BDS works! also, they're still letting the IDF use their other cloud services, but they're starting to move on this, keep pushing.

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

The answer to why people think sex scenes in pop culture are unnecessary is that we as a society scorn people who practice the craft of making them good, and also scorn the very concept that it is a craft to begin with. It is, very frankly, a skill issue.

I missed this piece on Ocean Vuong by Andrea Long Chu when it came out in May, but dang am I gonna be thinking about it for a WHILE. www.vulture.com/article/ocea... (yes, I'm taking advantage of my morning off to catch up on reading interesting stuff I had open in tabs)

Really enjoyed this piece. It's been true my entire life that what the mainstream media world accepts from fandom and fanfic is extremely limited, curated, and specific, and Jenny puts her finger on why that is, especially given current publishing trends.

@karenattiah.bsky.social's should get as much attention as Kimmel's and is easily as important.

lately I think a lot about this New American Movement poster from the seventies. as true now as it was then. (NAM is a precursor of the DSA)

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Weird how this keeps happening.

I am *begging* everyone to read the article. I cried laughing. I'm still laughing.

teaching the students about genAI stuff today and they, like last year's crop of students, were smart and engaged and critical about it. This gives me hope! They had so much to say and already had a lot of knowledge on the topic, and told stories of mocking and shaming friends who used chatgpt lol

I think that was the goal of the H1B shift, tbh

This message is very important to remind ourselves of and to share with other people.

Again, if you havent done this and deleted your account its really important that you do. This isnt any usual ToS nonsense. This is a heightened and dangerous escalation of thievery to both yourself and your work

come do Festivids! it's a lovely vidding exchange for small fandoms. If you've never made a vid before, this is a great way to start, or to get back to it if you've been away. there's lots of help and support and community around it!

The pundit class's notion of "free speech" is predicated on a division of humanity into those who *participate* in debates and those who are the *topic* of debate, where treating one of the former as if they were one of the latter is seen as the direst of all threats to "free speech".

I've never heard of this place before but now I want to go! I wish to get lunch at the Bean Me Up cafe and bistro!

I knew the leopards would get around to my face eventually but it really fucking sucks when it happens

"I may have remarked before that Holmes had, when he liked, a peculiarly ingratiating way with women, and that he very readily established terms of confidence with them." from the Golden Pince-Nez, the Return of Sherlock Holmes

I've said it before: there is a fandom for everything and that's beautiful

[image ID: a hand putting a tape into a car tape deck. text reads "You're a kid and in your Dad's car. What is he about to make you listen to?"] With my dad it was very often Stan Rogers; if not Stan, then Crash Test Dummies, or Barenaked Ladies. Occasionally Neil Young. We both always sang along.

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

I bookmarked this a few years ago to have handy as a rebuttal to every journalist who gullibly repeated cop claims of fentanyl exposure. filtermag.org/fentanyl-tou...

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

it's Talk Like a Pirate Day, baybee! you can celebrate by burning down an oppressive empire, but like, in an extra-bisexual way.

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

hey hey rfk how many kids did you kill today

does anyone know/can recommend any anti-zionist congregations doing online services for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur this year? everywhere local is pro-genocide but im feeling kind of desperate for SOMETHING this year

The version of covid currently circulating at my school seems significantly worse than versions from the recent past. Young people who I know wouldn't miss class otherwise have been out for two or three weeks. They can't get out of bed, can't stop coughing. Please get your covid booster if you can.

spent a lot of time planning a really fun and special activity for class but the emails are pouring in and like half the class is out due to this "really bad cold" (hmmm what could it be) that's going around. I feel bad for everyone who's sick but I'm also just pedagogically annoyed and disappointed

Disney didn't watch Andor

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

just want to point out that this middle section is exclusively Magnus Archives Scottish Safehouse fic (tho the sex is usually kissing. otherwise it's right on)

if you do good things in your life people will be sad when you die

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

A friend reposted this by @zellieimani.bsky.social from 2020 and it remains apt: “For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. But for the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance."

being trans is awesome and trans people are amazing and gender is a dumb box and anyone who makes their own crowbar to smash it from inside is a hero actually.

Behold: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: - watching flowers bloom on plants that I planted with my own hands - cooking good food to share with others - singing - when a sunset has bi pride or trans pride colours - making things happen on the beat (vidders get it)

the new teaching semester is like - fun first week! - 30% of the class absent for weeks 2-4 because they all get covid - 30% of the class absent for weeks 9-12 because they all get covid again - individually mentor two dozen students who have missed a lot of class and need to catch up - exhaustion

they were developed in a fentanyl lab located in Asbestos, Quebec, to be Woke, fireproof and deadly to the touch. their glands secrete generic prescription drugs and they all believe in climate change. these aren’t your granddad’s 30-50 feral hogs. they’re bilingual. they will win

Tramell Tillman wins Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the #EMMYs for ‘SEVERANCE’ He makes history as the first Black actor to win the category.

yesterday and today I made plum jam, peach jam, and peach chutney, and water bath canned the lot, and I am VERY proud. we had a zillion peaches off our peach tree and I've been freezing and jamming and chutneying them for weeks and now I have finally processed ALL the peaches!

NEW: Arkansas announced plans for a mega prison in a rural town. Since then, locals are organizing to stop it. At first they opposed it in their own town. But some now say they've taken a more critical look at how we incarcerate in the country. make time for this new feature, you won't regret it

Challengers (2024).

Last day to get your nominations in!

So @dc.com pulled Red Hood from digital storefronts but you can still buy all of Sandman. The lesson here is that DC doesn't care if you sexually assault women, but don't you dare make fun of a dead fascist.

today a student of mine, seeing the news, said "I'm so glad I go here." What she meant was, she was glad our college doesn't allow guns on campus. I think a lot about the sheer volume and intensity of gun violence that young people have grown up with. Their experience is wildly different from mine.