Every move to fight back against Hegseth and the Trump administration matters. It's important to keep an international spotlight on these murders. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

Even without covid, it's a baby. One of my daughters nearly died because someone came around our house with a cold and it got onto her heart. You have to be really careful with babies this is basic stuff.

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

Since we’re talking accommodations in academia, I made a doc in uni about a Deaf woman whose profs at UofT wouldn’t even turn captions on on videos for her. Just give the accommodations! Don’t be weird about it, yeesh!

The best way to navigate this is to BUILD AN ACCESSIBLE WORLD. This kills me, and in many/most situations isn't that hard, it shifts the burden of effort where it belongs (on institutions, away from people), and THERE IS NOT CHEATING. The world just works for more people.

a comic about blocking

I really wish Carney’s talk about ‘nation building’ meant this.

Our tax dollars pay for the Speaker of the House of Representatives to have a staff of dozens of people who keep him informed of current events around the clock, often even before they make the news. It is offensive that our mainstream media never pushes back or even questions such an obvious lie.

Our criminal justice system operates under the theory of innocent til proven guilty. That's a decent starting point for disability accommodations Will some bad actors take advantage of the system? Yes, but cracking down on everyone to prevent that will lead to a much worse outcome for all

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I keep seeing random flashes of “NO they’re PETIT BOURGEOISIE” being argued about various arguments, and look, I’m begging you to understand that we have to update our understanding of Marx for a modern economy.

it’s this simple. and it really sucks

Don't blame the turner diaries troglodytes literally dismantling the Department of Education, blame the 11 year old with ADHD who needs an extra 30 minutes for the test.

Every dollar JK Rowling makes from Harry Potter is going into bankrolling an extortion racket issuing legal threats to organizations across the UK to purge themselves of trans people or face ruinous lawfare.

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

Oh @rianjohnson.bsky.social played all innocent "I'm not doing a muppet thing with Knives Out" he knew HE KNEW

It is a good thing, actually, that more students at elite schools are receiving testing accommodations. It's good because it means more disabled people are going to top universities AND face less stigma in seeking them out. I'm subtweeting an Atlantic article, btw.

While "peace" negotiations continue, remember that Russia could simply stop the war at any time.

Casual sexual harassment of women and femmes is so common that it’s often difficult to convince people that it even is harassment

Im definitely oversimplifying the science, but its a subset-set relationship. A (an?) LLM is a set of machine learning decision-making algorithms This is a chart from @colin-fraser.net

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

This piece hit hard for me, as it tracks with why my daughter stopped playing soccer at recess. The boys wouldn't let the girls play with them--only against them and with fewer players. But when girls scored anyway, some boys would cheat and play to hurt the girls, to the point where it wasn't fun.

when Michael Phelps was dominating US swimming there was endless coverage of all his genetic advantages. His wingspan, the way his body processed lactic acid, on and on and on. Nobody, not one person, floated the idea of kicking him out of the sport for genetic advantages

This cross-pollination IS how new ideas happen. EVERY field needs humanistic thinking, that's why they call PhDs "Doctors of Philosophy"

i love chiitan so wholesome so based

Holy shit A methodology out of date since the FUCKING 1700S???

Rolling Stone didn't put Sinners on its top 20 list of films for this year and I'm appalled.

Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs

i spent a little while going through the AIDS quilt and picked out a few panels that stuck out to me for one reason or another. may the memories of all these beautiful, far too young souls be a blessing.

Dems release a video reminding troops of their responsibility to disobey illegal orders. They’re called seditionists. WaPo breaks the news that Hegseth said to kill survivors of a boat strike. WH: “It wasn’t him! It was Admiral Bradley!” This is why you disobey illegal orders

"Didn't Google make libraries obsolete?" -_- 📚

It’s wild that right wing grifting is so easy that you can screw up your homework on purpose or tie for 5th place at a swim meet and get a whole ass career out of it

Moved by @unesco.org's launch of the Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. Powerful way to push back against illicit trafficking. One day, may we also see a physical museum, where returned treasures can be honoured in the communities they belong to. #Museums www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’). thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...

trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties

I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.

Watching people “discover” environmental racism, and then double down on doing it has been depressing.

Here's a quizzical mandarin duck to start your week off on a good note 🥰 🪶

It’s in fact extremely easy to give away money in a way that helps people. Stuff like this is just what you say when you don’t actually want to help others.

​Car brain is seeing an empty bike lane and calling it a failure, while seeing a gridlocked road and calling it high demand. ​Efficiency looks empty because people are moving, not sitting in traffic. If a bike lane is truly unused, it's usually because the network is hostile and disconnected.

1/ For six months, I've been traveling the world on Pulitzer Ctr & Fund For Investigative Journalism grants investigating Trump's effect on HIV & LGBTQ health. On World AIDS Day, @theintercept.com is publishing an overview essay of Afeef Nessouli & my findings. theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

Every new government: "Trim the fat! Make public operations leaner!" What fucking fat is left? More importantly, isn't fat the product of prosperity, the very thing they're supposedly after?

People catastrophizing about a precedent where no one can mark anything down anymore for being wrong when the real precedent is trans people not being able to do literally any job without an army of bigots launching a harassment campaign against their employer.

Guess the context. Nope.

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Exactly this. If you don’t say “nice,” the same way you say “bless you” when someone sneezes, we are not the same.