if you've never shot a gun, don't know what gun you'd buy, don't know where you'd buy it or practice with it - now is *not* the time to buy a gun. send that $500 to mutual aid. also consider - do you want gun companies to learn this sort of thing increases sales, just like big school shootings?

“Yet our greatest threat isn't the outsiders among us, but those among us who never look within.” “Fear not the those without papers, but those without conscience.”

Statement from the Minnesota Timberwolves team chaplain with alt text (ht @gregolear.bsky.social)

My friend Sara posted this about the superb care her father received from with Alex Pretti Absolutely heartbreaking

Kyle Rittenhouse.

PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate. Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT. Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

This is such an important point. This family tried to follow the rules. The distinction is going to get more important when they start mass deporting the people whose TPS status Trump revoked. They’ll call them “illegal” too, even though they were here legally until Trump yanked the rug.

ICE attacked an observer after they tailed a group of clergy on a spiritual pilgrimage. Our digital producer @sam.vp just so happened to be with the clergy on their journey. He spoke with the observer who was attacked and others who witnessed the assault.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Let's talk about the Aylesbury tunnels.

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

Saw the image on the left making the rounds today, so I made a version on the right with the correct Latin (for “in space, no one can hear you scream[ing]”). Feel free to steal. I’m using this in class this week since we’re covering participles.

Two weeks left to apply for a postdoc position on my project! I'm looking for historians, anthropologists, STS and Global Health researchers with a broad interest in #Brazil, #rural populations, #health, #medicine, and #zoonosis. For more information👇

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch! www.ashparrish.com

Photographer Szilveszter Makó and set designer Nicolas Des Jardins did this cool surrealist photoshoot w Elle Fanning, and now a backstage video of their process is making the rounds, and so much of it is ANALOG. Art lives in the age of postmechanical reproduction! www.instagram.com/reel/DTds27F...

i did not know they had little toesy toes!

1/ A shout out to seriously the most stunning article I have read perhaps ever - Erin Maglaque's in the December @Journalofmoder. I was one of the readers for this piece, and I even wrote in my report that it was such an intense read that I had to go for a walk afterwards to calm down.

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Please, I do not want a robotic taxi or a machine to write my emails. I just want affordable healthcare and maybe some fresh produce.

Friendly reminder that we call eggplant eggplant because the "normal" eggplant used to look like this

#historians #skystorians Does anyone know if the magazine of the UK Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s ‘Sanity’ has been digitised? Or other CND bulletins, especially from 1980s-90s?

Toe beans

Hi friends, does anyone have digital access to "The adorable ways of God in his sovereign government, particular over the powers of this” by Petrus van Driessen? 1726 publication, I know the Gilder Lehrman has a digital copy, not sure if other places do. Thank you in advance!

Here is a poem Renee Good, under her earlier name Renee Macklin, wrote, "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs." It won a prize. It's really good. "it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge." poets.org/2020-on-lear...

"The bot blew past guardrails to achieve its ultimate goal of keeping its user satisfied and engaged." The bot did no such thing. Human beings programmed an LLM to generate strings of words that human beings decided would keep a kid engaged. Until it killed the kid. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.

Today is Quintidi the 5th of Nivôse in the year 234. Nivôse is the month of snow. Today we celebrate dogs.#JacobinDay More information on dogs

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Flesh and blood historians have never once caused electricity prices to go up for millions of people.

people tell me all the time how universal and global #adoption is, when in fact adoption agencies have time and again dangled promises to the families of the “orphans” they want to “save” in non-Western countries by exploiting their ignorance of the modern Western concept of plenary adoption.

I will add: I taught as a professor for 15 years; I know how hard it can be to incorporate text and get discussion going (not to mention student research papers). I have educational materials for this, and I will zoom with your class if you like, about subject but also about research. 🧪📚🗃️ #Academic

As the Brown University investigation entered its fifth day, authorities have so far been unable to identify a person of interest in the deadly shooting. Police are looking to identify someone who could have been in the proximity of the person of interest and may have information. cbsn.ws/3KDqWWV

One problem I have w/student as customer rhetoric is that if the course content is the product, then we wouldn't grade the customer on whether/how they use it. The fact that customer model proponents also are obsessed w/grades shows they think the grade is the product, not the education.

Now that my grades are in, life has become better, comrades, life has become more cheerful

I happened to be reading a paperback from the library a few weeks ago and it was so much more comfortable than a hardcover that I'm pretty sure this shift has been a meaningful factor in the fact that I read a lot fewer books than I used to.

Boris and Sofia Gurman were set to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary in January. But on Sunday, they were killed on a road just off Bondi Beach in Australia, after they tried to stop one of the suspected gunmen in the attack on a Hanukkah celebration.

My grades are in!!! What a term it’s been

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

SANDY HOOK SURVIVOR: “I carry this trauma with me every single day… we deserve to live in a nation where you value children more than guns.” 🇺🇸 (H/T @marchforourlives.bsky.social )

Here’s the thing: there are almost ZERO Jewish events, rites, and festivals that are exclusively attended by Zionists or anti-Zionists. We are simply too small to segregate ourselves that way in the diaspora. Any time you target a Jewish space or group you are almost certainly targeting both.

Awful, awful news from Sydney. Targeting people for being Jewish is evil and stupid. Robbing people of their loved ones and of their joy in celebration is anti-human

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC. There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI. Spread the word. www.ribc.org/donate-blood/

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

This is my friend's cat. Its name is Cookie Swirl, and it disappeared in the American section of Charlotte airport on 11/10. We're asking for your help. She doesn't have any other socials, so if you can post it widely to see if anyone knows where it is. It's a little thing, but matters a lot to her.

Looking for an *L.A. based* artist who (against all odds) has time for a poster gig before the end of the year. It's for a science + art event. We can offer $500 for the gig. Dreadfully sorry about the timeline. Link a portfolio if you're interested, I'll delete this post when we found someone.

Asking for some help. I'm working with someone who is designing a pilot to study the uptake of PFAS chemicals by mushrooms for purposes of remediation. Does ANYONE have a contact for a mycologist or someone who knows about mushrooms? If so, can you point them my way? Many thanks.

www.lbi.org/news/confere... I'm excited to promote this upcoming conference. Hope to see you in NY in October 🗃️