actually having fun with this coding project

Indiana University-Bloomington is the latest university engaging in blatant censorship and violations of academic freedom against its anti-Zionist community members.

Pardon power is not the problem. More people should be freed from this vicious system. Corruption and organized crime as governance are the problem. Shady pardons are just one symptom of the much larger clusterfuck we're in. If you zoom in too much on any detail as "the problem," you lose the plot.

We killed four more people in the Pacific Ocean today, according to a video just posted to DVIDS, the military's media distribution channel

Teressa found herself raging at what she labeled the insurance company’s “weaponized incompetence.” Fax numbers were wrong. Key records were no longer available online. The insurer wouldn’t even give her access to her husband’s medical records. (Published Sept. 2025)

I don't regret the time I got to spend learning and researching math, but I do find it funny how I have a bunch of information on quasi-categories and four manifolds in my brain now that I'm probably never going go use again

you actually don’t, under any circumstances, have to hand it to an anti-LGBTQ terrorist just because she posted about an art piece that made you sad

Day Laborer Chased By Border Patrol Struck by Vehicle at Huntington Park Home Depot. Reporting by Aisha Wallace-Palomares

I am rambling here in relation to my current situation, but it does really make me think on how expecting academics to move frequently early in their career affects their ability to be in relation to a community and develop politically.

One thing I want in a new job is I want some stability to stay somewhere a while and develop relationships including political ones. It is hard to read about the virtues of affinity groups, when I feel like I'm fumbling around developing the req relations and might have to leave soon anyhow

If youre equivocating about the actual fairness of the numbers of the grade of a paper that you managed 2 read because it was shared by the stochastic nazi terror org whose mission is to make colleges places unsafe for queers and POC might I suggest you've lost the fucking plot

This case never fails to amaze

Coming here to preach the video game Agu. It is hard and I have only played it in short bursts, but it is charming and I keep coming back to it

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Anyways, protect your classroom space against big tech and protect your trans students and colleagues against radical conservatives but also protect them from your institution

Sooo here's a little public records request I just made to the University of Oklahoma.

"the essay sucks ass" is no doubt true, couldn't be bothered to read it, but consider that the essay may have been written to receive an F in order to instigate a campaign against the trans TA. in any case it's not a great dunk because this isn't about the essay, it's about purging trans ppl

A very colorful Allen’s hummingbird at a feeder today. So much brown, I’d say Rufous except it’s not Spring so shouldn’t be here (not common during Spring migration either). 🪶San Diego north county

your university will not protect you

Always framing news of resistance around number of arrests and police violence is demoralizing and low key doing the police work for them

On international students:

i think if you are actively paying for the privilege of doing fascism you shouldn't expect even the shammiest of sham trials at whatever the nuremberg equivalent is forty years from now. at least collaborators can say they were in it for the money.

Still coming to terms with the fact that I am going to have to go onnoeganizkng break again bc brain bad. I hate feeling so fragile that I am unreliable.

My brain doesn't feel sharply on fire, so now instead I feel like the eepiest boy

feds in st. paul today

with alt text

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

good piece on the destruction of Indiana U, a previously great public university utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...

if you're trans, to a bigot you're in a superposition of (1) man (2) woman (3) failed man (4) failed woman, and your identity will resolve differently from sentence to sentence depending on what is most discrediting to you

because of thanksgiving I won't be meeting with my new therapist this week, but this is of course when everything falls apart

North Carolina has really shown out. Comrades are telling me that they have gotten 500 to 1000 people out to ICE Watch trainings [with more people wanting to attend].

African buffalo are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. They can way 900 kg and are apparently considered grumpy. I’d be grumpy too if I had to carry a bunch of yelling red-billed oxpeckers around all the time! This bull was slowly eating his way down the Sabi River in Kruger Park, SA

It has been a painful pasf couple of days but hopefully things are turning the corner/I am making progres instead of just wallowing, idk

🚨 27,000 KILLED IN SUDAN’S DARFUR IN 3 DAYS Darfur governor Minni Arkou Minnawi says 27,000 people were killed in just three days after the RSF captured El-Fasher late last month — a massive jump from earlier estimates of about 2,500 deaths. In March 2025, Senator Chris Van Hollen introduced...

A photo from October when it was reliably sunny and Ravi made frequent visits. One of the first photos that I saw the roadrunner halo of tiny hairlike feathers in. Weather should turn sunny this weekend so maybe I’ll see Ravi Sat or Sun. 🤞 🪶

A bit of a squabble over the suet feeder. This shot definitely has some meme potential. (Blue Jay vs Hairy Woodpecker) #birds 🌿

One thing about continually losing/forgetting things with adhd is that even if each individual thing isn't that big of a deal, it still erodes your confidence, keeps you off kilter. And, I don't think that is the bigget thing hitting me emotionally right now, but jfc it does not help

Just the Governor of Texas violating the Constitutional rights of American citizens without due process of law, on the basis of religious animus, imposing Christian sectarian laws on Americans under the colour of US law

Have at least 3 Cassiar Juncos (Junco hyemalis cismontanus) in the yard. Two of them have fooled me this week - making me think they were Slate form - until I got a good look. Lot of variety in Cassiar! Here's the one from this evening - he really wants to be a Slate so close! #birds #becurious

This is how I found out that Chiitan was on BlueSky but also reposting with alt text because CHIITAN

The fascist onslaught and attack on Los Angeles continues to escalate. People are organizing and fighting back but every single goddamn day we are faced with our neighbors getting kidnapped off the streets at random. It's all of us vs the pigs. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.

The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition. People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.

I feel slightly better today but still fragile and overall :/

update from the DFW Support Committee on #Prairieland case.

I'm worried that I might not be be in a clear eyed enough emotional state to organize well, but what is the use of being unemployed if I am not able to use the extra time to do stuff that matters.

Looking for breakfast along the Platte -- a Great Blue Heron waits for something tasty to come swimming along. Seen in Waterton Canyon, near Denver, Colorado. EXIF: OM System OM-1 II + M.Zuiko 150-400mm f/4 ISO 640, 313mm, f/5.6, 1/320 sec #Colorado #wildlife #bird #photography #getolympus

Snowy Owl looking around A sketch was printed on Strathmore Texture inkjet paper, then painted with watercolor and pastels. #birds #owl #snowyowl #watercolor #birdartist #SciArt #mixedmedia #watercolorbird #birdpainting #birdart #artwork

I can't not also throw in a little #ShadesOfGrey for the #BirdOfTheDay with this rather exceptional looking common black hawk it perched on a branch outside my hotel balcony in El Sunzal, El Salvador #EastCoastKin #birds #birding #birdnerd #birdwatching #hawk #birdsofprey #photographersofbluesky

So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.