Dr. Thrasher is dead on that feelings and affect are constructed and that heat is racialized. But I would trouble his framing a bit here. Air conditioning tech came out of the metropole and was wielded like a weapon to reshape life in much of the (post)colonized (sub)tropics. 1/2

solid show this week, really good

There's no excuse for sites & apps to be inaccessible to people with disabilities. Version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) was finalized in 2008! Designing compliant sites isn't so hard & makes the user experience nicer for all. #CurrentEvents #ADA #Section508 #Accessibility

We get into how platforms have tried to make surveillance cute, why that damn Duolingo owl emotionally manipulates you, and why learning about privacy best practices when surrounded by community works.

God I love reading @devinagonistes.bsky.social’s comics newsletter. 😂 (And agree with every word!)

Sorry no spacesuits or robots or post apocalyptic warriors, but here's a sketch of a handsome onion. Hun-nion I guess. Alfresco lunchtime coloured pencil sketch.

Some 🔥 recent @autonomynews.co stories you may have missed, starting with @rhavote.bsky.social's reflection on her viral abortion story, ten years later:

I never know what to do with frills. Precisely because they're such obvious 'billboards'.

struck by the shared note of disappointment with responsiveness on Bluesky just at close of this broadcast — @jakewittich.bsky.social Wednesday’s @thegailyshow.org guest (latter half of show, a good conversation) www.am950radio.com/mn-dfl-gover...

We are excited to hear that Dark Horse has expressed their willingness to voluntarily recognize DHWU! We look forward to continuing to work together in order to bring this to fruition, and will update more as our status is finalized. #DHWU 🐴✊

Disability justice activists were an important part of grassroots efforts to shut down Atlanta’s Cop City. I covered their work in this piece — worth revisiting as we think about who is most vulnerable to the growing police violence in our cities and how we can come together against it.

even if you've done it for years... sometimes the unforeseeable happens and things go boom... stay safe out there

good viewing here: @simonoxfphys.com’s new video on impacts of the London ULEZ, with Khan interview nebula.tv/videos/simon...

intense episode with little note of fervent @redemmas.org love right at the end looking forward to a relisten when i find the energy

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

‘But Mill’s not somebody who makes a distinction between two types of freedom, freedom to and freedom from. I asked Google, just before, whether Mill makes a distinction like that, and Google A.I. said “Yes he does,” and then I said “Don’t bullshit me,” and Google said “Oh sorry he doesn’t.”’

today’s Slow News Day from @tomnicholas.bsky.social, ‘Update from TERF Island’ nebula.tv/videos/slown...

this thread!

Flora

once again the answer to everything you’re mad at in a think piece is to subscribe to worker-owned media outlets, like: @flaminghydra.com @defector.com @weareravenous.com @aftermath.site @gourmetlives.bsky.social @404media.co

‘But Caterpillar was not flagged … . That’s because … common tools that portfolio managers use to determine ESG risk, like Morningstar’s Sustainalytics, have begun to exclude certain conflict zones from their determinations altogether.’

On @thegailyshow.org today to talk about *Cisgender: Disorienting a Category* (pre-order now; out in July)! Loved being in conversation with John Parker! @dukepress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=fclP...

rarely does one encounter so perfect a video-essay title (go subscribe on @nebula.tv — creator owned!)

‘Beyond court reform, Americans have to reacquaint themselves with constitutional thinking — with the idea that we, the people, make constitutional meaning. … youtu.be/wCgDj8UHfXc

We stand with the workers - the board should too.

Latest Eco Files newsletter: “Palestinians are in the situation that they’re in because of a political economy embedded in pipelines filled with blood over hundreds of years” My newsletter’s first guest post, by @mariannedhe.bsky.social www.alleenbrown.com/why-genocide... 1/

Thomas Jefferson argued tirelessly that Black people should be exiled from The United States while also fathering four children with his enslaved concubine Sally Hemings. Join us for a frank discussion of how race and racism shaped the founding of America. events.leapevents.com/tickets/anne...

Super excited about the interview I'm publishing tomorrow with Mohammed Usrof of the Palestinian Institute for Climate Strategy. It'll also be up on Eco Files, an indie pub from climate journo heavyweight Alleen Brown — and we'll have discount codes! Click below to get it in your inbox.

whew

noticing a little podcast coincidence last week pdbowman.studio/briefs/10-ma...

Wrote a little something for @slate.com about that viral Atlantic story about staking a writer 10k to use on betting apps. Gift link: slate.com/technology/2...

I love my job.

Today on World Press Freedom Day, Delegates to #IFJ Centennial Congress joined French journalists' unions in front of City Hall in Paris for reading names and moment of silence for journalists killed around the world in last year. The list was too long. Largest number were Palestinian. #NWU

wouldn't have dreamed of publishing without an editor! the next thing on my list is getting a fact-checker on every piece, not just some. I'm about 20 paid subscribers short of affording that.

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

Media makers, spiritual innovators, activists—especially in Colorado: Please consider applying for our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture's $25,000 Liberatory Media Residency for next academic year. https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2026/04/17/open-call-liberatory-media-residency

Yeah I think I’m done with the stories of people killing billionaires. It’s not doing much. I want stories of people who build alternative systems or something. Enough “speaking truth to power” and more “speaking inspiration to the public” I guess

The latest post to my newsletter is live! Check it out 👀 newsletter.mariannedhenin.com

Day 20 of #FCFCoversLiteracy and we're over $9,000 in bids! Let's keep this rolling and get bids on everything and raise as much as we can for our friends at @literacyvolunteers.bsky.social on the way to Free Comic Book Day 2026!

Maddy and Sam get into the launch of Mothership and the importance of owning one's own work.

Media consolidation is reshaping the industry, affecting workers, consumers and communities. 📣 Join the @nwu.org on Monday (4/27) at 7 p.m. ET for a virtual panel on how we got here, what’s at stake and how we can build a more independent media ecosystem. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Organizers from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Arizona share strategies for resisting data centers in other communities. buff.ly/Io4A2Kn

Exceptional article by @mariannedhe.bsky.social. Another, more apt name for "defensive design" is anti-human architecture. A key feature in cities everywhere that needs to be scrapped. Meanwhile, let's be talking about intentional design that centers uplifting communities, not gentrifying them.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

This is exactly why I built my publication thedissident.news on ghost instead of substack. Substack monetizes nazis and now human traffickers like Andrew Tate.

Happy book pub day to @schuneke.bsky.social! His new book is I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany. Yesterday, we talked all about it and you can get your copy here: bookshop.org/a/82376/9781... youtube.com/shorts/1QaeT...

the fact that I'm now having to flag fabricated citations when I edit, but we still don't have comments in footnotes in MS Word, smdh