Fobazi’s article about vocational awe was one of the first things I read in my master’s program at UW, and it set the tone for the type of librarian I would become and in turn influence how I mentor the next generation of librarians. Please donate if you’re able. This field owes so much to her.

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.

I've been seeing signs for city council elections popping up so tonight I'm reading through the websites of everyone who has filed...it's deeply disappointing (and frightening) to see how many are CEOs of AI companies.

They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission. They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again. And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

Oh, I love Phoebe Wahl. 💚 (Abolish ICE!)

We're living under fascism. ORGANIZE YOUR OWN THINGS IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT'S ON OFFER. Jesus Christ.

If you have an unread copy of Let This Radicalize You lying around, this would be an excellent time to read Chapter 6: “Violence” in Social Movements. It's also a good time to share that chapter with others.

The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...

Very happy that I got to watch Sinners in IMAX this afternoon with my film-bestie. And it was my first time seeing anything in the theatre since I became a parent soooo long overdue.

Honestly not sure if this is quid pro quo or a threat.

To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction | Mahmoud Khalil

puppets are VERY antifa

BTW, the word for this is genocide, folks. How does anyone still support this? Why? www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

I just (regretfully) read the latest "boys in crisis" piece. There is too much to unpack. I read it while my two-year-old was watching Mr. Rogers, who also offers an "appealingly simple" answer about what it might mean to be a man.

A related heartbreaking phenomenon: I know two people who have had strong delusions of reference, grandeur, and persecution inspired or reinforced by their constant interactions with LLMs. It has made support and intervention so much more difficult.

Our University leadership is letting us down. The College of Arts & Sciences at UW is trying to lay off over 200 people - our departmental staff in an ill-planned (barely planned) attempt to cut costs by centralizing staff (they have not talked to... anyone about this) www.defendcasstaff.com

Some people believe individual responsibility means responsibility to & for yourself, when historically speaking it’s always meant something closer to “you have a responsibility as an individual to do things to support & participate in multiple overlapping collectives for your & others’ survival.”

Congratulations you reinvented Journolist and every back room since the beginning of politics, how radical www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

When I talk about how Substack was funded as part of a deliberate strategy to make a platform where they could mainstream their fascist ideas, this is the group I am talking about. The other suckers who put their newsletters on the platform are playing into this agenda.

Due to the mass-casualty event in Vancouver, St Paul's, VGH, & Lions Gate hospitals have activated a code orange. These hospitals will be needing blood donations urgently. Blood clinics are closed Sundays, but please consider donating Monday if you're in the Vancouver area. #Vancouver

A “use case” or function isn’t what makes something ethical or worth embracing. Fascism can accomplish a lot.

I watched Conclave a few months back and spent almost the entire film trying to figure out who had murdered the Pope.

As the #measles outbreak in the US surpasses 800 confirmed cases across 24 states, including a fifth case reported this week in WA, we are urging parents and caregivers to make sure their children are protected from the disease by getting two doses of the MMR vaccine. doh.wa.gov/newsroom/doh...

Please help this family. Together, we can do so much.

Goddamn I hate RFK Jr so much. What a dipshit

Paying taxes. Having a job. Where you live and with whom. How many things you depend on other people for (spoiler: almost all). None of these is what makes *any* of our lives have worth. Our lives *are* worth.

I hope that these signs last as long as they deserve to on college campuses.

The NYT when someone wants to kill higher education

I was just looking for news about Mahmoud Khalil and my two-year-old pointed at his picture and said "Dada!" (This is a cute overextension). I said "Yes, he is a dada." Two-year-old says "Home, dada! Home, dada!" From your lips to G-d's ears, child.

People will argue that we should be willing to defy the law in the name of justice while also treating criminalized people as disposable. It's incoherent.

Are you growing herbs? If so, check your county for free seeds. The libraries have seed banks. Also, the dollar tree and dollar general have seeds where you can buy several packs for $1. You can use recycled jars and cans. This is a good summer project for your babies.

A professor of…strategy? 😬

In March, Sandra Harding died. With colleagues from (then) Women's Studies at Utrecht University, where Harding's work was pivotal in PhD training & where I had the pleasure to organize a PhD workshop, together with María Puig de Bellacasa, with Sandra, we wrote this piece. Honoring the pioneers.

I love to see SU, Gonzaga, and PLU on this list but where is UW?

Speaking as the parent of the 2-year-old: Critical Support to Comrade Rachel

I just accidentally posted on Threads for the first time because I thought I was on this app and I saw an impassioned defense of Ms Rachel that I had to echo. Parenting life 😅

I can’t believe these GOP hacks get to be the ones to take down capitalism.

The courts *should* put an immediate and unequivocal halt to all use of the CECOT prison in El Salvador, with or without due process. They may not do that. But the *people* of the US still can. Don't lose of sight of this atrocity amidst the other outrages. Make this a key focus of resistance.

This is so appalling but it’s also as fundamentally and embarrassingly wrong about basics like fertilization/embryo development, what PGT can (and can’t) do, etc. etc. as it is about the social factors of the “problem” it purports to “solve.” It’s a eugenicist grift. Like so much “futurism.”

11:30 today!

As a UAW academic worker WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

A resistance is in the streets - but sometimes it's checking on neighbors, it's delivering meals, it's hosting some babysitting, it's being a safe place to sleep. This is how we dream a new way into existence, with our hands and our hearts.

We went to the International Children’s Friendship Festival today and it was so beautiful! Organized by children for children. I learned some things and saw so much exuberance and solidarity.

I'm so grateful I was able to attend @alondra.bsky.social's Distinguished Lecture (hosted by the Tech Policy Lab at UW) this evening. Thank you for your scholarship, insights, and the generosity with which you answered questions! It was a much-needed balm.

I've been checking out more DVDs from my local library and have noticed quite a lot of right-wing, pro-Project 2025, and outright conspiratorial titles on the shelves. Are they being requested for purchase by patrons, donated, purchased for "editorial balance"? Thoughts?