As someone aptly pointed-out on another platform: the Epstein files aren't filled with trans people. They're filled with wealthy, straight, white, cisgender men.

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

TRUE

I just said this on a group chat, and I want to say it here to every one of you who writes book: Don't neg your book.

six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

I swear to god, every Malt-o-Meal generic cereal name sounds like old-timer slang for gay people. You can’t tell me no one in the 1970s wasn’t referring to their gay neighbors as the “marshmallow mateys”

I have a lot of thoughts about why people devalue romance and romance writers and have expressed those thoughts in numerous long form places but it is INCREDIBLY telling that people doubt the technical and business savvy of people who work in an extremely feminized arm of publishing.

It is. You can actually search visible text on the redacted documents and the completely UNredacted document appears in the results 😭

The manuscripts catalogue at the British Library is back online! www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/... @ccockburn.bsky.social

The uncritical acceptance of ABA=good illustrates why we need not just more disabled reporters, editors, and other staff, but specifically disabled people covering disabiltiy and newsrooms respecting disability as a beat. Lot of parents-of quoted in here, but I don't see autistic self-advocates.

A common (ableist) mistake folks make is to discuss accommodation assuming that every disabled person knows they're disabled. So. Many. People. Don't. Know. They're. Disabled. Advice that begins "this doesn't apply if you have a disability" is STILL bad, because your audience *may not know*.

This headline is what it feels like to be a creative forced to market yourself.

I haven’t stopped thinking about this frog since learning about it a few days ago, so now this knowledge is your problem too. Meet the turtle frog (Myobatrachus gouldii) – a round burrow gremlin from Australia. It gets its name from looking like a turtle that lost its shell. 📸 Stephen Zozaya

Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

"Under this model, formerly colonized nations must ask permission to temporarily access their own heritage, accept conditions dictated by a British institution, and bear the financial and logistical burdens of care, while the museum retains ultimate control." British Museum fully delulu good lord

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

If you need a last minute Christmas present, consider haunted shoe.

It's like the 12 days of Streisanding.

When they ask me what radicalized me

People passing around the 60 Minutes CECOT piece like teenage boys from the 1980s passing around their dad's Playboy issues, and YouTube cannot take down ripped copies fast enough. Here's one that's interesting: a video of the video. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

people keep focusing on how Apple TV's biggest show ever has a lesbian main character, and missing out on the fact that she is also severely neurodivergent, depressed + medicated, at times unhinged and miserable, impulsive middle-aged lesbian finally, some actual representation for fucking once

While You Were Sleeping (1995) is a top tier Christmas movie. And Chicago movie. And romcom.

Also, the impermanence of the digital really bothers me. Sure, paper burns and libraries and archives are susceptible to fire, water, and neglect. BUT so much of the early Internet is gone and we're supposed to just ignore that. We must continue to use analog communication alongside digital.

Not sure about craziest archive story but this has to be one of my favorite archival documents ever, a note from abstract painter Jules Olitski to his wife Joan re: a favorite TV program: "Darling, EMERGENCY!!! I forgot to watch Judge Judy. Don't tape over Judy!" www.si.edu/object/AAADC...

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

He's making a list, He's nailing it high, Indulgences, No longer apply, Martin Luther's coming to town

I think we should just make new time periods. I think we should make it illegal to talk about the “ancient” “medieval” “modern” periods and you are required to invent your own time periods and you can’t just use the same dates but change the name a lil bit This would improve things and also be fun

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I am sure this is on these professionals' minds, but I want to say it out loud: sometimes the digging you want to do is related to the actual physical form of the object! Digitizing things is a 'lossy' operation! You also have to make certain those digital records remain available, which is work!

Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.

Yes, this is bog standard Trumper stuff: people who are just normal stroppy arseholes finding friends online and driving each other completely insane, alienating their own friends and family as they become increasingly wacky and difficult to be around.

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

If this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.

Nonbinary Awareness Week is the week surrounding Nonbinary People's Day on July 14. This week, we're highlighting Lammys winners & finalists by & about nonbinary folks in the memoir, sci-fi, & nonfiction genres.

They're wrong. And we have the receipts. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

Describing the “loan” of objects taken through colonial violence as “positive” or “very innovative” doesn’t hold up. It leaves the colonial system that put those objects there completely intact. news.artnet.com/art-world/br...

"Trans journalists are already creating an archive of how the moment is impacting us. But if cis journalists don’t step up to the task this year, it’s no longer a failure of their research. It’s a failure of their humanity." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/cis-...

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

“But that praise usually masks the reality that we’re absorbing stress the system refuses to hold. We become the buffer, the translator, the proof of concept, the person who makes things work without ever being asked what it costs us.” open.substack.com/pub/blckgirl...

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

I’m embarrassed for these people. I was at a writing retreat this summer that suggested we use genai for ideation. They told academics to use a plagiarism machine for ideas. If you are doing this, do us all a favor and leave the field. If you have no more ideas, you shouldn’t be an academic.

Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.

It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.