Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.

Why are you provoking the spider demons. They are going to pull you in and then start expanding their spider city at a supernatural rate.

[just a little reminder that feminism and trans rights are part of the same fight for a better, fairer world for everyone]

The remains of the mighty basilica wall at Roman Wroxeter (Viriconium) in Shropshire. Established by the end of the 1st century AD, Viriconium was one of the largest cities in Roman Britain. 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Wroxeter #Shropshire

In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting: - AI skip tracing - AI face recognition - Cell tower spoofing vehicles - Signal exploitation equipment - 6 months of MREs for detainees - Detainee transport vans - Device cracking & data exploit firms

while I have people's attention today can I tell you about Zakat? I learned of them from Sami Zayn. they do amazing work around the world -- in Gaza, in Sudan, in Bosnia...they have a migrant shelter in Chicago...an org worth knowing! www.zakat.org

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

"your passport says you're 5'7" but you were 1'8" when you were born so that's what we're listing" this is what that sounds like

This is an affront to life 🙂

Delighted to have contributed to this article. 👇 COVID19 hasn’t gone away, and continued SARSCoV2 surveillance is critical.

Zohran Mamdani’s victory gave us hope that justice is still possible. I am a father trying to protect my children from cold and hunger, but blankets, medicine, and food are beyond my reach. I ask with a heavy heart, any support, even small, brings real warmth and life to them. 💔🙏 gofund.me/edd687b8

"I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets." Eugene V. Debs, born on this day in 1855

Friends— here it is. Updated & expanded thanks to the space afforded to me in the @therumpus.net & the guidance of the brilliant @roxanegay.bsky.social’s edits. The win centers Muslims humanity — but what does that mean in a country that rejects that? therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...

The repudiation of fascism, transphobia, and racism of all stripes across the country, coinciding with an absolutely beautiful day here, is quite heartening!

The correctest take

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

Ok yall we’re doing something bold, life-and-death—and beautiful. Please share!! We have 18 HOURS to get Mai urgent funds to bring her baby into the world this week. Anything helps and goes towards her C-section costs, medicine, diapers, and more. 169/1000

“And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.”

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

score one for "the pundits are projecting their own preoccupations onto the electorate"

A #Roman helmet with a bit of a decorative surprise - on the back, it features two little mice chasing after loaves of panis quadratus bread. Made about 1850 years ago, it once belonged to a soldier named Julius Mansuetus - did he choose this unusual decoration? 🐭 (📷Christies) 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

"I could smell the onions and mustard"

Please follow my account so more people can see my story and help me stay alive. 💔 My name is Reem, and I’m from Gaza Life here has become unbearable hunger, cold, and exhaustion every single day. I’m suffering from anemia and severe malnutrition More talk in the first comment gofund.me/de96cb50

Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.

Had a delightful chat with @colewehrle.bsky.social recently about the practical and artistic aspects of board game design, and the meaning it creates. There were so many thoughtful threads of conversation to follow that I had to split the interview into two parts. www.wargamer.com/board-games/...

Cuomo’s final pitch to voters:

Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.

A tiny but very charming #Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a squatting #monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, #Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. Photo: Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana 🏺 #archaeology

#MosaicMonday takes us back to the #MuseodelleCiviltà in #Rome, this time to look at the dazzling #opussectile floor of the #domus of #PortaMarina from #OstiaAntica, 385-388 CE. Its complex #geometric design makes it the most perfect floor of its kind in #LateAntiquity. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Last year was the hottest on record, and was likely the hottest in at least 125,000 years.

A hoagie with a ballistic coefficient of 0.1 and a muzzle velocity of 40 ft/s can be humiliating up to 20 feet away, UNLESS in a full metal jacket (tin foil), in which case 30-35 feet for lethal effects on target's ego

Back in June, I gave the keynote address at the American Library Association's Carnegie Awards, and I'm very pleased that @literaryhub.bsky.social has republished the full text of my speech:

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This is DC. This is not normal. Authoritarians want us to get used to even more uniformed folks with even more guns. They want us to look away. Don't. This. Is. Not. Normal.

The freedom to move from one geographical location to another, unimpeded by the state and by capital and the arbitrary lines on a map that exist to serve capital and the state, is an absolute moral right.

Les femmes palestiniennes victimes de génocide sont privées de soin (notamment car les hôpitaux ont été détruits par l'Etat d'Israël) et n'ont pas les capacités de se fournir en protections menstruelles. Une violence menstruelle qui s'ajoute au reste. Si vous pouvez aider 👇

To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.

Israel’s Defence Minister is accusing the IDF’s top lawyer of spreading blood libel because the lawyer leaked a video of IDF soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnsD... This video is so good, a 2 hour deep dive into the many Fausts

5 hours left ‼️ As the world disappears this 'slow' genocide from headlines, we must redouble our duty to Palestinians and Palestinian life. Our attention matters. Help six families with: - Food - still malnourished - Shelter - still displaced - Healthcare - still no medical aid entering 322/1000

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

For all the (lack of) coverage it's received, you could be forgiven for not knowing that Israel invaded Syria, occupied several hundred square miles, and is now deploying its West Bank tactics to cut Syrian villages off from each other.

Just released another video on Sudan. This is directed at people who've been horrified by the capture of al-Fasher and the massacres by the RSF militia, but don't know enough about Sudan, who are a bit late to the game (but its fine, its better late than never). www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-6u...