I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

Écriture inclusive : Le règlement intérieur d'un conseil municipal peut légalement être rédigé en écriture inclusive. Car : - C'est du français (peu importe que l'Académie française le réprouve) - Ne viole pas l'exigence d'intelligibilité - Ne crée pas de discrimination illégale => bit.ly/4anQ2CL

Two things can be true: Israel is committing genocide (quite gleefully, openly, and they'll brag about it on TV), and random Jewish Americans are in no way connected or tied or have to answer for Israel's actions. The only people that are accountable for the genocide are its perpetrators.

i don’t think Jeffries understands the new reality. Mamdani doesn’t need the party. the party needs him.

Lovely, smart, rewarding 🧵 ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

“you can’t label people with AI girlfriends weird because there are so many of them now” is quite the argument www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/b...

Que c’est mignon, cette déclaration que les petits virus vont baisser les armes précisément le 2 juillet. Franchement, Libé, avec des titres comme ça, tu vas droit dans le mur des médias bolloréans et trumpistes.

Well I guess UC Boulder is toast. Just got invited by a headhunter to apply to be director of their center for western civilization, a place that brags about “intellectual diversity” ⚠️⚠️⚠️ Clearly the headhunter did zero research. I bet they sent this to every full prof in history at the elites

I read Wikipedia lists before bed to calm down enough to sleep, but I often end up following some relatively dark rabbit holes (natural disasters, shipwrecks, etc.) But reading about historical floods in Venezuela led me to hero dog tales and that was nice en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

"Safeguarding matters, but so does access. For queer young people growing up far from a visible community, a phone and access to community online is a lifeline."

[clears throat] [taps mic] PSA FROM ALL THE BOOK AUTHORS (yes, i speak for all of them] whenever you see your friends’ books in the wild, snap a pic & send them to them! via @drjonessoc.bsky.social

Okay... britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

So much this. As a Gen Xer I say: our political leaders are cowards. We aren’t in any way owed a seat. The future isn’t ours. We need younger leaders with fresh ideas. Period. Just get out of the way!! AOC for President. Etc.

Are you fucking kidding me. So we'll have AI crap all over humanity for a few years until the planet is so hot that no one can survive? How is this even a serious conversation. The collective folly never stops. Really hard not to feel doomed.

I don’t know if this has made it out of France yet, but as soon as it does GO SEE IT! Seriously, I have no words, it’s just fucking brilliant

I just learned a new plant - Bristly Sarsaparilla, a huge hit with the pollinators at this place. The berries look like little echinoderms 🌿

I don’t know if this has made it out of France yet, but as soon as it does GO SEE IT! Seriously, I have no words, it’s just fucking brilliant

the NORM in Marseille is for young adults to freely offer older adults their seat on crowded public trans. Not Paris. Last week I had to shame a guy to give his seat to a woman who was > 70 & teetering. he dared to grumble, earning my fearsome glare which I’m told is super intimidating

Found out yesterday that my job is at risk. Feels terrible: multiple video-only "consultations" without even a q and a... Humanities and social sciences overwhelmingly targeted... Whole thing feels deeply ideological and also like payback aimed at the departments with high union density...

🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

It’s less than a week since my radio was telling me that Britain needed to abandon net zero and drill baby drill because the Tories won a by election in Aberdeen Now it’s so hot the kids can’t sleep

HEY JOURNALISTS Someone should look at the list of faculty fired from the New School to establish whether there’s a correlation to their political stances and actions.

You should have to be older than a tree to cut it down

Zarho, 200 km à l'est de Tombouctou, Mali, 23 juin. Les Russes ont tué deux jeunes Touaregs. L'un d'entre eux a été décapité et démembré. Ses bras et ses jambes ont été placés au sol autour de sa tête pour former une croix gammée. La photo fait le tour des réseaux depuis hier

'A narrative has taken hold that science and the humanities are at odds. In universities around the world, investment in cutting-edge technologies often comes at the expense of retrenchment in philosophy, history, literature and the arts.' 1/2

Pet peeve #347: "words by" Unless you literally made up new words (which can indeed be glorious), the words are not by you. The ORDER of the words is by you. Their CHOICE is yours. This means the WRITING is yours (or so I hope, anyway). But the WORDS are not. It's not cute, it's pretentious.

Just spent hours creating a sign in 3 languages asking people to never throw anything other than pee, poop & the teensiest bit of TP in our sanibroyeur* to AVOID CACATASTROPHE** *macerating toilet; a disposal, but for poop **been there, done that, never again please

Writer pals: If you (rightfully) oppose the use of GenAI for writing books, please try not to use GenAI to create covers and posters. I'm seeing a lot of AI Generated covers and its pretty insulting to artists out there.

And while I'm on here I would like to talk about a disturbing trend going on here in New York City to disabuse those who are seeing this city as a nice place to be right now 1/?

Yeah. Let’s be moderate in the face of fascism. It’s not like anyone would ever fight a world war to defeat it. And this from a self-identified Comic Book Historian [sic]. Who may not realize that the caps mean he’s a character, not a historian.

I will not wade into the cesspool of an online argument about French nuclear power I will not wade into the cesspool of an online argument about French nuclear power I will not wade into the cesspool of an online argument about French nuclear power I will not wade into the… Just reminding myself

Yeah. Let’s be moderate in the face of fascism. It’s not like anyone would ever fight a world war to defeat it. And this from a self-identified Comic Book Historian [sic]. Who may not realize that the caps mean he’s a character, not a historian.

The idea that left wing “extremism” will make the GOP more extreme is also ahistorical nonsense. It was Dem “moderation”—Bill Clinton embracing key elements of the Reagan Revolution and running from the left—that allowed the GOP to move to its extreme.

I say this with ill will and animosity: if you hate democratic voters, then please don’t expect our support. Don’t beg for our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteering. Don’t use our labor. Don’t ask democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your party and then refuse to listen to them.

#DataCenters You know what to do.

Of course you did that Cali, bc what impacts the Black people of Bed-Stuy has no bearing on your privileged life. Using Ai which harms Black and brown people whilst adding to gentrification is exactly why we make such a big deal about yall moving there.

LOL this is actually one of the stupidest things I've ever seen anyone say here. It's like saying that robots are the logical endpoint of human evolution. This is a great example of how people misuse and abuse the concept of logic to say wholly unreasonable things under the banner of reason.

Just in time to see Messi set the record!!!

10 minutes til I get to watch the game which sounds pretty intense…

It's been obvious for a while that they were headed in this direction, & this attempt almost certainly won't go unchallenged, but you need to understand that this is & has been America's Lysenkoism moment knocking on the door, & it has to be resisted every way it can. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Keir Starmer this morning accused his Labour predecessors of "moral bankruptcy" yet in truth it was his own moral failure to stand up against the forces of far-right hate targeting this country that ultimately led to his downfall bylinetimes.com/2026/06/22/k...

I’m delighted to confirm that I managed to shed like 90% of my nuclear-related books! I’m down to a single shelf, including videos. If you know me, you know this is a major milestone. Goes together with my resolution not to read or review any more nuke related literature. Ever.*

Hmm, seems my OOO is making the rounds… just got an appreciative note from someone I don’t even know! Not the first time, either

Any younger animals out there who feel like sharing their gut microbiomes with me?

Calling this a war on diversity is right wing framing. Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotions of qualified Black people and women because he’s a bigot. These aren’t diversity hires who are being promoted to fit some quota. This is racism and sexism at the highest office in the U.S. military.

Behold the next Sam Bankman-Fried

A good day to bring this story back around. The nyt has led the propagandistic assault on trans ppl🧵 assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

The sheer animus of the federal government is exhausting, man. It'll be over at some point, because all ideologues fall and empires collapse, but god damn if every day isn't combat for transgender people right now. Just leave us alone.

A narcissist in love with his reflecting pool? Been done before.