America 2025.

Let time be a wheel…

My kids are old enough to now discuss and reconcile how terrible the Dan Schneider-verse was in children’s tv.

Blender is struggling. it's the best piece of 3d software on the market, and it's free. I'm not going back to autodesk. please donate if you can! fund.blender.org

Describe a song badly: In the Air Tonight You know the song by Phil Collins, "In the Air of the Night" About that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drownin' But didn't, then Phil saw it all, then at a show he found him?

MUST WATCH: Meet the neo-Nazi targeting kids online, teaching them to hate and to prepare to kill www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

Black women have to keep receipts because moderates are so desperate to let unrepentant nazis into the tent once it suits their calculus

Another excellent history on the racial wealth gap. Rights on paper, NOT in practice. www.history.com/articles/gi-...

"Art is supposed to make you feel something, and I began to realize my appearance was my art. My body, my face, my scars told a story – my story. But I guess that’s how life works sometimes – noticing beauty only in retrospect and poetry, in silence." ~Alice Wong 🌸🌸🌸🌸

I was a socially and politically ignorant teen for both of these “scandals” and all I can remember is how those two women were treated by the media. I swear there was more coverage of cigars, a blue dress, and Coke cans than their humanity.

The reason why most women my age couldn't care less if Bill Clinton goes down with the ship is that we were teens & young women when the Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky scandals happened. It's rotten to the core. All the way down. Your "lost" era is not ours.

Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.

It just feels like everything is being flattened. Rape, genocide, wildfires, etc etc is all just fodder for internet discourse rather than turning points that lead to… something, anything better or different.

One key aspect of acceptance is the willingness to fully prostrate yourself for the leader. This is still the best (and funniest) explainer I’ve seen for these cults from Rogan to Musk to Trump. youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Rough day to be any sort of survivor of sexual violence. Solidarity to all of you, please be kind to yourselves

Gonna pause the ballroom construction for a quick bonfire.

this is actually really something. The NY Times stuff is bonkers.

It’s a good time to remember that, if we started from believing the women who came forward, we wouldn’t need the Epstein files.

When I'm President, all my economic data is coming from a classroom full of post-lunch middle schoolers screaming 6-7!!!

As someone who works with big (and small) numbers for a living, I still couldn't believe this is right (it is)

You can't make $20 million a year and be an effective counter against a rogue government. He and his ilk are effectively part of the Republican party.

“Stick to sports” “States rights” “First amendment” “Due process” “Grocery prices” All those cause-warriors quiet as fuck right now.

I once saw LeVar Burton call someone out on Twitter. That's the final boss of embarrassment. I would just die if the man who essentially taught me how to read said something negative about me.

I hate that ESPN continues to force this loser on us (and also Trump).

Is “Projective Idiocy” a thing?

I will be teaching my grad seminar on nationalism next semester, and I was wondering if anyone had recommendations on works concerning nationalism and internationalism. I'm open to books or articles on any region/time period. Thanks! 🗃️

Just like the ones who moved to New Orleans complaining about the corner bars and second lines.

We’re living this season of Slow Horses. But with nazis, religious fundamentalists, grifters, and Russians pulling the strings.

I recall another red-and-white retailer that tried the same “engagement” tactics when they started to shit the bed…wonder how that worked out…

My job as an unc is encouragement … even if we have a difficult conversation… my job is to make sure that as we leave the difficult conversation you are encouraged

Interesting how real unc status mirrors exactly what a good teacher is. The goals are growth in knowledge and as a person.

Remembering Heavy D today on the 14th anniversary of his passing (November 8, 2011) | Explore his musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/HeavyD-RIP

It is monstrous what Trump is doing, it is monstrous what the Supreme Court is doing. Why is this administration set on starving children? At what point will Trump’s actions be called crimes against humanity?

The popping of this bubble is gonna cause a singularity…maybe the universe that comes out the other side will be a lil less hellbent on destroying itself. And maybe a lil less racist.

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

What a beautiful thread. Dive in.

hey can we also talk about how nuts it is that they could stage a jury trial for Sandwich Guy within weeks when other people's cases are kicking around (often while they languish in jail) for months or even years

There is a REASON this administration started with undermining diversity Because it is the power of PEOPLE All people and we can NAME that This isn’t a “debate” This is a fight for us ALL.

Political elites' apparent assumption that Trump winning another term meant Americans as a whole decided trans people and immigrants deserve concentration camps or worse is so fucking revealing

There’s ketchup all over the walls of the White House tonight.

Like…

Or you want children to eat and trans folk to live dignified lives.

I think about this often and I think it's because Democratic voters expect wonkish, fleshed out policy responses even if they don't understand the policies. GOP voters DO NOT CARE. This is borne out by years of political engagement.

Blackface that exists without any actual human behind the makeup is a special kind of dystopian phenomenon

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.