Gandalf's "a wizard is never late, nor is he early" and Kesha's "Now, the party don't start 'til I walk in" are essentially the same sentiment

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

hey train perverts wanna see the shinkansen cloaca

We're still looking for a pinch hitter for this request! The link to the Dear Festividder letter has been updated!

terry pratchett characters and how i, the spiders georg of reading terry pratchett novels, think they would feel about AI: a thread

In Preservation culture, asking payment for anything considered necessary for living (food, power sources, education, the feed, etc.) was considered outrageous, but asking payment for life-saving help was right up there with cannibalism.

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I know that some of you who know a lot about romance have been talking about Heated Rivalry, but have any of you been talking about Pluribus? I watched it last week and now I wish to read your takes (specifically on Carol as a romantasy writer) (actually tho I'll take other good takes too)

And one more thing. Students. If you have a professor who is, for some reason, outsourcing their own job to ChatGPT....drop the class. If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class. Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.

A classmate of mine from high school. Her daughter-in-law was snatched by ICE www.gofundme.com/f/legal-defe...

#FanvidRec for "Here It Goes Again" by eruthros which is a Moby Dick fanvid. So much Moby Dick. It's a wonder, this vid. Summary: "Every day it's that same moby schtick." If you're curious about where the clips are from, there's a caption track with them. archiveofourown.org/works/53434966

Good morning. I read this dispatch from a comrade in Minneapolis this morning and thought that some of you might appreciate it too.

as a Canadian it is my solemn duty to inform you all that Heated Rivalry is not an accurate depiction of what it’s like to date someone who has spent the entirety of their formative years sustaining head injuries at 5 in the morning

watched the first episode of Starfleet Academy and yikes. It was . . . not good. Violent and largely pointless. Not at all what I want from Star Trek or from a Disco sequel. But otoh, Star Trek never could do a good pilot. Maybe it'll improve. #StarfleetAcademy

The ironic thing here is that they're using the effect from the series finale of Lower Decks where the Cerritos keeps changing classes forms in the anomaly and they exclude the Cerritos!

Someone just asked me for a bibliography for people interested in delving more deeply into police and policing. Prof @alexvitale.bsky.social and crew have a comprehensive one that continues to evolve: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

been thinking a lot about James Baldwin recently - from a 1970 documentary

We are in fact DESPERATE for winter coats, waterproof gloves, and good boots. We get so many wonderful donations but it is so cold and the numbers of unhoused unsheltered people are going up at the absolute worst time for it, and we run out of coats weekly.

Calling all Feminist SFF fans! Panel suggestions are OPEN! If you've ever thought, "I wish there was a panel about," this is your moment. Submit your feminist SFF ideas and help us have the BEST WisCon, EVER! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WisCon #WomeninSFF #feministconvention

this gave me a good laugh when I needed one

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

The reports coming out of Minnesota of the brutality of ICE terror are harrowing. What's clear to me, however, is that the people are rising up to resist this violence head on. Resistance is everywhere. We may be on our own, but we are not alone. "Every time a whistle blows, they don’t win."

just tore through Casey Plett's Dream of a Woman (short stories + one novella). dang can she write. It's also just something to feel so much Manitoba in a piece of writing, portrayed so bittersweetly. It's something when a writer matches your feelings so precisely, in all their complications.

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

"Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons."

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

The world feels rough right now So please enjoy this shrimp, filmed off Cozumel, Mexico. It may be a larval reef shrimp, but we don’t know what species or how long it lives or what it eats. The world is still full of wonder and beauty and mystery. 🎥 @pedrovalenciam scuba diver on Insta

This is a fund for families in south Minneapolis who can't work due to ICE. My cousin who lives in south Minneapolis and is active in the community sent it to me; it is legit. Please donate if you can! givebutter.com/H6lQkA

you and many of your followers have probably already seen this but I thought it did a good job laying out a list of targets and categorizing strategic considerations for each vis a vis scope and lift: www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026 americandialect.org/2025-word-of...

this is just gonna get the students defiantly excited to read Plato secretly on their own, and I think that's hilarious. The original assignment was the Aristophanes section from Symposium, too, which is a queer crowd-pleaser with a long history of being censored

Professor Peterson response to censorship at Texas A&M. (philosopher) king

Free today. We're all getting secondary trauma right now. Here are some tools from journalists and therapists that will help: www.patreon.com/posts/digita...

Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.

Tonight, I was one of more than 200 people who gathered on Chicago’s North Side to mourn Renee Nicole Good. Several people asked me to publish my remarks from the vigil, so I’m sharing them here.

PSA: twitter, X, is doing new terms of service that basically make it so that any comtent you share on there including DMs and photos is theirs and they can use it for "any purpose" including commercial use. So, if you have a page you’ve left up and don’t want them there’s time to act 1/

this'll be really useful because gaming doesn't already have different difficulty settings to choose from, in-game hints, walkthrough guides, walkthrough videos, cheat codes, reddit forums, let's plays, twitch streams, your friend's older brother,

Seriously, Canadians, make some noise on this. Write your MPs. This shouldn't need to be said, but it is *not to our advantage* if the US is allowed to randomly invade sovereign countries, kidnap their leadership, and seize their resources. It's Venezuela today, it could easily be Canada tomorrow.

This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about. As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.

among everything else about this, it is so unhinged to make the robot deliver the HR-speak apology like this

Sam Reich in 2018 doing research into potential names for his new comedy game show: ok well Game Changer only comes up as a recently published gay hockey romance novel - that's probably not going to confound any search results, let's go for it Sam Reich now: dangit

huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun

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we got the Cougar Gold canned cheese for Xmas, just to try it out and see what the hype was about. It's . . . a nice cheddar cheese? Creamier than some cheddars. Perfectly good cheese. Did not blow my mind and I probably don't need to order it again. Curiosity satisfied.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

lots of edtech tools are useful, especially at improving accessibility. it really frustrates me that the dystopia we live in means that we can't use them ethically. I see a lot of profs going "well let's do timed in-class handwritten blue book exams again" and like. no. we gotta get more creative

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context