Mirroring police tactics for humor. Sound on!

I’m happy that the big kooky liberated Portland frogs have emerged as an aesthetic backlash to the dank Pepes

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

Climate change is altering the natural world’s soundscape, with declining bird, insect, and amphibian populations leading to quieter environments. This “sensory extinction” is exacerbated by noise pollution from human activities. Listen to these recordings in this article from @sabs.bsky.social!

there's a pretty strong pressure campaign on to delay and weaken land use reform in ann arbor. please sign this petition to remind the council that the YIMBY voters who elected them still want an affordable, growing, and diverse city. neighborspetition.org

Pretty much how I'm imagining retirement

It’s funny because it’s true

Big Coppola/little Coppola Speaking to students at the Henry Ford about cinema as art, not commerce, and the pleasure of learning. “You can drink too much, eat too much, but you can’t learn too much”

This is so real lmaoooo "She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂

They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit. "As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."

roomba accidentally saw outside

I think the absolute death of empathy in the U.S. has been a huge factor in the rise of fascism, and nowhere is that more clear than in the behavior of drivers.

Very excited for salamander migration season (with bonus creepy gnome sighting)

If you're an REI member, you can vote to toss out the board that's endorsed Trump's candidate for Dept. of Interior and has worked to stop REI unions. Vote runs until May 2nd. Spread the word. vote.escvote.com/REI/

This is the most hilarious product of the timeline we are in I’ve seen so far

Oh you could say I dabble in Photoshop #teslatakedown @niedermeyer.online

A few linguistic observations from teaching media production: students have used "shooting" and "footage" to refer to both video and audio, i.e. "I'm going to shoot some audio"; audio is increasingly becoming a standalone noun, as in "Let's listen to an audio" or "I'm going to record some audios"

This encapsulates so much of what I’ve been thinking about these past years. Stupid-evil indeed.

no king but biking

Unfortunately, this is my circus and these are my monkeys

*Pure Michigan*

What's your sign

The ann arbor #TeslaTakedown starts at 11 at the dealership out on Jackson Rd. teslatakedown.com

lol doge.gov still shows defaced pages doge.gov/workforce?or...

Me walking into class these days

UbuWeb February 1, 2025

Imagine dying in service of your country and your family needing to request anonymity because of the President of the United States and his supporters.

Kind of feel like it’s time for the Washington DC AG to arrest Elon Musk.

Just donated to Trans Lifeline to help our friends and family being persecuted by this new regime. IF you have some $ to spare, please consider doing likewise? Even a few bucks helps. But if not, some real LOUD support from the cis community would also be great. ❤️ link: translifeline.org/donate/

One thing that helps me through these hard times is all the creative forms resistance can take

Pretty sure it's already gone south

if you work at a newspaper or news outlet, it is your moral obligation to go shout at your bosses that the country is in the middle of a constitutional meltdown and they need to cover it with the same screaming 72-point all caps headlines they would if we were being attacked by a foreign invader

I just watched my neighbor destroy a dying smoke detector by stomping on it and then smashing it with a rock, and I feel you, neighbor, I feel you

I generally like Debbie Dingell, but this response to my plea to stand up and fight fascism is so weak and disappointing. These are not normal times, and we shouldn't act as though they are. No mention of protecting LGBTQ+ folks, immigrants, human and civil rights, or even democracy.

Yuuuuuup

I’m sorry but if DeepSeek, of all things, is what tanks the stock market then that is going to be extremely funny.

ADD A "COOL LINKS" PAGE TO YOUR WEBSITE PARTY LIKE IT'S 1999 I AM SERIOUS

I want statements from all of them. Democratic Senators who backed Noem: Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey Senator Gary Peters of Michigan Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan

In the wake of its disappearance, theSkimm is publishing the content of reproductiverights.gov to ensure that the critical information and resources it outlined remain available to women and families.

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

I saw Almodovar's The Room Next Door last night, and I can't stop thinking about it. The long, luxurious shots of older women with their beautiful wrinkles and worn teeth, the smack of greens and oranges in their oversized sweaters, and of course, the confrontation with mortality. It hit deep.

I'm not sure I have the physical capacity to deal with the incoming administration. I fear I'm going to get so overwhelmed that limbs will just start falling off, piece by piece, like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly

I was cleaning up a hairball from my cat and realized that Weird Al really missed an opportunity with that Pitbull song

Oh, David Lynch, my brother in darkness. I'll never forget seeing him speak about peace activism at the Maharishi University of Management in Iowa and absolutely shut down a guest who asked why he made such unsettling films if his values were about peace. My log does not judge.

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities