Sweet, sweet rain!

Quick break from social media fast: I love my Partner so much.

I’m on a social media fast. But I have to tell you, I know several people who have Covid right now. Mask the fuck up. Don’t go indoors without a mask. Don’t go to large events without a mask. Get over your silly aversion to masking and just fucking do it. #Covid

I need to take some time off this app. See you when I somehow manage to live through this week.

Oh god

Battle doomscrolling by posting five small pleasures in life: Your cat jumping onto your lap for cuddles. A really good donut That moment when you lie down on the bed and your body relaxes When you walk out of a building into a beautiful day Uncontrollable laughter.

@jay.bsky.team why is this labeled self-harm?

You're not supposed to look at this photograph: wapo.st/4mnNDLt

Hate hearing this and also not surprised given the climate.

Not even waiting for an autopsy or investigation before trotting out the lies.

TIL that a mild hangover is made exponentially worse by an increase in elevation. I had three whole drinks yesterday and I am totally incapacitated at 2 PM still.

That all viruses leave you damaged is something that I only learned recently. What we know now should be enough for anyone to wear a mask in public.

Fuck I'm so fucking tired. Please go comment on this thing. I've been working in public higher education for 13 yrs, & I'm still not cleared under EXISTING PSLF rules (adjuncting is a motherfucker), & they want to do this to everyone coming up after us? Being both exhausted & enraged feels so weird.

THIS. THIS IS IT.

While accepting her first Emmy for her role in HBO's 'Hacks,' Philadelphia Eagles fan Hannah Einbinder ended her speech by saying, "Go Birds, F*** ICE and Free Palestine." Check out our latest politics coverage, including how to defend immigrants against ICE here: tnvge.co/x9pufYG

As the wife of someone who is…the wife of someone…because I have to be in order to make sure my spouse can cross the border, I approve this message. Most people don’t know just how fragile your “freedom” is.

Vibes on the timeline tonight are a BALM for my soul!!

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

The topic: Students learning to fact-check via a low-key online reasoning course (Supplementing the OP with a link to The Conversation original, for folks eschewing substack) #civics #misinformation theconversation.com/college-stud...

Plus, a lot of moms go woo after actually being neglected or abused by doctors during pregnancy/child birth. Once you stop trusting doctors, it becomes easier to fall for quacks. Add the pressure of high-stakes “perfect mom” stuff on top, and it’s easy to see how people get there.

People like to blame ignorant parents for not vaxxing. But remember that all of us are just going on the information we know how to gather. It’s a systemic problem. If resources for dealing with struggles exist, people don’t go looking for increasingly weird answers to their problems. Moms=people

Pete Buttigieg, noted expert on dating women.

This is some petulant manchild shit right here. Grow the fuck up.

The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus. We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/

Target has the perfect return policy for people like me who hate clothes shopping. For 3 *decades* it was my favorite store. Giving that up was so easy when they made their choice clear. Remember, the “new CEO“ was just an internal shuffle for show. It’s still all the exact same people in charge.

Me, every time I like a post that turns 69 into 70: 🥺

You don’t have to watch everything. Protecting your peace online is an act of self-care, not a state of denial. Learn how to filter your feeds and safeguard your mental space ⬇️ theconversation.com/how-to-avoid...

Touch the trucks!!

There is so much confusion and conflation between big D and little d democrats in the discourse here. Sure, liberals can be clueless. But they aren’t the ones throwing trans people under the bus. And until three days ago, they had no idea who Charlie Kirk was.

And this is an account of how it was for *privileged white girls.* We don’t even have to go back to the 50s. Going back to the 80s would be terrible. Or the 90’s. OK, maybe let’s just move forward instead of back?

Well, I was right that it wasn’t a leftist, though that hardly takes Nostradamus to figure out.

#OpEd: "Time and time again, society places the burden of safety and survival on [the back of Black girls], expecting them to self-police, shrink, and obey unwritten, ever-changing rules that were never designed to protect them in the first place." www.teenvogue.com/story/adulti...

This. This. This!

Here’s a thing you don’t see anymore: rabbits foot keychains. Yes, they’re real, young’uns.

We need fat bear week more than ever. I never even voted before. I’m committed this time.

I mean, there’s Blacksky. We could do a thing. Are white people just unable to do federation unless it’s Mastodon? I see a lot of complaints about Bluesky, but we’re kind of unserious.

Off today’s topic, but every time I see “Brianna Wu follower” I want to slap somebody.

By the way, I am 100% certain this is a false flag operation.

Here’s the thing. Pundits and politicians could just ignore the murder. They don’t have to pander OR celebrate the death.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

I see that the New York Times has trotted out the old trope that our zodiac signs are out of date. I find it hard to believe that it’s that slow of a news day .

Anyone who attacks an aid flotilla deserves to be hewn down like the monster they are. But we know this about the monster. He already ate tens of thousands of children, as the rest of the monsters observed approvingly and became enraged when good people insisted they stop.

It has begun. Faculty have started calling in sick and cancelling classes. I got vaxxed today, and I’ve been #masking all along. #covid #CaliforniaCovid #maskup

I got on Gavin Newson‘s email list somehow and every time he writes to me asking for money I write back an expletive-infused pro-trans, pro-unhoused people, hate email, just for spite. Everyone working for him deserves the abuse they get.

If you see a big story happening that's paywalled and you can't find a gift link, head to sill.social/links/trending. For example, here's the gift link Sill has for the big WSJ story. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Quick mental health pro tip: block anyone who argues with a prominent Black woman intellectual. They’re just always bad.

Trump found god the day one of his new evangelical buddies told him their church lets them do whatever they want to women and children.