just said "the counterrevolution" in groupchat and got yelled at, glad 2 have friends who keep me from being too much of a grad student on main

are the aurora visible in Minneapolis right now or can I go to sleep

A classic example of the inversions of settler colonialism: the settler becomes the native and the Indigenous person becomes an outsider on their own land.

“I have decided that Feynman would have done what I did.. and I am therefore content.. no matter what..:)“ — Lawrence Krauss 🧪⚛️

anyway, there must be a name for the feeling of opening a book assigned for Class A and on the first page it says "Inside this book is everything you needed to know/figure out for the paper you're writing for Class B."

Speaking of the aurora borealis, it has come to my attention that not enough people know about STEVE, a totally different but also completely related phenomenon first identified by community scientists. www.space.com/what-is-steve

the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product

What to do if ICE shows up to your work: www.askamanager.org/2025/11/what...

root canals must be really awesome for how much work I'm putting in to make sure I can get one!

if you're in line to see the aurora stay in line

back on my bullshit (telling the groupchat to go look at SPACE asap)

NEW: Firings of LGBTQ staff at NBC and Condé Nast have worsened an already dire picture for legacy news media when it comes to covering the trans community. From @billiejsweeney.bsky.social, a close look at our increasingly degraded media environment. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Cats will just stop eating after a minor surgery and scare the shit out of you, and it turns out all they needed was the special urgent care food the vet can give you for $30/week.

Teeth Week will continue until morale improves.

correct.

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

as a treat

all the state workers that got those payments out as fast as they could should be getting free drinks forever.

i will repeat: this is psychological torture for SNAP recipients.

One of the best roller derby names I've ever seen was Rosalind Shanklin.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

being poor costs money example #47,0000: my cat's in for a dental appointment today and I'm yet again reminded that if you can't pay for shit in its entirety upfront, private companies are READY to charge you both an upfront service fee and a fee-per-payment.

hooooooooly shit he is not fucking around

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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

*taps sign*

Thinking of all my trans siblings tonight who have had to endure months and months of hand-wringing over our lives being, supposedly, a dealbreaker for voters.

*touches earpiece* I'm being told it's because of ranked choice, something I completely forgot about despite having voted fewer than three hours ago.

[in a way I haven't truly meant it all year] nice

Zohran is mayor before a single Minneapolis race has populated a single percentage point.

I get it, maybe you're new to local politics, Sliwa is telegenic, he said a few biting critiques of Cuomo, you like his accent. But... there's a reason we called him Curtis The Racist Clown.

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

I'm going to burst into tears I swear

Incredible set design on the Hell Gate stream, The Power Broker is a clever little background gag but framed Cuomo polo nips photo is truly wild

The stream has begun. Join us: www.youtube.com/live/fKA4Vpk...

Luv to live out my NYC election fomo with the wonderful crew of @hellgatenyc.com

the hot girls for zohran shirt is just *chef's kiss* here

little miss "at least my health insurance covers root canals"

show this to the youths so they know their history

This is like walking on a frozen lake in early spring and you start to hear cracking sounds from under your feet.

it’s just so obvious they’re so angry young people have access to any information that isn’t controlled by white billionaires

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

This really sucks. Lex is a powerhouse and Teen Vogue's politics section really was what it was because of Lex! Disinvestment in politics coverage is a terrible move right now.

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway. 500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food. Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9. By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.

On the one hand my upstairs neighbor is loud. I'm p. tired of wearing noise cancelling headphones just to concentrate on reading in my home? On the other hand, he gets up and begins the loudness pretty early! A time I've been trying to coax myself into waking up for months! So who can say, really.

Hey @thisamericanlife.org why are y’all doing this? No episode image would be better than slop images.

The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.