permanent daylight savings doesn't go far enough

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

Imperial boomerang: for centuries, Europeans have framed tech to protect against cold (fire, furnaces) as noble and good, while they’ve framed the warm climates they colonized as full of lazy people (Asians, Africans) and, thus, the need to use AC or fans as frivaloues, wasteful & unnecessary

"This heat is not an inconvenience, it is a growing public health threat. Every heatwave puts lives at risk" --Friederike Otto, professor of climate science at Imperial College London

Trans people deserve equality. I'm joining the mass lobby on 25th June. Take part here: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

I think if it’s purely a fistfight joe Rogan wins but if they’re allowed to write books Calvino could take him

Move over, elephant graveyards - this whale necropolis extends 1,200km along the Indian Ocean seafloor at depths from 4,600-7,000m; has accumulated at least 476 fossil whale carcasses over the past 5m years; and has 5 active whale falls. Paper in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

oh you're mad online? that's cool, I'm doing ketamine and reading the Buddha's teachings. you will never escape Samsara

Watched a video of staff scraping Gloria anzaldua's name and the rest of the Mexican American and Latino Studies logo off the office door at UT

Students: libraries & librarians need your advocacy BEFORE our collections are shuttered and our workers are fired. Whether you think your library is in trouble (it almost definitely is) write to your dean and tell them how essential the library and library staff are to your education. Right now.

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

Gotta get “time strength cash patience” tattooed on my face backwards for this next round of revisions

Today @drjogrady.bsky.social wrote to the University of Reading. Trans staff and students are being forced into formal grievances just to find out why policies that affect their daily lives exist. That is not legal compliance. It is institutional opacity. We’re calling on Reading to act.

Canvas is down, ye say? Aye lad hearken to me and I'll tell thee of a time when a man might say canvas was down! When the leviathan booms his bulk upon ye an' thy splintered masts surrender their sails to the foaming, merciless drink!! then, lad, ye say might say with some authority that can (1/135)

Look, Middlemarch is a great novel. It complexly mediates class conflict, the commodification of all life, emerging ideological structures in Victorian capitalism. I just personally think it’s more impressive when a novel does that through a story about a guy who hates a weird fish.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 17,1944

Got carpal tunnel from playing too much Stardew valley on my phone and/or writing

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Possibly the best thing in Moma's current Duchamp show is this 1913 newspaper cartoon poking fun at his "Nude Descending a Staircase"

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Make sure you know your rights before taking to the streets on No Kings Day. Join an @aclu.org training to learn about your constitutional right to peacefully protest and best practices for reducing risks.

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Transgender residents of Kansas have received letters informing them that a new state law requires them to forfeit their driver’s licenses if they include a gender marking that doesn’t match the sex identity they were assigned at birth.

frog forcing himself to like a book and the sentences in it no longer make sense because he can no longer pay attention

this came to me in a dream

He’s a queer man, Captain Ahab—so some think—but a good one.

the overseer of project 2025 is telling you out loud that every inch you cede on trans rights is part of the plan to create a white christian fascist state

Kevin Roberts, President of The Heritage Foundation, claims that evidence suggests a correlation between undergoing Trans Medical Care and acts of violence. He states Heritage's public policy solution is to ban it for all ages and they're willing to work towards this goal on an incremental basis.

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

‘The analytic hour is a mere fold in the day, but also borderless and tenseless. Like the dream, it has no outside.’ Paul Keegan on recollection and psychoanalysis. granta.com/the-perec-ca...

In 1979, the “New York Times” asked Isaac Bashevis Singer if he planned to watch the Super Bowl.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:

if the temple police had to block your number because you kept reporting the Sav-On for putting sunscreen on sale, you might be a redneck. if all that scares you is the IRS and the influence of the primordial chaos serpent Apep rising as the sacred Aten dims in eventide, you might be a redneck

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

I never understand why people who tout their moderate and centrist credentials aren't directly asked about this.

You know, this right here is an exceptionally good theory of power and might need to get added to my public policy theory class on social movements

Always a test of how long before I'm fighting angry tears

Such an unreal, death cult headline