The karma police should be defunded

We got flu and Covid shots this week and this was probably the least reaction I’ve had to them. I felt a little sick the next day, but only for a day. I don’t love waiting in line but it felt encouraging that there was a line. It moved fast.

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It's fall, so this is my public service announcement that if you can get a koginut squash, you should do so if you like fall squash. It's like an intensified pumpkin/butternut flavor with a great texture. I made pies out of it last year but it's great just roasted with brown sugar and salt.

And he didn’t resign when the nude images at work scandal broke. 👀

Holy shit. This is incredible.

Wait.

[new Isaac Chotiner interview]

We’re Not Broken is excellent and I highly recommend reading it.

Not sure whether many non-Chotiner interviewers simply don’t ask specific questions and follow up on them or whether they edit out most of the unflattering answers.

Honestly interesting how many of the right wing guys share an identical “I just learned to stand” stance.

I am depressed and yet hopeful

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

short 🧵 on what autism and transgender pseudoscience & disinformation have in common:

Please help Soad and Omar, who have recently been displaced again.

All the things I'm feeling and wanting to say require time and thought and writing space, so I may need to blog instead of posting.

Even down to how they exploit the changes in diagnostic criteria to suggest there's some "contagion" or "epidemic." What those changes actually point to is a move away from a model of suppression to a model of acceptance, and that's what actually terrifies them

How long have teachers been saying this? 10 years? 15? 20? I'm at around 18 years myself. Reading and writing are experiences first so if we want students to genuinely do those things we have to create the conditions under which these things are done.

When you have enough Amtrak points for a free ride.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

A repulsive act that eerily echoes the instigating incident in the 1990 civil rights movement movie "Freedom Song," which a CRM veteran once told me was the best fictional treatment of the movement ever produced on film.

Please help Ola and her family!

Please help Ruba and her mother!

Saw the most online exchange in which a non expert argues with an expert and says they’ll accept *any* evidence disproving their assertions but when the expert presents the evidence they claim it isn’t evidence and then that it’s a lie. Three easy steps to never be wrong.

"The incoherence is the point. Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology."

Ro Khanna continues to be wildly uneven in ways that are not predictable to me. The most recent thing I've seen about him is good, so uh, thanks, buddy? I'll probably be mad at you very soon.

“For reasons best understood by moguls and their lackeys, the people who run the media simply find people who do what we do either annoying or unprofitable. Extraneous. I don’t think readers agree. I truly do not.”

I rarely get a normal aura, but one of my regular pre migraine symptoms is “I can see but it feels like I can’t,” which I assume is aura adjacent.

Inviting semioticians to campus to draw their little diagrams that only they can follow because we need more difficult speakers.

they mean difficult like Derrida, right? ...right?

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛 I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}: www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g... 1/n

this cat looks like one of the Old Master painters who's just slept with three servants, argued viciously with his annoying patron about the inferior ham he receives, and then painted his masterpiece out of spite

A movie I love with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score *incoherent sputtering*

He’s doing what he loves: being hospitalized.

There’s a Perry Mason episode where Robert Redford plays a himbo who married a girl he just met, and I have especially good news because it’s called “The Case of the Treacherous Toupee.”

"Back when I was in college, I was a cool, virile twenty-two-year-old with washboard abs and a large group of friends. Students today would struggle to say the same, since I’m sixty-two, my kids hate me, and my doctor says I’m prediabetic."

I am barely keeping my head above water lately, but my family and my students are a major anchor for me. We had such lovely discussions about colonialism, language, trauma, and writing more generally in my classes over the last couple of days.

Introducing COYOTE: A worker-owned Bay Area media collective. Our stories will be public for the first two weeks. Read ‘em and subscribe! www.coyotemedia.org

I'm glad of the people who are not cowards in this moment.

They did it!! They've brought back the alt-weekly!! As a worker-owned collective and for the whole Bay Area no less. AWOOOOO!

BAY AREA UPDATE: CVS is now scheduling pediatric Covid vaccines! Finally! Get your kids protected. We are still in the back to school surge. Long Covid harms kids too. Protect your children, your family & your community. Please help protect us all.

That blog comment by classical music composer Frank Wilhoit (often wrongly attributed to the other Frank Wilhoit) feels more and more like the only accurate thing you can say about the state of politics.

I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

Please help Hadeel and her children!

me [lying face down on the floor]: ladies and gentlemen, the weakened

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ Trans people are "a vulnerable minority group that has been widely demonized. Any good journalistic practice would involve nailing down accuracy to avoid making things worse." – @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/politics/777...

The East Bay has been uncharacteristically humid for the last week or so and I am floundering. Apparently I can overheat in cool weather if you put enough water in the air.

Please help Ruba if you are able!