This is getting closer to something I've long wanted: an in-depth book length account of just what the hell has been going on at the NYT for the last ten years, a story of oligarchs and old money NY clashing with labor and their own expanding readership, and its transformation into a gaming company.

Don't know why this thing took three years to write, but it's finished. 🙌 True Romance, #wenzhou, #jinzhou #wordofhonor archiveofourown.org/works/38232877

Too much of US politics is dominated by the (silly but powerful) warping force that “You might be president someday!” It’s not possible for Mamdani—and that opens up space for a political imagination inaccessible to most by the the new mayor and his constituents lithub.com/why-its-a-go...

Introduce yourself with something that almost killed you: Hello, Bluesky, I'm college.

Amazing list of Black book releases in 2026 organized by genre by #KinFolkLit! www.instagram.com/p/DSgHs6Djnp... #BookLovers #BlackAuthors #Books #BookSky #BlackBookSky #WritingCommunity #Writing #Writers #Authors #Reading #Read #WritersWrite

184. The Space Race wasn't all just white men - if you go looking, you will find the women. 🧪 🔭 #WomenInSTEM #TabClosed2026

Since Reagan, the GOP has systematically sought to increase the public's cynicism about our government by making our government more dysfunctional. It has worked.

You've probably been following the story about fraud in MN. I wrote about the people who provide services who are being driven into bankruptcy, thanks to the Walz' administration decision to hire Optum AI to screen all payments. It's a disaster.

O'Neil is a pure Peter Thiel-creation with no medical training. There used to be video of the spare kidney remark, but seems like someone doesn't like viral videos of themselves floating around. Here's audio of the clip. 2/2: www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...

How extreme is Jim O’Neill, Deputy Health Secretary who just froze federal childcare funding to every state based on a viral video? As a leader of the Seasteading Institute, he praised selling human organs on the free market b/c “There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused” 1/2

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

The “second son” thing is a standard 1950s secularist historiography and it really ain’t correct at all

*taps the sign*

TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...

it's like one of those 'heartwarming: toddler raises lunch money' stories but actually good this time, this is what electing Democrats should get you

Devastating piece. "The transit, the gap, between symbolic & real power, between symbolic & real change, is a ruse in which Black people are supposed to be satisfied with the symbolic."

Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵

I don't know who needs to hear this, but opposing GenAI is not about opposing technology, it's about opposing capitalists. GenAI is not a technology: it's a massive automation of theft, masquerading as an industry, run by grifters. Don't hate computers, hate the capitalists behind the curtain.

"Norman Rockwell was antifa," his granddaughter says. (Fact check: literally true.) www.thebulwark.com/p/norman-roc...

Lyme is one of many health problems caused & exacerbated by manmade climate change. A legitimate health secretary would acknowledge that. We actually had a pretty good Lyme vaccine but antivaxxers lied & said it gave people knee pain (it didn’t but knee pain?) & got manufacturer to pull it in 2002.

We wrote a thing….

Awww good for him - a speech on a topic I care about a lot. On a superficial note - how would one find out if he had the exact same language coach as Wang Zhuocheng?

I am once again begging historical/fantasy stock photo sites to hire BIPOC models and put them in the same fun costumes all the white models get to wear and/or accurate-ish historical costumes from non-European cultures. You're not only annoying me tremendously, you're leaving money on the table!

totally the norm in Japan/China/Taiwan etc to mask: * if you're sick, out of consideration for others * if you don't want to get sick * to mitigate pollution. I can not understand why this is a big deal.

I still have my CS6 license but I can't use it because the computer on which it was being used died, and you can't deactivate a license key remotely without calling Adobe, which no one would ever do voluntarily

@tkingfisher.com Otter Run Kennel is doing a fundraiser because their snow mobile blew up - and their shirts are straight out of _The Raven and the Reindeer_. Any chance you could give them a boost? 😆 More people should have otters in sled harness shirts, after all.

Here in the Midwest, data centers threaten to suck up fresh water from our Great Lakes. Just one of may examples includes a Microsoft plant now under construction near Racine, WI that is expected to use upwards of 8 MILLION gallons a day. A day! That is not okay.

Sauron's home security system, quite famously, did not work. That was like a whole thing.

They do, Kingdom of Conscience. It features one of the most brutal takedowns of centrism I've ever seen in fiction.

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

How do I get this? My usual group order people don't do food related orders anymore.

Still unreported, should be investigated: ICE shot Richard outside a mall. I visited mall security office. Guard said ICE and LAPD came in, used thumb drive to copy mall’s video footage, and THEN DELETED THE EVIDENCE from mall’s local drives. He showed me the missing timeline part saying “no data.”

If I can be brutally honest for a moment it's really weird that we very rarely see the discussion of "trans men invading men's spaces" because the implicit (and sometimes explicit) threat of physical violence and sexual assault is assumed to be successful at keeping trans men out.

LeMonde said, not on our watch

In case there was any doubt about where big tech stands.

if anyone is interested, CTV published a slideshow of all the places #heatedrivalry was filmed in and around toronto www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/phot...

Few aspects of my PhD have given me as much joy as connecting and giggling with my research participants. 
For any queer persons whose identities playfully / spiritually entangle with the non-human animal, check out the participation link! #furry #alterhuman #posthumanism #queerecology grayblack.uk

SO, you want to network but don't know where to begin. 1. DON'T. Make friends instead 2. It's not about what they can do for you 3. Famous people are just people first 4. If you do have to gush, don't just say 'i love your work' , pick one thing and say why. Open ended compliments are awkward

64 days in Chicago: The story of Operation Midway Blitz. Our team fanned out to cover the before, during and after of the federal government’s months-long raid on an American city. This is worth your time to understand the United States today www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/28/c...

it appears to be this: bsky.app/profile/inqu...

No question - I had so much fun watching When Destiny Brings the Demon

I feel a special kind of sorrow and anger about events and communities that claim to be about liberation—queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled, etc—and yet don’t require n95s, implement clean air practices, etc. I dream of a world in which the guiding principle of “we keep each other safe” is true.

When I read the text I was like, "Oh sure, it was knocked on its side by wind." But the video is so much more anthropomorphic 🥺😢🤗

Was talking with fannish friends from a decade ago about how it saves a lot of agony to wait to watch a show until it is complete. That used to take years. Now I someone have trouble waiting two months. It's still a good idea, though.

where i create from

Hundreds of residents signed up for FEMA buyouts after Hurricane Helene. Not one has been approved.

#ThundercloudRainstorm What in the name of waterproof bedsheets is going on in this rich guy's interior decorating?

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more