always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

This pattern I'm describing is in no small part linked to the reactions people are having to moral injury, I would guess bsky.app/profile/what...

Takes an enormous amount of courage + determination. It is so easy to pretend none of this is possible to change, or that you in particular are not the one to join in to help change it, or that it's 'too late' for you in particular. Just really encouraged by the stories i hear like this.

Valid.

Gonna tell the children this was a Galentine's tradition.

The first and only thing he should be known for and remembered for. It should be the only thing he's ever asked about.

Immeasurable contribution to music. Rest easy

[leftistly] "trump doesn't care about the law! he can do anything!! we've already lost!!!" meanwhile

Seriously!

"...because all of it is a big fat shit test that consists of women screaming like harpies to be put back into line." And fun fact: You can never know when/if the man you're in an elevator with, working with/for, sitting next to, shooting the shit with, at any moment of your life, thinks like this.

One of the truest things ever said, by a long, long shot.

I distinctly remember this emergency protest. Seeing how quickly folks mobilized was inspiring. www.cambridgeday.com/2025/03/26/t...

I’m not sure “farms” and “natural landscapes” are the same thing but still, seems good

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

post a banger that isn't in English youtu.be/gLlUXlE5ULc?...

Tonights recipe was also yum yum yum

post a banger that isn't in English

I keep being like why are people so willing to fight for their own demise but these are the same people who filled in pools rather than just let Black people have shared access to them so

Bluesky app updated and instead of showing a timeline it simply shows me the full text of Moby Dick while the Leekspin plays on a loop. Now this is true social media

Right now I’m a little misty because the gent we’re buying from is preparing his final submission to the Amalgamated Printer's Association—a flyer outlining the history of his press from 1978-2026 The last item in the timeline is @skeuomorphpress.org’s "working museum"

I’ve been waiting to share until the ink was dry—but in <2 weeks I’ll be driving up to Iowa with our stalwart head of facilities to pick up 248† new metal & wood fonts for @skeuomorphpress.org — we’re buying the collection of a printer retiring at just 85 years old †yes, you read that right—248

THANK YOU to everyone who has shared & sent supplies! I muted the original thread because I'm having a rough day and there's only so much weirdness from the internet I can deal with on rough days, but trust me when I say: the folks you are helping are very grateful. 💓

Important: - I finally have the opportunity to do an event with @nneka.bsky.social - we look very cute

The Oklahoma governor has signed an executive order to phase out tenure. In Tennessee, a similar law is being discussed, while Georgia already has one university without tenure - not to speak of "post-tenure review" being introduced in more and more states.

In @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social 's Annihilation, he describes a journal where the writer just describes a thistle in excruciating detail as a way of avoiding discussing the monster in the room. That's what this source feels like. I might be wrong, but that's the vibe.

And, again, the agent-doxxed-and-then-attacked scenario the masks ostensibly are intended to prevent has never actually occurred. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

Sports gambling is way worse than weed tho

“Pussy hats were performative and weren’t effective“ idk lil buddy you are still bitching about ‘em nine human earth years later that seems pretty effective to me???

Also, the Pussy Hats themselves may not have changed, but they were represnetative of a larger shift within politics where suburban white female voters with college degrees became increasingly more Democratic after they had historically been swing voters.

There is no hell hot enough for the architects of, and foot soldiers for, this series of horrors. Reminder: a handful of Republican congresspeople could stop this any time.

Over the weekend, I encountered someone who said that explaining to people why the hats "weren't helpful" was "exhausting." Friends, if this is how you are exhausting yourselves, you aren't doing the movement any favors. I am tired, too, but more fruitfully so.

Early in the pandemic, when I needed to network with other Menominee folks about mutual aid, everyone told me to talk to those women, and they were 100% right. The process of making things together and putting those things out into the world is important, and dismissing that is often masculinist BS.

I suppose I also take this personally bc attacks on craftivism land poorly with me as a Native person. Beading together, making regalia, sewing in groups — this is at the heart of how the women on my reservation gather to do healing work, political ed, and mutual aid. This has long been true.

Most political performances don't accomplish anything this concrete btw. I applaud the people who've pulled this off.

I say this regularly. People use performative as a substitute for 'inauthentic' and we could all just say the words we mean to say. Erving Goffman helps us to understand that we perform all of the time in real life. Life itself is often a performance of self.

Look, all you need to know about the situation is that Green Day sang "American Idiot" at the opening and explicitly told ICE to quit their jobs at their show on Saturday and Bad Bunny said a bunch of stuff in Spanish and alllll the headlines and angry posts are about Bad Bunny. You know why.

Keegan nails my problems with the framing of this piece. In reality, it's a great example of meeting students where they are. Twisting the idea to turn it as a cudgel against some perceived antagonist is cheap.

As @johnpfaff.bsky.social pointed out, my "every study" is wrong as some recent data suggests that prison may prevent death from ODs and homicides, etc, as well as care for untreated illnesses etc. See direct.mit.edu/rest/article...

There is no "fixing" detention centers. We are knowingly killing people as a policy choice.

Every study shows that being in a jail or prison, no matter how "nice" or whatever, shortens your lifespan. It does. So the government is taking years off the lives of people, including children, when it opts to put them in jail. www.propublica.org/article/life...

Whistles are a tool used by communities. It is the communities that fight fascism. The whistles are just a way to aid communities in becoming communities. And the thing we do is just a tiny part of that.

I wanna say something: because of what we do (giving away free whistles to anyone who asks) we are in many ways public, whereas people organizing their neighborhoods, setting up child pick-up trees during ICE surges, and so forth, often are (and should not) be.

So this article just dropped. www.theverge.com/policy/87495...

Do you or a family member live in Idaho and rely on an HCBS waiver? Want to talk to a reporter about it? Please email sluterman at 19thnews dot org or DM. #JournoRequest

The core argument here is fine: challenge students in the classroom and you might be surprised at how they respond. I wish, though, he wouldn’t take shots at the idea we should “meet students where they are at.” I’m not sure he understands what that means.

I took down Andrew Cuomo, now I'm running for City Council to take on the cost of living crisis.

Climate injustice made an appearance at the Super Bowl last night. Most don't know that Puerto Rico struggles with reliable electricity due to systemic racism. The government refuses to invest in any real grid improvements, so lights will be kept on at resorts while Puerto Ricans sit in the dark.

Bad Bunny's historical advisor is an assistant professor at UW-Madison. Hell of a flex for your tenure file.