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I’ve haven’t even been in Vancouver by myself for four days yet and I already miss this so much. (To be clear, I also miss the kids and my partner just as much, but dissociating with the cats was our thing.)

I’m so heartbroken for Belfast right now and scared of the men who organized this madness and promoted the violence and know they want the same here. Idc that Musk is a trillionaire, arrest him! Arrest all of them! Charge them as the terrorists they are. /

this might be the best headline i’ve ever read

Long, but excellent thread. No idea why the initial post was labeled as adult content. It’s a Douglas Adams quote.

Look do not let the fascism machine read shit into your child’s subconscious while they sleep.

Current situation. Not gonna lie, I haven’t felt this relaxed in years.

We have an incredible problem: too many donations for our mutual aid hub and not enough shelves! We’ve outgrown our current setup, and we need to adapt to keep up with need, especially as we help candidates across the country adopt this model.

Trump is the end result of everything America is, a white supremacist settler colony built on the genocide of natives & antiblack brutality, empowered by capitalist values. He has destroyed the very infrastructure that can keep the empire functional anymore, he is bringing it to its natural end.

"We dare to exist beyond the headlines and define ourselves for ourselves." Pride Month Repost: Behind the curtain of the filters imposed by outsiders, the Rio Grande Valley boasts an abundance of creative, powerful, and joyful communities, one of them being the LGBTQ+ community.

Gender-affirming care for minors is not a bad thing. It’s been so needlessly demonized and the position has been so thoroughly capitulated to that I think people forget it’s actually a good thing. A Grammy award winning artist had gender affirming surgery at 16. It’s a great thing!

Statement in the Senedd today. Needless to say, the TERFs are having a meltdown. record.senedd.wales/StatementOfO...

Imagine decrying academic politicization via the most politically motivated report ever written.

Librarians are literal heroes.

Early June is when everything happens, from graduations and the starts of field seasons to buying houses or moving across the continent. Today, I fly to Vancouver to start yet another new chapter. Weird to be coming back, but exciting as well! See you soon, Canada!

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I find it moving that Lynch's legacy in the queer community is now forever tied to the phrase "fix your hearts or die". It has become a rallying cry. It is bigger than him. It is bigger than Twin Peaks. It is beautiful.

Do we REALLY think that a massive civic infrastructure and vibrant, complex economy could exist without a way to say, "Meet me a half-watch after lunch so we can do X"? The evidence is right there that these people had a system in place. Only cultural bigotry keeps us from seeing it, IMHO. 11/

A cursory search of the Internet might lead you to believe that, while Nahua and Maya people had complex calendar systems, a day was just a day and had no real, regular, functional divisions. And it's true that they didn't use hours / minutes / seconds. BUT THEY DIVIDED THEIR DAYS, JFC. 6/

One of my pet peeves is folks acting like the absence of proof is proof of absence. This is especially true of pre-Spanish Invasion Indigenous Mexican cultures like the Nahua peoples whom I study. A perfect example would be FRACTIONS. So many claim the "Aztecs" had no fractions. That's BS. 1/

When DHS and ICE are eventually dismantled, part of that process has to be destroying all this data.

I sincerely beseech you to read this. It is terrifying and important. Repost it, get the word out. Tag media like @npr.org & @nytimes.com @wsj.com and whoever because this is absolutely something that needs to be investigated & reported on ASAP The headline isn't the half of it. READ IT ⬇️⬇️⬇️

i read books that were way too old for me as a kid and i turned out weird and a little fucked up, but i also think that's kind of the point.

I think about this a lot.

A young teen organized a march yesterday against two proposed AI data centers in Vancouver, which is facing water restrictions & housing crisis. The first project will be at former Hootsuite headquarters. Hootsuite is also facing opposition for a pilot ICE contract. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

EVERYONE STOP. Briefly marvel at the fantastic craftsmanship of this handsome terracotta pig!

A statement from a member of the party that just banned trans people from using appropriate bathrooms across the UK, including in private businesses. According to her, living with dignity involves being sent out back tto the gender neutral porta potty, just like in South Carolina.

Cuellar and Gonzalez every fackin time.

1. A Kansas Judge has struck down the anti-trans "experts" the ADF parades. "Cherry-picked information, conjecture, and research taken out of context," ruled Judge Folsom III. He then established 349 facts that support trans care and reversed the Kansas ban. Subscribe to support our journalism.

WHAT THE FCC? "the FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to 'transgender and gender non-binary programming' and 'the discussion or promotion of gender identity themes.'" glaad.org/fcc

My boss recently asked me & a colleague to sign up for an AI info course for software we use and I responded that I hate AI & I don’t think think it will benefit us at all and she said ok, we won’t use it. And I think that’s how we stop some of this, just not accepting it as inevitable

Seems like a testable hypothesis.

Born on this date is musician, rocker, activist, dog rescuer-worshipper, Trek fan, comic book creator, recent inductee into the Wisconsin Hall of Fame, all around cool person, my pick for funniest cameo in a movie ever, and my favorite Joan of Arc!

All Ea-nasir. All the time.

I am increasingly of a mind to swaddle myself in a portable Faraday cage suit and walk into the woods forever

a common feature in this emerging genre is the thinly veiled contempt that the administrative classes of institutions have toward their own students, and there's a simple explanation for this: those administrators see students chiefly as revenue streams rather than fully participating humans

Wow, never have I been more thankful on my timing on choosing to cut out everything google in my life and switching to Proton and Firefox. At least they let me shut off all AI bullshit.

This is your daily reminder that: - Colossal did NOT bring back the dire wolf - They are funded by big-business interests to push a narrative that species extinction isn't a real problem because we can just "de-extinct" them later

ADHD meds are a monthly adventure to get filled. Someone who strikes it rich should create a nonprofit that just helps folks with ADHD actually get their medication on time. Or maybe they should let you fill a prescription before the day the old one runs out and fill it for 90 days.

"So you expect every author to check every citation is real and accurate?" YES, in fact, we do. The very *best* explanation for having a fake or inaccurate citation is that you were misleading your readers by dishonestly padding your citations! That's unacceptable!

"You shouldn't support Palestine. They would kill you for being trans!" say the people who want to kill me for being trans in the United States.

Absolutely horrendous. Textbook example of archaeology being used to enact state violence.

Juniper Blessing was only 19 years old when she was brutally murdered. Stabbed 40 times. Stabbed in her hands as she desperately tried to defend herself. This was a hate crime. Every person pushing anti trans rhetoric contributed to this. Shame on all of them.

Texas Children's caved and ended care under pressure in April 2022, over four years ago and they still got targeted by DOJ and Paxton. NYU caved and they still got served with a grand jury subpoena. Caving and abandoning will not save you. You have to fight these bastards or they will destroy you.

Texas Children’s Hospital has deleted its statement explaining that it was “navigating an unconscionable campaign of mistruths and mischaracterizations related to gender affirming care.” Why? www.advocate.com/health/trans...

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

Donning our faculty regalia for the last time and celebrating our students at graduation this morning. It’s definitely bittersweet. We’ve been here 10 years, we are the departmental leadership, we still love and admire our students and our colleagues. #UTRGV @archaeogirl.bsky.social

Boosting to the archaeology 🏺 and science 🧪 feeds to spread the word not to stock up on field gear/clothes at REI this year!!