Some really big news out of Minnesota today! Story time. On a cold night in February, ICE agents chased a Alfredo, a DoorDash driver, through Minneapolis streets. Panicked, he called his partner and his best friend Julio: both urged him to come home. He almost made it. /1

It seems the rapist Neil Gaiman has reactivated his account. Wouldn't it be great if everybody blocked him? bsky.app/profile/neil...

Every May when I see people talk about being at Kalamazoo, I feel a little sad & nostalgic for academia. (I can make the nostalgia go away by remembering what grading papers was like, but still.)

Ugh, Bluesky has probably saved me from myself by kicking me back up to the top of my timeline and far away from a really dumb take I was about to reply to. (I went to that person's other posts to see if they just had a bad take or were evil. Then couldn't get back to the original post.)

"We commit to putting substantial resources behind ideas that are presently viewed with skepticism by scientists and scholars. By leveling the intellectual playing field, we seek to achieve a more democratic university to bring about a less democratic world."

Ralph was my first advisor when I started at UNC in 2002. He’s a super human being and scientist. Without his vast research we would have waited a lot longer for things like Remdesivir and vaccines. He should be getting a statue in recognition of his heroics. What’s happening is a disgrace.

The gumption of the young journalists here alone is worthy of commendation, but I’m most heartened by how local reporting by local people breaks through: “It’s like, ’Yeah, your granddaughter is going through this...it’s something different than Fox News.’” #icymi

I don’t think Americans with hypertension and various other treatable conditions deserve to die. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

In my second fun transportation experience today, I was almost run down by some jackass who was going waaaaay too fast out of a parking lot. I was crossing the driveway and he was nowhere in sight when I started. Naturally, he was a 60-ish white dude driving a red Mustang.

Me: rather than walk 45 minutes to the pharmacy that no bus goes to, I'll take a bus in the wrong direction to catch the once-an-hour bus that will drop me 10 minutes away! That's a good plan! The first bus: I'll be 15 minutes late so you miss your connection! Thank you for using public transport.

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Verses on Obi Wan (threade) Ther was a beardid man, an oolde EREMITE, Who knew the crafte of armes more than a lite; He lovid the Force syn he a youngling was, And eek trouthe and honour, and kickinge arse. Ful worthy was he in the auncient werres, For in thos tymes he foughte on manye sterres:

Americans were sold "We caught you here illegally, we're sending you back to your home country." Instead we got a torture victim being deported to Africa. It is worse than you think. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:

Be sure to watch the video with the sound on, because it turns out cougars purr.

Millennium. I have to look it up every time, including just now.

Incomparably fantastic portrait of a pensive, slightly melancholy man in the 1430s by Robert Campin, whose day was today.

Trans-focused gym with swimming pool. Cis people grudgingly allowed if they behave themselves.

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That feeling when you start reading a novel that is actually well-written and you realize how much professionally published fiction now is not. (I don't even mean explicitly "artistic" prose. I mean the story/characters have depth & complexity & richness beyond, like, the plot-necessary minimum.)

Dan Reed was a documentary filmmaker who specialized in terrorism and war when he detoured into very different terrain, explosive in other ways entirely: the accusations of child sexual abuse that have followed Michael Jackson since 1993.

Come join us for a month long readalong of Persuasion (my fav Austen novel ❤️) Reply to the quoted skeet to join #booksky

Amazon description (not a review, the official description) of a YA romance that is obviously a modern take on Emma: "it has references to the classic movie Clueless." If the nearest sea weren't a thousand miles away I'd go and throw myself in it.

bring back shame

If I were running Focus Features, I would be re-releasing Conclave about now.

It's reverse Robin Hood.

A new report from the University of California shows that the state's decision to raise the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20/hr didn’t hurt jobs, or raise prices much. Data from over 2,000 restaurants shows that the $20/hr minimum wage didn’t reduce employment. /1

3/3 Women of Ferrara busy with textile crafts, since that is the province of Minerva and she rules in March. By Francesco del Cossa, whose day is today.

Sleeping hunter, 1650. Remarkable work by Tomas Yepes, who usually painted still lifes and whose day was today.

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I also need vanilla cis people to grasp that having a sissification kink does not make the dude a trans woman. Being transgender is not a kink. Having a crossdressing + humiliation kink is not the same as being trans. A lot of y'all are hanging your whole ass out there on this.

I'm continually amazed at how many people on this platform still won't look at a bio, read more than one post in a thread, click an article link, or in any way seek context for what someone is saying

A federal judge has agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.

can we make this the new #1 most blocked account pls

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark.

My plan this morning was to check out a new coffee shop in my neighborhood. Got there and there are cop cars in the parking lot and signs everywhere for "Have coffee with a cop!" I may never actually go there now.

Reclaim! Azhe-giiwewining, a new Ojibwe‑language point‑and‑click adventure game, engages learners of all ages through story, culture and informal language use. The game offers a unique experience that language learners can access outside the classroom.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

Anyway HP was once a boarding school/ fantasy story about a boy finding himself embroiled in a wizarding world with an antifascist message, and you could discuss how successful it was at delivering that story (ok imo) and message (not ok imo). Now it is a tool of fascist oppression. The end.

Sometime in the future, when I’m feeling despair, it will help if I can remember that somewhere there is a warm and humorous woman who possesses institutional knowledge on the best ways to feed baby beavers.

The Mists of Avalon at 13. The right time to read TMoA is never, but the wrong time is definitely when you're a 13 year old trans boy who doesn't know it yet, and you don't have the skills to recognize toxic gender essentialism masquerading as feminism.

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer star, Nicholas Brendon, has passed away at the age of 54. 🕊️ Read More: bit.ly/3NAJybe

For anybody else who knew Rubynye and would like to contribute, there's a gofundme for her burial expenses. gofund.me/3d2cf4a13

"Sweet Home Alabama." I know these things are somewhat subjective (other people have answered with songs that I love) but surely we can agree that SHA is just icky?

Hot take, but I think access to health care shouldn't depend on being part of a couple and/or nuclear-ish family. (Must have someone with me for 24 hours post-surgery. I live alone, not in contact with family. It's a lot to ask of friends, especially because travel is also involved.) 1/2

Ah-ha! We found the true definition of "ultra-processed" food!

I can certainly tell you how human consciousness *doesn't* work: by selecting the next word in a sentence by mathematically probabilistic calculation derived from ingesting arbitrary terabytes of text and then applied to the last several (hundred) words received and generated.

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/