Johnson and Rivera founded one of the first shelters for LGBTQ+ youth, using their own scarce resources to pay for food and rent. “STAR House was of personal importance to Johnson and Rivera, as they had both spent much of their youth experiencing homelessness and destitution.” #Pride

I knew/know the premise is godawful, but the best of dancing and singing by red-wigged Keel & bros!

Oh my god: What if It Happened at the Knicks Game 3

"There is value in tradition until it becomes a chain wrapped around the neck of a child." -- N. K. Jemisin, from her SFWA Grandmaster speech.

"MY MAYOR'S MUSLIM MY BAGELS ARE JEWISH MY CHRISTIAN DIOR KNICKS IN FOUR!" This is why I love this city. NYC. We are diverse. And yet United. We are immigrants and yet, American! Damn, it's a good time being in New York. And being a Knicks fan. I ❤️ NY.

This is the kind of hard hitting journalism you get when you gut newsrooms.

Dear sports writers in attendance, please bring decibel meters. I want data.

Confirming with my own eyes and pics what several fellow Washingtonians have said about this post with hundreds of shares and earnest comments: straight up misinformation

Yup. Tho honestly for me it was the working class cosplay even before I knew the below.

A New Mexico jury has found the Gila Regional Medical Center negligent in the death of Nichelle Nichols, who famously played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on the hit television series “Star Trek.” www.theroot.com/heartbreakin...

MSG crowds routinely boo Dolan; we routinely boo opposing players just to throw them off during free throws. There will be folks in the building whose grandparents were personally displaced by Trump’s father. I don’t think it’s gonna go the way he thinks.

Today's activity was accosting strangers with flyers about Citizens Bank, who are involved in funding ICE detention centers. Exhausting but useful.

Academics are not at fault. It's the administration. Academia is on the outs, and I don't know what to do about it.

Octavia Butler and the Wakanda Syllabus #afrofuturism

(2) these "intellectual diversity" centers become the main place where humanities are taught in public higher education as the right+admin deny hiring requests from traditional departments which slowly shrink and die & create a hostile environment that real humanists can't tolerate, so they leave

The defunding project works like this: (1) right-wing legislatures demand that public universities create 'intellectual diversity' centers using taxpayer dollars and/or by accepting big donations from conservative billionaires like the Koch brothers (who also fund AEI, which produced the report)

The Human League.

The convergent forms and spaces of data centers and detention centers

The likely Dem candidate for OK governor has pledged to sign an executive order for a data center moratorium on day 1 (if elected). A candidate in a Dem primary for House seat OK-5 has also promised to move forward a moratorium.

A step removed from "but I did play a lawyer on TV"

Other red state publics better get ready because the signs are clearly pointing in that direction and have been for a while. Shared governance has been made a mockery of for years, and intrusions of boards and politicians on course offerings etc. is commonplace.

So this is what IGN management thinks of fair wages. #IGNLive

The problem is not that public entities use financial institutions. The problem is that the financial institutions capable of holding public money have been overwhelmingly organized as private franchises that make even asking for a public banking option appear as this dangerous exotic request.

Honored to speak at the Shaping the Future of Privacy in New York panel at Stonewall Visitor Center, hosted by Equality NY and @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social for #NYTechWeek. A great audience question: why do we end up using privacy-invasive tech, and why are most people fine with it? 🤔 [1/3]

Somewhere out there a candidate is hoping you stay home. Do not make their day easier.

NEWS: SoFi Stadium cashiers, dishwashers, cooks, bartenders, concessions workers, and food attendants voted 96% to authorize a strike, just a week out from when the stadium is set to host its first World Cup game www.huffpost.com/entry/unite-...

Yeah he’d regularly say stuff like the woke mind virus will end civilization and people just didn’t want to interrogate what he meant by that.

This is a pretty wild disclaimer to read at the top of a document called "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences." In other words, if this would not pass peer-review, why has it been released?

It’s Jadzia now, thanks.

Harder to think of a clearer example of "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" for this era than people using "generative AI" to protest the outputs and infrastructure of "AI"

❗️FBI is reaching out to people who were previously arrested by NJSP during protests outside Delaney Hall. Some have received phone calls or door knocks. National Lawyers Guild is spreading an advisory for people to contact their hotline if feds come knocking:

Apple announced the iPhone 17e with a chip developed in Israel. The new iPhone 17 model supports Apple’s AI tools, features faster wireless charging, and includes the new C1X modem developed by the company’s silicon team. Great gotta worry about exploding phones, like the pagers in Lebanon.🤔🤬

I guess after my iPhone dies, I’m switching.

I hope more women with the BRCA mutations choose prophylactic mastectomies. Fuck those WEAK ASS men. Also, when you get a mastectomy, they’ll do a reconstruction and it’s covered by insurance!!!!!

Smfh. City can’t have anything good without this piece of shit trying to glom onto it

Beware of companies promising to make sites completely accessible, compliant, and immune from lawsuits with just a few lines of code. This just isn't possible. Disabled users have long said these tools don't actually help them, and can often make things worse.

I recently watched a Defunctland where Kevin Perjurer talked about how, the day before he died from rampaging lung cancer, Disney was using the tiles on his hospital room ceiling as a template to help him visualize the layout of the gridded streets of EPCOT for visitors I find that very relatable

Anywho… Cheers to Old Black People Winning! • Enjoying* the best years of our lives. • Having good food, good friends, good travel, and good sex(?). • Can still read, write, and arithmetic our asses off. May we keep getting older & keep getting better! *(white supremacy fuckery notwithstanding)

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.

“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”

I also have my newly revamped apparel shop. My "I Solemnly Swear to Always Protect Trans Futures", Two-Spirit Pride, and Indigiqueer tees are now available as well as an updated version of my "You are Sacred" tee. johnniejaedesigns.store

This Karmelo Anthony trial is stressing me because it is NOT uncommon at all to be under another team’s tent during a track meet especially during inclement weather. You see each other regularly so having a friend from another school is common and expected.

I'm at this Chipotle and asked for a fork to eat my salad. They said they don't have forks anymore. Only spoons. But... this is a salad? Help me understand the logic.

They’re just gonna say “we are in the world but not of the world” etc etc etc

Utah is Mormon because they were persecuted out of the Midwest as it is. There is never a point where the LDS church thinks “yes, we are Christians, accepted among Christians without hesitation.”

"You Can’t Stop the Beat… But You Can Sanitize It" Hairspray asks audiences to celebrate integration and social change. But what happens when we remember the joy and forget the struggle? My latest Standing Ovation? What are we applauding when the curtain comes down? shorturl.at/VeTLk

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