Neighborhood Harris’s Hawk at sunset 🪶

This is the perfect example of a product whose main purpose is stalking.

Chocolate babkas

Research shows that "up to 75% of autistic people aged 20–49 and more than 90% of those over 50 are undiagnosed. This means that millions of [autistic] people around the world might not be receiving the support that they need." www.nature.com/articles/d41... #autism #neurodiversity #aging

I have friends with management experience, specialized degrees, etc, who were salivating when i offered to get them hired part time at an escape room place. If a workplace, *any* workplace, is lacking enough in transphobia to hire any one of us, they will within a month have all vacancies filled.

There’s always a place for you on Solidarity Street. Solidarity with our union siblings at @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social #UnionsForAll #UnionMemes

Our regional sewer and transit systems are what make America great

I have learned in recent years there are 10s of millions of Americans not only willing but eager to go watch a lynching from the comfort of a picnic blanket and the only thing that was holding them back was the social penalty; really makes you think about those who warn against social penalties.

A coyote from memory as my first test drawing after finding out my Wacom connects to my tablet. The faint marks are an issue of the tablet's sensitivity being constantly engaged, so that's where my pen has hovered- but kind of charming and a human touch #coyote

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Roses are red, Violets are blue,

Beak-a-boo 🦜

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

Cycling my shield frequencies so that the Romulan warship can't send me a meeting invite

In spite of the youth speak (hush you, an Old is talking here!) this person is absolutely right. freerice.com is awesome!

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

I hear we’re bashing Luddites again so: they were not against “progress”, they were against DANGEROUS “progress” that had almost zero guardrails or oversight at the cost of human lives. Now wait, I have heard that somewhere before…let me think about it…

I just texted someone "I love my new rheumatologist!" in case you're wondering how old GenX is these days.

You may have heard it before, but let me repeat: repetition of statements makes people more likely to rate them as true (even if they are false, and even if you knew they were false initially). Thanks for the talk, @lkfazio.bsky.social !

USE YOUR PTO!!!

Voter ID (as opposed to proof of residency, which we already have) gives the government a pretext to deny certain classes of people the ballot. Even if we make it free and "hassle-free" to get them. I want an Australian style mandatory voting law: Don't show up to vote, your taxes are $50 higher.

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

SCOOP: DHS strikes $1 billion purchasing agreement with Palantir. The news comes as Palantir leadership struggles to address internal tensions over the company's work with immigration enforcers. Here's how it was announced internally: www.wired.com/story/depart...

A student asked about the biggest codex and you know what? I did know! It’s the Codex Gigas. But my favorite fact about this behemoth is that it took a lot of asses—160 donkeys to be exact—to produce this one book. Now that is a true book assessment 🫏 www.loc.gov/item/2021667...

“Make” students do things? Lol. Lmao even.

Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/s... cc @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

No, go after them because they're bad for society, like arsenic in the water. A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Your daily affirmation: I’m allowed to be happy. I’m allowed to hoard weird bones. I’m allowed to disappear into a malevolent fog once in a while.

D'awww. This story by Marissa Lingen is just the right amount of sweetness, new motherhood, and glimpses of intriguing worldbuilding. www.uncannymagazine.com/article/on-t...

<2 months into the year and I've already read two 5/5 books and three 4/5 books! The most unexpected delight was The Antidote by Karen Russell. A magical realism novel set in the dust bowl. And a commentary on the cultural amnesia required for settler colonialism. 💙📚 #Booksky

In math class senior year our teacher asked “who do you think is the quietest person in your grade?” and every single head slowly turning in my direction truly embodied what my nightmares were made of

Kitty with the best toy in the entire world

THIS IS NOT A DRILL YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO. USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+ NOT. A. DRILL. www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

The Bee’s work caught the attention of the art world, leading to exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution. Their work is in the permanent collections of over 40 major institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Tate Modern. /8

Streptosolen jasmesonii blooming at UC Botanical Garden today 🌿

I wrote a letter that could be used by others to send to AGs/state reps re the CSAM issue. It's pinned to my profile page. CA and AZ AGs have stated they're investigating Grok. I urge people to call and thank them and encourage them. I urge people to contact Blue state AGs/reps and demand action.

"AI will cure cancer" No bro, it is fully on cancer's side

yesterday an idiot exec at a games company said an LLM could have come up with their most successful games. today he does not have a job. this is The Way.

Maybe you don’t need to improve your posture. Maybe someday an alien creature will crack open a rock and be delighted by the curvature of your spine. Maybe future museums will house highly inaccurate models of the long extinct human being, all crunched up and weird looking. Because of you.

THEM: Correct me if I'm wrong… ME: Have no fear, I won't even wait for that long.

The sun came out

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Men’s feelings don’t need more space and attention, their feelings need to stop being a special gendered concern entirely. They don’t need more spaces special for Men and their allegedly unique Man feelings. They need to understand them as a common human experience they share in common with women.

yes?

I made this point to my at-risk students. I asked them "have you ever been in a theater & everybody's laughing at something & you're only laughing because they are, because you don't get the joke? Well, after we studt the Odyssey you're going to get a lot more jokes."

Now wouldn't be a bad time to revisit 13th and how badly the US fucked up by not *fully* abolishing slavery. youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8?...

We're horseposting post your horses.