Today's Featured Poem: "Second Time Trying to Say Where My Son Was" by Patricia Smith from The Intentions of Thunder published by @scribnerbooks.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/second-...

Thanks to everyone who read and shared the piece I wrote that was published in the G & M. I had no gift links but if you want to read it and cannot access it, now you can. web.archive.org/web/20251228...

Lydia Davis. New Year’s Resolution. ✨

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The beginning of “My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work” from Tiana Clark’s Scorched Earth, 2025, Washington Square Press

I genuinely think people are underestimating how much influence never Trump conservatives have in the Democratic coalition right now and how their influence is acutely felt by the people they’ve targeted throughout their political careers.

This is insidious and absolutely flew under the radar. Take heed, make plans well ahead of time, and pass this along.

I sighed. "I really do have trouble not being able to figure out if what you've painted is about to be day or night." Ruth rolled toward me [...] "It's not going to be day or night, Jess. It's always going to be that moment of infinite possibility that connects them." -Stone Butch Blues, ch 24

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

The beginning of “My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work” from Tiana Clark’s Scorched Earth, 2025, Washington Square Press

My mother died of Covid complications this year. She not only refused to believe Covid was ‘that serious’ she also refused to mask when people visited her at our home in India. Anyone anywhere who wants to mock people who mask can fuck all the way off.

one of many reasons that the organized critique and refusal movement is overwhelmingly led by women (yes including women computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and engineers)

Four years ago today, Asheville police arrested fellow Blade journalist Veronica Coit and me for doing our job covering the eviction of a homeless encampment in a city park. While our legal suit plays out, the Blade’s work as a co-op goes on. We’re raising money to survive in 2026. Support us here

One of Ireland’s greatest artists was the stained glass creator Harry Clarke (1889-1931). He created this window depicting >The Nativity< in 1918. Clarke’s work has seen great international interest recently as it includes elements of Hiberno-Celtic & Art Nouveau in a uniquely Irish harmony.

#NewOrleans, #LA: 47y/o #KuntaRobinson was last seen in the 2300blk of Toledano St on Dec 2 wearing a hoodie & jeans while carrying a black backpack. He told loved ones that he met a woman at a local Airbnb who reportedly bought him a plane ticket to Las Vegas.

Deer walk

Literally one of the reasons I’m skeptical of gAI is because I’m a historian and technology is one of the things I study, but also who looks at the recent history of Silicon Valley and trusts a single word they tell us

Snow!

Happy Solstice!

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

In The Picture Not Taken, Benjamin Swett, whose father worked as a photographer in Baltimore in the 1950s, examines his father’s old contact sheets to see the images that went undeveloped, including the one below. Through the images, he revises ideas of his father. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social 2024

chop from the top chop from the cop chop from the bot

Dogwatch

it's not hard to just love your kid. entire world being dictated by people who simply do not love their kids as they are and want to invent ways for that to be morally justified, a way to hurt them or let them die for not being what they imagined... but ethically.

Poor @erinbartram.bsky.social is worried abt the black box thumbnail but it feels representative of how challenging it was for @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social & I to compile the list this year. Kudos to the authors! Pls read, cite, teach, buy, & share their work—& know there is much more out there!

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Did Sandy Hook break the US? The trajectory was already there, but it accelerated. Horrifically. It happened on December 14, 2012.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

GAZA IS DROWNING IN RAIN WATER AND THEY ARE ALL IN TENTS AND ISRAEL IS STILL FIRING ON PEOPLE AND THIS ISN'T A MAJOR NEWS STORY BECAUSE OF RACISM

"Even though the material conditions might hold you down, they're not representative of the aesthetic or intellectual conditions." Dionne Brand

“We are not here to simply express personal opinions or repeat talking points, but rather to engage a set of ideas and research findings that have a long and complicated history and are therefore subject to ongoing debate.”

Appreciation post for Ahmed al-Ahmed. Hero.

More depraved stuff brought to you by your friendly neighborhood university administrators

Noticing that Democrats are passing “right to die” laws before passing “right to housing” or “right to healthcare” laws www.nprillinois.org/government-p...

Pleiades and Uranus. 12 December 2025. Nikon D850, Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 Ai-S. ISO 3200, ƒ/4.0, 27x120 seconds. Processed with Siril v1.26, rnc_color_stretch, Lr/Ps. #astrophotography #pleiades #planets #siril

"AI is turning ordinary office workers into people who feel smarter and more productive while their underlying skills slowly erode." Based on new report from researchers from universities including Notre Dame, Harvard, and UC Santa Barbara. www.businessinsider.com/ai-making-wo...

Sign on to this petition demanding that management at The New School stop the devastating budget cuts, which propose a massive layoff of 40% of full-time faculty⬇️ @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

Local U—proudly underemploying a substantial percentage of the surrounding community while nominally preparing kids from that same community for high paying jobs we’re actually helping ensure don’t exist™️

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

Overlook Hotel July 4th Ball 1921

We told you AI was a tool of fascism.

Good Morning (Moon)

There is hope. / There is hope everywhere. Anne Sexton

no, thanks. I actually love myself.

From the inbox: local activists have taken it upon themselves to print and distro this story to the community. Absolutely love to see it.

My uncle, Douglas Colesworthy, on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He died in 1987. Silence = death.

#skyscrolling Maine sunset