I made an abortion-themed mug at the request of a friend and made all proceeds benefit @reachfundct.bsky.social and SOMEONE BOUGHT ONE! REACH emailed and said they want to make the mug part of their permanent campaign so uh I think I'm a famous artist now? GET YOURS: www.bonfire.com/dont-talk-to...

"dominant gender classification practices are unsalvageable."

Back in high school social studies, I was taught that destroying evidence of a crime is not a neutral act that makes the crime impossible to prove, but rather is considered evidence *in itself* of the crime. Weird how that never seems to actually shake out when police or Republicans are involved.

Oy vey. #ITMFA

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If anyone is missing a large black dildo with suction cup base, check the left shoulder of westbound 94 right by the ramp from 61.

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There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments

Inappropriate fist-bump through curtains? Problematic drape dap.

No literally when I was looking for apartments in Monroe, Louisiana, I point blank asked someone if it was really a "bad neighborhood" or if they just meant that Black people live there. They blocked me, I got my answer. Lived in that complex for three years, no problem, great neighbors.

"Parasocial bonds with technology aren't a personal failing; they're an expected outcome of systems built to optimize attention and retention." I’m quoted in Star today about how AI systems are built to feel familiar and likable through social cues. starmagazine.com/parasocial-r...

#AbolishICE and bar everyone from any form of government service for the remainder of their natural lives.

We do not disbar enough lawyers for suborning perjury.

A couple days after this piece was published, I went to my local TDOR. I had lost a local friend that year to suicide and they were going to honor her that night. The small gathering was touching. I cried through my friend's commemoration and choked up each time one of the women I wrote about...

I tell my history students this all the time: Source lie. But they're all we have.

Never thought about it, but I suspect it goes back to horses. You ride a bike the same way you ride a horse. You drive a car because it's like a wagon or carriage (pretty sure 'car' is short for 'carriage, actually) with multiple horses hitched to the front, which you're not riding, but directing.

Yep

NOT in any way a criticism of the authors, but the Digital Failure I want to moan about today is UoL Press's inability to Zoterify its book web pages properly. And now I've faffed around with that, looking forward to reading the book...

Because a systematic, responsible, scholarly accounting of its complicated history requires more than Nietzschean buzzwords and Sakamoto Ryōma x Katsu Kaishū fanfiction: #FridayNightHistory Season 6, coming 2027, will cover Shinsengumi. Tell your friends.

Inappropriate fist-bump through curtains? Problematic drape dap.

There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments

The vaccine isn't working? Problematic phage trap.

The judge also wrote that the DOJ can't "use its administrative subpoena power to achieve what the Administration cannot accomplish through legislation: the elimination of medical care that Washington and other states explicitly protect.” www.autonomynews.co/doj-subpoena...

Apple is shoving AI into *other companies' apps* now. Give me a break.

Being and Nothingness 2: Fasting Fast Foodious

This is literally why the cloning program was developed in Star Wars: a shortage of reliable stormtroopers.

I think that – if it's found that the Brookings Institution boldfaced lied about who was on their Board of Trustees, and when – then perhaps that should color how folks regard its research products, public policy recommendations, fellows, etc. Perhaps there should be consequences for lying?

My best advice for other writers: read everything and anything you want! www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/a...

We do not disbar enough lawyers or impeach enough justices

And, also, if you run a business that regularly purchases shipping supplies: ULINE is run by some of the worst people on Earth. Get your boxes and tape elsewhere.

Republicans vote to kill.

Fuck.

If you don't stand up for the right to make, buy, and sell (legal, adult) porn, you stand to lose free speech rights far above and beyond the pornographic. (But even if this was not true, it's still worth fighting for the right to porn.) bsky.app/profile/acva...

I fundamentally do not understand why anyone is interested in these parlor tricks. It's outperformed nothing because recombining word patterns into a text isn't writing. Writing is born out of human experiences filtered through a unique sensibility. Only Han Kang can make more Han Kang.

I reformatted every machine I had with Windows on it. It all started with the inability to store things locally, with the default being EVERYTHING MUST BE IN CLOUD. WHY ARE YOU NOT CLOUDING? …and ended with “we’re going to take everything on your machine, and we mean everything, to feed our AI.”

When a serial cooperator is faced with a serial defector in the prisoner's dilemma, one needs to defect a few times to see if the other side can be brought back around to cooperating at least sometimes. There are dangers to mutual serial defection, but otherwise you just always lose.

When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities. 3/5

This is a great article to keep in mind if the Museum of the City of New York ever comes around demanding your (unpaid) labor, historians, or asking for cash donations.

Still masking, yeah.

UK fans!!! You can grab Motherlover (and so many more good Iron Circus books!) in this sale with discounted shipping!

WOWZERS! Bill Watterson's amazing Calvin and Hobbes turns 40 today! A tremendously influential comic that is as great today as it ever was! (Here's one of my homages. :) )

FNAF/Scott Cawthon should not be supported in any way. Don't buy/stream his games, give money to the franchise, watch the movies, etc. He uses his gains FROM FNAF to support harmful legislature and candidates on the right. Which is bad, yes? Stop supporting him. He deserves nothing.

just a reminder that this is probably illegal, as i understand it (I am not a lawyer)

"We are in the middle of a massive scandal of social and political elites palling around with one of the most infamous child sex traffickers in the world, and this is our political press? No wonder Epstein got away with it all so long...."

I mostly tilt at other windmills, but academics don’t have to participate in this economy. It’s a choice. You could make a different choice. you could do it tomorrow.

So of course a man like Summers would fraternize with a man like Epstein. And a man like Trump would surround himself with men like Musk and Thiel and Miller and Yarvin. All delicate egos swathed in delusion to justify their sense of entitlement, which only proves the inadequacy of their intellect.

The Against Generative AI bibliography over on my blog is now updated with full dates for each piece, making it easier to find new information (added almost daily): catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

Anyway, the Harvard I know is where elite figures are protected until they cause enough shame to the institution so that they are forced out. So keep up the disgust, disdain, and demands. Shame over Summers has worked before, and I think it can work again.

MTG is depending on people understanding her pronouncements through a modern Christian lens of sin expiated through a change of heart and unmediated access to divine forgiveness which obligates followers to follow suit, not any kind of reconciliation, repentance, remediation, or even accounting. No.