I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong. Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.

This is also why service industries continue to enshittify, from Chipotle check out lines to airports to streaming. Vast majority of consumers simply don't matter to the actual functioning of the economy. Corporations do not exist to serve us. They serve the 6000 rich people hoarding all the wealth

Reminder that the NSDAP ran on left-leaning ideas to gain votes. He was anti-bourgeois until Hitler decided that, no, he’d rather be pro-business instead. Hence we now keep hearing “Hitler was a leftist” from certain pepes.

For Day 21 of #spacetober_challenge prompt star: trailblazing US #astronomer Annie Jump Cannon (1863 – 1941), here with her stellar classification system which sorted stars based on spectral types, revealing their temperature from hot blue to cool red stars: O,B,A, F, G, K & M. 🧪🐡👩🏼‍🔬🔭#histsci 🧵

Every week Nick puts a poem in the window. It’s been going more than a decade, 176 poems!

A big part of the problem is the national political media refuse to show what’s going on.

Why do I know German drinking songs? One of my college German instructors, who SERVED IN THE OCCUPATION AFTER THE DEFEAT OF THE NAZIS, liked to teach them to us.

Aaaah, I can hear my mom singing this, recounting the German beer garden she and her NYC friends would visit in the '50s and '60s, where one of the hosts would lead the crowd on this tune. Even pulled down a shade with the lyrics and used a pointer. (No word on a Col. Klink–style monocle.)

We're surveying researchers about name changes in academic publishing. If you've changed your name and dealt with updating publications, we want to hear your experience. Any reason counts: transition, marriage, cultural reasons, etc. forms.cloud.microsoft/e/E0XXBmZdEP

Media outlets who refuse to describe in plain terms what the president did because they find it objectionable are lying to their audiences and running cover for the president. It's as simple as that.

learned recently that the guy who wrote "The Night Before Christmas," clement clarke moore, also wrote a takedown of thomas jefferson's proto-scientific racism in "Notes on the State of Virginia," basically accusing him and others of making it up to justify slavery. which, that's right.

happy birthday to this little guy!! 3 years ago is fishtopher's intake/rescue date

oh cool, another tremendously great decision by the guy who owns the company that fired Alan Sepinwall & drove away from Variety myself & so many excellent industry reporters. Never change, PMC failson in chief!

I note that the Roman Emperor Vespasian made himself immensely popular by completely burying Nero's Golden Palace and building the Colosseum and public gardens on top of it. He was also known for being able to laugh at himself.

“What do you mean it’s on the record? It’s on Signal with disappearing messages” is the journalism equivalent of “How can I be out of money? I still have loads of checks left”.

also look at what Penske is doing to the industry right now. buying up everything he can, shuttering legacy outlets, demanding people coming back into the office, laying off people who can't or won't move their lives across the country. that company is a vulture.

BORIS KARLOFF: there's a sour wind outside... the air generally sucks... the Grinch is coming to whoville.... hes going to fuck you right up... 1970s TV PRODUCER: *smoking five cigarettes at once* keep that tape rolling this is like jazz

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

Neighbor said a bear ate the pumpkin off her porch. Guess I won’t be putting out my decorative Big Macs this year

massive AWS failure is just a snow day for adults

No image has ever spoken so succinctly about the current situation in the US.

Just because he's acting like he's never leaving is no reason for you to act like he's never leaving.

at least he hasn’t bulldozed the white house to build his gold palace while federal workers continue to go unpaid. lol. can you imagine. [takes a big sip of water]

I like the scene where they beat Pennywise by all yelling “YOU’RE JUST A CLOWN” like it’s a slur or something. I’m pretty sure he knows he’s a clown

Been wrong before but demolishing part of the White House while prices rise, the government is shut down, and health premiums are about to go through the roof? Might break through

The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

Reposting myself from FEBRUARY because GODDAM.

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

"blockingiscowardly" was fun to block today. No good comes from engaging with MAGA accounts on Bluesky. They're here to argue. Blocking deprives them of their reason for being and makes them more unhappy than anything else you could do. Block AF. Cut off their lifeblood. Ya know, if ya want

Ludicrous take to say nobody misses the video store. Going to my local video store as a teenager was so fucking good. They had a five movies for five days for five dollars deal that was pretty much the greatest thing ever and a super stoned clerk who had seen every movie known to man

our "smart" coffee machine at work is broken today. I made a joke about it being related to the AWS outage but then we looked in the back and it's plugged into ethernet

HUGEST of thanks to the amazing @friendlyashley.bsky.social for recommending @backblaze.bsky.social as data backup. After I came home yesterday to these messages on my desktop, Backblaze and Ashley’s kind guidance got me going on my laptop. $8.25/month is the cheapest work insurance you’ll ever buy.

Old enough to remember how legacy press mythologized the “grass-roots” Tea Partiers, and also remembering the Tea Party movement was funded by the Koch brothers

I went to the Boston No Kings rally because it's where I live. I had the incredible luck to be there when the one big trans story of No Kings unfolded. Ed Markey's support of trans rights, which is not new, contrasts with challenger Seth Moulton's weaselly attempts to scapegoat trans kids.

"Thanks for sharting that document with me" might be one of my more unfortunate typos of 2025

My older kid is doing a term abroad and living near Royal Albert Hall, and said they saw sumos in their local.

By the time I got to the J-school that Kendra graduated from, NYT had gained such a reputation that I was warned by faculty "everyone who was white had the best time of their lives working there while those who weren't were miserable." It was advice that probably saved me from ruining my career.

At last, tech you can enshittify yourself!

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character

❤️ By all-time mensch Jules Dassin, who started out in NYC Yiddish Theater, made multiple absolute classics of film noir, moved to Europe after getting blacklisted by pigs ❤️

Yesterday’s food drive raised 800 lbs of food for our local food bank!! Civil servants are still serving, even when we’re fired and furloughed.

One of my least rational beliefs is that if you pull off a heist without hurting anyone or getting caught within a day, that's your stuff fair and square.

Holy cow who is running Andrew Cuomo’s campaign and how do they not understand the difference between South Asians and Southeast Asians.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

Compare yesterday's millions to this and how we couldn't escape breathless coverage of the Tea Partiers at their peak.

i love when people from other countries are like “does the US know how bad things are???” and it’s like YEA WE’RE AWARE