this feels like time for one of my periodic rants about how Judaism gets some stuff wrong - like all religions - but one of the things we are REALLY GOOD ON is the nature of forgiveness. which is to say: first, unless they have come to you with sincere repentance, you don't have to forgive anyone!

I am considering dumping Chrome for Firefox. What might some other downsides and upsides be that you guys who use Firefox and have used Chrome might warn me about before I do that

Space stuff is cool. We should do somewhat less war stuff and somewhat more space stuff. Artemis II is $4bn per launch, roughly the cost of 2-4 days of War in Iran. What if we did not do War in Iran, but instead did cool space stuff?

should also impeach on this btw

Heads up—those “Millerman School” quizzes are made by a pretty fash dude actively getting the works of Russian neofascist Aleksandr Dugin to English-speaking audiences. I came across a Jewish quiz after taking that German one recently, and the constant Strauss references popped a flag, turns out 😬

"When do you give up?" "I don't." "Well, you gotta give up some time." "No, you don't." Chiana and John Crichton, Farscape S4:E17 "A Constellation of Doubt"

IMO the president threatening to end an entire civilization should remain in the news until he is no longer president, and then for a while after that.

This. Yeah. And oof. bsky.app/profile/jwoo...

The Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy "will consider articles that are simultaneously under submission elsewhere, so long as the editors are informed at the time of submission" - do any other philosophy journals allow this? I haven't seen any that do. www.jespsubmissions.org/authors

This is why I get mad annoyed at ppl who adamantly refuse to believe that Democrats aren’t actively complicit and are equally part of the problem. They are always more concerned about their own backsides so they can sit cushy and do absolutely nothing of worth beyond accruing power for its own sake

“Everybody thinks.” “We don’t,” shouted the Lethargarians all at once. “And most of the time you don’t,” said a yellow one sitting in a daffodil. “That’s why you’re here. You weren’t thinking, and you weren’t paying attention either. People who don’t pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.”

The thing is, there's been a lot of fascism in this country before Trump & there's been a lot of people mobilizing against it, so it's kind of foolish if fighting fascism is new to you not to seek them out.

please help my boyfriend. his gofundme hasn’t received any support in a while. he’s pulling out of cancer and needs help to get over the last stretch of his battle.

There's an AI RCT paper that claims to provide "causal evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance" that has already received over a thousand likes and shares so far. I'm just here to recommend caution before reading too much into the promoted results.

call him crazy and they'll never have to face the racism and bigotry they enabled. i hate it so much

Big ups to Sankofa books in DC & Baldwin & Co. in New Orleans that are kind to me that I always ask people to get my books from.

The thing is, we have a fairly recent example of what mental illness and cognitive decline looks like in a leader who was, you know, otherwise relatively normal for a leader. George III. Who, in his illness, was still not the kind of person who threatened to obliterate an entire other people.

I keep spamming this but John Larson filed impeachment articles yesterday. Every congressperson can sign on to it right now, it’s already drafted! www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...

Also a perennial reminder that in times of fast-moving news, a TON of unverified photos, videos, audio, and 'news stories' circulate, go viral, and perpetuate misinformation. Please take time to double-check things before posting and/or sharing! Verifying reports can take time.

Democratic Rep. Larson did the long-form impeachment: There's something in here for everybody!

Lotta people using “scaffolding” as a metaphor when they mean “armature.” Scaffolding is an exterior structure that allows construction to occur within it, armature is an interior framework around which something is built.

Weingarten has been wrong on every major issue facing educators: she embraced testing, charter schools, an abandonment covid protocols, now AI. Her mantra is always the same: we need to welcome the systemic changes imposed by neoliberal administration, so that they appear inevitable

okay SO much to report but let's start with how wild it was to be in a living room that skewed like 85% Catholic Grandparents for an event which began "as we all know, we are living under authoritarianism. and now, here is abortion rights advocate Dr. Maxine Dexter" THE TIMES, THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'

In fact, the rise of 'AI' sourced information (which is highly unreliable) has made me *more* persnickety about getting accurate and well-sourced criticisms.

I am, to put it lightly, not a big fan of AI, but as someone who knows some things about computers I feel like "just blame AI for everything" even in cases when it's obviously incorrect is counterproductive accurate critiques are better critiques

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

CALLING ALL HANDS! I never received a W-2 from Disney Worldwide Services (aka Marvel). Can anyone give me contact information for the department that handles this? I've filed an extension, but I still need to get my earnings information ASAP.

I’ve been thinking this would be a great moment for any Dem with Ambitions to get out there and be like “y’all, we have a splitscreen of two potential Americas right now, you ultimately cannot have both, you need to choose between Artemis II America and demented homicidal babyman America”

"For I know very well what efforts are needed to persuade the proud how great the power of humility is. But by humility we reach a height—a height not grasped by human arrogance but granted by divine grace—which transcends all these earthly pinnacles that totter with the shifts of time.” Augustine

everything I hate about science communication in one article. give people a catchy phrase and hide the real science behind it. people leave with the phrase and absolutely nothing else. purple isn't real is a stupid way to discuss what they are talking about. pedantry plus clickbait is not scicomm

"According to the Authors Guild’s most recent income survey, which queried 5,699 book authors in 2023, the median book-related income for traditionally published trade authors was between $15,000 and $18,000." yep. when writers say we do not make very much, believe us.

it's kind of funny how people don't include uncapping the house as one of the reforms that would probably be worthwhile doing

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

Hurrah! This has just been published - my copy is in the post! Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social & @suereviews.bsky.social Oxford Uni Press: global.oup.com/academic/pro... or: amzn.eu/d/0gvTGhGE

Tolkein hated tech that harms. This is the thing I, he & others agree on. Call us Luddites* (based), but NOTHING will change how even tech bros simp him: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkmN... "the machine meant [...] coercion domination" "labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour" 🧵

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Tomorrow I'm giving a workshop on roleplaying games and mental health, where I'm going to discuss some of my thoughts on why they are effective and try to get some of the attendees to play! It's in-person only and fully booked, but you can see my slides here: jodie-russell.co.uk/2026/04/06/r...

I enjoy Beth's writing. You can find it (or at least links to it) at elizabethmccoy.com . :) -- I need to set up a better embed for that.

This is what I think about every single time I see liberals calling trump "insane" or talking about a "return to sanity". Y'all ain't slick.

since International Asexuality Day (tomorrow) falls on a Monday this year, posting a little early to say thank you to 1) Angela Chen for writing ACE and…

Y'all have to stop thinking our world's fucked up because some people have disabilities that are making them fuck it up instead of that it has some incredibly wrong systems in place!

Just a reminder on this Easter Sunday: 1) Attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime. 2) The head of state threatening to commit a war crime is itself a war crime.

No real problem with ordinary folks asking about the 25th, but every time a congressman asks for the cabinet to remove a president you should read that as them abdicating their own duty to pursue impeachment through congress

We did our Easter Eggs with homemade natural dyes. Blueberry, cabbage, beets, matcha, onion skin and turmeric. Mysterious tones evoking nature and magic.

I've got a poetry chapbook "Free Bleeding" with dogleech books exploring the dignity and power of the menstrual cycle. dogleechbooks.carrd.co#shop And a poetry chapbook "Keeper, Seeker, Dragon of the Sea" with Bottlecap Press exploring connection in conflict. bottlecap.press/products/kee...

I hope it’s ok if I promote my brother’s book? He is very much not a fan of the self-promotion. But he is very awesome and his book is too. The Dancer by Eric Bernat www.goodreads.com/book/show/33...

I've also written stuff for Villains & Vigilantes and Tunnels & Trolls. Help keep a retired-from-his-day-job game designer in porridge and marmelade! There are free items here too! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/browse?ke...

I should really push my RPG stuff more often. I've written a bunch of stuff for the GURPS RPG system. Much still available as PDFs! I earn a bit with each sale. warehouse23.com/search?filte...

I will put in a plug for my second-most-recent book, Flow, Spin, Grow, all about the beauty and science lurking behind patterns in nature.