Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

My respect for this dude keeps climbing.

There were enough reasons to never, ever use generative AI from day one—environmental damage and plagiarism-on-demand alone; stop treating it like it’s your assistant, your confidante, your plaything, seriously, STOP—but if you need a political reason to help you quit, a compelling one just dropped:

Bruce Springsteen in Minneapolis earlier today. Please share and let this ring out from sea to shining sea. ICE out now!

Happy Birthday, Dolly! open.substack.com/pub/steady/p... A much needed timeline cleanse from Dan Rather #HappyBirthdayDolly #BlueCrew #SundayVibes

The nurses are pissed

I just thought everyone should see this

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

Thimbleweed June 27th 2024

Look, just because the US government looks like Nazis, quotes Nazis, endorses Nazis, and acts like Nazis, doesn’t mean they’re Nazis *holds hand to earpiece* I’m being told it does in fact mean they’re Nazis

…AND “The Borgias” 💙

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

Submissions remain open. You don’t need a new poem. You need the right one. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry

Some nights, Ember (3yrs old; long-haired dilute tortie), cries until I get up, carry her around the darkened house to rub her face on the frames of our artwork, and then tuck her into her blankie atop the cat tree. She’s precious; she comforts big brother Nicky when I’m watching Sad People On TV.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

"50 years after Hannah Arendt's death, the ideologies are back. On a global scale, but also in the everyday life of each individual. The globe is being redistributed, and it's not entirely clear how it will turn out. Arendt can teach us how to confront this world." www.spiegel.de/internationa...

The government is saying that violence rules. That snatching foreign leaders and territories, and shooting US citizens in their cars at point blank range, is justified. That resistance is not only futile, it is dangerous. They can say these things. But they cannot force us to believe them.

Met with my father's contingent of Beer Dads (liberal suburban) over the holiday and can confirm, they're fucking pissed. I heard them saying stuff smart people wouldn't post on the internet

we've got some ICE shit going down in our little town today and it took like three minutes for a convoy of wine moms to start chasing them around town. normies hate this shit and are putting in the work

Be kind. Be radically kind. That's my woke opinion for 2026.

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

bird studies #art

O, horrible, O, horrible, most horrible!

♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”

♥️

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

Respectable. Not surprised. My listening choices while I was writing “More Certain Than the Light” (archiveofourown.org/works/65118436) and “Heretics and Lawbreakers” (archiveofourown.org/works/63296443) resulted in this outcome, no question. #spotifywrapped #ao3 #iwtv #conclave #fanfiction #music

you can be the most reasonable, intelligent, measured person on the planet and 3 minutes of a migraine will have you looking longingly at a drill and considering whether trepanning was honestly that bad of an idea

OH HEY: If you love what @strangehorizons.bsky.social is doing, hop over to the online bookstore/link where you can buy the books reviewed by our reviewers and stuff written by SH staff. bookshop.org/shop/strange...

The week in reviews ends at SH with @ajodasso.bsky.social on Talamasca: The Secret Order, AMC's latest offering in the Immortal Universe franchise: "AMC has proved itself unafraid to take risks at the intersection of horror and speculative fiction. This daring has brought spectacular payoffs."

I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.

they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms

I don't know what I might have done to have this rosebush gift me with this lovely rose in the middle of November, but here it is. On the South Shore of Long Island, New York.

I am gutted to learn of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social (Alice Wong’s) passing. She was always a warm friend, a wonderful spirit, and someone who fostered my own growth. She helped me see that, as a #disabled person with chronic illness, I matter—I am whole. I’ll be posting some of Alice’s work. ❤️ forever

“What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?” — Hannah Arendt

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

After 7 l-o-n-g weeks, wishing Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva, who is the 158th & final vote to release the EPSTEIN Files, a wonderful Swearing-In Day, although not everyone is all that happy about it. #AccountabilityIsComing

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

If you make 130% of the federal poverty level, you qualify for SNAP. A family of four, making $40,560, qualifies for SNAP benefits meaning thousands of Missouri teachers qualify. I’m tired of the bullshit. Most of the people who receive snap benefits work.

'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius | Live Science www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

I can't really explain fully why this is the thing of all things that got my jaw on the floor but I guess it's such a literal symbol and also such a jaw dropping amount of money while small businesses are struggling to survive the tariffs Such a visible "go fuck yourself"

Goddamn @theamynicholson.bsky.social COOKED with this FRANKENSTEIN review. Bow down to one of the greats. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I honestly feel horrible having to ask this but, it's the only way we can secure the next 6 months after my father's unexpected passing and also me becoming my mother's only support and care taker as she struggles with late stage cancer. Any support is welcome. gofund.me/b1830615a

"Rats love hearts." And I love Sam. Seriously though, it might be @ajodasso.bsky.social fault that I love Sam Barclay as much as I do! Art by me! #thevampiresam #sambarclay #interviewwiththevampire #iwtv #amciwtv #amcinterviewwiththevampire #iwtvfanart #fanart #sambarclayfanart #ratslovehearts

Orders for hardcover copies of the #interviewwiththevampire #iwtv #devilsminion #fanzine #devilsminionzine are now open! Information and ordering available at the following links: www.tumblr.com/devilsminion... www.blurb.com/bookstore/in...

The girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa.