Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I saw The Princess Bride with my whole family in a packed theater when I was a bit older than the character Fred Savage plays and was concerned that a movie about princesses might not be my cup of tea. I've never been happier to be wrong in my life.

“It’s hard to understand why the focus is on expansion and technology that doesn’t get used when it’s the staff who make the work possible.” #UCDavis #ResetUCPriorities #IamUCDavisVetMed

Happy Wombat Day, @tkingfisher.com! www.daysoftheyear.com/days/wombat-...

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Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)

You helped will this into existence, you know...

This is a great story, especially if you've read the main series.

Hell yeah youtu.be/dBMguDfirgA?...

literally every time I talk to friends

I’m the 2021 U.S. Muay Thai Open silver medalist.

As @gregdoucette.bsky.social says: "Cops are Great!" apnews.com/article/swat...

Tell me about a recurring bit you do among your nearest & dearest (or one of theirs) My grad school brother-from -another-mother and I are partial to compliments-as-threats.

"Bullies don’t tend to tell you what their motivations were afterward, and they tend to lie about their intentions even to themselves during." Can confirm -- also applies to grifters and scammers (relevant to this administration)

Zero points because I'm old?

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The team at Complexly did so much RIDICULOUSLY GOOD STUFF in 2024. I mostly stepped down from leadership and in that time: 🧵

Something Douglass Coupland said in an interview that stuck with me was when he said that the “future” is relatively new. And it is. The afterlife isn’t the future, he argues, it’s eternity. Eternity, once attained, is permanent, timeless, at least in a spiritual sense. Heaven, Nirvana, etc… (1/?)

Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

Amazing story! 🧵

In December 2021, I wove, a tapestry of sad and joyful memories that were in the front of my mind that year. It's one of the rare pieces I've written that I felt hit the notes I wanted to hit, exactly the way I wanted to hit them. I reposted it with thoughts: wilwheaton.net/2024/12/the-...

Folk hero in the making.

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Yesterday I pulled overt references of queerness off my site, my very successful store that sells my books that have queer main characters. Because a few days ago, Meta emailed saying my advertising on their platform will be restricted - my site was categorized as "sexuality and gender identity."

BlueSky is trying to monetize so let's show them some numbers: Reskeet this if you refuse to pay for BlueSky+ until trust & safety decides to prioritize marginalized users. That's $96 / year of lost revenue for each reskeet...

Cory Doctorow wrote a short story FIVE YEARS AGO about an online support group for people screwed over by the health system who encourage each other to wage violence against insurance CEOs. Cory let us publish the the story given the obvious timeliness. It's free to read here:

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS.

so me and my best friend went to central america a bunch of times when we were like 22 because she was doing field work for her archaeology degree and could often take off several weeks before or after and i could fly down to meet her and we could goof off and sightsee

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Between killing the last bits of booze in various bottles so I don’t have to pack them and packing The Fish that my stepfather made, I am feeling maudlin, and so I will tell you about my stepfather Tom, who has been dead for awhile now, and would probably agree with most of what I’m saying anyhow.

A Stanford student got in a car accident that killed two people and was charged with crimes. After the victims' families wrote to Stanford about it, saying he should be disciplined, he sued them and tried to use the suit to silence their advocacy. Yesterday he lost. This is the story.

If Trump's first administration was stocked with Bond Villains, it seems like the second one is going with more of a Legion of Doom vibe. A brief thread...

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens. Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

🧵This is a thread about Reply Guys. I like it when posts go viral coz I'm a big show-off and the internet is responsible for most of my career. When you go viral you get new followers, fun replies, sometimes even industry interest omg. But you also get: Reply Guys.

I love this guy's books. So much fun!

Johnny Somali, the nuisance streamer who travels the world committing the most culturally offensive felonies he can for views, is now in Korea. Mock-assaulting memorials to sex crime victims, Actual-harassing women, spraying rotten fish juice on subway strangers. And he is absolutely screwed. 🧵

Welcome to the new Bluesky users! Here, the goal is to block trolls, assholes, and bad-faith shitbirds immediately, rather than engaging them, quoting them, toying with them, etc. It’s hard but every time I do it that way I am relieved and every time I relapse I feel gross afterwards.

I voted for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz today. If this gets 1k RTs, I'll poast on BlueSky.

New: It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.