I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Arrived in the US of Dumb. I was super prepared. Logged out of services. Encrypted my Linux drive. Removed biometrics from my devices.... Steeled myself for being detained and having my passport confiscated as the orange turd threatened. ...and it didn't happen. Fully automated photo matching.

It was a very good campaign. Better than Beto's by a lot. We will see if it carries.

We are in the dumbest timeline. Just a constant Black Mirror or The Orville Earth Like Parody Planet episode over and over and over and over.

0 survival instincts, but we love him

Yeah that's the shit ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/c...

So I'm fully back to playing trombone after 23 years. Wait. Playing trombone seriously. Middle east quagmire. Jesus Christ, am I in 2003?!

Let this serve as a warning to Dems who abandon trans folks and vote for anti trans bills. You will be primaried, and you will lose.

So it’s early 1934 in this re-run and already the public identification of trans people is becoming law.

I wonder how this affects those who moved to Kansas, changed their gender marker, but now have a correct birth certificate. My sex assigned at birth is female. That's what my birth certificate says, and Illinois will tell you to pound sand if you try to assert previous documents as correct.

Update/Scoop— New guidance sent this AM to Kansas DMVs indicates licenses that previously had gender marker changed not actually invalid yet. However, internally DMV can see who is flagged, and keeping track of who has/hasn't come in to update. Seems about 300 trans/GNC ppl flagged across the state.

Tatjana Wood has apparently passed away at age 99. Her father was Jewish so during WW2 her parents sent her to the Netherlands, then NY. She studied as a dressmaker, met/married Wallace Wood and began assisting him, then pivoted to becoming one of the best colorists in comics.

My weirdest creation is almost old enough to drink.

Prince, Princess, Rose Bride, Duellist 🌹

The state of OUR Union is solidarity.

Tourists to Japan only want one thing, and it's DISGUSTING. #Bloomscrolling money shot for all the Japanophiles. You're itashimashite.

From today's SWU communique "NLRB administrative judges found that Starbucks committed more than 400 labor law violations." Delete that Starbucks app and keep it off your phone. It's bloatware anyhow.

猫の日なので。我が家で最後に生まれた4匹。サバトラーズの、奥に写り込んでるリキさん⊂((・x・))⊃ #Blueskyねこ部

This endorsement is clearly for the birds.

First of all who knows what took place and who bit what. But if this convo could in any way lead to my being disciplined or affect my personal working conditions, I request my steward or union officer (Jean) be present at the meeting. Without representation, I choose not to answer questions tbh

Some serious union shit has gone down this morning. Not at liberty to discuss. But....

Watch Congresswoman Summer Lee's full remarks here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxj8...

“To get the general strike, that means that we have to learn how to participate in local solidarity, too. If we can't manage local solidarity, we can’t scale it up.” Congresswoman Summer L. Lee talks building for a General Strike paydayreport.com/congresswoma...

Immigrants can teach us how to fight dictators: "Myrla Baldonado became one of the “forced disappearances” under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., in 1983. She was kidnapped by state agents, swept away to a secret location, tortured, and then imprisoned for two years." And yet:

In a historic victory, Volkswagen workers have voted by 96 percent to ratify their first union contract. The deal locks in 20 percent wage increases, healthcare cost reductions, job security guarantees, an enforceable grievance procedure, and much more. 📰 uaw.org/volkswagen-w...

“Well? Are you going to rise up against us or not?”

Erica Friedman (@okazu.yuricon.com ) trudged through the snow to go NYC's yuri cafe, an event that shows that community spaces are really important! 4nn.cx/.234046

Union membership reaches 16-year-high in 2025 despite Trump's assault 465,000 new union members added last year. www.epi.org/publication/...

Rubio will try anything to be president. He will be never be president.

The Outdoor Industry Needs Workers, And Workers Need Unions defector.com/the-outdoor-...

*puts on glasses, checks notes* Says here that labor advocacy IS social agitation and... These people used to... Shoot union members and hang union leaders for demanding the collective bargaining rights we have now. Make these guys lose more.

No ICE. No CBP. No DHS. Forever. You cannot reform this. You cannot restrict this. You cannot control this. Baked into its DNA from the beginning was its capacity for cruelty and fascism. INS and 9/11 fearmongering gave birth to a monster in waiting. Shut it all down forever.

Monstrous.

sorry let me try this again *ahem* playing doom *on* my cash register

This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

There is no such thing as unskilled labor. Sex work is work. Fast food and retail are real jobs. If you trade your time and your labor for wages, you are the working class. Silicon valley programmer or Nevada prostitute. Every worker deserves a union, and that means you, almost certainly.

Solidarity forever.

Nurses were so angry they MARCHED ON THEIR OWN UNION LEADERS who tried to push this agreement on them. 'Nurses marched from Macy’s on 34th Street to the union’s headquarters a block south on West 33rd to deliver the petition on Wednesday, chanting “We are your nurses! Listen to your nurses!”'

We have SIX DAYS to get this out of the Washington State Senate. NEXT TUESDAY is the legislative deadline to get bills out their house of origin. If it doesn't pass by then, it likely dies till 2027. Since farmworkers were written out of labor laws in 1937, we have to win at the state level.

Overly aggressive?! Try lawless, brutal, authoritarian, fascist.

My original journalism home doing the work. Student journalism is real journalism.

Dutch site IDs ICE agents via public data “ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety…What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of” wiki.icelist.is/index.php/Category:Agents

You also need to do it in person. This would strip 8 million US citizens abroad from being able to vote. I vote in every election because New Mexico sends me physical reminders to Japan if I forget to register regularly and allows me to vote though a secure online voting system.

You have a case of the Mondays. I have a case of it's retribution time for the working class and I'm going to make the capitalists pay for their avarice and greed. We are not the same. Bonus. Seal. Pup.

Unionize your workplace so you can call the president a pedophile in the national spotlight and keep your job

They are TERRIFIED of you withholding your labor. If the peasants don't toil they can't have their lavish feasts

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

I saw them this time-ish last year in Yokohama. Pretty close too. And they absolutely trashed the current regime between sets. They've never sold out. They have been speaking truth to power for thirty plus years.

Seen on Mastodon. This is by Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards.

There are DOZENS of us! DOZENS!!!