last thing i'm gonna say about abolition tonight: while we have philosophical discussions about "what will we do with future criminals?" a small handful of white families are making BILLIONS of dollars off of black people picking cotton

For pregnant women—“every 1% increase in state-level firearm ownership was signf’ly associated w/a 6% increase in all-cause homicide & 8% increase in firearm homicide… results suggest…even incremental increases in firearm avail may contribute to measurable increases in homicide risk in preg women”🧪🛟

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

how many more states are going to copy Mississippi instead of actually paying and recruiting teachers?

what does Al do after a year of punishing tour dates criss-crossing the continent? another year touring. Al is truly more music machine than man now.

the amount of money Chi raises in his first 24 hours with a live actblue is gonna be Funny

in case your stomach wasn't turned enough, Summers is 28 years older than Jin Keyu

if your holy book says something different, it is wrong

throwing caution to the wind and going for my next aurora viewing to Jupiter anyway

Miles Davis beaten up by the NYPD outside the Birdland Jazz Club for walking a white girl to a cab and having a cigarette, *1959 The past is filled with stories that hurt to remember, but hurt even more when people act like they never happened.

The irony. Designed and proven using entirely mechanistic method and observational data, with a healthy side order of biochemistry. And fielded for decades with huge successes, without a single randomized trial as proof. & today, groups of MDs work tirelessly to prove N95 don’t work vs viruses.

Fun-da-mental.

That Hua is not the “flower” Hua 花 (1st tone) it is the “civilization” Hua 華(2nd tone). It can be used, depending on context, to mean either civilization or China. So her name more closely renders as “Beautiful Civilization”. Which is fitting, it’s what she worked towards and what she represented.

I think one happy byproduct of the scourge of AI in pedagogical settings is that educators are increasingly acknowledging that among the very most commendable qualities in students, worthy of recognition and validation, is *effort.*

I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...

as ever, the cops in this country are such consummate professionals the tv announcer doesn't even take note of this

Cruelty really is the point with you isn’t it? You ban people seeking help who are being murdered in an active genocide. Trans users are sent death threats all the time and you don’t care. You have allowed violent racist behavior against BIPOC since Bsky’s inception. Tell me HOW your answer is no.

lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.

all humans are equal, no human has the wisdom to put another in a "lesser" class. we can judge people by what they do, not who they are. any politics or ideology that discriminates against people is a danger to us all

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

this is ridiculous. of course he did it on camera. like there's anything trump wouldn't do if you point a tv camera on him.

this should be obvious to everyone but still needs to be said out loud

extremely delightful to be retroactively validated in all my most self-indulgent mid-20s narcissicisms. "you know who I bet is reading my posts? extremely cool hot girls. I bet they're reading them to each other out loud and talking about how funny I am"

These puffins and kings have also just been added to the following gallery/shop. Lots of interesting resonant ghosty kinda stuff there, if you’re interested. And you should be dammit www.chloecumming.com/monoprintdra...

My picture of a Great Blue Heron catching a fish at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado, made the Audubon Society’s 2024 Photo Awards top 100 pictures. www.audubon.org/magazine/202...

half of the controlling shares of google are owned by its cofounder, who was born in Moscow, Russia

The idea that sexual abuse is part of “private” life instead of a public crisis has done incalculable damage. Anti-rape activists have to fight to even make it possible to expose sexual abuse as a wrongdoing in public without being silenced and undermined. That fight is far from won

today we learned why @jay.bsky.team hasn't been posting much: it was determined that this shirt was a death threat against the entire Julio-Claudian dynasty.

trump literally used his personal connections with NY organized crime to get his first big project—the tower—off the ground that people aren't even remotely aware of his depths is certainly an indictment of our entire media

You should know the details of this historic and horrible Supreme Court case, written by famously evil justice Scalia. They spelled it out. The police have NO obligation to protect anyone's life or health. Why should the institution of policing continue to exist?

The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD Note "The" is not kerned correctly (see perspective-corrected still for reference)

I still have not processed what I just read.

Clever mutual aid idea that has also made me quite hungry.

In case you weren't angry this morning, enjoy this: youtu.be/aLKacgW6YOI?...

"what's the point of standards?" may be the most 2025 quote of 2025

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

there is a reason I keep #freeLink in my bio and handle: to remind me that if A. J. Link wasn't safe here, no one is. @pfrazee.com promised five years before the enshitification of this site, but he was being over optimistic. It's already begun.

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

I … worked on defining populism for years … and… he just… he skeeted it out.

I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism. They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.

you know we used to have to do at least a little work to prove the connection between racism and transphobia

this is how i like to imagine the cities of the future

talk about an evergreen skeet

after yesterday's fiasco, will people finally believe Dr. King?

Please remember that Palestinians are still here, still suffering, and the bombs you paid for did this.

The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.

Mamdani is going to implement Scheherazade law. It will go on for 1001 nights and at the end he'll make everyone his queen.

Apparently missing out on some exciting rabid fox neighborhood drama Got this photo via two different group chats