I am so excited about this. It’s nice to have something good happening in this state, which genuinely does contain a ton of natural beauty and incredible ecosystems. #Texas #ShareGoodNewsToo

My prayer tonight ⚓

"For your charcuterie board party, plan on about one ounce of cheese per person" my GUY have you ever MET CHEESE BEFORE, I would NEVER limit my friends to ONE SINGLE OUNCE OF CHEESE.

So all the caving to Trump these institutions did is starting to make a lot more sense now, huh?

the bricks are alive at this day to testify it; therefore deny it not.

If I were philosopher-king, I would create a mandate that everyone who lost their job “to AI” should receive a state pension for life not less than 1.5x their last salary. Funded by a billionaire tax.

I have a feeling we're going to see a lot of "AI-Free Spaces" pop up everywhere. It sounds anti-AI but it's a goldmine for AI companies to have clean data to train on and it's hard to know who's doing what with the content. I hate this timeline.

Jo March the Chicken is molting pretty dramatically, so I keep saying, "oh, Jo, your one beauty!" at every opportunity

ALL OF US MURDERERS by KJ Charles is good so far, but if you have ADHD be VERY AWARE that the depiction of undiagnosed ADHD is entirely, fully, painfully accurate. I don't know if I'll be able to stick with it. But if you don't have ADHD and you want to know what it feels like...here you go.

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

I am on my knees begging climate people and energy people and housing people to just this once pass the puck to where they are skating to, not where they are at. This is the fight, here. The whole game is physical infrastructure. It is car-enforcing land use all the way down.

SUCH A MOOD

Hey. Did anyone here attend the International Star Trek Convention in Washington, DC, January 1-4, 1976, or know one of its organizers? An editor at the excellent @fanlore.org site is looking for info on the con.

To anyone dismayed about not getting Muppet Knives Out don't worry because they basically already did that in 1979 with Liza Minnelli and it's a perfect (Emmy-nominated!) episode of TV that you can enjoy right now!

I wanna open an Escape Room It'll just be a nice soft room full of stuff to help you escape from the real world. Games, puzzles, kittens, musical instruments, books, writing supplies. Someone will ask you if you've had any interesting dreams lately. You can't leave until you've fully escaped.

What you do when a very sick friend gets thrown off the ACA rolls:

Heads up for any USians still using TT for their taxes

There is no downside

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

So, just to be clear, in addition to sending queer people out into the cold to starve or freeze to death, the SA also: - provides food services for ICE - provides correctional services to the carceral system - union busts They’re almost comedically evil.

We need to make "In light of recent revelations about [X], do you stand by your 2018 article "[X] is Good Actually?" standard practice. Make people embarrassed, or at least force them to remember they said a thing.

BUT, TIME TO SHOWER, BOYS!

what if we stopped saying pedophile all together and just went back to RAPES CHILDREN

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

Absolutely cannot wait to bust down the doors for a drink made by a company whose unionized workers are on strike in a store that doesn’t want to hire minorities anymore.

One significant way to fix the federal deficit? Dramatically raise the minimum wage across our country. It will cause an increase in tax collections, much less people on federal assistance, and health outcomes will improve causing less reliance on federal health programs.

Finally sharing possibly the coolest thing that's happened to me this year. Al-'Usur al-Wusta, in connection with the Ottoman History Podcast, organized a round table discussion on The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi. The essays can be found here, with the podcast episode soon to come!

I had a great conversation about this phenomenon with some sociologists at ASA once. A colleague took me to task for failing to see how they KNOW the reference. They aren’t misreading literary references — they are wielding them to demonstrate their power to shape our ethics.

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Hey Charlotte folks-Compare Foods has waived delivery fees for groceries, so if you know anyone who'd like to get groceries delivered rather than go out to the store while the nazis are in town, spread the word

So much of this is 9/11 shit in full flower. The country changed almost completely in 00 and ppl just don't know

Perfection

The annoying thing about Larry Summers is that he will not get anywhere near the heat and scrutiny for this as anyone else would for something like listing their pronouns in a syllabus.

A New Orleans man who spent three decades in prison before his murder conviction was vacated won election to serve as the city’s chief criminal court record keeper.

I'd be more excited about the leopards eating faces if I thought the faces were learning even a single thing from the experience.

I keep saying this, but it's important for folks to understand: the disruption to the delivery of benefits, the impact on folks, the pain, the risk of starvation: these are policy goals of the Trump administration. The shutdown was just the excuse at the time. They want to starve poor folks.

"Slipped through" Well, Anno 117 just slipped through and off of my wish list.

For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.

Use the free WiFi Browse the Staff Recommends shelf See if they have any books on the obscure craft you’re currently obsessed with Check out the graphic novels shelf Put anything you pick up on the “to be returned” cart

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

Boston DSA - ICE raids are increasing and becoming more vicious and brazen. The Trump admin wants to terrorize our immigrant neighbors and bully us, but we won’t be intimidated. Show up in solidarity with the nine Allston Car Wash workers abducted by ICE Mon 11/17 7pm 735 Comm Ave

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

Love their reactionary “we can’t stay inside forever” attitude as if protecting others and acknowledging COVID is real automatically means you must stay inside forever and not like wear a mask, get vaccinated, and cover your cough so your loved ones don’t get Long Covid for the rest of their lives.

I painted a cat in a drawer. medium: Nicker poster colour on Arches watercolour paper

lol wanna see a fountain pen brand getting owned www.reddit.com/r/fountainpe...

angrily adding this to the end of my thread on knowledge and skill and cultural loss and de-skilling in design and programming

somebody brought this up once in the context of Florida voters in 2000 and it fucked me up so much just the cascading effects on our whole society from losing such a tidal wave of queer people

they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit