I see we're doing the 21st century version of 19th century vagrancy laws again

Compare to how hard the GOP has fought against motor voter for the last 35 years.

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I wrote THE book about The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job. And because space robot design is conservative, it’s a pretty good resource for both the Perseverance rover and the Dragonfly Titan quadcopter. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

I am so anti-AI, I have stopped using word databases because they added AI. Do not make these assumptions about professional creatives.

How is "pointless" a reasonable substitution for "ok"?? This replacement happened automatically, last word of the email, and I'm lucky I saw it before I hit send. Completely changed the meaning of my email!

Everything is so stupid and there will come a day when folks look back on the persecution of trans folks with the same moral disgust as other crimes against humanity. No one needs protection from trans women. We all need protection, tho, from violent hateful bigots. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

Saving this for when I talk to my high school students about privacy, ads, and data tracking in my digital literacy class.

Anyone playing at Ironic-But-Not-Ironic Literary Snobbery in a world of book bans and right-wing censorship of history is a dabbler at best, and at worst destined to become part of the problem. They’ve already got one foot in the misogyny bucket, and will surely trip on it.

I went to a high school in a poor-ish town one over from a naval base/shipyard during the lead up to invading Iraq. The recruiter that was allowed to roam the halls promised children that all their problems would be solved if they signed away their bodies, and it went exactly how you’d expect.

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Huh. Perusing the media landscape, I've noticed that the *women* hockey players are being asked questions about what the men did while most of the men have not had to answer a single fucking one about any of it. So weird. Odd. Strange.

Hilary Knight got the question re: that phone call and the laughter at the Torrent presser. Her answer:

Never forget that the primary tactic of this movement is distraction. They point to medical statements, procedural wins and tangentially related anecdotes because *they have no evidence of their core claim* If lots of kids were transitioning without assessment they would be talking about that.

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Glad to hear the USA women's hockey team declined the invitation to the SOTU, even if scheduling probably played a role. Disappointed to learn that USA hockey sent the women home on a commercial flight while the men got a charter 😒

We are counter-programming the State of the Union with a fundraising telethon featuring everyone’s favorite Bluesky posters doing short presentations and sketches on stuff they are passionate about. Will stream on YouTube starting at 8:30pm EST postersmadness.wordpress.com

Underrated life hack: writing things down in one or two central locations. Your memory is faulty. Don't rely on it to remember all the little things that life requires. Instead, remember where you can look for all the things you need to remember. Keep it simple and, when you can, free.

Ooh I like this game! My underrated life hack suggestion for academics, including graduate students is: pick an organization system and use it. Getting Things Done, Full Focus Planner, Bullet Journal, something. Academia is not a place for trying to do things haphazard.

Note from my notebook (2016). Nothing has changed.

As always, women showing men how to do it.

me: I am not patriotic me when the US women’s hockey team wins: 🎆🦅 [EAGLE SCREECH] 🦅🎆

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

I have a bunch of individually sealed kid sized face masks that I just re-discovered in a cleaning frenzy. My kid found them uncomfortable so didn’t wear them, but I hate to throw them out when I know someone can use them. Qty 50-100, free to a good home, will ship for free w/in the US. Pls re post!

This is what the state of Voter ID laws currently is. It's incoherent, every state has different rules, untangling them or giving generalized national advice is pointless. Most folks don't know the rules INSIDE their own state, much less in everyone else's! www.voteriders.org

Please read this thread!!! And if you are concerned about ICE being deployed for voter intimidation, find a local voting rights org who is already doing the work. Start with Vote Riders. States having weird/changing Voter ID laws is less flashy for scaring folks but it works real well.

Thread. Instead of fearmongering about ICE agents intimidating voters at the polls, direct your energy to becoming a poll observer or poll worker, and to advocating for changes to voter laws. Call your political reps, find grassroots orgs doing this work, etc.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

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Setting up our economy so household wealth is in residential real estate was a bad plan. keeping that setup but not allowing households to enter is a recipe for disaster.

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The history of the Washington Capitals was written on Post letterhead.

That time I found a pile of old NASA research documents in a skip and took them home for a lark.

I think @sarahjeong.bsky.social said it's because they devalue women's labor and a LOT of this Scary Logistics stuff comes from people who don't understand that basically all of the civic life they enjoy is created with the help of free labor, largely by women.

Can you please not post execution videos to social media websites that all have autoplay

From NASA Tonight and tomorrow night, look for Saturn next to the Moon after sunset.

I want ... Here is the thing. There are many papers. We encourage people to cite multiple papers per instance. Reviewers do not have the bandwidth to check 100+ citations every review. Are there occasionally mistakes? Sure. But add in AI hallucinated papers? The system fucking shatters.

Maybe let's not trust the people who need AI in schools in order to not go bankrupt to decide educational policy regarding AI in schools

If you spend money on anything Harry Potter, you are funding this. If you think it's okay to continue being a fan and talking about it and putting your Hogwarts House in your profile since you already bought the books/movies, Rowling had stated the continued fandom shows you support her bigotry.

People don't really think through how the Nazis actively made it harder for Jews to leave The idea that all Americans are guaranteed any kind of freedom of movement, including boarding a flight, is quite the presumption at this point.

Three years on, the AI pushers and fetishists who mocked and sneered at people who worried about mass automation, and told people to ‘learn to code’ etc etc seem to be worried about their particular pet Frankenstein’s monster’s long term survival

(With apologies to OP for adding to the count.) I had one tweet get like 1000 interactions, iirc, and it was the worst experience even though most people agreed with me! Never again. I'm in awe of people who can manage a ton of followers/responses.

Maybe we should stick to a message this simple.

No.

just goalie things

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO