Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

I love that the Least Weasel always looks like this emoji 😡

well this exists now

This is good www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

clarifying though about one of the goals

גוט שבת, חברים!

May we rage when we must and rest when we can. May we build the peace we so desperately need. May we turn our hands, in all things, to the justice that peace requires. The only liberation is a shared liberation. May we have courage sufficient to build it. Shabbat shalom ❤️

I’ve deleted the thread below because the reporter has reversed his reporting and the first post in the thread continues to circulate without people reading the update. It’s unclear to me if the reporter was sharing misinformation or if facts on the ground changed. We’ll see how this plays out.

Strong writing. Lead with your conclusions (a sometimes controversial choice, but it works here), make your reasoning clear, rephrase your conclusions at the end.

The memoir game isn't new, but it is having a moment. I blogged about the boom of autobiographical games in the early 2010s -- and why the sub-genre is now returning with a vengeance.

The library ebook business is such a scam. Good to see dem state lawmakers are considering banding together to negotiate fairer deals.

What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about: Adjusting mask fit CO2 monitoring Improving ventilation for infection control Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇

conduct yourself in a way that does not lead the entire news organization you are supposedly in charge of to leak a new and different embarrassing story about you every day

Do you ever think about things that have just perfect names? The Bash Street Kids. Starscream. That sort of thing

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

In theory, I've never liked the Canada-Ontario Housing Benefit, which bridges the gap between a person's income and market rent — it's a landlord subsidy. But it's also one of the only ways we move people into housing. These cuts will leave people on the streets. www.thestar.com/news/gta/cit...

Just in case it does need to be spelled out, unless your EMS response time was *zero* (which it was not) you can and often will bleed out from a GSW faster than they will get there. bsky.app/profile/newr...

Good morning, Americans; I wrote a poem for you

Alberta separatists are dangerous traitors

This, my friends, is bad ass.

it should not surprise anybody who follows my work that I wrote a bunch more songs last year. (Peter Balkan was written in 2024.) Here's one we're releasing early in honor of Bob Weir. Enjoy -- we're donating proceeds to the American Cancer Society. themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/going-...

For Carney this is brutal shade.

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis. #iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

A joke from Soviet Russia: 2 friends are walking down the street when they notice a KGB officer down the block stopping people to ask for their papers. "Oy," says Yankel, "what if he stops me? My papers aren't in order?" "Don't worry," says Berel, "stay right here." 1/

I’ve read the book in question myself and it is indeed pretty neat

Reminder that I also sell #knitting patterns for $7 each and they require no shipping! ko-fi.com/crippledcomm... #BSNM #KnitSky #FiberArts #ShopSmall #DisabledArtist

thrilled to share what it should be in yiddish: an oylem ("crowd") of goylems ("golems")

Zeus Xenios strike down these violators of hospitality.

Quisling chart

And such evil. thebarbedwire.com/2026/01/15/p...

I showed my bluesky account to my psychiatrist and she said I could pick whatever medication I want

Art by Daniel Warren Johnson with colors by Mike Spicer. #comics #art #fuckice

THREAD of offers of guest lectures (via Zoom) for Minneapolis-area classes so faculty can offer their students a top-quality education while dealing with other crises Seeing tons of extremely generous offers. I'll try to post 'em all here--please add your own w topics you can cover & how to contact

Lewiston, Maine: “One property manager whose tenants are almost exclusively African immigrants showed a reporter a form being passed around so undocumented parents could designate temporary guardians for their children in the event of their arrest.”

spending the day with artist Gustave Courtois (1852-1923), whose paintings are a record of the hot men he fell in love with - including his great muse, bodybuilder Maurice Deriaz. When they were exhibited Courtois was met with a wave of revulsion from critics at his open, undisguised desire.

The October issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com is out, and with it, a new story by me! "In Luck's Panoply Clad, I Stand" has a mild post-apocalypse *and* a giant queer lady, and I encourage you to check it out along with the rest of the issue.

ONLY 45 TICKETS REMAIN FOR OUR FEBRUARY SCREENING!!!

"Jews control… the colleges, the nonprofits, the movies, Hollywood, all of it." - Charlie Kirk, 2023 “Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them." - Charlie Kirk, 2023

(An award for being a successful mouthpiece that supports Israel’s ethnic cleansing projects in the occupied territories)

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

happy 35th birthday to ZZT, the shareware game-making kit that made me a game designer when i was ten years old! if you want to learn all about the lasting impact of this weird piece of software on games culture and development, buy my acclaimed ZZT book from @bossfightbooks.com!

Southern #Ontario, if you need something delivered today and tipping is an option, remember to leave a huge tip. Those poor delivery guys will be working twice as hard in the snow.

It was almost comforting jumping back 5 and a half years and seeing how fucking quaint the discourse was back then. Just petty squabble after petty squabble and now most of these fuckos who signed this letter are sitting silently while Trump demands oaths of loyalty.

Did you know, incidentally, that Cat Stevens did a comedy country song about the time he got deported from the US because he was on the no-fly list, and got Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney, Alison Krauss, and for some reason Terry Sylvester of the Hollies to sing bits of it?

Yeah, he's now explicitly saying the linked story fell for his "obviously sature tweet" [sic] Covering these people is tricky because everything they say is wrapped in multiple layers of irony, but the only corroborating evidence is a tweet he says is a joke, so I doubt he actually works for ICE