"The goal is to keep women out of male-dominated spaces, to not only belittle or insult but also control and complain. If you’ve always been in a world where public figures or leaders look like you, the inclusion of others might feel like oppression."

“Now, the noise from the trucks lined up outside the elementary school shakes the classrooms. ‘You can’t pay attention,’ Hull, a fourth grader, said. ‘And then you get off track and you lose what the teacher was telling you to do.’”

A fungus called Cladosporium sphaerospermum thrives at Chernobyl: “Some scientists think its dark pigment—melanin—may allow it to harness ionizing radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. This proposed mechanism is even referred to as radiosynthesis.”

The WH is blaring out loud exactly why military officers need to disobey illegal orders. The WH will not protect them.

It’s unreal that we take children from their families and pay strangers to care for them, when the majority of removals are due to poverty in the first place

"I’m singing about changing, and wanting to be closer to my most authentic self. That’s not exclusive to being a trans person. I hope everyone will be able to find a home within these songs." An interview with Montreal singer-songwriter Bells Larsen.

No official cause of Ekane's death has been announced. ""We have no clarification... His wife had been called to come and when she found herself there, she was just presented the corpse of her husband,” a party spokesman said. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Indigenous group cited as being in favour of the pipeline in this article is in fact a crown corporation owned by the Government of Alberta. Its funding comes from the GoA and Danielle Smith's Cabinet appoints its Board of Directors globalnews.ca/news/1155109...

“color revolution” Using a Kremlin talking point to attack fellow lawmakers for simply restating the law.

In a humane system, if a child needed care outside of their parents, extended family would be engaged + supported to prevent relinquishment to strangers. If for some reason it was impossible for any of them to raise that young person, they could be involved in keeping family connections intact.

For World AIDS Day, here's a piece I wrote in 2016 about the effect of growing up queer during the crisis era, and the way books (library books especially) were essential to surviving those days. lithub.com/reading-and-...

In the wholesale mass cultural appropriation of the AAVE term "woke," removing it from its Black context & never caring to ask Black folks what it means, it's made so white people on the left & right alike constantly try to define it. No one's supposed to know what it means, its meaning is hollow.

Absolutely.

Thousands of demonstrators including from the dominant Roman Catholic church clergy are protesting in the Philippines, calling for the swift prosecution of top legislators. n.pr/48brg8f

i really do understand the frustration but this stance is also anti science. we have a huge multidisciplinary lit in sociology, psychology, history, anthro that deals with this. see work by eg @naomioreskes.bsky.social, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, john hannigan… www.jstor.org/stable/27366...

Send this piece of shit home.

Look ma, I'm in a CTV article talking about the USA (definitely not, absolutely not) threatening to drop patriot missiles on us!

N.S. announces it will sell off all remaining U.S. alcohol, won’t order any more #NovaScotia #FeedNovaScotia The province says about $4 million in net profits will go to Feed Nova Scotia and other community food organizations. www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

Atleast nobody will have to question if my works are ai or not so enjoy these practical effect wings I made after 7 years of building different animatronic wings!

Remember that NASA was only able to *start* because the rich were being taxed at 90+% marginal rates. Now, *you* pay a greater percent of your income as taxes than any billionaire. You're just not gonna get NASA back without billionaires paying taxes again.

McGill researchers have developed a stretchable, eco-friendly battery for wearable and implantable devices. Made with citric or lactic acid and gelatin, it performs without toxic materials, helping cut electronic waste. 🔋 🔗 https://mcgill.ca/x/iFk | @mcgillumedia.bsky.social

Zillow, the country’s largest real estate listings site, has quietly removed a feature that showed the risks from extreme weather for more than one million home sale listings on its site.

Who could have suspected that there would be a downside to making an incompetent sexually-assaulting drunkard the U.S. Secretary of Defense?

Also my mom.

Tropical storm deaths cross 500 in Southeast Asia, over 4 million affected reut.rs/43XhWCh

Workers at the drinking water plant in Louisville, Ky. saw a sudden spike in the level of a 'forever chemical.' They traced it up the Ohio River to a factory embroiled in a pollution lawsuit. n.pr/3M80fdi

The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.

good morning! and a good morning to you, dinosaur egg on my chair 🐈‍⬛

…Oh. Oh no. Oh no nonono. …And yet: of course. "Gen AI" tells you the thing you are statistically most likely to accept so you keep using it— & research shows that most people who like "AI" like it *Because* it sycophantically tells them their ideas are great & should defs be implemented. So… Yeah.

Yajai of Thalufah threw up 3 fingers at his graduation ceremony in 2022, after getting his certificate from Princess Sirindhorn. 3 years later he's been charged with Lèse-majesté. #FreeOurFriends

Also. Next time someone tells you Ru is invading Ukraine preemptively to stop it from joining NATO, show them this and laugh in their face. Blaming these genocidal politics on Ru feeling insecure is peak ignorance or gaslighting.

Does he know he was canceled… because a new book and comedy special don’t feel very cancelled

The at one point strongest empire on Earth is starting a war with the 77th largest country by GDP because the old man who isn't seen before noon posted "it's war time now" to a social media website with fewer active users than bluesky.

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

#WaysToHelp I found a page with a list of book drives for various reservation schools and other needs. You order the book and have it shipped to the school/site. I used my favorite, @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social, but bookshop.org has free shipping today, you could take advantage of that!

Since publishing our investigation into "Victoria Goldiee" at @thelocal.to, I've heard from editors from around the world who've had their own run-ins. A quick follow-up, plus a conversation with @cstarnino.bsky.social about journalism in a world of AI fakery. thelocal.to/fallout-from...

Gang: Thank you so much for your incredible response to the Iron Circus Black Friday Sale. I don't deserve you, y'all are the best and our Baker & Taylor splash damage has been rendered MUCH less intimidating. If you missed yesterday, the 40% OFF sale runs thru Cyber Monday! store.ironcircus.com

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

Can a person from one country close down airspace over another? Stay tuned, we’re about to find out.

Last month, @theguardian.com framed this historical event project the same way; minimizing the years of archival work, the interviews etc it took to be able to do this. Instead ‘AI solved this historical problem!’

I mean, facts

"Where are the Black photographers?" Deborah Willis on how she turned that question into an artistic mission.

Achieving lasting remission for HIV arstechnica.com/science/2025...

[reposted to add alt text] Dave Maass @maassive.bsky.social Here are the law enforcement agencies who searched Flock Safety's ALPR database related to this year's No Kings protests. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime is underway and it's not AI:

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Zero reckoning from any of the elites who credulously parroted the absurd idea that the right wing was in favor of free speech.

What a great headline