amazing word

a perfect example of my theory that Americans absolute zero knowledge of Indonesia, one of the most important countries in the world, is bananas

I stopped engaging with DSA once the DC chapter voted down a proposal to have a committee to organize social events and fun engagement. Socialist politics without fun and community is a dead end dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group told the BMAG’s story in a landmark retrospective, the first of its kind to center this vital juncture in the development of modern Arab art. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

hell yeah

When you are smiling because you know you found just the right stick for the nest and your partner will be SO happy! #LakeCasitas #BaldEagles #Birds #Nature #Photography

You don’t think Adorno is political enough because your standards are too low! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

“Nurses should take over’ Amen. Excerpt from the New Yorker essay by Tatiana Schlossberg www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... #MedSky

These are among the oldest forests on earth, but they're running up against the new world of climate change--firefighting help badly needed! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/w...

no al pinche muro e360.yale.edu/features/jag...

Turkeys are flavorless and dry, and they want to live. This Thanksgiving, @mbolotnikova.bsky.social encourages you to challenge the status quo and embrace plant-based alternatives, have conversations about ethical food choices, and create more sustainable and compassionate traditions.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

People were asking earlier about people’s most conservative belief…

WE FOUND IT! We trekked day and night through tiger-patrolled Sumatran rainforests accessible only under permit for this: Rafflesia hasseltii. Few people have ever seen this flower, and we watched it open by night. Magic.

En derin uyku gaflettir

a real dark horse, North Carolina suddenly *LEAPS* to the very front of the list of coolest US license plates

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Nature's Kidneys: the Role of Wetland Reserve Easements in Restoring Water Quality" by Nicole Karwowski and Marin Skidmore. Read it here: buff.ly/FhGARIR 📈📉 #Econsky

how am I supposed to resist brainrotting on YouTube when they're coming up with content like this every single day www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfn8...

"the trick is not to care when she kisses me." by catherine pond, from her collection fieldglass

In which I recommend @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social's THE MASTER OF CONTRADICTIONS to lovers and new readers of Thomas Mann's THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Looking into the water crisis in Iran has taken me to the fate of Lake Urmia, c.1270m altitude in the country's northwest, shrinking owing to water overuse for decades. A restoration plan started 10 years ago appeared to help briefly, but aridity since 2020 has reversed gains. Landsat images.

My latest, for @foreignpolicy.com: "Twenty-two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, it’s worth acknowledging: Iraq is still standing, still voting, and still trying." Gift Link here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/17/i...

“We’re back in pulp fiction wonderland, the fleeting apocalyptic allusions having been yoinked offstage by a vaudeville hook from the wings.” New online: Mark Iosifescu (@iosifescu.biz) on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

did somebody say slop

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... really good reporting, really sad and terrible reporting.

who does this remind you of? "The main opposition to Erdoğan, represented by the CHP... Often forming positions reactively without a concerted effort to mobilize the public, the CHP has relied primarily on the court to challenge the AKP." dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

It was great to finally see a Hoopoe for the first time, I caught this one flicking up cockroaches to swallow! #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography

Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey

senators should be required to do in-district town halls twice a month and then small round tables selected by lottery with interested constituents the other two weeks. in contact with normal people at least once a week. maybe more.

it's Friday, so I can post a little rage bait, as a treat #langsky

I've been seeing a lot of Kingfisher content on Bluesky in the last week and let me just say....KEEP IT UP!!!!

“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

#BirdOfTheDay theme today is #paddling ,birds standing or walking in shallow water #birds This is an adult female Little Bittern, a greatly camouflaged bird

I know people have a lot on their plates right now, but the opposition candidate who Erdogan most wants to avoid running against is being threatened with a jail sentence of over 2000 years. apnews.com/article/turk...

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

i am once again thinking about my favorite ever excerpt from our yiddish textbook

As evidence mounts of mass murder in el-Fasher, the capital of the Darfur region, fears of further ethnic violence in Sudan are intensifying

this is so terrible, what a seemingly bottomless catastrophe

I wasn’t exaggerating it rules so hard

"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered, but we have this consolation: The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph." —Tom Paine

No Kings Downtown Albuquerque, Oct. 18, 2025. Video courtesy VisionBroadcast Media LLC. I love my city. #Albuquerque #NewMexico

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The Trump administration has made it clear that it fears mass, nonviolent protests more than anything else.

"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"

“I think for far too long we’ve tried not to lose, as opposed to figuring out how to win.” Read a new profile of Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner of New York City’s mayoral race.

Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.

Many things are holding back America academically, but the strangest among them is resistance to the idea that people enjoy learning