So far in #eurovision semi2, I’m appreciating more physical props on stage!

C’mon Armenia! 🇦🇲 #հայաստան #eurovision

Hey, @tjvanhouten.bsky.social , what are you looking forward to in tonight’s #eurovision semi?

Of course the greatest US president of the 20th century served this country from a wheelchair, so using mobility as an indicator of intellectual ability is both stupid and insulting, as is making a clickbait story out of something that didn't happen but someone said someone was thinking about.

How disinformation campaigns are typically structured to engage audiences for financial, power, social-psychological, and/or physical exploitation. youtu.be/NhAzUBOLd0g

Renewables were 92% of new power added in 2024. Low carbon sources now accounts for 41% of worldwide electricity. Though, I can’t help but look at this graph and think about how much better it would look if we weren’t retiring nuclear plants so much faster than we’re building them.

The public record is often written by those in power, but we can write our own. Let’s take ownership of our history. Let’s make sure our protests are counted. Let’s commit to documenting each action like it matters because it does. We count. Our protests count. Let’s make sure the world knows it.

🚨 We are not in a theoretical crisis—our American democracy is on its last breath. But from coast to coast, city to city—the people are uniting. Join our nonviolent resistance at www.FiftyFifty.one 🤝 #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #PeoplesMovement #MayDay #May1 #ImpeachTrump

Come to Dilijan in July for a Summer School on Socioeconomic Opportunity & Inequality sponsored jointly by the Yerevan Economic School & U Chicago. Apps are due by May 14, 2025 and include: Statement of Interest, CV, 2 ref letters (PhD Students only) stonecenter.uchicago.edu/events/sum...

Just learned that my wife’s thesis advisor and my thesis advisor each had a book pulled from the Naval Academy Library last week. In their honor, please check out the list of books they banned, and go buy one of them! Lots of great titles to choose from! Pass it around.

Elon’s teenage hatchet team just walked into the Peace Corps—yes, the agency that sends Americans abroad to build schools, fight disease & empower communities. Gutting this is not “efficiency,” it’s cruelty. Hands off the Peace Corps, Elon. We see you. #HandsOff www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

In all 50 states, there’s #HandsOff protests happening today. BUT, there’s global protests too. Worldwide resistance to Trump & Musk’s illegal trampling of the Constitution. Demos already seen in Paris🇫🇷, Amsterdam🇳🇱 & Lisbon🇵🇹. Here’s the current scene in Trafalgar Sq, London🇬🇧👏 (🎥 Chris Hobbs)

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

2 PhD students recently met at a conference & Trump's slashing of research & science bound them With only 3 other scientists they started a movement that's growing around the country On March 7 in Washington DC, and state capitals, "Stand Up for Science" will take place All details below & bravo!

🚨 Stay Prepared, Stay Empowered! We’ve created a Citizen Guide to help you navigate extreme situations like Martial Law- not to alarm, but to inform. 🌐💡Again - not sounding an alarm, just informing. Print it out or save it offline so you can access it anytime, even without the internet.

He’s preparing to declare martial law, you guys. You do see that, don’t you?

Many are asking what should we do now? “We use our power, organize, mobilize, educate…the American story will not be written by who occupies the White House or by the wealthiest among us…it will be written by you, by ‘we the people.’” -fmr VP Kamala Harris receiving the NAACP Chairman’s Award.

And the FBI is instructing employees to ignore the email as well. Also reported earlier by NBC News.

New — State Department employees have been instructed *not* to reply to OPM’s 5 bullet email, per an email I reviewed, saying leadership “will respond on behalf of the Department.”

Apparently every journalist in the US went to a school where their professors let them get away with calling it "Westward expansion" instead of "colonialism."

#NoKingsDay #50501protests #50501

#AthensGA #Protest #MuskNotElected Nearly 400 people attended a protest in Athens Ga today to demand removal of Elon Musk from our government. #Indivisible This was part of the #50501Protests around the country

It was amazing to see the turnout today in Raleigh, NC. Thank you to everyone who stood up. You make the difference. You make the change. Be the reason others stand up. #50501 #50501protests #50501protestnc #raleighprotests #northcarolinaprotests #notmypresident #notmypresidentprotest #protests

At the Capitol today, February 17, 2025. Sound up for full effect! "Where is Congress? Do your job!" #USprotests #50501protest #protest #50501protests #stopthecoup #whereiscongress #saveusdemocracy

#NoKingsDay #50501protests #50501

Protest 2/17 President’s day Salem Oregon. Approximately 300 people attended. #resist #3e #protests #protest #fucktrump #presidentmusk

Trenton protest right now

Today's protest in Santa Cruz

Ready for protest day! #Resist #Protest #ImpeachTrump #3E #USProtests

Spirited protest near SF Tesla Dealership today NO KINGS! Hundreds present

Some pictures from today’s protest outside the U.S. Capitol. 💙

Protest 2/17 President’s day Salem Oregon. Approximately 300 people attended. #resist #3e #protests #protest #fucktrump #presidentmusk

Tomorrow is 'President's Day' in America. We have renamed it #NoKingsDay There will be protests at every state capitol in all 50 states. There will also be protests at city hall in smaller communities. We are following the examples of the Civil Rights Movement and Suffragettes.

The minions, as we call them, look to have gone to bed. We’re heading home…for now. FYI-Shutdown DC is organizing morning protests at OPM every day this week. If you want to get more plugged into these protests, check them out. (will provide socials when I can)

Guess what? We’re still here. 😂 People are asking what they can do: 1) Keep calling your electeds! 2) If you’re local to DC, come protest at OPM & the Old Executive Bldg, where word has it Musk works out of. (haven’t confirmed that) Just stay on public sidewalks and be kind to federal employees.

“In truth, none of Trump's promises to the American people can be met in a world failing to deal with climate change.” A good, if understated, letter in The Times about the barrelling menace of Trump and his ruinous “Drill, baby, drill!” tyranny.

An embarrassment of riches

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are pleased to announce a #cfp for our new edited online collection of Reflective Recreations with @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social We seek short pieces of 1k words around recreative practice in dress & fashion history, museum studies & more! See the call & deadline below:

It's fun to be back behind the keyboard liveposting a conference! Follow along today and tomorrow over at @stanfordsilicon.bsky.social if you're interested in #MultilingualDH issues of character encoding and type design.

Two weeks left to get abstracts in! #earlymodern #18thcentury #foodhistory #skystorians

I promise I wrote my new patreon post before the gaiman piece was published; I clearly osmosis’d that topic over the weekend but also it’s very sad that I could’ve written it at any time in the past decade and it would have been Topical

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

I have a new piece up on #Positionality Studies, a peer-reviewed blog project about identity in #writingstudies, in which I talk about my experience of racial identities and power dynamics in the undergraduate writing classroom. Please share widely! #academicsky medium.com/positionalit...

I’m in a situation that has me regularly thinking, “we are absolutely the Clampetts…”But nobody else in this situation would get the allusions to The West Wing and Beverly Hillbillies were I to say this out loud. So, here you go, Bluesky, please laugh wryly along with me 🤣

NO PROMISES on the raping of women by the way.

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

I’m having one of those “physicians are the worst patients” experiences, but as an editor having someone else edit my own writing. I can tell the editor is giving good advice, but I can also see through all the polite formulas we use. Trying not to be insufferable in the places I push back.

£715 million on a political PR stunt which everyone knew was absolutely pointless. Just think what that could have been spent on to actually help people, locals and people seeking asylum.