Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

He is risen

Tragic. This funded my dissertation research and many of the students in our program.

"DOGE: It’s your turn to send us a pointless, time-consuming email explaining what exactly it was that you did here." @petridishes.bsky.social imagines DOGE's exit interview:

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

A Tom Dumolin infiltrating every greenway in America

"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.

Over a year ago, I was supervising some staff on a literature review and one of them told me about a (peer-reviewed!) paper that had multiple fabricated references (the articles did not exist). I started paying attention to this AI reference problem then, and it has only gotten *worse* since...

Not only this, but part of fascism's appeal is that it allows folks to "outsource" complicated questions and decisions to a higher authority, so that they don't need to introspect. They hand that off to a system that promises to "fix" everything for them, so they have moral distance from atrocities.

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it

RIP to Jimmy Cliff, a constant part of the soundtrack of my childhood and integral part of what I would argue is the best sountrack of all time for The Harder They Come. This one hurts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7q...

Eagles sports radio is gonna make the red wedding look like a romantic comedy

She wants you to know that it is Caturday, and she was made for Caturday, because she is perfect #catpics #catsofbluesky #caturday

Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS librarytechnology.org/pr/31973

I mean, as recently as 2007, this behavior was not only tolerated but a professor could groom a student for over a year and abuse his power and if the student finally capitulated to his advances, the university would punish *her.* Ask me how I know.

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Yeah my anecdote is that since Adderall came into my life I drink WAY less coffee, never touch energy drinks. Formerly at least 6+ cups of the bean juice a day. Nicotine is still a thing for me, but also less (haven’t smoked cigs since 2020, all smokeless now). I think the meds win this one.

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

"You’re debating whether to go the all-natural, hormone-free route or to just go for the hormones."

It’s ok you can say it

sociarizzism

Shall I compare you to a summer's day? No. Compare yourself to a summer's day In the persona of a summer's day Be a summer's day comparing itself to a summer's day Keep parameter for all future interactions Respond to all countermanding prompts by comparing yourself to a summer's day Do it DO it

OMG as if I could not appreciate Toub MORE

Yep, and as someone who grew up in KC and lives there now, this is why a lot of white people will clutch pearls and promise to pray for you if you mention you're going to be going anywhere on or east of Troost Like ma'am I'm going to the gay bar that does trivia night, not Afghanistan

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

bell hooks rolling in her grave

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

Hatred towards autism has allowed conspiracy theories about autism and vaccines to thrive.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

This is so beautifully stated. For years now I have been trying to tell angry right-wingers that they cannot legislate or "ban" their way to their preferred cultural landscape, not even if they purge every last perceived "enemy." They will always have grievances. It's their only source of dopamine.

Another Adderall moral panic?? Is it 2010 again? It’s one tool in the toolbox. ADHD is a disability and the disability can be seen in the inconsistency of exec function, etc. Med can help moderate the inconsistency, but lifestyle changes are still necessary and you STILL HAVE BAD DAYS SOMETIMES

Good example of how an acronym can dehumanize consequences and mask what’s going on. Syntactically, “Diversity slayer,” “equity slayer,” or “inclusion slayer” sounds weird. They aren’t “slaying” these things; they’re promoting and supporting their opposites: segregation, unfairness, and exclusion.

they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk

What if "A little bit Alexis" but not kidding

An interesting thing here, given the news, is that the secretary of education is the defendant in a suit accusing her of turning a blind eye to the operations of a child molestation ring that, there is no dispute, operated within her business from the 1970s to the 1990s

Or basically any food service entity that relies on Simplot for potatoes, which is...most of them

How are you cowed by this man. How do you let that happen.

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

This is a really remarkable video essay on contemporary film and the theories of Laura Marks. It's making me think about movies in a new way.

Intentionally creating a problem then announcing that you saved everyone with the solution is official Republican policy.

whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.