"abuse those people instead of other people" is not a solution to abuse, I don't know what to tell you

cannot believe it still needs to be said: suggesting sex workers should just fuck the misogynists is misogyny. you don’t “manage” male supremacy with sex workers’ lives and labor

ICE nonironically doing the "not involved in human trafficking" tweet

Washington State has a weird dumb nonsense short legislative session for some reason so when people say NOW is the time to take action in the Washington State legislature they absolutely mean NOW is the time!

SB6045, a bill to allow farmworker collective bargaining in WA state, will soon be voted on in WAs Senate. This bill is critical for WA farm workers like those at Windmill mushroom who have been fighting to get a contract since 2022. Take action today: act.seiu.org/a/waorganizi...

whatever there is to say about what’s getting thrown in the bucket called AI, I can’t get past how it has been forced on us, breaking things that work. And given the state of things, I need tools that work. There’s no time to waste on something that maybe might work (enrich someone else, poison us).

can you imagine if we were historically obsessed with building statues that had realistic human hair and fingernails that grow in real time and needed to be maintained? this is what the vulgar imagination of AI is, basically, but it would have at least resulted in way more interesting art

It drives me absolutely batshit when financial responsibility is framed around food treats that if given up would save people maybe a few hundred dollars a year. It’s never why people don’t have a house or stability. And you have to eat! It’s a necessity!

it rules that they're trying to make "grocery store chicken" into the new avocado toast

I don't want to see Ai slop anywhere, but especially not in craft feeds. Impossible crochet in impossible rooms that look like the Sears catalog circa 1986.

I love this. I’ve been yelling to burn your Ring cameras but yeah get that money back

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I worked at a toy store in high school and the one that stays with me is a little boy picking out gifts for twin girls. He was SO excited when he found bug nets. But his mother took them away, saying, "They're girls. They don't like to run around like you do."

I had extreme vision blurriness last night before bed and today I have extreme lethargy and heaviness, so I'm starting to suspect I had a migraine in my sleep. Bodies are so undignified.

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

Because their entire belief system is built on reactionary politics and antagonizing people. At no point are they trying to reclaim joy, they're trying to suppress it in others. They confuse enjoying the suffering of others with joy. And also, for a bunch of haters, they're not even good at that

I remember reading about how washing machines (a great invention! people died doing laundry far more often before them!) led to women doing more laundry than ever before because standards for cleanliness increased, it was seen to be "easy," and the ease (partially) led to owning more clothes.

I am honestly confused by people pushing back against Dems saying we need a landslide in November. Voting alone is never enough, but that we need a landslide is just true.

Since we're re-litigating Ring's sins: How did they grow so fast? Until 2016, Ring gave out free/discounted cameras to police & giving cops perks if the public (including victims of crimes) used the officer's discount code to buy cameras--all of which meant Ring essentially made cops salespeople.

so, folks - I realize I haven’t actually discussed the publication of this book right here … I’m going to be honest, it snuck up on me. I’m … really busy! I plead busy. I’ll talk about it a bit since, you know, that’s what promotion is all about!

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

My LYS confirming that yeah, we've been buying ALL the red yarn

I don't really understand that Bluesky map thing, but it situates me between "US Left-wing Activist Intellectuals" and "Comedy Writers and Performers," and that is in fact where I'd like to sit.

Report from the aging frontlines: My 20yo knew who Ricky Martin is because "we learned about him in middle school Spanish class."

This book has the most scathing dedication by an illustrator I have ever seen (and he is completely right) #kidlit

Post a banger that isn't in English

*nineties voice* exTREME

Yes! Yes! And if they’re in front of you, you have a chance to judge their manner and behavior. You can go to someone else for another opinion and know they’ll be an actually different person.

I’m looking at a Kim Hargreaves pattern and it just says knit this many stitches in moss stitch without defining moss stitch anywhere in the book, which is confusing as an American. (British knitters use “moss stitch” for what Americans call “seed stitch.” “Moss stitch” refers to another stitch.)

FOURTEEN AIRCRAFT. For the VICE PRESIDENT. On our dime.

George, our previous rabbit, used to sleep with his eyes open and I kind of hoped that any future rabbit we got would sleep with eyes closed, but unfortunately, Conundrum also sleeps with her eyes open

THEY ARE COMING HOME

BREAKING: 4 students at the University of Minnesota are currently chained to Morrill Hall, demanding that their school end all cooperations with ICE and establish itself as a sanctuary campus.

I got sent a job opening with "JD required" in the header and I opened it out of curiosity, and it was a $30/hr job, which really does not seem like enough to require a JD.

"Always attack, never apologize" - Roy Cohn

ME: I need a molded plywood splint to reduce injuries suffered by wounded servicemembers in transit CHARLES & RAY EAMES: here you go ME: I also need an educational film illustrating the powers of ten and the nicest chair anyone has ever seen CHARLES & RAY EAMES: you're not going to believe this

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

The funny thing is, AI is only capable of pulling from what already exists anyway. It’s not creating anything. You can do anything AI does by learning how to do it, just as humans have done for all of humanity.

as always

Years ago, I went to a publishing talk by artists who had been published locally and one guy was a poet who talked about how he wrote many of his poems on breaks at his warehouse job. Now, do I think poets should be better supported? Yes. But you don’t need GPT to make art.

Oh, this Sandwich Fact made me cry in a nice way

HELP FOR SOMEONE KIDNAPPED BY ICE! Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom. Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!

Given all the historical buildings and facades that Trump destroyed as a real estate freak, it's very funny to me that he thinks slapping his name on stuff guarantees immortality.

back on my bullshit (making fonts out of my handwriting)

It's kind of amazing how the worst consequence many of our most powerful people can conceive of is someone being mad at them online, to the degree that they are driven to distraction about it even in the abstract.

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

Today is day 20 (depending on when incarceration countdown begins) of Diana Crespo Gonzales’ incarceration in an ICE prison in Texas. Children are not allowed to legally be detained for more than 20 days.

This is why all the worst people go after Ethnic Studies. That the study should incite feeling and action is built into the discipline, and it fits uneasily into a system in which performative distance is treated as a virtue.

🧶 Question for regular sock knitters: I made a pair of thick cozy socks a couple months back and the soles, at the heel, are already much thinner than the rest of the sock. I want to reinforce before there are holes. What would you advise?