Monumental.

“That analysis concluded genital ambiguity was not a medical emergency & irreversible procedures cannot be justified based on the social discomfort of parents or health staff. By affirming no one—not even parents—can make such decisions on behalf of a minor, the Court…prioritiz[ed] patient autonomy”

Feminist Theory and Music Conference starts tomorrow in the Roger Glass Center for the Arts, University of Dayton lnkd.in/gEw99Sef #Dayton #Academicsky #feminism #humanities #radio

Feminist Theory and Music Conference starts tomorrow in the Roger Glass Center for the Arts, University of Dayton lnkd.in/gEw99Sef #Dayton #Academicsky #feminism #humanities #radio

Boosting the signal for any transportation historians who are eager to share their work at #SHOT2026! #histSTM #histtech ⚙️🗃️📜

(1/4) SCMS congratulates the scholars named finalists for the ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards!

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This is my city! 🥳🥳🤣

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has pivoted and paused the state's data center tax break. In 2025 Ohio estimated it would lose $136 million from the tax break. Instead they lost $1.6 billion.

Last.fm goes independent after 19 years at CBS Interactive: no info about how the ownership change happened, though they say it will be run by the same team https://support.last.fm/t/last...

Classical music has gotten too far from its roots. We need to bring back traditional practices like: - performers cutting passages they don’t feel like playing - putting random pieces of unrelated music in between movements of a multi-movement work - hiring audience members to faint

<Everyone else:> we don't

Sturm und Drang? In dieser Wirtschaftslage?

BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses the case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Badger Badger Badger, also known as “The Badger Song,” is a viral internet meme and classic Flash animation from 2003 by Jonti Picking. #InternetHistory

Having a younger girlfriend means that sometimes you have to try things as seen on tik tok.

Announcing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD

Delightful to find my book among the finalists. Congratulations to all the finalists and thanks for reading!

Delightful to find my book among the finalists. Congratulations to all the finalists and thanks for reading!

Oh, hello!

Mayor Mamdani secures $50 World Cup tickets for New Yorkers after negotiations with Infantino, via @theathletic.com @adamcrafton.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/729...

As farmers’ market season rolls in, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services has announced that Ohioans receiving SNAP benefits can use their Ohio Direction Card at farmers’ markets across the state. https://www.wdtn.com/news/local-news/farmers-markets-in-ohio-now-accept-snap-benefits/

When you see gentry cis gay men in elite circles advocate against trans rights, this betrayal should be understood as stomping on the graves of the grassroots activists who paved the way for their existence. It's not an exaggeration to say that trans activists are why many cis gay men are alive.

There’s a point in every enterprising graduate student’s life when he or she realizes that a lot of the senior academics hate reading and writing. As in, they chose a career defined by written communication and they are livid to discover that they’ll be expected to conform. Blows your mind.

You can read my full written testimony here: pianofighter.substack.com/p/my-full-co...

There's not a single other medical procedure that has less than a 1% regret rate. Heart surgery has a 20% regret rate.

Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Yes.

Nooooooo 😰

Jfc I am so tired of people still acting like we have to entertain the idea that men running society is “natural.” A) not in mammal species with menopause B) up to half the males in most mammal species never breed, so if you want to talk about what’s natural stop whining about not having a GF

Trans people: What's something you've done to be kind to yourself today? If you don't have an answer, go fix that. You deserve love and kindness (yes you), especially from yourself.

Epigraph to my chapter about Microsoft?

Barry Walters, the interviewer of Whitney Houston for Out's 2000 cover story, unpacks his consequential conversation with the late gay icon, which is detailed in his new book, Mighty Real: A History of LGBTQ Music 1969-2000.

guitar effectes pedals but for email -- run that missive about the meetinge on fridaye through some delay and distorcioun firste

The US Department of Education’s proposed rule on student borrowing will be devastating to music in higher education: it assesses program outcomes based on flawed earnings metrics that don’t fit arts careers. Learn more and submit a comment by May 20: www.amsmusicology.org/public-comme...

Does anyone else remember the Atari game “Reactor” and, in particular, its soundtrack?

>Today, over 5,000 faculty across Penn State campuses, including University Park and the Commonwealth Campuses, won their faculty union, the Penn State Faculty Alliance, SEIU Local 668, with 2,510 faculty members voting Union Yes! www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org/news/2026/05...

AS SOMEONE WHO HAD TO PAY HIS OWN WAY THROUGH THE U OF C WITH STUDENT LOANS this is great and I approve www.wbez.org/education/20...

There are stories from all over about universities' dismantling of the humanities. I have a small but dismaying data point from my university to contribute to the discourse. Harvard University now has NO assistant professors of English. That's how long it has been since we were allowed to hire.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

Every time I teach the MOVE bombing, students are shocked. And when I teach the aftermath involving an anthropologist who hoarded some of the remains and used them as teaching tools, they are even more shocked. And I teach in Pennsylvania. Even some students from Philly are unaware of this history

The owners of Wheat Penny and Meadowlark are putting the finishing touches on their new restaurant coming to downtown Dayton. Known as Piccolo Orsetto, the venue will offer various breakfast and lunch dishes 7 a.m.-3 p.m. seven days a week.

The family of a victim in last year’s shooting at Florida State University has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging its ChatGPT chatbot “co-conspired” with the suspected shooter ahead of the crime.

This is my child, who is a dog.

Yeah, I'm gonna start blocking people on sight who claim things won't get better. I don't need that negative, childish energy. If y'all wanna piss your pants on a daily basis and claim there's no hope, go do that somewhere else. Let the adults work. I don't have time for that nihilist bullshit.

Oh hey, guess what else real scientists (as opposed to Man Scientists who tried to block this research because menstrual blood is too “messy and hard to collect”) discovered (thread): - 84 unique proteins that only show up in menstrual fluid which can: - reduce inflammation - repair cells

Steel industry: £1.1bn in GDP and 20,000 employees University sector: £265bn in GDP and 400,000 employees What the fuck am I missing here.

Dems sure got a weird "big tent" that covers Marjorie Taylor Green but leaves trans people out in the rain.

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.