CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

When it is extremely hot out and I'm sad my body is physiologically like "Time to watch Love Island"

Always worth remembering that Insider Higher Ed is owned by Times Higher Education, a one-time industry publication which has been remade as a data-analytic consultancy AND which is itself owned by Inflexion Private Equity.

An unsolicited recommendation

[old man voice] Shallots are getting too big

Hey, in the sun peeps: If you have sensitive skin and eyes like me, Sephora’s sun kit is a good way to try multiple face sunscreens without dropping a ton of $. They are all travel size and a variety of SPFs and mineral/non-mineral. $38 for 13 travel size samples plus one lip screen.

Trying to go for a relaxing walk but getting further stressed out by all the invasive species in my neighbors' yards

'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Party That Unilaterally Surrenders

Dissociated and bought so many purple flowers

BREAKING (again, sorry) the order is in: The Fifth Circuit's ruling is again blocked. Mifepristone remains available via telehealth. Alito and Thomas dissent. Thomas' dissent mentions the Comstock Act, the 1873 anti vice law conservatives want to use to ban mailing abortion pills.

If loving yourself when others cannot is how we fight transphobia and bigotry – well, as Jo says, “that’s why I do it.”

I could never truly be a Bluesky person because no part of me finds changing one word of a movie title clever or funny

Our summer creative writing program for teens at the museum had 3x the usual number of applicants this year. Make of that what you will.

looking to speak to a freelance/independent journalist in the montgomery, alabama area about a potential assignment. message marisakabas.04 on signal!

Hate all these AI campaign flyers

Colleges will under-hire, expend zero time or resources to expand a major, and sink money into expensive boondoggle programs that send students into other pathways and then turn around and say the market has spoken so they’re shutting down a major.

In 9th grade someone asked this girl in my class what kind of music she listened to but she didn't listen to music so she panicked and was like "Oh, I just listen to whale sounds" and I think about this every day

Black people have been the Democratic party's most loyal constituency for the past 60 years. Does it appear that the party is acting as though it is experiencing an existential crisis?

very much of the view that a democratic congress should wield the guarantee clause against ad hoc, mid-decade redistricting, a practice which is an end run against representative government itself

Social Hygiene Association

I admire the hell out of these Texas Tech students, who held a funeral for academic freedom: pen.org/texas-tech-a...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

What did you buy me for the Internet Archive's 30th birthday tomorrow?

I sent so many emails today and this might actually be possible

I actually think we should have two presidents and they should be the Tennessee Justins

When writing an academic book proposal and anticipating potential audiences, how do you tactfully broach the name recognition that proceeds from actively shitposting through a global pandemic?

What if we just let Canvas die?

Another must-listen episode from @mattseybold.bsky.social. Seriously, don’t miss it.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Hack student loans next

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

solastalgia | noun | sadness or melancholy due to environmental loss

"College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be"

Tornado season is good actually because now I have a weather radio and can listen to the weather dispatch for about 3 seconds before finding Bruce Springsteen on the AM dial

If you teach classes online at a Canvas school, what are you doing to rely on Canvas less?

Love living in apocalyptic times when the Trader Joe's cashier initiates small talk by asking "Are you worried about the storm later?"

What if the Spurs did like a Cormac McCarthy themed court instead

Why are there so many DJs in public nowadays

For those who are reading Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois for the first time or again, here are some sources I recommend to read along with it, if you haven’t read them.

The show hit 50k downloads last night (🥹) dropping an episode on the Closing of the American Mind today feels like a fitting way to celebrate

Today's mood: Monira al Qadiri, "First Sun," current Public Art Fund installation at 5th Ave. & 60th St. entrance to Central Park www.publicartfund.org/exhibitions/...

Planchette would be a beautiful name for a girl

Happy May Day! Do as @ashleyrattner.bsky.social suggests and tape this 1911 IWW image to your mirror. Recite the text to yourself as often as needed. publicdomainreview.org/collection/p...

New Harmony enthusiasts! I just submitted a proposal to this and you should too: www.owenmaclure200.com/event-detail...

My union's book club is reading this now and you should too

I just got a sticker of Pierre in his little catsuit spelling out HOT TO GO and can't even think of a surface prominent enough to show it off

I don't watch this show and won't ever but this seems like an evergreen message for any show or anything ever. Just plain useful

Personally I would like to see more Love Island contestants sharing PSAs about snapping turtle safety

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.