“Eso es la vida”

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You’d really be forgiven if you had a hard time conceiving of a success on this scale. “So I’ve got this idea for an environmental and public health project, we’re gonna reduce pollution by a fifth. No no it doesn’t cost anything. Actually it’s gonna net half a billion dollars.” What!

it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website

big reporting from Wapo on life on the ground for rape survivors in eastern Congo after USAID cuts left women unable to access time-sensitive medication to prevent HIV, other infections, and pregnancy after assault archive.is/lge4Z

It's already on the Internet Archive lol archive.org/details/3mam...

As the year wraps up, & the breakout of conflict in the Horn of Africa looks increasingly inevitable in 2026, this indepth probe by @clairelwilmot.bsky.social into illegal gold mining from Tigray to the UAE mostly by the way of Eritrea...is a good 101er for how factions are likely to arm themselves.

Somehow there are still people defending LLMs on Bluesky

Totally baffled that anyone has nostalgia for work events. I beg of you, make some friends.

Vijay Iyer has impeccable taste.

Elise Stefanik humiliated herself.

this is basically why they teach you to write a line through the end of the amount portion of a check

talk about closing the barn door

Translators have more or less the same importance and lack of visibility in the literary ecosystem as the ‘random person’ in the famous xkcd internet infrastructure cartoon

I will be donating because Sheryl does so much work for people PRO-BONO and needs to be able to hire someone to assist. She also fundraises to support others but not herself. If you can support, please do.

Working on something about what Twitter meant to historians - what was good/not good about it for the profession, in relation to the general crisis of academic history / the profession, etc., the cratering of the university. What was #twitterhistory at its best? What were its failures? 🗃️

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

FUCKIN FACTS 💯

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

wow, great thread

Border patrol is forcing rideshare drivers at the O’Hare lot to show proof of citizenship before they can exit the lot and pick up rides at the airport

My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it

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hey @bsky.app bring back drafts u turkeys

I think if you oppose war with Venezuela (correct) you should open with that. Illegal and unconstitutional can follow. But the cause is monstrous and legality could never justify it.

It won’t take too much longer for me to be completely cured of checking X, the children there keep posting about Florence Welch as if she’s one of the ancients. Reader, she is 39.

I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.

Amazing news, this program is so valuable. When I was a grad student in France, I found I knew people basically everywhere else in Europe I might want to go, because someone in one of my classes was from there. Incredibly healthy for the intellectual and political life of Europe.

Taking a break from recital prep to play around in my Christmas song fakebook.

translated fiction is such a small percentage of the US book market that I try to support as much as I can because it's important for our culture to have access to art and ideas created/situated outside of the US

My electrician is a green card holder who's been here since he was a kid. He got married to a citizen, applied for citizenship, went to court for the papers and when he got there ICE kidnapped him and he's been locked up for a month.

Two thumbs up to this idea (some already do, thank you to those folks!)

In the 1820s, Americans thought a canal across Nicaragua was inevitable. They were wrong. Canal dreamers, revolutions, and rainforest disasters—this story has it all. 🎧 @lizcovart.bsky.social dives in with historian Jessica Lepler 🔗 www.benfranklinsworld.com/428 #history #EarlyAmerica #BFWpod

This is a ludicrous policy that means, for example, a repro justice student group couldn’t expel antis if they joined to try to disrupt the group’s work.

Sorry to RT this person, my own muted terms will hide it lmao, but no one has ever more justified tapping my “listen to organizers not pundits(!!!)” sign. Trying to defeat the right by arguing w/them is such a fool’s errand that I don’t believe anyone pushing that approach actually wants to win.

This entire weekend

A few friends are managing threats to renewal in academia (mid tenure review specifically) due to Palestine position — anyone gone through that/ dealing now that’s open to chatting? If so DM.

Fuck

another ICE grab from within our Portland Catholic community. Evelyn is a high school student whose father was assaulted and abducted while she was in the car. My parents have dear friends who know the family and asked for help spreading the word. Please donate and boost if you can 💕

That also means.... I got to pick my top 5 African reads of the year 👏🏾 Books from Goretti Kyomuhendo, @willthisbeaproblem.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social, @hofrench.bsky.social, and Oyinkan Braithwaite are on the list!

Ooh year-end movie roundup from @thecontinent.org

Soooo it’s a great time to verify your measles immunity. Info on how to do that from Matthew Cortland: www.patreon.com/posts/123491...

"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026." Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

PerfumeSky: any opinions on Aedes’s 16a Orchard? (The fragrance, rather than the shop, I mean!)

UGGGGHHHH elite academia/media/"intelligentsia" is such an ideology-destroying cesspit.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

I feel like I ought to plug the For You feed in appreciation for surfacing this post, which was indeed maximally For Me. 10/10 will scroll again Feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

we're going to win, they know it, and they shudder every day about it

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