YouTube data is shocking and a bit counterintuitive to me, so I'll be checking out the paper later. Any creators or someone on the ground want to comment? Is this just a case of Jimi Hendrix not being as big as he was in the 60s, or does "postliterate society" include video longer than 30 seconds

Overall social media use is also declining. Between 2020 and 2024, more Americans — especially the youngest (18–24) and oldest (65+) — report using no social media at all. A small group of heavy users remains, but the middle is thinning out.

i'm growing pretty tired of U.S.A.'s managed protest culture

"Péter Magyar" is almost as crazy as "Charles de Gaulle." still waiting for a U.S. president named "Joey America"

learned today that Playboy upset its advertisers by running a cover and pictorial on lesbians in Oct 1975 and i'm a bit obsessed. like what are they doing here

not enough space hate on bsky for my tastes. wtf are we doing up there

"Travesti competing in a costume contest at the João Caetano Theater, Rio de Janeiro, 1957." From James Green's *Além do Carnaval*, pg. 361, crediting the State Archives of São Paolo.

i just want to know where she gets her corsets

I've been reading the autobiography of Madame Satã, which reports that when he performed *transformista* drag in 1928 Brazil (as "Mulata de Balacochê") the audience shouted "Salve ela a boneca linda," translating literally to something like "Hail to the beautiful doll." We should bring that back

I wrote about the Bund and jail support for Harpers Bazaar. Thank you @prisonculture.bsky.social for your beautiful quote www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

Wrote about the conversion therapy Supreme Court decision and being a survivor for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

maybe the reason why discussions about AI on here are so bad is because college administration has been systematically dismantling all the STS departments

Your trans kid was born this way

Gay Russian Dissident Survives ICE Detention. Now He's Talking. (EXCLUSIVE) Maksim Borisov spent 13 months in the Eloy ICE Detention Center in Arizona where he saw countless acts of cruelty and malice, esp. against the LGBTQ community. This is his story: migrantinsider.com/p/gay-russia...

i wish there were a clear way to monetize knowing stuff like this

i assume this is a reference to the Illuminatus! Trilogy, a set of satirical conspiracy theory novels featuring hyperintelligent dolphins and sacred geometry which was widely revered by the hacker community of the 1980s

difficult research ask but i'm hoping to locate a rare 1967 Brazilian short film called "Lapa 67" directed by Renato Neumann. if anyone has any idea where to search or who to email, please reach out

My book came out the same day as Lindy’s and has gotten far less attention. But may I humbly submit that if you’d like to know who ACTUALLY killed Roe, you should skip Helen Lewis and instead read…this book? bookshop.org/p/books/kill...

rare and perfect opportunity to use my favorite react video clip ever

[vocal director from inside the anime villain recording studio] hey, that was good, great delivery on that last line. but could you make it sound a bit more homosexual

Yeah true, I think a lot of people also miss that for a really broad protest like this it's actually more of a grievance faire where people table and recruit people and connect and so on. This has its own utility in addition to the general idea of showcasing a kind of baseline dissent.

Kathy Hochul almost singlehandedly tried to sink congestion pricing... Folks should read this piece for a taste of her fecklessness. We deserve better leadership in NY: nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/01/06/h...

It's weird how there's been a backlash against "slop" without a corresponding revival in high culture. I see approximately 60,000 posts bemoaning "slop" for every post about opera or ballet or literature above the YA level.

good morning everyone today i'm thinking about this 420 B.C. vase painting of a "depilation scene" where a woman has her public hair trimmed by Eros, god of love

Few thoughts as an immigration courtwatcher: 1) ICE hasn't been in NYC courthouses for a month. The message was recieved (New Yorkers flake on immigration hearings more often), they just motion to pretermit everything now, tactics have shifted to TSA nonsense etc. Attorney absolutely knew months ago

instead of teachers the most expensive private education program in the state will have "guides" with prior teaching experience, a $100,000 starting salary, and a 10:1 student-teacher ratio. incredible democratizing labor-saving technology we have here

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be forced to defend its detention practices inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza in a trial slated for the end of May www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/25/i...

i loved the harry potter books as a kid because i thought they were nonfiction. when i turned 11 and discovered i still had to live with my parents i cursed the series forever and promised i'd only read "adult books," which then meant to me The Da Vinci Code, followed by The Odyssey

So happy to have read this essay by @charoshane.bsky.social about Daniel Berrigan. This is how you write about a complex person. www.bookforum.com/print/3203/f...

#OtD 21 Mar 1973 the Mental Patients Union was formed in London. They argued that like workers joining unions, mental health patients needed to organise as well, putting forward a list of 24 demands to improve their conditions stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9410...

ok i am truly not one to call a Gazan support account on bluesky a scam but i do in fact have my doubts about the repost of my random comment .00001 seconds after i made it by @ abcd384 dot fluester dot ai

circling back to this

the general weirdness of the film Indecent Proposal makes much more sense when you realize the book it was based on is about an IDF veteran letting an Arab billionaire sleep with his shiksa wife

ok im finally watching Jean Genet's The Maids and i did not know he was getting this lesbian-coded late in life www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdCT...

Working in the arts without rich parents, or indeed any parents, feels increasingly impossible.

I am very much not an expert and haven't located the original, but the passage is included and extended in an additional secondary source with commentary and references: rboustan.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/file...

i really started to think about Jesus Christ differently when i learned his name should actually be Josh. like that's just some guy

this quote seems outrageously on the nose for something that was literally written when Jesus Christ was literally a teenager???? hashtag wehavealwaysbeenhere

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

i can already tell i was eating here but if in a month we all pass around some paywalled article from The New Yorker et al. about this with commentary pretending as though we've actually read it the CEO of reddit has to buy me a beer

it's less that AI can produce work of quality than that it is testing the care threshold of various major institutions that have been systematically lowering theirs for decades. for instance obviously college students can ChatGPT an essay they give the adjunct teaching 400 students across 3 colleges

unfortunately the only way to end this ongoing power grab by hyperwealthy psychopaths who will destroy everything of moral value in U.S. life to expand profit margins by 2% is to strip them of all they own through a militant struggle in which we must be prepared to sacrifice our lives. or whatever

Roseberry has beautiful designs but you get the sense sometimes he doesn't really understand (or care) what Schiaperelli's surrealism or sexual politics were about. this is soooo stupid tacky dumb American sexy and adds no mystery. comparison with Elsa's use of key motifs seems obvious

spending some of my Spanish language study reading about Franco and it's helpful to consider that fascism isn't always a flash-in-the-pan horror but sometimes an enduring regime with a "controversial" political legacy of illiberalism which crosses over and interweaves with various democratic norms

An excellent analysis of the war on Black studies that also includes a deeply perceptive critique of the neoliberal logic of valuing disciplines based on # of undergrad majors: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...