Help a poet out ♥️ if you can, we need them more than ever

This “joke” popped into my head as I was falling asleep the other night.

Suicide prevention is not telling suicidal people to call a number for cops to take them to the psych ward. It’s being community for people. People suffer alone. You abandon your sad & mentally ill & lonely friends because they bum you out. We’re the ones with the duty of caring for each other.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

SCOOP: One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt. “I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.”

"The problem with Canada’s plan to buy scientific prestige." Anybody who has been peripherally involved in a University's attempt to recruit through this program will recognize the issues raised in this piece.

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Sham trial. And 51 witnesses in 13 days? And we can't even get one Epstein client locked up? www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/v...

Now understand that most people in jail in the US are not convicted criminals. Most people in jail in the US, are poor people in jail pre-trial, just like this woman. They're disproportionately Black. Many are 100% innocent. Most of what cops do, is fine/arrest poor Black people, for minor charges

Yup. The biggest factors in the delta between what cops actually do, and white white folk incorrectly think they do: 1) Copaganda TV shows 2) Framing by newspapers and TV news Without this sustained disinformation campaign against Black people, white folk would not accept this level of racism.🤷🏿‍♂️

Kids won't grow up "normal" if you don't make sure to traumatize them, says parent who definitely has no issues whatsoever about their own formative years, no sir, none at all, nothing but normalcy here.

If you want to make sure your kids despise you with the fury of 1000 suns, take this asshole's advice.

i’ll end this thread with something an admin friend pointed out last week: those businesses that colleges are so thirsty to partner with — how long’s it going to take for them to realize their new employees can’t actually think because their degree is 70% ChatGPT outputs?

students are also frustrated by rampant careerism. they *want* options; they *want* to pursue things that interest them; they *want* more than the credential from college. we saw this in 2020-21: why did students hate distance learning so much? because college is about more than completing credits.

“ASU was the first university to partner with OpenAI to test applications of generative AI and discover how it can support academic transformation.” yeah, see, this is not about education. that’s probably why faculty get all cranky; we think colleges educate. radical leftist nonsense, i know.

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

Horrific news. The defendants — including two trans women — are political prisoners persecuted for opposing the atrocities of a fascist regime. But the Haymarket trial didn't kill anarchism or unions. Rigged, corrupt courts are an old weapon in the hands of tyrants. People always fight on anyway.

If we had UBI and universal healthcare, taxes wouldn't be such a burden. We'd all have what we need to survive.

Contrary to evidence and basic human empathy…. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Just incredible shoebill awareness-raising from this Hong Kong teens' magazine

Ngl, this shit pisses me off so much. It makes me think of the people I went to college with who cheated on tests in biology and chemistry because they *had* to get into medical school. They felt entitled to being doctors or in positions of power without the hard work. Please, get fucked.

If you're a service member being ordered to prep for deployment for the War in Iran and you have moral and/or ethical misgivings on all this, remember that you have the right to apply for conscientious objector status. Call the G.I. Rights hotline: 1-877-447-4487

Dude wrote a 173 page footnote on a marginally related topic, prefacing it with “I have omitted much that I would like to have said... [and] I have written much that few will read." I HAVE FOUND MY PATRON SAINT

"Under a new rule, the State Department will be able to revoke trans people's visas over "misrepresentation." It'll give ICE grounds to suspect all trans people of being in the US illegally."

I'll put it in tiny words so anyone can understand it: When OUR bad man does a bad thing, we protest because we might change his mind When THEIR bad man does a bad thing, we know campus protests WON'T HELP Instead we use our energy standing between Trump's SS and their attempted victims Okay?

If you're wondering why there's so many anti-trans articles written by cis people while so few positive ones written by actual trans people it's because they're intentionally being silenced

This is what I dream about now. And yes, the nap was lovely, thank you.

The 3 genders

The Carney government is also cutting prison librarians to save…$2.5m. This is now a theme with the federal budget - it’s not about cost savings, it’s about destroying access to knowledge and information. #Cdnhist

""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."

Worth doing whether or not you think you might be "expert" enough for their metrics. Let THEM waste the time trying to figure out if you're in there or not. And tell them you'll come after them if they add you later.

I honestly have no idea what this number means, even after reading the explanatory 3000 word essay. Yay me?

Hyperscale datacenters pumping out useless LLMs has gotta be the most ridiculous thing humanity has ever done, it's basically just an excuse to print money for Oil & Gas while keeping the egos of tech bros inflated and satisfied. And we're all supposed to go along with this? It's absolute madness.

This is absolutely brilliant.

Correction: Indoctrination IS happening at UT. It's just the Board of Regents that's doing it.

The field of archaeology was developed as a tool of imperialism and settler colonialism and every attempt to depoliticize archaeology is an abdication of our responsibility to actively undo the harms of our predecessors through reparative justice🏺

Eby says this ban is needed to prevent violence and vandalism... which are already crimes. This kinda reminds me of anti-trans bathroom bills. The nebulous concept of "safety" being used to take away everyone's rights, despite there already being laws that directly address the stated safety issues.

Pretty sure this is what they used to call war profiteering.

the English major is so important now with the rise of ChatGPT. yes, the humanities are in decline; they’re seen as less useful than STEM, but with the rise of AI, we need people thinking about humanity. what is the human? what makes us human? what could be more important?

I feel like it should be bigger news that Trump is now openly considering a military draft. Young men haven't been called up for a draft since 1972. Not during the Gulf War. Not during Iraq or Afghanistan. He received five draft deferments but is now open to drafting your kids.

There are moments in a nation’s life when an incident appears small almost fleeting but reveals something far larger beneath the surface. The device thrown during a protest outside New York City’s mayoral residence was one of those moments.

Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

When Saddam Hussein did this to Kuwait there was incandescent outrage from Republicans everywhere

"Resources must be distributed, there's no point to have them if others don't" is the basic underpinning of the Indigenous potlatch societies on the NWC but soooo many archaeologists still struggle to understand wealth accumulation in this context

yeah. I knew I was trans in preschool, whether or not the society around me acknowledged the existence of others like me (it did not). www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a4...