Pregnant people have almost no options for pain relief. Ibuprofen, and other NSAIDs are off-limits, so is aspirin. Tylenol is it, for all the headaches, backaches, and joint pain that come along with almost all pregnancies. This isn't about autism, this is about making pregnant people suffer.

We should not care or reward Disney for this. We must make their bottom line hurt for even considering doing something like this. Don't let up. Other companies need to see that bowing to fascism is not something you can do without consequence.

I'm hiring a mid-level full-stack SWE! Our team at @jstor.bsky.social Labs is looking for yet another product-minded engineer to join our team. We come from all kinds of backgrounds, tech and non-tech alike. Please apply or send to your awesome friends, and DM me with ?s: grnh.se/19o370345us

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

VT just closed its religious studies department.

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

Monday morning information desk shift and I've already stapled my thumb while trying to fix the library stapler. Glad to see things are going great this week already.

Today I met up with the NYC Urban Sketchers for a class on perspective and composition taught by an architect. I've been drawing for DECADES and this helped me so so much. #DHmakes

Sending love to my trans peeps out there fuck the administration cis folks: donate if you can southernequality.org/tyep/

New York City finally has a women's sports bar, Wilka's—and it'll soon be joined by two more bars devoted to women's sports. "We want to make a space to invite everyone in and say, 'Become a fan with us.'" hellgatenyc.com/nyc-first-wo...

wonderful alt text imo--descriptive/functional and also hilarious--also i am aiming for a fish 1 kind of day

Check out the guest post I did for @dhandlib.bsky.social on what I read this summer, practicing the @disconetwork.bsky.social method of "technoskepticism" vis-a-vis critical AI and platformization. dhandlib.org/recommended-... #TeamRhetoric #Academicsky #CriticalAI

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.

Now isn't the time to be a trans ally. We need you to be a trans champion. An ally is great, but the community doesn't need you to just stand behind them. The community needs you to fight/advocate for them, especially in spaces they can't.

Breaking News: Eleven Democratic elected officials were arrested in New York City after demanding access to ICE’s migrant detention cells.

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This course completely changed my way of being in the world. If you’re interested in critical and creative coding and/or data and/or birds, stop dithering and sign up ASAP! Also @jerthorp.bsky.social is offering 60% off right now with the code SIXTY. You will get so much from this experience!

Valkyries, I'm going to bed now. But if I wake up to find the series tied up, I, a sad Liberty fan, would be absolutely delighted.

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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

On Wednesday morning, the six-person Community Advisory Committee for the Caesar's Times Square casino bid killed the proposal in less time than it takes to heat up chicken wings in an air fryer.

I think I have brained enough for one day

A Ben & Jerry’s co-founder is leaving the company after 47 years, saying the brand was “silenced, sidelined for fear of upsetting those in power”

10% of recycled paper in NYC gets turned into pizza boxes on Staten Island!! and other fun facts:

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Just in case any of y'all thought they'd actually filibuster the appropriations bills coming with all the anti-trans provisions and shut the government down. Call your senators, demand no anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ provisions in appropriations bills.

I'm so down for this. Who wants in with me?

The Native American Studies department at Cal Poly Humboldt fought an uphill battle to establish the California State University system’s first food sovereignty lab. It was the result of student initiative, community involvement, and a shapeshifting approach to learning. buff.ly/n29N5IU

A few days ago, amidst everything else, I pressed send on the book I've been working on (and off) for over a decade. It's still a long way from finished, but the final phase has begun. Watch for DATA BY DESIGN: FROM THE HISTORY OF VISUALIZATION TO THE FUTURE WE NEED in print and online in Fall 2026!

LIBERTY BIBERTY

Looking for an alternative to Google docs? For simple collaborative text documents, try etherpad. To try it out: pad.riseup.net

Speaking ill of the dead includes misrepresenting them. If you’re going to claim we must respect the dead, respect them enough to tell the truth about them, however horrible that truth must be. Canonizing someone who was evil counts as speaking ill of them.

6th doctor in a week. And given everything happening it's hard to tell which symptoms are relevant to the weird medical thing happening and which are just the crushing anxiety and rage of the current moment.

Unlike Massachusetts and Connecticut, New York has not mandated that insurers cover the updated vaccine. @erinmdurkin.bsky.social tries to track down some answers

Just so y'all know, it appears bad actors are spreading disinformation claiming that several high-profile Democratic governors are lowering flags to half-mast today for Charlie Kirk. I'm going to remind y'all that unless you see something about that on the Governor's Office website, it's for 9/11.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

Violence is never the answer. Also, make use of the breaking news consumer's handbook from @onthemedia.bsky.social

What an expertly called shot

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It’s a very hard thing to read, but I recommend people read “I Saw Death Coming” by Kidada E. Williams for an in-depth exploration of first-hand accounts from people who suffered from attacks like those propagated by the Klan here in the US, to have a full understanding of how disrespectful this is.

You'd think every Democratic candidate in NYC would be falling over themselves to embrace BDS and call for an arms embargo. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...

Possible grant op for #DHmakes folks! www.centerforcraft.org/grants-and-f...

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

Are you doing public history work in NYC? If yes and you would like to be included in a potential gathering tentatively happening in April 2026 here in the city, please reach out to [email protected]. This will be focused on grassroots public history efforts happening and/or planned here in NYC.

The thing about investing in public transit is that it *scales* — the more people use it, the better it gets. For everyone. Whereas the more cars there are, the *worse* everything about driving gets. Traffic. Parking. [Ever noticed that in just about every car ad it’s alone on the road? Yeah.]

If you’re distressed watching the transphobic nightmare unfold, a great way to support trans people is to become a penpal to an imprisoned trans person. @powerblossoms.bsky.social, @arcgenderjustice.bsky.social, @blackandpinkorg.bsky.social, @massamp1312.bsky.social, @tpride.bsky.social

If you see me crying in the library...

to be clear… in a deposition relating to him raping a woman he was asked if she said no, and he responded that she said no and he kept going. he admitted under oath to being a rapist. and THAT is why he hasn’t been here in over a decade.