I muted the word “Nuzzi” about half a year ago and it’s still paying dividends.

Local coffee shop has two receptacles. One says “Trash.” The other says “Garbage.” And it always momentarily confuses me.

They’ve committed no crimes. At what point does it become a concentration camp. I’m seeing very little daylight between the two.

I feel like a reason the White House thing angers so many people is that it visually rips away any notion that “things can go back to normal once Trump’s gone.” Which, hasn’t been true for a good bit now, but those not personally affected by all the overt fascism (yet) really wanted to believe it.

I want to deeply thank @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & Mariame Kaba for this book. I’ve read it slowly; ingesting a chapter, sink it in, enact it over a month, read the next. It’s helped me w local organizing (we vote our own lil fascist out next week!) and is prepping me to restart a larger campaign.

I was thinking about this after No Kings.

Deciding that someone is unable to perform a physical job due to a disability, without ever once including that person in the conversation or hearing their expertise on their own body, directly violates their civil rights. Science does this regularly, has for generations, and it’s never been okay.

In one fell swoop, the resistance has completely reclaimed the frog 🐸 from the 4chan dipshits. A win for everyone. #amphibians #resist

Just got this in my Inbox from a counseling service provider. I. Think. The. Fuck. Not. Nuh-uh. No.

Any cause you could care about is a Palestinian cause. If you care about human rights, women's rights, Indigenous rights, environment, climate change. And here I want to stress a very urgent conversation that must center Gaza: DISABILITY JUSTICE.

Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.

Incidentally, the very nice schematic of cryosphere changes over both ice sheets was drawn by @jmalumbresolarte Tak! 🙏 New paper out today in @nature Geosciences: The Greenlandification of Antarctica Readcube pdf: https://rdcu.be/eJiqJ

Disability scholar here. This is an example of ableism called sanism, and it both endangers mentally ill ppl, already one of our most vulnerable populations, and does not help us come up with actionable ways to deal with the ppl in power who largely are greedy, ignorant, and malicious.

I’m very thankful to have found a rare bad-assed group of fighters in academia to weather this storm with. None of us are under any impression we’ll all make it thru. But we have a fighting chance together, protecting each other. (No, I won’t elaborate further re: who. Not here.)

Memorizing this

“Joy is not the opposite of grief. Grief is the opposite of indifference.” Malkia Devich-Cyril

The assholes are outnumbered. Every day is a testament to this truth. I see it all of the time. Most people are decent.

"I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And i believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port.” ― Assata Shakur

This is the good stuff.

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21 hours left, please share ❤️‍🔥 For 11 days I’ve been here every hour because the families of the giving circle are bow totally reliant on something quite material and life-or-death: the ability to flee the occupation’s assault on Gaza City. Six families ✅ Two to go 🚨 Transport & tents: 225/1000

Do you actually know what Disability Justice means, or are you putting together "Disability" & "Justice," 2 words you know the meaning of separately, & assuming that term applies? 👀 If so, please take a few moments to educate yourself about the 10 Disability Justice principles from Sins Invalid! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Autism does not need to be cured Ableism does The end

Everyone started taking about Nuzzi again and I was trying to remember where I knew that name from. Now I remember. My life is considerably worse-off for it. 😖

I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist

Community is the only way.

I know there are tenured professors out there who breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the A&M firing happened to a non-tenure-track faculty member. It’s going to come for you too, so maybe this is a good moment to do unto others etc.

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

Does anyone know if CO Governor Polis will follow the lead of other blue states and make COVID vaccines available via competent medical guidance? Or no? Asking for a “me and my family.”

😳 FFS! I worked in these areas, on the ground, at elevations not much higher than this about 8-10 years ago. Not any more, apparently. This is... concerning. Jeezus. (My head swims with hydrology questions about this. My PhD research drains into high-elevation crevasses like this.)

This is literally the plot of Minority Report (2002) except instead of 3 psychics accurately predicting murders it’s a tech startup doing nothing to stop crime, but ramping up the surveillance state against minorities and public activists to solidify fascist power. “Torment Nexus, but worse!”

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

CostCo is *so good* at setting things at the exact price-point where doing division in your head at the store it’s like “WOW that’s an increíble deal, really.” Until you get home and then you go “but I did not actually need 97 of these today, holy crap.”

They’re closing schools because of COVID outbreaks running wild. Meanwhile I can’t get my kids an available vaccine because they’re not considered “high risk.” FFS. Backward-assed country.

Community organizing rocks. Our neighborhood started coming together in January to organize politically. 15 of us in a room. We lost a big fight this summer, major blow. But our ranks continue to grow (dozens active now) & we take things back next month. Action is the cure for despair. Full stop.

URGENT: If you have ANY information about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s whereabouts and/or the process to send him to Uganda, PLEASE message me on Signal: marisakabas.04 Your anonymity will be fully protected. I know it’s scary to speak out, but this is a man’s life.

This movie is beautifully realized. Watch it and you'll feel human again in spite of the dark times we're in.

I will never pass up an opportunity to post a link to the Crip Camp film. ➡️ youtu.be/OFS8SpwioZ4 And 100%, this approach is completely needed now. Systems will not save us. We win together only by lifting each other up, figuratively and literally.

In 1977, Disabled activists occupied the Federal Building in San Francisco to demand the passage of Section 504— legislation to protect against disability discrimination.When the building was cordoned off, in an effort to starve activists out, The Black Panthers *Broke In* to deliver them hot meals.

Owning a home for the 1st time is a constant repeat of “Obvs you shoulda been cleaning the bellicated-reticulum flange beneath the fridge compressor every 6 months, you idiot…” …and realizing not a single one of your landlords ever did these “standard” maintenance items, not even once.

I’m at the end of a 3-week road trip where I purposely stayed off social media. In that quiescence I’ve concluded: Crunchy Cheetos are vastly superior to their Puffy counterparts.

Incredible and exciting. All the best to her and her impressive mind. #Mathematics

As my PhD comes to a close, I am looking for work! I’d love to continue in research and education, but I am also a skilled program coordinator, policy analysts/writer, & facilitator. Happy to share my CV & chat. Let me know if something crosses your desk that you think I’d be a good fit for!

No, a LOT of them think that. Science may be one of the most social forms of knowledge production we have. Arguably it’s at least as social as creative writing. Actual scientists will tell you this. Yet, millions of people think they can do science alone with an LLM.

“We used the bullshit generator to make up some bullshit and then were shocked to find it’s actually bullshit” will be a recurring headline until this behavior has professional consequences. Journals need to make “check every citation to make sure it’s real” be a standard pre-review step, to start.

Building something new is possible. Never forget that.

Aside from Cuomo being a creep who shall never see office again, I love that the phrase: “…used ChatGPT to…” has become synonymous with “…is lazy and doesn’t have a clue what they’re actually doing.”

Hot damn. You know what doesn’t work (at all) to reduce violence? More police. What does work? Investing in communities. This is what cities (and states, and the country, but start w cities) need to all be doing.