One thing I want to make clear is that every single executive in this position has been told by a knowledgeable engineer that AI cannot replace these jobs and any attempt to make it do so will be an expensive disaster and that engineer was ignored because executives only listen to each other.

This narrative during Pride month was absolutely intentional. The corporate media is fully in for fascism and desperate for you to agree.

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

A cat who turns 4 tomorrow and thinks she’s too grown up for the toys I bought her

Sundews looking nice and dewy this morning

I can’t be the only one who thinks it’s INSANE that we are simultaneously hosting the World Cup and bombing one of the nations playing in said World Cup.

Reading Octavia butler’s parable of the talents written in the 90s. Prophetic.

No photos please

*evil scream laugh* This experience is the very thing that radicalized me.

This is quite literally the best thing you will see today.

A list of NIH screened/banned words published in Nature. THIS IS UNAMERICAN. media.nature.com/original/mag...

Steve Jobs predicted cities would be designed around this device, which was "as big a deal as the PC." Jeff Bezos called it "one of the most famous and anticipated product introductions of all time." don't let our tech lords fool you into believing they can predict the future.

I think I’m ready for fall. 🥵

In August 1781 an enslaved woman named Elizabeth Freeman head to a law office near her home in Sheffield, Massachusetts. She had an urgent question. #Freedom 🎁 Article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If someone from the FBI visits you about your algae posts the correct thing to do is to say you won’t talk with them. Please do not talk to the FBI. Like, at all. They have no sense of humor and they will take your stupid joke and charge you with lying to an agent.

We’re really gonna regret wasting the name “Watergate,” huh

Each day after I finish at my job that pays me money I clock into the cat hug factory and work for free

A cat who knows what she wants (treats)

no i think its good that the national symbol of reflection should show theatrical and useless, yet ugly and punitive, security measures

JUST IN: A federal judge in California has issued a nationwide block on ICE's policy of conducting arrests at immigration courthouses. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The silly little ritual of Supreme Court opinion days is a perfect illustration of the justices’ self-absorption. “We’re gonna decide cases but it’s a SURPRISE which ones, so just keep refreshing this browser tab to find out who still has civil rights!” Profoundly stupid institution. I loathe it.

This cat is like the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork

Motivated to work on being back my walking endurance in time for my October universal/Disney trip because I’m not about to let this injury slow me down for a second theme park visit. Looking at my steps from last year I need to be able to double what I’m currently able to do.

You can't call us tech Luddites when we're all on board for a robotic tail.

Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.

A cat who is very pleased to be hanging out with her favorite human

So I’m currently at my highest weekly steps this week since the broken foot/sprained ankle and it’s is grumpy with me

I figured that his response to the reflecting pool debacle was going to be pathetic, but I wasn't prepared for its being pathetic on so many levels.

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Getting ready for Rhode Island pride

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

This is true (and true of many other shows and films). You can doomscroll forever thru a feed of people monetizing anger and fear or you can close that shit and turn on MST3K or Emergency or The Office or Adam-12 or Simpsons or Flintstones or Seinfeld or Andy Griffith or Friends or Twilight Zone or

OK DORKS, I HAVE DATA FOR YOU. Here is the party split on emails to members of Congress about the OMB rule proposal. We really need more yelling at R's! They can say they don't know about the rule if we don't ✨ensure✨ they have heard about it. TAKE ACTION HERE: fight2win.standupforscience.net

the world falling apart sucks real bad, but it's amazing that New York somehow slipped into an Disney Channel Original Movie alternate reality where our problems are fixed by Mayor Socialism and the Power of Friendship wins basketball championships.

I've been in tech & social impact VC my whole career so please believe me that there are only 3 things a tech company will ever do with your data—sell it, use it to sell you things, or compromise it. Folks will @ me w/ "but I found this great small tech company" You may be right. Until you're not.

I sent my brother my flight itinerary to and from LA for my HHN/oogie boogie trip because I’m transferring through Chicago and that’s my heads up to him that if I get stranded overnight he’ll have me as a guest.

Just finished this book and want to strongly recommend it to everyone

Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder until the 1970s. This pathologizing of queerness gave rise to violent conversion therapies and was used by politicians to justify mass firings of LGBTQ government workers in a time now known as the Lavender Scare.

“A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This memo is wild. Seething with rage as well

My newsletter got a bit spicy this week buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Ok now that the sleep conference is over it’s time to focus on how excited I am for readercon

In the 1940s and 50s, the government tried to eradicate a disfavored ideology and targeted any organization and individual supporting it with investigations in kangaroo courts. Now, it is doing the same with trans people, and WPATH is its latest target. My latest piece on the modern red scare.

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

She was so happy I was home that she didn’t let me sleep much

A cat who thought I was gone forever

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

bookmarking this for use anytime someone asks how we can afford social safety nets.