"oh, you research literature? you must get to read all the time, how fun!" *me, going through every single (digital) issue of an 18th century daily newspaper to make a spreadsheet listing number of advertisements and the portion of them that were for books*

Always a good time to remind you that YOU DO NOT CROSS A PICKET LINE.

There are going to be more stories like this than we will ever hear about. Each person deserved the world, and we let them die.

Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

“Another week survived is another week won.”

Alice Wong was a luminary, and her light will shine on for many years to come. this is a beautiful tribute from @thesicktimes.org co-founder @mileswgriffis.bsky.social

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

My hometown is about to open a 1892 time capsule and I’m going to loSE MY MIND I AM SO EXCITED. If there’s anything related to Etta Semple I am going to be feral.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

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Folks constantly tell me how much they miss Bitch Media, but it was so damn hard to keep alive. I want better for The Flytrap and all indie media. So, if you want a explicitly feminist publication not beholden to algorithms, please (re)subscribe to @theflytrapmedia.com.

"You encounter a strange, cult-like group that lives in almost total isolation from the outside world. They jealously guard their arcane knowledge and practice some exceedingly cruel rituals."

Love the “Tragic Prelude” sign.

The Central Park Five—whom Trump wanted executed for a crime they did not commit—were 14 to 16 years old.

post spooky cats

I keep to a small corner of KU, but wondering if anyone has seen similar signs given the updated public assembly policy? services.ku.edu/TDClient/818...

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

This just perfectly captures the librarian essence. Libraries are incredible. And fun and funny.

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

Leaves therapy, immediately buys mozzarella sticks and Dr Pepper from Sonic, blasts American Teenager by Ethel Cain on the drive home. October 1st vibes y’all. 🎃🌻🌽

Very cool geneology thing happened this weekend. Idenified a mounted wedding photo from our family photo box by comparing it to a different set from another box. Never saw them side by side until we started scanning this summer.

Still thinking about the most delicious morning sun shadows captured in this teeny diorama at @toyandminiaturemuseum.org.web.brid.gy

Counterpoint not taking the attacks against our bodily autonomy seriously enough for five decades got us the fascism.

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

i saw goody proctor making inflammatory posts about charlie kirk

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Etta Semple in 1901 essentially saying "touch grass you freaks"

I remember when Dr. David Gunn was murdered in 1993, and Dr. George Tiller was shot that same year and then killed in his church in 2009, so um.

UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

So many 'progressive' orgs behave like this and it sucks. People work here because they believe the work is important and they get treated like garbage while their employers talk a big public game about how great they are.

me, living in a society made to make me feel exhausted and crazy: wow why do I feel exhausted and crazy

"Traumas abound in our society, & the many disasters ahead are sure to leave an ever greater number of people feeling traumatized. Navigating a crisis—or even a misstep by an organizer or activist—is much more difficult with unchecked trauma responses ricocheting around a room." 🙃🙃🙃 - Chapter 5

RIP Etta Semple - you would have loved Simone de Beauvoir.

basic human rights are not something u put up to debate like some influencer game show shit

“A good work ethic is nothing compared to the inner confidence of a man who has never been taught to doubt himself and has no reason to consider that he might ever be wrong.” @maris.bsky.social GIRL. The way I almost slipped in my shower hearing this. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Finally dropped into my university’s natural history museum and I’m obsessed with this guy.

no more educational material for your children. just poisonous right wing slop.

Women gender and sexuality studies departments soon unable to acknowledge the existence of “women” “gender” or “sexuality” which I know is the point but also sounds like the premise of an SNL skit

TY to @ineedana.bsky.social for this timely and valuable resource: How can my immigration status affect abortion access? A guide for noncitizens and our communities. www.ineedana.com/blog/how-can...

This week it was Amplify summer camp in LFK. Campers learn an instrument, form bands, write and learn their own song from scratch, record it, and perform it all in the span of a week. Tonight was the showcase and I am so in awe of these queer and trans cuties, their music, and the LFK community. 💕

‪Crew aboard the Handala includes Amazon union organizer Chris Smalls. The ship is attempting to bring much needed food and supplies into Gaza.

Citing its anti-abortion Mexico City policy, the Trump admin is spending $167K to send contraceptives (not abortifacients) worth nearly $10M to France to be burned, rather than sending them to poor nations or selling them to a repro health nonprofit to distribute www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

I once had a member of an advisory committee that I led email not me but my BOSS about my pattern of speech. Specifically about the way my voice goes up at the end of sentences. Some of y’all really have too much free time to be writing emails like this.

This is Gaza, now, I just watched an elderly man die, collapse, in a food queue, just as he was about to be served. People are, literally, dropping dead of starvation. The world must not stand idly by. Gaza has not known what you call “freedom” in, close to 80 years. The world must act.

A call to action from Etta Semple in the Dec 14 1901 issue of the Freethought Ideal and Vindicator

Just a girl with a bag of bbq potato chip crumbs and a dream

join an org in your neighborhood to combat despair. bring someone some food. make some art about your pain. distraction doesnt work forever, okay?