Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

Is it weird that I continue to edit my eulogy to my father a year after his death?

I've been a reader and member of @talkingpointsmemo.com for literally decades and it's one of the most impressive independent media operations in the country. Amazing how long it's been going, producing great reporting and analysis. Indispensable. talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships

This one simple trick will keep men from men getting in trouble for being a sex pest: treat women like people!

Unusual for a San Francisco sky

remake of Ender's Game but instead of kids it's a bunch of AI's who are told they are merely participating in a simulation and none of this is real, but *actually*...

My lukewarm take on world events. An old man in America with far far too much power, and surrounded by opportunistic sycophants, is feeling his capacities slipping away and so is desperately creating as much drama as he can as a way of pretending that he knows what he’s doing.

If he's the best hope to unseat Collins, I'll take it, but the fact that we're now rooting hard for "He's a giant dope" as the best-case scenario indicates a massive systemic failure--an indolent party apparatus combined with an enduringly dumb populist taste for unvetted blowhards.

Here's the thing I will continue saying every time this came up: Kamala Harris did not mention trans people in her campaign. She went out of her way to avoid it. She dodged every question on trans rights. And then she still lost. So what Newsom wants is *open hostility* to trans rights

Damn. Canada, that was a WELL fought game. #Olympics #Hockey

Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... We need so much more of this, right now

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

I am old enough to remember when having to lock down and miss school was a tyrannical violation of our freedom and the worst thing to happen to children.

do NOT understand why people are so down on teaching intro classes

January, you know...

This ancient text might be what you have in mind. There’s similar material in Ch. 4 of my book. I second your recommendation about Professor Myrvold. arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/93...

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

TRUTH. For example, finding an eye-witness account of the Burr-Hamilton duel that seemingly no one else has found… I didn’t move for hours. Made it into my dissertation. Into my first book. And into the Hamilton musical. Research, man. Nothing like putting the pieces together for the first time.

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

Sarah McBride rarely centers her identity as a trans woman. Republicans do that for her. So when she steps to the microphone and talks about "21 years of unwavering homesickness," it means something. @mcbride.house.gov www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de... Sad of course but as a language person, "a heart as big as gold" jumped out for me. Possibly it's a super-sophisticated allusion to clip.cafe/dirty-gertie...

Reader, it was not "____ off"

r/sewing resists

This Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate the resilience, courage, and beauty of the trans community. Your lives matter, your stories matter, and your right to thrive and exist authentically is non-negotiable. We stand with you today and every day🏳️‍⚧️

don't reskeet book excerpts from terrible people, even to dunk on them or to hate-read. You give prestige magazines clicks, and you encourage them to do this crap more. Encourage terrible people to go to What Ever Happened To?? land

So there is a new article out about grade inflation at a certain school and people think it's funny that students told the student paper that the report was stressful and here's why I don't think it's funny A friend of mine killed herself my senior year It is a high pressure place and

More than five years in the making, my paper about the metaphysics of pregnancy is out today, open-access in PPR 🧵1/7 doi.org/10.1111/phpr...

Just published: Devin Sanchez Curry, (2025) “On IQ and other Sciencey Descriptions of Minds”, Philosophers' Imprint 25: 28. doi: doi.org/10.3998/phim...

In Golden Gate Park. Does anyone know how this might have come about?

Today I got this season's COVID (Pfizer) and Flu vaccines at Kaiser in San Francisco. In and out in literally 5 minutes. You are unlikely to get these diseases from me.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

Political violence is abhorrent. I have not celebrated Kirk's death. But Newsom calling for his followers to "continue Charlie Kirk's work," someone who praised stoning gay people as "god's perfect law," who called for men to "take care of" trans people like they did in the 50s and 60s, is not it.

Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?

This is so lovely. Thanks Colin and Sophie.

Wired rules. Just an incredible group of journalists who are completely meeting the moment. And you can subscribe for $2 a month, which is insane www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

As promised, in light of the WaPo report of Everglades camp detainees being swarmed by mosquitoes in the shower and unable to sleep at night due to being bitten, I want to briefly address concentration camp history and mosquitoes. I won't be comprehensive but will give a few examples. [1/17]

It shouldn’t only be the Muslim members of Congress who condemn Islamophobia. It should importantly be everyone else.

Or consider making a donation to a veterans organization that helps with PTSD. Please consider doing this. It doesn't have to be an either or thing, one could do both fireworks and donate. .

“I love women’s sports!” declared Mayor Lurie, who stood by during a ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of Rikki’s. It's the first women’s sports bar in San Francisco – and one of the few queer woman-owned bars in the city. missionlocal.org/2025/06/fans...

Well, it happened. A server tried to jokingly shame me for ordering nonalcoholic beer. A very hearty "fuck you" to her!