Denying medical assistance is unacceptable in any circumstances. Israel’s threat to withhold registration from MSF & other INGOs is a cynical and calculated attempt to prevent organizations from providing services in #Gaza and the #WestBank, #Palestine. https://ow.ly/XQwE50XR5OE

huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun

To the extent that a dog is able to have a bit, Georgie’s bit is that she hates my mom and I will not lie it’s pretty funny.

Georgie’s paws froze on the pavement this morning and she started piteously shrieking as only a Shiba can so welcome to Zohran Mamdani’s New York City everyone

aloof wife hoofs it in elite boots

Everything I wrote this year was perfect as usual but this was probably the most perfect and frankly daring - an argument that empathy is not, in fact, entirely bad

is there an epistemological crisis hotline bc I need one?

I’m pretty sure it’s not a good idea to be outnumbered but part of me really wants to get Georgie a little brother Gnocchi

nothing makes me feel so unmoored from reality as reading up on the methods used by certain kinds of psychologists to establish basic tenets of the field

I’ve known about the Atlantic avenue tunnel for approximately 26 hours and I’ve been thinking about ways to bring it back into everyday use for every single one of them

can’t spell fascist without cis

Anyone ever read anything good about narcissism?

My mom, after the holidays: “Do you want to hear something psychological?” I nod. She smirks. “I forgot to wear my hearing aid to dinner last night. And the night before.”

This is the second major shellfish theft I’ve read about in recent months…

if I were elected mayor of a city I too would insist that every ceremony took place in an abandoned tunnel or secret passage of some kind

people are good

I’m still mad at her for running away

Georgie went on the lam in Brookline, Mass today, attracting help from a man on foot who self-IDed as “very fast”, a man who left his car shouting “I have crackers”, and a lady who blocked traffic with her SUV before coming in clutch with one of the “emergency leashes that she always keeps handy”

Who'd've thunk Graun'd cover me favorably? But the US (less-TERF) desk did thanks to @joolia.bsky.social: "[Trump 2.0] demonstrates the weaknesses of Harris’ brand of feminism, even as it precipitated crises in every aspect of life that demand a feminist response" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Always a good sign when you’re issuing statements about what your job is

as foretold by the prophesy

on the one hand this does seem like the inevitable outcome of giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to a self-selecting group of the most anti-social and self-regarding entitled assholes in an already entitled and assholic population on the other hand it’s still pretty shocking

NEW: The FBI has launched "domestic terrorism" investigations into anti-ICE activity across the US. Some cases are under Trump's NSPM-7 order to crackdown on "anti-fascism" and "anti-Americanism." Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared w/ Guardian include FBI map of cases in 30+ states:

I think they should add Trump’s name to all of the federal buildings and monuments in DC. The Trump Lincoln Memorial. The Trump Washington Monument. The Trump National Mall. The Smithsonian Museum of Natural Trump History. If there’s a building that doesn’t say Trump on it that should be illegal.

Georgie always finds the light

It’s such a temptation when everything is so bad to succumb to cynicism and numbness, to say lol nothing matters. These people are doing the opposite, in ways big and small but fundamentally concrete and humane. I’m so grateful to them and everyone holding tight to the imperative to care

Death recorded

I started reporting this story after I’d been back at work for a few months and was starting to once again feel overwhelmed by the amount of pain and harm and cruelty at work in the world. Talking to people about how they are finding ways to care for one another helped.

I spoke to people who are standing up to ICE - from a real estate appraiser chasing ICE on his bike to a fetish shop owner distributing whistles and an undocumented social worker putting money in detainees’ commissary accounts

Every day, people across the country are showing up in concrete ways for their immigrant and undocumented neighbors, and every time these efforts are reported on, they become more normalized as something normies can and should participate in. Huge thanks to @joolia.bsky.social for this reporting ❤️

the path to character never did run smooth

“…The last thing is slowing them down. I’m not going to be able to go up against armed ICE agents with just my bike, so I’ll just stop traffic. We want to make it so it’s just not worth their while.” “We’re going to outlast them,” he added. “They can’t sustain this forever.”

I spoke to people who are standing up to ICE - from a real estate appraiser chasing ICE on his bike to a fetish shop owner distributing whistles and an undocumented social worker putting money in detainees’ commissary accounts

Allie Beth Stuckey is the author of Toxic Empathy, a book inspired by her discomfort with social pressure to post a black square on Instagram following the murder of George Floyd

‘You may reasonably object to the orthodox Freudian picture of the unconscious. But can we doubt that there is more, much more, to our individual and collective lives than that of which we are consciously aware?’ Amia Srinivasan on developing a psychoanalytic politics: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Metropolitan Trans It Authority

if the mta sold F/M swap merch they'd be funded for the next decade

Is the MTA making merch with the F M Swap icon cause they should be

unfortunately for me this bakery is in the Bay Area but I’m glad to see that the community continues to innovate

absolute scenes on r/knittinghelp

incredible apartment listing

this is perfect

stopped listening to a podcast episode about Persuasion when a male academic said that it was about Anne Elliot getting a second chance like cmon my dude, Wentworth is obvi the one who got a second (second) chance anyway happy birthday Jane Austen the greatest of all time

I didn’t anticipate how undignified living through history would be

I’ve watched four episodes of the competitive knitting show and my deeply correct opinion is that the knitters are great and Tom Daley is great, but the judges are bad and many of the challenges are bad.

To the extent journalists have a ~moral~ obligation, it is to provide accurate information to the public in accessible formats. It is not our job to structure data so that computer models can obfuscate its origins and repackage it with introduced errors. That is… literally insane.

ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...

This is one of the primary promoters of the idea that empathy is “suicidal” for “western civilization”

don’t mean to complain but it’s not enough degrees outside