🎤🎶 my Mom had some Tylenol my Mom had some Tylenol my Mom had some Tylenol I feel fine (repeat until fade out)

I'm excited to share that my new book ARCHIVAL IRRUPTIONS: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica is coming out with @dukepress.bsky.social in October!

GOP: We protect kids! So—ban child labor? GOP: No Ban child marriages? GOP: No Ban children from carrying guns? GOP: No Ban gun sales w/o background checks? GOP: No Then how exactly do protect kids?🤔 GOP: We ban books, discussions on racism, drag, free school lunch, & Tylenol.

A better world with better institutions is possible—and we're the ones who can make it happen.

Remember, people: if you are in line to vote when the rapture happens, STAY IN LINE!

Tired: Tardy to the Party Wired: Fashionably Late to the Rapture

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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.

Setting aside the bad science, the message here is that pregnant women should suffer--and risk harming their fetus with untreated fever--to reduce their chance of having a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Which makes clear his disdain for women *and* people with ASD. www.bbc.com/news/article...

sure, sure, we'll get to the rapture. but first we've gotta listen to when some of them were the calculators.

the absurdist spectacle that is GWAR is doing the work

Not “unproven.” FALSE. It’s your JOB to detect and expose BS. Do your job.

The Jimmy Kimmel news got me thinking of Stuart Hall saying, “Where are the emergent forces? Where are the cracks and the contradictions? What are the elements in public consciousness one could mobilize for a different political program?"

Repeatedly emailing the wrong department with increasing amounts of exclamation points will—shockingly!—not fix the fundamental problem of repeatedly choosing to reach out to the wrong department.

Bitter! at the Email

We have always been at war with Evidencia.

Chaos Gremlin setting must have been covertly activated in my imagination. Stuck pondering what would happen if instead of "job qualifications", all the wrong people started extolling "job quantifications."

Gen "AI" a song: The Who's "Will 'Hallucinate' Again"

That thing where you somehow actually have A Good Idea and aren't sure how to pursue making it happen, amid All the Already So Very Many Things (which are not necessarily good ideas).

Blame-the-mother theses first appeared around the diagnosis of autism in the decades following World War II. And though they eventually became a black mark on the history of psychology and child development, society's willingness to blame moms has never really gone away.

“One thing that stood out to me during class was the way humor and casual language was used to make SPSS feel less intimidating... using the Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez beef was a very helpful real-world example of how some relationships may exist, but are not substantial enough.”

Technologically advance a band: Philip Silicon

Still slightly mind-boggling that this is the 10th anniversary of us arriving in Boise. In celebration, of course, potatoes will be et. (Probably in the form of tater tot burritos? Final decisions yet to be made.)

One of the biggest routine mistakes pundits, influencers, and journalists make is framing structural problems as individual errors. They make themselves apologists for the status quo at the precise time we all need a more just and humane world.

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age

It's probably been happening for a while, but seems like "conventionally attractive woman smiling at a laptop while holding a cup of coffee" advert photos have almost entirely replaced "conventionally attractive woman smiling at salad" advert photos in the mediascapes I tend to navigate.

companies make it difficult or impossible to disable ai in their products because it is an authoritarian project made from a stack of consent violations in a trenchcoat they don't give you a checkbox for "i don't want this and will never use it" because they know many people would check that box

The notion that Republicans are the more real Americans, whose authenticity Democrats must pay tribute to with imitation, persistence even though it is contradicted by more and more actual empirical evidence.

Running the new Espanso v2.2.5 seems to be a problem. Until our sole developer can get to grips with this, please note that the previous releases can be accessed via the project's Github [Releases](github.com/espanso/espa...) page. v2.2.3 is the last stable release, v2.2.4 works for me.

If you're not willing to sign this sternly-worded letter telling the Wallet Inspector not to inspect your wallet, how will the Wallet Inspector know that you have a wallet you don't want inspected?

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If you, like I, owned a cassette of Poison’s Open Up and Say … Aah, are a big fan of David Ben-Merre & @profchander.bsky.social’s, and can’t get enough of theories of address & apostrophe, you truly must read the epilogue to David’s wonderful book forthcoming from @sunypress.bsky.social

I know people don’t care to be educated individuals about racism and misogyny anymore because they’re too busy “resisting fascism” but this is extremely classic misogynoir

this 1937 LIFE cover didn't have to go so hard

Colorado last year became the first state to mandate polling places inside all county jails—and turnout among voters who are held in jails, often pretrial, skyrocketed: It grew by roughly 900% between 2022 and 2024.

And to think that I saw it* on Mastodon Street! *Yes, precisely that nonsense.

Related to someone else's thread: It's shameful how many of us still don't understand that solidarity often means knowing better than believing you know better.

Have even Dr. Blowfin's research grants been cancelled, and this is the backup plan?

Tired: Chicago style footnotes. Wired: Brooklyn Bridge style footnotes (this actually happened; not even one free beer).

"The PDF Format is Decadent and Depraved" remains one of Hunter S. Thompson's most insightful works.

Who is this "Matthew Plotlib"? Why does he do so much with visualizing serpents? Inquiring minds want to know!

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Alien Plant Spore Doppelgänger 2028

Much of the alt text I’ve written for @clipart.bsky.social gets lost in the hazy fog of memory, but this one, I remember so clearly writing. Dear Annabelle, where are you now?

Know your rights These are your rights Number three You have the right to free Speech As long as You're not dumb enough to actually try it - the Clash

if you haven't read Infomocracy by @older.bsky.social let's just say it's a timely work of speculative fiction

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Getting steamed all over again over the fact that Obsidian still doesn't have a built-in* command to fold specific heading levels. *Not via a third-party plug-in that has, as anyone with a brain or functioning long-term memory could readily foresee, been effectively abandoned.

"It's incredible how this thing we refuse to name keeps happening because nobody wants to admit that the thing we refuse to name is a problem that needs to be dealt with and that WE need to step up and deal with it." #cdnpoli #ClimateChange