They’re torturing kids in concentration camps and building 10x more camps right now. It’s all happening right now. Free them all. Burn the entire system to the ground. All of it.

"the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children"

I spent 2 good-but-exhausting days at a geospatial conference & trade show. After getting home, my family meticulously picked through my pile of 15 free vendor pens and just cherry-picked the very nicest ones for themselves. I feel so used. 😭 🖊️🖋️

The Pronoun-picker suddenly went down, then another popped up instantly to replace it (kinda awkwardly, but effectively). This place feels like the 1990s early internet (laudatory). BlueSky’s moderation is 🤮 but ATProto spawned BlackSky, plus all these cool lil spinoff projects. It’s pretty great.

Just quoting this thread so I can easily find it later. An amazing performance.

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

People get prickly about these requests bc they see them as individual critiques but they're really efforts to set norms and build culture around sharing information, which feels very meaningful and worthwhile to me in this moment.

Alt text was on maybe 75% of Bsky images when I first joined. Accessibility is still the right thing to do. You can hit the gear on the left of yr screen, click accessibility, and get Bsky to remind u to use alt text. It's pretty easy ❤️

It seems like the US invading the sovereign country of Venezuela, kidnapping its president, and stealing its oil shouldn’t have been something the rest of the world “shrugged and moved on” from quite so quickly.

I need to take a break from social media until the new cool-kid trend of “screenshotting old academics discussing dating high school girls” thing blows over. I close the app n’ feel like I gotta scrub myself with a cup of borax soap. Ew.

Stay safe, keep the camera on.

I love the notes of subversion. A la… “Fuck your false binary choice. It’s the system that’s broken, and we know how to break that system. Reject the binary harm-is-inevitable options fed to you. Look for ways to do better.” Also. Go organized labor.

“The agenda is electric mayhem.” Yeah, we do, indeed, need this. We don’t deserve it, but —whoa— do we need this.

I see colleagues quote-dunking and blocking each other over the usage + definition of “sand” today. I’d encourage everyone to go out and touch some low-growing plants that have slender straight leaves.

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If I wanted screenshots of all-the-worst-people’s hot takes from Twitter, I’d re-create my Twitter account. I know vapid rage-bait is effective for engagement, but it’s become a new habit of mine to unfollow people who post screenshots from X just to dunk. Even if I agree with you. It’s annoying.

You don’t know your role yet maybe, but we are all finding out just what we have to offer. In Minneapolis, one man knew immediately what he could offer and said “Bring me your clothing”.

Hi Colorado. In case it wasn’t obvious, vote a big giant “HA HA, HELL NO” on this measure this fall. I’m honestly surprised they got it onto the ballot.

Side-eyeing everybody who is still on X.

Not being my field of science 🧪, I’d no idea the Earthworm Symposium was even a thing, and I’m absolutely delighted to learn that it is.

One way to show solidarity with people fighting the Trump regime is to contribute here:

Really annoyed that you can’t buy ground turkey any more that isn’t so chock-full of added water (“rosemary extract”) that it isn’t swimming in its own thin soup within a minute if you try to brown it in a pan. And *all the brands* do it.

instead of ai. try freewriting and/or journaling. i am so serious

No! The criticism of the Dems isn't that they never win elections, it's that they don't use power to solve the problems that got us here. Elite impunity, concentration of wealth, the unitary executive. Winning is only step 1

Help menus today. Le sigh. I'm like "How do I XYZ?" Software's AI-bot goes: "Great question! Go to the 'File --> Settings --> XYZ' menu and then check 'Enable'. Obviously!" Me: "That menu doesn't even exist." Software: "¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Great chat!"

I’ve wondered this at our Safeway, especially the self-check lanes. “Maybe I’m biased” b/c I typically figure they’re trying to cheat us. But they always say my produce is 1.3 or 1.5+ lbs when I swear-to-god it can’t be more than a pound or so. Sometime, I’ll bring a 1.0 lb weight just to see.

Unsolicited advice for anyone on Bluesky who wants to fight fascism in 2026 - don't stress about following big national accounts. Instead, follow LOCAL groups and people who are doing actual work on the ground. Join them and do stuff right in your community. THAT'S where the real action is. ❤️💪

I knew most would 🙄 & scroll by, but I wasn’t quite ready for the # of angry responses I’d get here. Growing up in the 80s, “That’s gay!” was a common pejorative for anything you disliked. Straight line -> to the 90s AIDS epidemic being “just god’s punishment.” Language actually matters, y’all. 🧵

Having to constantly train myself “if someone replies to you in bad faith, do not engage. Do. not. engage.”

For those who push the myth “we gotta keep tossing marginalized populations under the bus to win elections, caring about them costs us” (that’s never worked!), consider a different approach. Centering those who’re harmed the most will build the best world for literally everyone. Listen. to. them.

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I beg y’all. Find other adjectives besides “insane”, “psychotic”, and “crazy” to describe evil times and evil people. Mental illness is a whole host of disabilities that people manage and live with their entire lives. No need to casually equate it with evil & shocking. They are not the same thing.

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There’s zero legitimate reason any journalist/editor with a working pulse can write (or post) a headline like “Person shot who authorities say was doing bad things and totally had it coming” …in 2026, and pretend they’re being responsible journalists. Masks off, y’all.

One reason I’ll block people is if there’s a long thread on a hot topic, and one dude thinks his response is so brilliant he’s copy-pasting it 20x verbatim in reply to every other response in the thread. I don’t care if I agree w said reply, it’s just annoying behavior.

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If you can't attend a protest, I would suggest speaking to your values in whatever ways you can, and attending to something *you can do*. Remember, many things are happening at once. They want to keep your head spinning. Let purpose preempt despair.

How instantly did they pivot from... "this AI chat-bot is sentient, it learns and reasons, we must grant it inalienable human rights" ...to... "no of course it can't be held 'legally liable' for crimes... that's unpossible, you silly-billy! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

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I’m very thankful to Stephanie Maltarich at @cires.colorado.edu for this writeup about efforts to reform how scientific fieldwork operates. To make it less hostile & exclusionary, and *actually* safer. From our research talks @ AGU about this subject. The work is ongoing. #disability 🧪

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A whole syllabus of reading materials in this thread if you like books / essays and ever “wanted to learn more about disability rights and politics.” I’ve read only a fraction of them and hope to pick off a few more this year. This is a wonderful thread. #disability ♿️

Friends, if you or someone you know has published awesome work in disability studies (defined *broadly*), please let me know! I'm updating my "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" course and would love to include some newer work (both academic and otherwise).

With another influx of users, a nudge to remind people to use alt text

It’s astounding to me how quickly these nitwits pivoted on a tile from “AGI will outperform all human intellect within a few years” …to… “…but if you think about it, software doesn’t actually have to work, does it?”

No shade at all to @scifri.bsky.social, but I truly wish I could “embrace winter” right now. Denver, CO (the “Mile High City”) clocked 70 °F (21C) today, the warmest Christmas since records began. Some trees and bushes are starting to bud, they’re so confused. It freaks me out.