Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse at the VA until ICE murdered him today.

Walz is posting official statements as inaccessible image of text because of course he is.

over here copying my music files to my new Hiby R4 digital audio player. Shure IEMs in my ears. George Michael's 'Older' playing. figuring out Android 12. thanking my iPod touch 6th gen, acquired from MSU Surplus, for its solid two years of service.

Important article by IRMS fellow @melissagiragrant.com

Men created AI-generated images of this woman and used them to create an OnlyFans account so they can make money off abusing her. They can do this to any of us, and no one’s doing enough to stop them. I feel like I’m screaming into the void.

"Although we have no reason to believe that Mamdani's statement was intended to be ableist, that is often the case when we are forced to deal with this implicit kind of ableism that many experience daily without feeling safe to name."

time to ask this again (broken record): how can a university justify remaining on X/Twitter?

Please remember that as this happens, women are also being stripped of the right to control their own bodies, young women are being pushed into tradwife bullshit, and a new generation of conservative men increasingly argue that women shouldn’t even have the right to vote bsky.app/profile/mhar...

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No one randomly owes you information about their health, their loved one’s health, or, understandably, just wanting to avoid Covid, which is the only way to prevent Long Covid.

eugenics and ableism remain mainstays of our present that we must understand and contend with to build a sustainable future for all.

I am proud to introduce legislation to improve accessibility at movie theaters for the deaf and hard of hearing community in Michigan! Check it out... www.mlive.com/politics/202...

I’ve been reminded how chronic illness does not care about birthdays and holidays. I still had a pretty good couple of days, but wowee do I wish my body felt better than it does right now.

about time to show myself out of social media for the holiday break. 🫡

I am scared but also for the love of god please post the damn link and use alt text

Translation is a human art. The translator is an artist. Only a human with working knowledge of how the two languages work can do it. AI can approximate the words of the original in another language, but it can't make it readable & beautiful in another language.

having a high pain day. the annual CBB Holiday Spectacular is helping.

it's time: my favorite music from the year.

after something like six months, Icona Pop’s ‘Club Romantech’ is available in full again. I had missed this one. blasted it on the drive in to campus this week.

glad that The Green Door did get rescued, by Scott Bell. it’s now a sister venue to Grewal Hall (per the website footer). I missed if there was any press about this.

cw: death mention. found out my fifth grade teacher passed away. Mr. McKenzie was always in his MSU crewneck sweatshirt, with coffee on his breath. I remembered that he was a Vietnam Vet. he had to figure out what to do with a classroom of 11-year-olds on 9/11.

damn, Madi did it. would I ever use the word "gorgeous" to describe blink-182? I would not. but kudos to Madi Diaz.

I’ve been over here saying “Q-buzz,” turns out Qobuz is pronounced “co-buzz.” that being said, I’m choosing Tidal because the catalog is better aligned to my tastes. I liked this video in terms of a primer on both platforms.

in my top five most-listened-to songs this year: Shadow of a Man by Lady Gaga.

Not acknowledging World AIDS Day and engaging in COVID revisionism are straight from the eugenics playbook. One of the most effective ways of making people invisible is by erasing their history.

a melancholy tune I wrote many Novembers ago:

five days off is exciting and needed. hoping you all get a break of some kind as well.

“keep on fucking at the end of the world” -Sylvan Esso

wake up babe, a ton of new CADL Local History content just dropped. including a very long list of Oldsmobile oral history recordings. but take a moment to remember Marvelanes with me. 😄

weird issues I'm having on iOS 26.1: 1) when navigating from any app back to the home screen, the home screen background has a pink hue to it for a second before the hue disappears.

sending all my love out to survivors tonight.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

this weekend had me visiting two different movie theaters in town. I saw Mitski: The Land and I saw Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. 🥹

very much looking forward to shedding some tears at the Madi Diaz show tonight!

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

do you ever confidently turn in a piece of writing, and then hours later your brain has convinced itself that everything you wrote was wrong and embarrassing and… haha why?

but now I’m gonna go ahead and put on The River to honor its anniversary.

while watching the new Billy Joel documentary I thought, I want a Joe Jackson documentary. I found this video from 1989:

sometimes the vacation day ends up being more like a sick day, but that’s okay. I may have watched the entire season of Running Point and I’m not mad about that.

People continue to call COVID advocates’ pleas for masking “unreasonable”. Yet people who’ve already been disabled by COVID have no choice but to live with the “unreasonable” burdens of constant COVID safety. My latest: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Blondshell’s “Arms” featuring Gigi Perez, yes yes yes

saw The Beaches w/ FIGHTMASTER in Royal Oak on Thursday and it was such a fun time. the catharsis of the whole place singing "Blame Brett" was so needed. and always a joy to go to a concert with my sis. The Beaches had just been named Billboard Canada's Women of the Year.

sleep deprived and crying over Stephen Colbert and Lady Gaga talking about Bruce Springsteen.

what is even happening

To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need as many governments, states, cities, nonprofits, schools, businesses etc. to sign on as possible. Please read the pledge, share it, and push your local orgs to join! Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...

In a recent piece, Kelsey Dodson shares what it's like to menstruate in prison. One woman says she was forced to bleed through her underwear, her pants, and finally her white blanket during an hour-long count. This piece was co-published with @theguardian.com. Please give it a read.