Seems relevant.

What a miserable cesspit of spite this guy is. I can only think that at some point he must have been horribly abused as a child, with very similar words.

“An old white woman got on the train and immediately pointed at me and told me to correct how I was sitting. I refused, so she went to the conductor and complained. The conductor called the police and stopped the train.”

Ok, historians of writing, what is the accepted plural of 'stylus'? And how ancient must a text be before 'styli' must be used?

Just over on @cnn.com leaning into #newspeak But enlighten us. What exactly is a “chief loyalty enforcer?”

Yikes. From worse to worse.

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Rep. Jim Himes: "I still can't get over the fact that I think for the first time in our history, the U.S. military...is now killing civilians who have been convicted of no crime. There's a reason we do trials in this country."

I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

Here's what Saint Charlie said about Crockett a few months before he died. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

A press release to beg people to stop criticizing Trump and DHS & ICE agents who are attacking U.S. citizens, kidnapping people off the streets, operating concentration camps where members of Congress are not allowed in, and rendering people to foreign lands they've never been to 🤔

I wrote something up for AI people who want to get into bluesky and either couldn't assemble an exciting feed or gave up doomscrolling when their Following feed switched to talking politics 24/7.

New protest slogan: Defund the FBI -- Banish Kash!

“why some people be mad at me sometimes” they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and i keep remembering mine - Lucille Clifton [writing the most Black woman poem of all time]

That's right. What's more alarming is ~97% of the current highway storm drains in the United States were designed using rainfall information that was published in *1961* using 1930s-1950s data. We're using infrastructure built for the rainfall of nearly a century ago. engrxiv.org/preprint/vie....

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

I’d never seen this one.

Ironically, by demanding prosecution, Trump may have given his “enemies list” a built in defense if he can find a prosecutor to indict them: Selective or vindictive prosecution is grounds for dismissal joycevance.substack.com/p/show-me-th...

Just in case you thought Charlie Kirk was "doing politics the right way".

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

I’m giving a free/public talk this Tues in Seattle about how US government investment in science laid the foundations for the field of human-computer interaction and how that field (and investment) connects to so many of the innovations that we take for granted, as well as the future of AI.

Oh no DHS is upset that people are saying mean things about ICE. Im sure this won’t generate a Streisand Effect or anything. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...

Pretty sure the Soviets built airbases such as Bagram and Shindand. Hell, in Shindand I lived in a room that was: Soviet officer quarters ➡️ Taliban ➡️ US ➡️ Taliban 2.0

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

If ICE recruits all the terrorists, there's no need for domestic terrorism investigations, right?

If you don't measure it, it doesn't exist.

Again Bouie from the top rope

Yet another thing that will completely destroy the actual existing model of 🇺🇸 higher education. The lack of loud, urgent collective action by university leaders to educate the public & generate pushback on all of these awful policies continues to be glaring.

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

This. No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued. This process takes at least a couple of years.

Literary Chinese for Discourse: 從今莫講賢愚話， 得道多助失道寡。 賢，也在他； 愚，也在他。 Cease your talk of ‘worthy men,’ And go light on the ‘idiots,’ too — “Who finds the Way finds help along his way; Who strays will find his friends are few.” Worthy’s a word for someone else, And idiot’s not up to you.

The H1-B fiasco that is about to unfold is almost certainly a Stephen Miller Special to continue “whiteifying” the country, packaged in a way that Trump will see as a “deal” that gives him further leverage over companies to do what he wants

More media corp execs need to lurk on B'sky. They would get a better sense of where a large chunk of the populace stands, something that is otherwise obscured by their own media.

Deer costume, C14th.

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Voice activated, chat-driven RC. Users would sometimes ascribe sentience to these models.

Important to remember that H1B visa holders have their whole life in the US. The home they rent or own is here. Their family. Their kids go to school here. Being locked out of the US is also in many cases rendering them homeless and away from their family, with no obvious path to return

Still breathtaking to me that Musk gave up arguably the most successful branding ever created by an internet company.

If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake, don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year. Don’t bother. Please. And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.

Yep. Technology, Consulting, Financial Services, Health Care and Universities are the most dependent sectors on H1B visas

Leaked memo from Amazon that warns existing H1B holders to avoid travel back into the USA after the September 21st deadline - their lawyers evaluated the new executive order as not just affecting new applications

Source: www.businessinsider.com/read-memos-s...

Direction given by MS to employees LAST NIGHT. Might change this morning. bsky.app/profile/rive...

turns out it's pretty hard to put an hour's worth of charlie kirk together and hold up the "he was not a white christian nationalist, actually" charade

I cannot overstate how remarkable it is that under GOP rule, US federal health regulations have been captured by fringe crackpots who espouse views that the vast majority of the US public—and nearly 100% of health professionals—reject. Gift link:

Today, Maryland took additional actions to protect COVID access: - Issued a standing order so vaccines can be administered based on guidance developed by medical professional societies instead of the federal government - Confirmed they have joined the Northeast Public Health Collaborative

Nothing more perfectly sums up these people than the fact that she wrote “Loser” on her own cup and then pretended to be a victim so that she could harass service workers with threats of violence

Articles that will probably be scrubbed soon: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...