i just did it all scared

Hallo, here's your gift @spoopyium.bsky.social for the Hassius Holiday Exchange 2025 🎄🎊🍊🌻 archiveofourown.org/works/76353886 I hope you enjoy it! #ephemeralartshipping #Hassius

rfk will not rest until your kid is dead wapo.st/4s2l2zn

Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

“Sunsetting: How Universities Naturalize Ideologically Motivated Cuts and Closures,” forthcoming from a university press probably on its way to being sunsetted

grading final essays and came across this gem: "Chekhov thus pushes forth the memo that..." i am howling :'D

📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. But ProPublica did. @natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD

at the stage of grading where i see someone cite a friend and i just write "megan is great!" in the margin. (@meganlcook.bsky.social)

If a school won’t fully employ its own teachers why in the world would any student or their family trust them to know a thing about career prep? I hate the vocationalization of higher ed (obvs) but even within that awful frame it seems fair to say: you either take jobs srsly or you don’t.

i finally wrote a scene i've been thinking about for *months* and didn't know how to tackle. whew! it's nice to get that done. now i'm late but elated :D

Terrific, detailed report by Block Club Chicago about how Homeland Security has lied its ass off about its immigration crackdown in Chicago. Nothing that Homeland Security says should be believed.

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

Northwestern and Columbia being famous for journalism and bending over for Trump seems a little too on the nose these days

Astonishing cowardice

Happy happy Thanksgiving! I'm so grateful I quit the X/twitter for bsky, and many people I've interacted with on here. Hope you have a peaceful 🦃 day, and the cooking and eating goes well 😂

they were "controversial" for murdering palestinians at their food distribution sites.

UPDATE: We've added 5 more staffers to our DOGE tracker, taking the total to 114. This is everyone who we've confirmed has worked for DOGE ⤵️

Trump never looked that happy when JD was in the room

This is very important. The intrusion of AI slop into higher education is not mainly coming from below, from the students. It's coming from the top.

You can sabotage AI with poetry, pass it on

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

Yn a free society, universitye-level studye of the artes and humanityes sholde not be avaylable onlye to the wealthye and privileged.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

"piggy" - is such a blatant offense against human dignity. a woman's dignity, here, but in general. and while we are getting used to extrajudicial executions and genocides, and we should not be, of course, it's just such a small and jarring example of the kind of disdain he has for others' humanity

I'm not linking to the article because 1) I don't know if the woman named ever had a relationship with Larry Summers and 2) I have no idea whether it was consensual. But the fact that he's teaching 3 classes this fall, with all of this going on, and nobody has pulled him out is absolutely bonkers.

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

One of the most important lessons you have to learn about what a university "is" is a very vulgar marxist distinction between its *managers* (directly or indirectly appointed by capital and/or state government) and its *labor,* who come to the university out of love and idealism.

Just. How are people still using this shit lmao www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...

The @zeteo.com searchable dataset of Epstein documents is the best I've seen— by far. You can filter by date range, person, organization, and location. Amazing public service. Check out @micahflee.com and @premthakker.bsky.social 's article (below) and explore the data via the link in the article

What is the point of a political party that will not fight for the people?

happening now: community members are gathering at the chicago fbi field office to demand ice and border patrol agents leave the city and stop terrorizing residents. yesterday, the fbi and other feds helped greg bovino and a caravan of border patrol agents ravage little village and cicero.

There is always money for the consultants. No matter how much “austerity.” Always always always.

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Thread about the horrors in Chicago:

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)

this is really a pointed contrast to Harris posting a loving obituary for Dick Cheney, who endorsed her

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.

This is what Kat and others were/are actively protesting while some of you sit back and criticize from the comfort of your screens.

@zohrankmamdani is a deeply thoughtful human being and we think he would make the best NYC mayor imaginable. We feel this as New Yorkers, as Jews and as human beings who are desperate for kindness, compassion and empathy to be represented in our politics. GET OUT THE VOTE here bit.ly/4nxYXFp

genuinely regretting watching short olivia reingold or whatever video, bluesky. yes i know i'm an adult and make my own bad decisions but ewwwwww.... blaming bsky for this

Refusing to feed people while building a massive ballroom is a fast track to eat the rich. No pun intended.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

another full day of grading. failed my interviews badly, gained exp ofc but boy do I feel down and lacking energy to apply anywhere or even make food (the usual there). if part-time is this hard, can I even work full time if anyone EVER deigns to hire me? if i get off my ass and apply again. big if.

This is a U.S. citizen being brutally abducted by ICE while his mom pleads for them to stop and the videographer cries for help. The Chicago police do nothing to stop it. They will come for everyone, and they’re not even hiding that anymore. If you are not organizing and resisting yet, get started.

I am tired of seeing @HomeDepot be a place of large immigration raids. This is not keeping our communities safe. Until @HomeDepot breaks their silence I will no longer be giving them my business! Join me in demanding they end their silence! #BoycottHomeDepot app.sosha.ai/s/2QvU2j9P