now i have a hankering for a daf yomi hoodie or two

I need Gay Meat to make this in a black hoodie, stat!

hey so if you want one of these shirts don't go to Etsy, go to the source, which is the singer songwriter Karl Kuehn aka Gay Meat, whose original design loads of people are now ripping off

paging @disabilitystor1.bsky.social

yes and I'm not sure the US has had that for a long time enamoured by the perceived beauty of its weapons, firmly believing in what amounts to a divine providence of victory, it just always assumes it will easily win

stumbled across the housebound friends site. awesome. would love the resource to pass along to homies with CFS/ME but i'm quietly mindfucked by the inaccessibility of the typeface, for the entire site..... I just can't imagine trying to navigate this if you're "housebound" with a screen reader

Air travel has been a testing ground for Americans to accept fascism since 9/11. Remember life before there was even TSA? They said, to get on a plane you need to accept the airport as a site of surveillance & infringement on your human person. ICE being there really just expands that.

Simultaneous genocides.

"...commitment lay in shared collective analysis of social injustice as well as a vision for radical transformation" ~ Chandra Talpade Mohanty🌸🌸🌸 /2

"Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and sense of affection and /1

The hardest room to escape.

DMARD injection crew, check ya alcohol pads!

Heads up if you are a mutual aid org who distributes hygiene and harm reduction!!

Jesus fucking Christ.

this sums up why i don't understand how things like Star Trek and Star Wars get branded as "politically subversive" or canon fodder for anything but a liberal carceral imagination, esp since that notion rarely touches on how they're both oriented around military empires, hence military policing....

Notes for String Theory by artist Candace Hicks.

Great thread.

(I do wish people would start trying to imagine *beyond* democracy because that urge to protect and defend democracy impedes a lot of thinking toward freedom stop conflating the two: democracy is not freedom freedom demands and offers more)

Eid al-Fitr Horse Riding Festival Tudu, Accra via @TEMAJESUS_OFFICIAL on tiktok Video description: Clips from a street festival in Accra, Ghana. Dozens, if not hundreds, of Black people in a crowded street, some on horseback and wearing traditional Muslim clothing.

If you are forced to travel I’d leave anything of value at home. ICE agents about to conduct the largest strong armed robbery in world history

I really needed those same groups to think that way about accessibility and preventing exposure to airborne viruses at their conferences. Sadly, I think their response will be the same now: they don't care.

I really, really need academic organizations to think more critically about travel (conferences, talks, and meetings) during the Trump administration. Sadly, most are not.

Reminder that the TSA doesn't actually do what it's supposed purpose is. www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11...

Anyone who has received their boarding pass with the SSSS acronym handwritten in red sharpie from the check in counter since 2001 knows you are subject to all types of violence within US airports

I am not pointing this comment at anyone in particular, but: The TSA line has already been a fraught place for brown and Black travelers for as long as it has been around. The racism might get worse tomorrow, but it isn’t going to start tomorrow. That is all.

B.J. Palmer, one of the "inventors" of chiropractic, was a eugenicist who believed that chiropractic could create a superior type of human. He was strongly anti-vax and anti-medicine, believing these were "crutches" that interfered with biological superiority. See also the Neue Deutsche Heilkunde

War is ecocide.

Just a thought that if they start bringing ICE into the airports, airtravel is going to fucking tank, hard, very quickly, and if their presence and deployment doesn't get curtailed real fast, it will be increasingly hard to unmake that soup.

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

That is not unrelated to where we are now.

A decade ago I was calling out how the overfunding of CS was starting to become the overfunding of AI (research & faculty) in academia & how it was producing truly dogshit research—because the barriers to getting funding were so low almost anyone (is CS/ML) with a terrible idea could get funding.

In underfunded fields, people tend to do their own work. In overfunded fields, people pay others to do everything, including “their” research and writing. It’s not an accident that AI is an overfunded field that grew out of other overfunded fields.

I think part of the reason for this lack of understanding is that in a lot of jobs and fields many people are already accustomed to not actually doing their own work, & having other people do it. And they have such a low opinion of people that they believe machine output can and should replace them.

If only more people understood this

“It’s inevitable” “you can’t roll it back” “you just have to accept it”

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

People really love to imagine "science" as some Platonic ideal of objective knowledge, and. No. Science is a human enterprise structured around the PURSUIT of that knowledge and as such its institutions and practice reflect (and can be weaponized in service of) human shortcomings.

Science said my people were innately inferior & came up with a bunch of proof. Science said to my nephrologist that my kidney function should normally be less because I’m Black, & that was recently overturned. Science did all of this! Purveyed by white Europeans who couldn’t separate their culture.

"Cubans face daily blackouts of up to 15 hours in Havana... [They] have intensified since Cuba’s main regional ally and oil supplier, Venezuela’s socialist leader Nicolas Maduro, was captured in a US military operation in January."

There is, in fact, immense value in finding something out because then you know it. There is value in finding something out just to tell someone else what you found out.

One of the biggest crimes of the Neoliberal University has been its total rejection of the idea that there could be value to learning that doesn't benefit "industry" or lead on to a job.

i've been publicly polyamorous for a little over decade and i just can't imagine waking up one day and saying "gee, why can't i register with the government that me, Quinn Throwpillow, and Ankle Sock get it on n poppin with each other!"

the govvy doesn't need to know about polyamorous relationships either like, do folks who advocate for polyam legal inclusion not realize how easy it is to use a legally recognized polycule as a surveillance tool? for just about anything?

If I seem to be talking about water a lot this week, here's why

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:

someone needs to write up why netflix decided to take the plunge into quasi-erotic thrillers that don't qualify as soft porn, lack the plot or character development to actually be called television, and dabble in entry-level eroticism that feels akin to watching Elmo talk about shibari rope

music, shows, books, games...and this is why I live my life in a permanent state of blissfully behind and out of every loop it's not great, for anything, we shouldn't do things like that probably

and it turns out mostly they're just better at being bees than the european bees, more resilient and make more honey, they're just not as docile it all writes itself

The white powers —- performing genocide and other terrorism together for the last 500 years — always stick together in genocide and terrorism

First time I read Silvia Federici I was like “Hmmm but are sure that’s how this process of enclosure happened?” And then I got to watch it happen in real time to virtual space.