me: I’m going through my kick ass and take names era my wife: yeah? me: not really, I’m much too tired. But ~spiritually

i am tired of having to listen to dumb assholes just because they have a lot of money

In other news, the driver of the bus I just got on looks like Wilson Cruz, and I tried hard not to ogle him. I was helped by the fact that it would've been hella obvious if I just stood there after tapping my card. [Internal monologue: That's not the only thing I'd like to tap.]

🚨PSA:🚨 When there's an emergency vehicle approaching from behind with lights and sirens going, pull over to the side of the road before you stop. It's hard for an ambulance to get past if you're stopped in the middle of the road. Signed, someone flabergasted that it's necessary to explain this.

Some of the vertical grab bars on the bus run right next to seats and where a passenger's head could be. I was hurriedly trying to make my way to a seat when, while quickly releasing and withdrawing my hand from a bar while passing, I accidentally smacked someone in the head. 1/

If you send me a package via Fedex, I'll assume that means you hate me.

Hope you are having as amazing a day as this little guy!

The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.

Thread.

In 1970, Regan’s education advisor famously said “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow [to go through higher education].” They said the quiet part out loud over fifty years ago. An educated public is a threat to fascism.

Well, isn't this just a horrifying addition to what is a horrifying (and apparently long-running) thread.

No, going from $600 to $10 is not a 600% decrease

Which Mystic, my latest poll: www.patreon.com/posts/156310...

[Raises hands in the air while making a pitch] Hear me out. The Donald John Trump Damnatio Memoriae Latrine.

Looking at options for Star Trek tonight, I saw the DS9 episode playing was the two-part episode about the Bell Riots. Felt like I needed something further removed from reality and opted for the Voyager episode about an orbital tether.

Happy for Hungary. Hoping we can recreate it in the U.S., including the 2/3rds majority.

IMPORTANT! 😺 PLEASE CLICK THROUGH AND READ!

"Space... the final frontier."

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

For your citing purposes, U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against genocide: 18 U.S.C § 1091; U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against wantonly destroying infrastructure 18 U.S.C § 2441 which incorporates by reference Geneva Convention IV art. 147.

Greetings. Just wanted to drop some random appreciation for the moral compass (and sentient being of "action") that is Mr. Saru, and his human counterpart, @actordougjones.bsky.social.

P.S. I voted "Yes" today.

I love that "Justice for Democracy PAC" keeps sending me mailers to vote "No" in the Virginia special election because it reminds me that I still need to head down to city hall and vote "Yes."

Babies are multi-modal sensors that poop.

Kudos to Jack on the silver line. He struck up a conversation with a random woman on the metro, opening with, "Are you Persian?" He's already complimented her name and her hair (his mother has hair like that, apparently). She's giggling and engaging in the back-and-forth, too. 1/🧵

This is a wish list of things that were not achievable in the original JCPOA, not a summary of the previous deal bsky.app/profile/nucl...

I recently saw the Star Trek:TNG episode "Starship Mine." The main crux of the story was about how any serious rider has their own saddle (a joke), but I especially liked the opening sequence where Data was practicing small talk. 1/ 🧵

The situation in the U.S. seems to keep getting more and more precarious for many people, including our trans friends and loved ones. Friends of mine are looking to emigrate somewhere safer while it's still possible, and I wanted to ask for your help if you're able to chip in so they can get there.

Hey, y'all. Not that anyone reads this, but I'm logging out of Bluesky for a bit. Even scrolling pictures of cute animals is insufficient to keep me going. While my feed here isn't toxic, it's depressing. I don't have the mental, emotional, or physical energy to process any of this right now. Later.

Tensorflow? Call* me when you have a Relaxerflow. *No, don't actually call me. Just send a text.

The one thing keeping me going right now is that, if I were to die, that would mean one less person donating platelets to help the people who need them. Aside from that, everything is trash. I'll probably die alone, this timeline sucks, and I've very little real agency with anything else in my life.

As transgender Kansans grapple with a challenging new reality today, and the rest of the nation watches what’s happening in the Sunflower State, here’s a thread of @kansasreflector.com stories and opinion pieces about SB 244. (1/15) #ksleg #trans #lgbtq

This is Wiley. He has never seen snow before and wants to make sure he gets a real good look at it. For science. 12/10 (IG: smileywileydog)

God imagine being such a loser Chuck Schumer owns you

"Oh, no, no, no. You see, it was *The Onion* of Delphi. One of many in a long line of history's finest news sources. Here, let me show you a more recent example."

I warned that Paragon Health Institute would weaponize the DOGE Medicaid data release. Yesterday they published a brief targeting HCBS, autism services, medical transportation, and addiction treatment, core services disabled people rely on, as inherently fraudulent. www.patreon.com/posts/151112...

Wanted: Contractors for the next Dachau.

If for some reason I found myself as an archivist assigned to Scarif and realized I had access to the plans for the Death Star, I'd definitely send them to @marisakabas.bsky.social.

“How much would you charge a stranger to kill your child?” As a comms person, I was like, subject line of the year, hot damn As a struggling human, I was like [infinite scream]

If you can get past the opening line — hell of a job at grabbing the reader's attention — Matthew has done an amazing job. While the subject matter left me with a disgusted look on my face, I enjoyed reading the analysis and prose with which Matthew systematically dismantled this proposal.

“maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don’t know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse, but we know enough.”

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Happy Black History Month 🖤✨ Libraries and books are from perfect. The Dewey Decimal System is imperfect. But we will never forget the work of Dorothy B. Porter. She decolonized the Dewey Decimal System. She helped us belong in libraries, in books. We celebrate and thank you, Dorothy B. Porter 💜📚

Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social Happy Black History Month

I tip my hat to you, @jonathancapehart.bsky.social, and commend your patience on-air. I just heard your commentary on PBS News Hour, and listening over the radio, I can only imagine your body language matched how frustrated you sounded with the other guest, whoever he was.

From a science communication perspective, I think this is brilliant. You lure folks in with a clip of a cute little tardigrade moseying along, minding its business, then you drop a thread — comprehensible to a layperson — talking about research using tardigrade hardiness to help cancer patients.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

PSA: If your timeline starts to repeat itself or scroll upon material you've already seen, that means you're done doomscrolling. Either switch over to the "Cute Animals" channel, or log out and grab a nice book. You're welcome.

If you see this, you must click through and admire the photos in this thread. No leaving until you crack a smile of joy.