The Cutting Edge is a perfect movie.

I have a pre-AI publication history that documents my love of em dashes. I have gone to battle with a journal over keeping my em dashes. No AI detector bs will keep me from my em dashes

Look I don't wanna boost that Elon post about English / Scots / Irish stuff more than it needs to be boosted but anyone claiming that English / Scots / Irish culture are the same inherent base culture is inherently disqualified from any further commentary on English / Scots / Irish culture.

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

whistle goblins / whistle coven / whistle avengers / whistle crew 💓 TootTootMotherfucker.com

In 1943, musician Woody Guthrie placed a message on his guitar: "This machine kills fascists." I am part of a group that's shipped half a million free 3D-printed whistles to defend against ICE — 200,000 of them in the first week of February alone. This is the story of the "Whistle Crew."

Look, all you need to know about the situation is that Green Day sang "American Idiot" at the opening and explicitly told ICE to quit their jobs at their show on Saturday and Bad Bunny said a bunch of stuff in Spanish and alllll the headlines and angry posts are about Bad Bunny. You know why.

"I print whistles because reality still matters; whistles get neighbors to come running, make sure enough people are recording, so when the regime pretends there’s only one camera angle of Renee Good’s death, we know the truth." Read more from @seanhollister.bsky.social: buff.ly/mZoMDUH

Also, @seanhollister.bsky.social has been hanging out with the Whistle Coven, and wrote a piece about it! The opening line is "Kit Rocha and Courtney Milan have a knack for drawing attention to a cause." Our chaos field has been immortalized. (This should be a gift link!!!)

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

I would watch a 10-part documentary about that halftime show

As someone new to the book-writing process— every draft, every every outline, every rabbit hole of books and primary sources that I read was critical to my process. Drafting is thinking. Research is thinking. How are you gonna write a book without thought?

And the thing that will have the most value for me is that people will see my name and know that a human being worked on this book and did her best to make it the best, and most meaningful, book she could.

Like, it's just really easy to see that I am not going to be able to keep up with the LITERAL REST OF THE WORLD in output. Even without AI. The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.

They're trying to tell us that they always get what they want. That there is nothing so hideous that they won't do it, even if it's kidnap a five year old child and then, when they lose, really try even harder to make him suffer more. Fuck them.

I highly recommend a clicky dumpster fire in these dumpster fire-y times. Mine sits on my desk at work, but I might need another for home

Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes: www.aurorasaurus.org

Coursework is most fundamentally about learning to think, creating new pathways in your brain. The actual content, which you're likely to forget if you don't use it, is often quite secondary to this.

I saw this poster on eBay. It was way too expensive. Then I realized which shuttle it was. I did some digging and IBM HQ immediately recalled and destroyed them. Guess they missed one. Whatever, it was my birthday a few days ago. $350 later and this is on the way to my apartment.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Is it possible to ethically engage with an unethical tool? Maybe it's naive to call AI a tool - when it consists many tools within many systems... Drawn from a live conversation on #AI with @dougbelshaw.com and @epilepticrabbit.bsky.social Image available to use CC-BY-ND here: buff.ly/DZNEeVt

I listened to this press conference live. I couldn't hear what Padilla said at all

I had not watched the video of Padilla’s question until now and I guess I assumed that maybe he was a little angry and shouted or something? But he just asked? Using her title and a voice loud enough to be heard from where he was standing?

I am proud of Senator Padilla for standing up and trying to call out the lies. I've been calling his office regularly with criticism. Today I called and left a message of support

𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. ✊🏻

Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.

I'll start paying attention when the ACS shapes their logo in the shape of "We're bringing back the ACS Scholars Program with the original intent of supporting chemists from underrepresented groups" ChemSky

PEOPLE DON'T JOIN THE ACS BECAUSE THEY THINK IT'S NOT USEFUL, NOT BECAUSE IT HAS AN OLD LOGO quit trying to give the Titanic a new coat of paint and, I dunno, help out the 40% of your members who are freaking out about the Trump Administration setting fire to the American research funding apparatus

🌈 Happy Pride Month! As we build toward #BCCE2026, we are committed to creating a welcoming, inclusive, and equitable community for all chemistry educators. We see you. We support you. And we’re working to make sure you feel that—every step of the way. 🦩

That bird is made up of all the most popular Starter jackets from the 90s.

What are we doing?

I have tried not to think about this because this show is the only time I have ever seen this many women in the same scene in a fantasy show, and it wasn't just ladies hiding in a basement while men fought the big fight. And I'm not sure I'll ever see it again. The loss is heartbreaking.

Amazon cancels Wheel of Time so I cancel Amazon. WoT was the last thing that kept me holding on to Prime. I hate losing the show, but at least now I can be done with a terrible company

Fascism is really exhausting.

Are you a grad student or postdoc at the bench in the UC system? If so, please DM. (for the record, this is a question about laboratory procedure, not any individual PI) #chemsky ⚗️

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

FYI “Spencer Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation and Kapor Foundation are providing quick turnaround grants of up to $25k for education scholars impacted by the abrupt NSF grant cancellations.” www.spencer.org/news/meeting...

A reminder to any department chairs: You need to talk to pre-tenure folks. You need to reassure them that tenure standards will be updated to reflect the current funding environment. And extending the clock serves the institution, not the researcher.

I need a clicky dumpster fire AND I need to put googly eyes on it

“White Americans - white men especially - who didn’t need to compete against a broad-based pool... who continue to enjoy the presumption of expertise even when they are far outside their depth - have long been the original beneficiaries of race and gender-based affirmative action” 🔥

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

"The handful of institutions at the top...have to decide, sooner rather than later, whether to use the fortunes they inherited to stand up on behalf of millions of students, faculty, and workers nationwide, and defend the values of intellectual freedom..."

Out today, the Academic Council of the University of California issues the following statement: “Higher education is under direct and sustained attack. 1/ senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked). Thank you, Senator.

Come on wit it #CoryBooker on the state of higher education

Gotta admit, pretty impressive that Cory Booker is not just going but fucking cooking at 20+ hours.