In other news I impulse bought a Spider-Man booster as a treat this afternoon, just cracked the pack, and got a Cosmic Spider-Man. So I'll have to figure out how I'm going to build that deck asap.

Well consider my priors updated!

Because of my Internal Crisis About 2000s Music, I’ve gone back and tried to figure out all the albums released in the 2000s that I haven’t listened to historically though slap. You know what I totally forgot bangs? African - Because I Got High. Just some delightfully silly music.

Yall I am not ready for all these Big 10 people to be on this red line train.

I did so much editing today! But I have almost all my materials for my PhD applications ready to go, so that’s good.

I do not want to “Do my own research.” I want to pay trained accredited experts to do the research, trained accredited experts to report on findings, and trained accredited experts to make policy based on them. I am busy af with my own job, I don’t need to do eight zillion more.

OPINION: "We are not saying our children should not be leaders, warriors or protectors. We are saying they must not be tools for a system that does not love them. We must offer them other ways to build their future—because there are alternatives," Horace Small writes.

Also still bangs to an absurd degree? The Ecleftic, Wyclef Jean’s second album. Like how did mans make an album where a Whitney Houston feature is an interlude? A heater with a feature from The Rock? Mary J Blige singing like it’s HER song?

So because my good Judy @raylows.bsky.social is evil and put 200s music at the forefront of my brain, I’ve been revisiting records I haven’t listened to in a bit and I’m pleased to report that that first Jill Scott joint still fucks.

If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

I swear that hearing Beautiful Day by U2 is my Winter Soldier Trigger. My HS principal played that song over the intercom in the passing period between 3rd and 4th every day for 3 years.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

MTG is not seeing the light and she is not seeing reason What she is seeing is the writing on the walls that Trump/MAGA republicans are on the verge of collapse and is getting ahead of the curve and banking on people having short attention spans to switch up her image to save her own career

The actual joke of the night is that my instant pot is criminally small so I’ve had to make my beef stew in batches. Should have just used my Dutch oven.

I need it!

I step away from the internet to do a little writing and make some beef stew and come back to a little treat!

This Chicagoan had planned treasure hunts to share his massive coin collection, but plans changed once “Operation Midway Blitz” touched down and Rogers Park became one of the communities targeted by federal immigration agents. https://to.wttw.com/48c0PPv

it’s kinda easy, you have to not allude to wanting or having someone harmed or killed, or telling them to harm or kill themselves. yeah it sucks that the so-called public square doesn’t have a context chip but i also think it sucks that we find some kind of relief in saying those kinds of things

Y'all need to listen to Paster when he's preaching.

The old ways remain.

Last night I was issued a challenge that I expanded. Now I’m passing off that expanded challenge to yall. Tell me your 2000s cannon. 2 songs per year from 2000-2009. Use whatever criteria floats your boat.

My grad school sibling posed me a challenge: pick 5 songs to create a 2000’s music cannon. Chat I give them 5 songs 2.5 hours ago and I’m still thinking about it. I broadened the list to 10 (1 for each year) and that’s made it HARDER.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

Prohibited activities include advising Chinese graduate students. For reference, a recent Georgetown report estimated 16% of STEM graduate students in the US are Chinese nationals. This would take out entire fields at the knees, which is perhaps the point.

Not the point, but why does his head look like that? Man’s got that melted chocolate egg situation.

Slick Willie does it again! Still a POS, but not this kind of POS.

Oh cool we’re invading Venezuela.

WAIT WHAT???? There is no way were the same age.

Can I just talk about how much of a treat it is to work with a student and get to witness in person the moment where a concept clicks for them and they confirm understanding? I could live off this shit for the rest of my life.

Feeling good about having 6 of my choices in Pollhalla

lol. lmao even.

Really unnerving point from Nicole Hemmer, historian of the right: Trump's Epstein fiasco could drive MAGA to push him to go even fuller authoritarian, because the whole project is now in such serious doubt. She's so good on MAGA's future. Check out this exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2031...

All the times I've showed @kim-hu.com how much I love her. Because I do not love this man. (These aren't even half of the pieces I've done of him).

I know this got di strent of di blek pantha in it.

Looking forward to winter snow ❄️

jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane

Chicago Police District Councilor Dion McGill says community members have seen actions from CPD officers that seem to violate the IL TRUST Act, which limits cooperation between state & federal police on immigration enforcement. "Words like collusion and collaboration are used constantly," he says.

Chat is it bad when electeds work real hard to stop the public release of information relating to crimes they may be implicated in?

new meme

Only running I do is a muck

It is an absolute moral failing that the American public elected this man. How is this man still in the White House?

Me at 1:30am Me at 6am

81 years ago, FDR proposed a second Bill of Rights to guarantee every American the right to employment, healthcare, education, housing, and a living income. His words are as relevant now as they were then. Watch.

There's... a section from Harvey Milk's Hope Speech I feel a bit apt for my thoughts as an answer on this.

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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

A core part of this whole discourse on here is a lot of ppl just continuing to refuse to believe that Republicans might actually have sincere beliefs that they will adhere to.

to provide a topical analogy here, if I fail to convince someone to take a life saving vaccine it is not bc I dont have a suitable level of will to succeed, its bc the other person is ok with killing themselves and that is actually a pretty hard thing for persuasion to overcome.

I think some ppl on this site need to take a moment, step back, and say aloud to themselves "If Dems cared, theyve have made Republicans do something that was obviously in their best interest to do" and contemplate a bit based on that framing why that outcome didnt come to pass.