoistic history) More from @authorsabb.bsky.social when we have it. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

This is a really important piece from @joyurcaba.bsky.social. Most people think that the government's restrictions on health care for trans people was limited to minors (which has been the government's messaging). It's not, and people need to know about it.

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

NEW "We even have to include a tabletop exercise of me getting arrested" — Maryland's elections administrator Election directors across the US are preparing for everything from ICE showing up at polling locations to officials being arrested during November's midterms www.wired.com/story/electi...

Harvard's grade inflation was notorious we couldn't take their GPA seriously when I did graduate admissions. (Same with manymost Ivies.) People aren't paying that much for Bs. I found three of my old gradebooks from UCLA. At most, 20.65 percent of the class (19 of 92) earned As.

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

Missed this one from yesterday, but X, which Elon Musk said he bought to enable free speech, is now limiting non-paying users to just 50 posts per day. Or you can post as much as you dang please on Bluesky.

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

HI!! IF YOU'RE CANADIAN, PLEASE WRITE A LETTER TO YOUR MP!!! IF YOU AREN'T CANADIAN, SHARE THIS AROUND INSTEAD!!

40 homers in college softball has finally happened!

For once, not in my backyard politics has value

Yankees fans will tell me this is my World Series and you know what this time they’re right

Curse you Mets, making me believe

I sincerely hope that people in the quotes popping off about the nationals fan base, when these assholes with the sign are almost certainly out of towners to a city that is 95% not this, have called their representatives about ending the federal occupation of a place without representation.

After Plessy v Ferguson it was 58 years before we got a court willing to overturn it. I don’t think Black people who want to vote and women who want to have rights to their bodies and trans people who want to EXIST should have to wait that long because it offends your sense of propriety.

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment