I'm sorry, did the white widow threaten to put her cadaverous claws in the hair of a Black woman, joy Reid no less?! I wish a Blanca would…

What a beautiful, powerful story. One that does not need Internet or photographic documentation. One coat at a time. One the donation at a time. Matters to the person, child and family it touches. We don't have to figure out poverty and hunger to feed and clothe one person, one child, one family.

No cameras ever caught who did it. No social media claims. Just... coats. Every Thursday. All winter long. The news picked it up. Called them "The Fence Angel." Interviewed grateful families. But nobody knew. Until March. Old man died, Earl Hutchins, seventy-one, lived alone in a basement apartment

on Fourth Street. When they cleaned out his place, they found Thrift store receipts. Hundreds of them. He'd been buying every decent winter coat he could find, spending his entire disability check, and hanging them up at night. His nephew found a journal entry, "Lost my son to exposure in 2004.

Happy #Caturday. Why do I have to scratch my own chin?

And also, those of us who work with Chevalrie collections in any field note that the work begins with access to a primary source; having/knowing the document is not the end product. The cultural and contextual backgrounds and frameworks are not lying about on the Internet.

My (free) website for learning to read from Greek manuscripts is available. Still some tweaks to be made but it’s ready with 12 lessons, tips and hints, downloadable reports if you use it for a class, and links to lots of resources. Please share and give feedback! xeirographa.com

They have come to the convention hoping to "break in" and then find themselves -- shocker! -- a "nobody in the book world." Yeah no shit! We all are! I have gently told guys like this a million times that it takes most of us *years* of hard work but they do not believe that could be true for them. +

One of the truest things the late Jay Lake used to say is that it takes a minimum of ten years to become an "overnight success." A *minimum* of ten years, and for most of us, longer than that.

AI is stupid.

Does he know that the Christians in Nigeria are Black? (Or that his military actions are protecting Muslims too?

There's always a good mix of new and classic Christmas music in the world of gospel music. Black gospel music.

Sigh. My fourth advent 🕯️will not light. I can't exactly leave the fire breathing candles going all night. Grrr. #narthex

The news that AI was being trained on stolen works? It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot. The first archive they stole was largely romance. arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241

So much this.

Does that not clear the way for those states in which the guard is unwelcome to kick them out?

Just put up my everyday comfy boots and dug out some sandals to check the mail. Just opened the balcony door to cool off. Because we are having a streak of 80 to 84° weather through Christmas. #Texas

I've just discovered #LaRevolution. Explains those French Blue Bloods in quasi-vampiric terms – with actual blue blood. It's quite good.

I won the Makom Shelanu Macca-Bee with my teammate, a Cantor's husband. He knew that two questions I didn't and we took all the gelt!

a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product

That part

Trying to figure out what I'm gonna wear to this Hanukkah party tomorrow when it's 80° outside.

More adventures with Rachav the Roomba. I rolled up the skirt of the Christmas tree to make a barrier. On her first pass she skirted around it. Then at the end of her run she decided to do some fast and furious moves and got stuck on the Tokyo drift.

Darn it @wilgafney.bsky.social the more I get into your second book of Womanist Midrash the more I’m having to buy more books 🤦🏽‍♂️ Don’t stop ✊🏾💝

Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.

There's a reason why AI art or AI stories don't work as well. They're too perfect, but beyond that they do not reflect the sentience of a creator with all their quirks and foibles and characteristic style. (5/?)

18 years a priest today. 29 ordained. More than 30 preaching. But whenever it falls Gaudete Sunday, when I said my first Mass, is my anniversary in my heart. #Narthex

The Executive Committee of AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter is alarmed by the abrupt termination of Professor Mary T. Bassett as Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health. . www.aaup-hfc.org/aaup-harvard...

The derangement syndrome is in the house. Sickening.

Chag sameach! May there be peace in these days.

"Young, dumb and full of Christ." #WakeUpDeadMan

In a N.C. Town With Almost No Grocers, One Farmer Is Expanding Local Food Access On land once targeted for toxic dumping, a Black family is fighting environmental racism and teaching residents how to feed themselves. capitalbnews.org/north-caroli... | @capitalb.bsky.social

Ok friends, perhaps the sports meta-discourse on this website is overblown But if you’re an account people follow primarily for breaking news, and you’re saying “HOLY SHIT THIS IS TERRIFYING AND AWFUL” about a sports thing, perhaps note that it’s about a sports thing?

First time in 11th season the Chiefs will not be in the playoffs. And the Patriots lose.

Mama went away. But at least I have my Christmas tree.

This is beyond awful. Trying to find information on the shooting at Brown University because I was traveling most of yesterday, and there is this fresh horror. I have no other words.

They don't care about #veterans.

PhD studentship exploring science fiction in relation to present-day realities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV394/p...

I am so proud of these two!

By Libby Kercher

When the clan gets badges and goes DEI. The stats for physical and sexual abuse in and out of domestic contexts have always been high for law-enforcement. The addition of thousands more with sanction to be as violent as they want means those stats are increasing sharply.

Magnificent new painting by Christian Faltis.

Nothing better than a bee sting while you are driving except that $2.18 gas you got just before the attempted murder.

Joe Biden regularly and publicly attended Mass. He visibly embraced Catholic religiosity more than JFK ever did. As VP too. My parents are like this: they just can’t conceive of Biden, whose favorite hymn is my grandma’s favorite hymn, as also a Catholic. It all goes in a memory black hole.

They don't know how insurance works and they don't care. They think benefits our handouts and not part of pay structure reflecting the values of employee labor. But they are certain they worked for everything they have.