Afternoon walk

So exhausting..

Above, on a walk 🌱

UT-KNOXVILLE Prof Tamar Shirinian, fired for her post after Charlie Kirk’s murder, apologizes and asks the school to reverse the decision. www.utdailybeacon.com/campus_news/...

Cloudy night

They've lost the 9yos

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an important point is that if you do not teach chemistry, religion, fine arts, classics, french, or african american studies (among others listed here) you are not actually a university

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You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

We have been shadowbanned on this event and yet we are nearly sold out…come help us sell out and show your love and support for Palestine and Gaza. www.ticketmaster.com/voices-for-g...

“People don’t usually connect COVID-19 with Alzheimer’s disease,” Jiang said, “but our review of emerging evidence suggests otherwise.” uknow.uky.edu/research/uk-...

RIP Robert Redford, a director who, in *Ordinary People*, made possible quietly powerful performances. Redford lets you witness the most intimate moments without a sense of voyeurism. Like only a few other great directors -- Carol Reed or Barry Jenkins or Sidney Lumet -- he let the actors speak.

"But cowardice is ever the companion of cruelty--" Olaudah Equiano

A reminder that we're collecting for our 2025 contingent publication lists!

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Must be the Musk-rat.

Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didn’t like about Charlie Kirk. I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.

It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."

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"More often, abuse of the kind that Epstein practiced does not have to be covered up at all: more often, it is conducted out in the open, before a group of indifferent onlookers who ignore it when they do not laugh." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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“Whenever we teach about Palestine, it usually leads to an investigation. I think they flagged and sent all of that information to the federal government.”

A quotidian ex of how we got here — uni admins rewarded for capitulating, fascist state legislators, emboldened students intent on whipping up a media frenzy they can leverage, yes. But also the profound failure of TT (esp tenured) faculty to organize in support of / w more vulnerable colleagues.

My comically “warty” jack-o-lantern volunteered to come back too. 🎃 🌱

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

From @prep4allnow.bsky.social: $2B in HIV cuts up for vote TODAY. We're talking about programs that literally keep people alive. These cuts would eliminate federal funding for all HIV-prevention programs and gut $525 million from the Ryan White Program for people w/ HIV. Contact Congress below!

"(My wife asks me to append a note as regards the seasonal but nevertheless seriously licentious phenomenon of honeysuckle under the moon that one may apprehend at the corner of Nelson and Main" Letter to the Local Police by June Jordan open.substack.com/pub/onlypoem...

there is a certain irony around tech bros who believe that the work of writers is largely worthless, while also claiming at the same time that they desperately need to use that written work - without compensating human authors - so they can make a bazillion dollars off LLM products.

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

A huge crowd of Palestine supporters line the shore in Tunisia to welcome the Global Sumud Flotilla which will dock, coordinate with the boats that are waiting, and head to Gaza as a group of 60+ ships together.

Someone who sees nothing wrong with using sexual violence and harassment to maintain gender hierarchy will absolutely also defend other violence and harassment in the service of other hierarchies.

When CERN physicists admitted ordinary language can't describe quantum reality, they were right. What they missed, though, is exactly what Amy Catanzano observes in THE IMAGINARY PRESENT: that poets have been mapping the indescribable from the very start. press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-...

Gonna post this at least once a day so we don't forget: Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. White men saw the largest job increase 一 365,000 一 among groups.

Last night’s moon, which looked like the sun, this morning.

jesus christ

This Adrienne Rich poem about artificial intelligence from 1961 deserves another look in 2025: www.autodidactproject.org/other/Artifi...

A message from my friend Tasneem in Gaza whose family is forced to move again: "The cost of displacement if you want to move: 4000 shekel tent Transportation 3000 shekels Bathroom 1500 shekels Rent land on the tent 400 shekels per month!!" Please give to Tasneem and others. 🙏💔 tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

Columbia County, NY

Hello everyone! I am working on a story for The Guardian about how Chicagoans are preparing for the possible arrival of federal troops, following President Trump's statements on the matter. Right now, I'm looking for residents, community organizers, business owners, and other folks to talk to!

County fair

Columbia County, NY

When I was at community college, I took an art class in which all the art we made all semester was related in some way to Colony Collapse Disorder. Now whenever I worry that what I'm attempting is too niche or weird, I remember this class and then do it

Anyway, I designed this poster for our coworking space today, and added a subtle(ish) anti-AI dig, haha 💙 ✍️

There's a large protest planned here in NYC on 9/20 to coincide with the UN General Assembly.

An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/... *with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions

Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.

Good morning