I think those are called *wages* paid to those who generate your profits. Which are largely inadequate btw. Arseholes gonna arse, eh?

God forbid we frame the purpose of uni as creating well-rounded critical thinkers, or worse -- gasp! -- laud the pleasure of pursuing knowledge for its own sake. I did lib arts & what it taught me was how to learn *anything I wanted*. Nothing could've better prepared me for an uncertain world.

how it feels to learn anything at all about anyone or anything in 2026:

This really is essential listening - & GLP have made it available on a number of platforms💜 #NHS #UK #Palantir #Surveillance

Cartoon: With thanks to @davoerlo.bsky.social for the suggestion :)

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

The 2028 Democratic presidential candidate who will get my support is whoever pledges to erase Donald's face and name from everything and reverses all of his executive orders.

My Favourite Martian 😍

Being literate in AI and being a customer of consumer gen AI are two entirely different things and there are a lot of people urging everyone to become customers and calling it becoming literate.

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

“Calls for academic boycotts often invoke historical precedent. And history does indeed show that boycotts can work. But they are most effective when they emerge from and are led by those directly affected.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

My latest is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

KIMMEL: “You know how sometimes you wake up and the First Lady demands you be fired? We’ve all been there, right? — I agree hateful, violent rhetoric is something we should reject… a great place to start to dial that back would be to talk to your husband.”

A must-have for writers, and everyone

And this..."Who let the girls out? I did, darling." youtube.com/watch?v=_J6P...

OMG where **have** these women been all my life?¿?? (NSFW if you can't dance Right Now). youtu.be/2scS3s_I050?...

Northern Cheyenne activist Krystal Two Bulls says there are 103 to 160 proposed hyperscale data centers on Native lands. The data center boom is a “modern-day iteration” of “settler colonialism,” impacts of which include noise pollution, cancers and respiratory illnesses, water depletion and more.

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h... The discussion on rudeness here is quite useful.

So yes, there's a little bit of Baltimore and a little bit of half-billion-year old hydrothermal vent in The Starry Night.

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

Friction makes things stick. Cultural experiences. Music. Learning. A book you have to work through rather than skate over. Not like inconvenience for its own sake is a virtue, but the friction imposed by it can be genuinely meaningful in a lot of contexts.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Hey fyi way too many, even leftists who should know better, effusively praising the papacy is making it way, way more difficult to organize against this. This trans healthcare ban is literally going to cost trans people's lives but yeah, woke pope made a statement or whatever.

THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.

LOS ANGELES: Please help these kitties Kit & Caboodle. Their owner passed away last week, and I've taken it upon myself to find them a loving forever home. They are GOOD BABIES. Can anyone *LA area only* adopt them? I just don't want them to end up in a kill shelter. Share, RT, ask around... thanks!

The look at the end. HA! (Nb: Meanwhile, I hate that I can no longer tell if these things are AI or not 🙄)

The music collection of a Chicago man who attended more than 10,000 concerts and recorded them on cassette tapes is slowly being digitized and released online for free.https://www.koin.com/entertainment-news/he-recorded-10000-concerts-on-tape-now-theyre-streaming-for-free/?cid=bluesky_

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

Locus is an important part of the SFF world! With just two days left in the fundraiser, please consider pitching in. I even contributed some books, which I'll sign and personalize however you please!

Enthusiastic prosecution of government corruption seems like a winning message that might, y’know, like, travel.

Yes and Democrats need to stop letting their conservative ideological commitments get in the way of advancing an array of candidates who excite the base that does things like knock on doors, make phone calls, and organize people to vote

I will give Orban one tick in the decency column - having lost in a landslide, he didn't whinge that the election was rigged or call up an insurrection to cling to power. For the rest, good riddance. One more illiberal dictator down. One more to be hamstrung after November, or better, 25th now.

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

Alas! It’s the 400th anniversary of Francis Bacon dying because he tried to stuff a chicken with snow by the side of a road in Highgate 🧵

From a post: “Told my wife to have dinner ready by 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization. So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.”

🤣🤣🤣😭

while (woman == alive) { maintain(appearance, effort = invisible); calibrate(volume, level = “pleasant”); optimize(body, toward = “desired_but_not_too_desired”);

Reason #435435343446574579998383488466811234078 not to use A.I.

Best bit is watching the other guys trying to hold it together! 😄

oh my god. oh my GOD. READ THIS ONE. i mean yes obviously i have a POWERFUL BIAS in favor of anything Peggy Carter but also READ THIS ONE, it is SO GOOD.

Fun fact about the IOC's one time only, all or nothing, SRY gene test 'to identify men'. It's entirely possible to test positive after being pregnant with a boy. Fetal DNA can cross the placental barrier and linger in the maternal bloodstream for decades.

Just do it.

“The athletes who’ll actually be barred are cis women who’ve never heard of the SRY gene.” LOUDER

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

“So long, and thanks for all the fish”

Just feels like it's past time to start recirculating this. youtu.be/6_35a7sn6ds?...