thanks to @sibyllam.bsky.social for commissioning me :) #comms

Some people's "radical" take on criminal justice is that they favour "rehabilitation" for the petty criminals who acted rationally under unjust conditions and don't actually need rehabilitation, and the abolition of punishment for offenders who committed acts that should not have been criminalized.

Illinois released rejected submissions for their state flag and wow they really dropped the ball not picking some of these

Pamela Paul is, naturally, for a NYT columnist, absolutely psychotic, but this must have been going on for some time. Her deranged pronouncements ('sexual creationism'???) cast into doubt everything during her tenure as editor of the NYT Book Review archive.ph/qnQOf#select...

"this volume of obscure academic work in religious studies is brutally expensive" Brill issue

gen X-ers love "leaving their phone in the other room"

Have you noticed that sweaters all kind of suck now? I wrote about why that is. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Grad seminar in the us: how do we read the political imaginary in the post class consciousness Symbolic? Grad seminar in Latin America: the topic of this class is Tradition. For tomorrow please read Ernst Curtius and Raymond Williams.

This blockade is genocide

Can you spot the circles? It took me a long time. Once you see them, they'll seem obvious. This is the Coffer Illusion, by Anthony Norcia

Gloria Anzaldua is quite literally the worst theorist I've ever read.

Remember last week when people were insisting to me that big box stores would never be *lying* about the claim that rampant shoplifting was making them close their stores? Well @juddlegum.bsky.social tracked down the data. The retailers? They're lying. popular.info/p/target-say...

well if we all turn into 5G zombies today let me just be the first to say it was all worth it for the 6 weeks where we got to prevent conservatives from eating at casual dining chains. and i'd do it all over again in a heartbeat

ive only listened to frank sinatra when i felt in love or was in a severe mental health crisis he really was mitski for italian dudes