I've noticed a "fun" phenomenon on Google Translate (which I use to help build flashcards off audio) where when I accidentally translate a Spanish word in English to Spanish the machine spits out gibberish, *which is always themed on petroleum*. Fifth time, very ominous.

Translated into English for the first time, on the anniversary of his death, signed by Durruti himself, the Durruti Column's formal refusal of the government's militarization decree. historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...

"spending my time" is such an insane little momento mori just thrown into casual English speech

its funny being a queer theory refugee getting very into language learning because i keep encountering the word "structuralist" in a totally different original context

i love this article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

when i brought up to the plagiarizing students in question the idea of an addiction and dependence on ChatGPT that was corroding their ability to think, organize, function, and succeed in life they were all just like damn. i hadnt thought about it like that. let me ask ChatGPT

me at the Metropolitan Museum of Art whenever the security guard looks away

US immigration officers posing as US immigration officers have also been doing these things as part of their job description, so it's difficult to differentiate

31-year-old single female feverishly looking up Zohran Mamdani's margin of victory at 62.5% of votes counted GIRL YOURE WORRIED ABOUT THE WRONG MAN DATE

several days ago i got my advance copy of Gendertrash, a compilation from @littlepuss.net of the legendary 90s trans zine, which releases today. only holding it did i really grasp the significance of the repub, amount of lost material recovered, and the honor of being asked to write the afterword. x

oh they were gooning

How is this worse than the buildup to Iraq?

Today was my first time doing immigration courtwatching in 2 months, but it was also the first time I was really able to understand some of the questions and provide answers in Spanish. The feeling of satisfaction is profound. Language learning pays off everyone, keep up the study

Can anyone recommend me the best history book about May 68 in France? Can be in French

#OtD 21 Oct 1929 anarchist, feminist, sci-fi and fantasy novelist Ursula K. Le Guin was born in Berkeley, California. We have made available some of her little-known works in our online store. Check them out here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

Yes, delighted to review the new edition of MEMORIES THAT SMELL LIKE GASOLINE by David Wojnarowicz, one of my favorite books, for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social💥 lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-fe...

my big issue with "enshittification" as a term is that it represents what it critiques: a general decline in facility with metaphor, overall literary cleverness, public intellectual culture itself. Compare with a term like Twain's "The Gilded Age"

these quotes are from the 1880s!

This is the result of the Rufo experiment at New College of Florida: more spending for worse results. Extrapolating to how this will work more broadly across the country isn’t difficult.

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists. I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

So many crazy details in Ben Terris's story about Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski, who we can confirm are not only dating but running DHS together: nymag.com/intelligence...

Sorry to hear that Bluestockings is closing. www.bluestockings.com

My current read of Richard Hofstadter's *Anti-Intellectualism in American Life* (1963) is genuinely disarming me in how quintessentially transphobic this genre of conservative rhetoric already was in the 1940s. This example is just one of many, from the first 50 pages alone

In Bukele’s #ElSalvador, he is the only person who is above the law. The road ahead is long. Even the first step—telling the truth—is officially considered a crime. My contribution for the latest @dissentmag.bsky.social, a powerful issue that comes out today. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-pe...

Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.

this is literally how i found out what im doing jail support for lmaoooo

Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women (1991)

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

i actually tried to get a day job where i gallivant around evangelical churches generating youtube clips of "communist transsexual DESTROYS rightwing chud" but unfortunately no billionaire investment managers at the Republican National Convention would fund the project

one of the nice things about being an adjunct in an era of overt academic repression by fascists is that i still say whatever i want to students... like what are they going to do, continue not giving me health insurance? take away the job no one wants?

if the evidence is real (legitimately big if) this case really does feel strikingly similar to John Wojtowicz -- a mostly uneducated white guy bungles an act of egoistic passion (which he has mistaken for love) after a downtrodden woman offers him a modicum of affection. or whatever, who knows

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

not a Doge Day Afternoon

One Piece flag at the Nepal Gen-Z protests.

"This [much] is also true for the period of McCarthyism in the United States: no intellectual 'cavalry' appeared to repel the patriotic hysteria. Chance had it that Joseph McCarthy finally attacked the heads of the armed forces, which had the effect of reluctantly bringing in the real cavalry..."

Hell Gate joined Austrian Vice-Chancellor Andreas Babler—leader of the country's Social Democratic Party—on a recent tour of Brooklyn rent-stabilized apartments, where he had some advice for New York lawmakers (and a warning for his fellow Austrians)

Three people died on Rikers Island in the last two weeks. Twelve people have died there so far this year. Forty-five since Eric Adams took office. Does anyone with any power care to stop this? Do New Yorkers care to make them?

in fact they did charge a guy, and who wrote the attached address in july abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/20510/

this is your annual reminder to please take off your hetero-imitative frogskin and dance to a lesbian/gay spirit

In absence of the "literary" right-wing intelligentsia of 1930s fascist regimes who composed the notorious "treason of the clerks," Trumpism has found its allies in the bloated edifice of "college administrators," thoughtless overpaid do-nothings eager to do his bidding before being asked

in that case i strongly recommend "here comes the sun" by bill mckibben

banning trans people from joining the military, buying guns, and getting married would be pretty cool if it was like an initial rollout program for the rest of the country and not a calculated effort to invent a precarious class of second rate citizens

transphobia is so society-warping it literally has English politicians rallying behind the right of Irish Catholics to incite violence

For those of you who have forgotten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBKu...

a completely brainless take machine designed only to tickle geriatric podcast enjoyers with the vague implication of truth, as disciplined, unflappable, and pleasant to encounter as boxer briefs on a clothesline

youll never be her

'Los Angeles (1937)' www.commondreams.org/views/2018/1...