For some folks, it's about ethics. For others, it's about a sense of personal relationship. Or it's about wanting to support a specific person or place or thing. When ppl tell me misogynistic men will switch to AI porn bc misogyny, I tell them misogyny is why those men DON'T PAY FOR PORN ANYWAY.

I've interacted with porn consumers on near-daily basis since 2009. I can tell you that, in 2026, people who pay for porn most do it for the same reasons people shop at a locally-owned business rather than Amazon. It is a choice made for reasons that cannot be replicated by an LLM.

Beth Israel was (and I assume still is) less a "synagogue of Satan" and more a warm and welcoming home to Jews from the very religious to the not-religious-at-all. Several members of my bar mitzvah class didn't even read the Torah in Hebrew, because accessibility and easy embrace were prioritized.

Would be useful for stories like this to point out, among her political ties, that her husband is the *GOP Senator from Pennsylvania.* (Beat Bob Casey by 0.2% in 2024.) Not even mentioned in CNBC dispatch.

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

The "Why aren't Americans doing anything?" posts are a case study in media manipulation and external propaganda. Because so many accounts claiming there are no protests are just bots

GLOBODOURADERS

“I think if trauma can be passed down through generations, values can too” ~ Wagner Moura 🔥

Astrologia é ciência exata

I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.

Antisemitism is evil and I'm so angry that someone would do this to the Beth Israel synagogue.

Ontem eu editei essa matéria abaixo e lembrei dessa outra aqui, que publiquei em 2021 e que ainda acho muito boa www.bbc.com/portuguese/i...

X is only allowing “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website. www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?

Excited to share strategies for teaching Latin America in World History! Kari Zimmerman, co-ed. of this fabulous work, chairs our 1:30 panel. I've a co-authored chapter in the book & will get to see it "live" at #AHA26 @clahistorians.bsky.social @thewha.bsky.social uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/U/Unde...

I really wish there was a way to get all these people connected, together, and back offline. I am over it.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.

You can walk from where the feds murdered Renee Good to where George Floyd called for his mother in about 15 minutes.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down, with its final edition due in May.

i suspected as a very young person and have since had repeatedly confirmed over the course of my life and career that moral courage is not a feature strongly represented at the highest levels of your average institution

Here is my new article, "Inversions, Subversions, Reversions: Possibilities of the Literary Sertão," just published in Luso-Brazilian Review. The issue is open access via @projectmuse.bsky.social (you'll need to verify you are a human but no login should be required). muse.jhu.edu/pub/19/artic...

I honestly don’t think there’s a single figure in American history who has fundamentally shifted the way I understand the world I live in more radically than Fred Hampton. once you know the story you can’t un-know it and you see it repeated everywhere

If you're not American and are like, wait the US bombed its own citizens in a major US city? Yes. And then some researchers thought it was a good idea to secure the remains of two of the children killed and show them off in class for funsies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

I'm not saying those deaths in Venezuela don't matter. I am saying I think he's seriously overestimating the degree to which the US has normalized death period, including of even white US citizens.

Like yeah ok we talk about Kent State, we don't really talk about the Orangeburg Massacre

The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed. Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened. I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.

what people are able to do with Grok at the moment is far far far worse than putting people in bikinis www.404media.co/inside-the-t...

on the plus side, I can update my credence to being "pretty sure" that what I teach is in fact "critical race theory" bsky.app/profile/tamu...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

HAHR board member Alejandro Velasco and fellow historian Miguel Tinker Salas discuss the recent US attack on Venezuela on @democracynow.org. youtu.be/r0AaAVX9h40?...

A good example of how many cultural practices, especially involving work, are rooted on the assumption that someone else will take care of the domestic duties

This may feel pretty unfair sometimes and maybe in some ways it is, but that's just how it's going to go for a while

At some point this can't all just be stuff that happens on your phone

This sucks but I think non-Americans being justifiably angry at Americans for what the American government is doing and threatening to do, and Americans experiencing that anger and frustration personally in ways that are unpleasant, is probably an important part of any path back to stability

Italy in particular saw fascism and colonialism as interlinked. From the constant invocation of Libya as the "Fourth Shore" of Italy and the notion of spazio vitale being used to justify territorial expansion, Mussolini saw fascism as the way to compete with the UK and France in colonial affairs.

No one I’ve admitted this year for influenza has been vaccinated.

Just a reminder, because everyone seems to have forgotten: Tumblr wants to or is actively selling your data: mashable.com/article/tumb...

Hey, if you're looking for a new hobby -- especially one that's analog -- my brilliant friend @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social is hosting a learn to embroider on Zoom this weekend www.eventbrite.com/e/1977418083...

OUT: Helping you pay for health care. IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.

"La historia de América Latina es clara y contundente: la intervención nunca ha traído democracia, nunca ha generado bienestar ni estabilidad duradera. Solo los pueblos pueden construir su propio futuro..."

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

Poster for "Translating the Caribbean" is ready to ship. Man, I can't wait to co-teach again with bestie Glover. And we're planning to go ham on in-class translation practice. I'm smiling from ear to ear thinking about it.

It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis. This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.

If you’re doing #Veganuary this month, or even just aiming to eat less meat, you might try plant-based alternatives. How are these made and how does chemistry improve their appearance and flavour? This edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social has the answers: cen.acs.org/food/food-sc...

In a statement, the American College of Nurse-Midwives called her death a “profound failure of the systems meant to protect birthing people.” “That a Black midwife and maternal health expert died after giving birth in the United States is both heartbreaking and unacceptable.”

It's interesting seeing the people who say things like "that sounds great, sign me up" versus the people who say "uhhhh so like if Colorado is extremely dry and has no snowpack, what happens to the water?"

12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed

Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, and Spain have issued a joint statement about the US's military intervention in Venezuela. elpais.com/america/2026...

contingentmagazine.org/2022/11/11/w... I took a course in archival studies for a better understanding of archival practices. It showed the importance of conversations among archivists and historians (and those whose work includes both). #history #research #archives