They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

Imagine how many faculty positions that money could have funded.

“we failed a veteran” is the ultimate story here and if I were a soldier currently being asked to do war crimes on Trump’s behalf I would consider this instructive

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

there are still a few pieces left in my Black Friday collection, and now they are 10% off!!

Dogs are so pure. Cats are assholes.

My hobbies include: - Switching between the same three apps for hours - Not speaking to anyone for days at a time - Listening to the same songs I've been listening to for 15 years - Imagining myself in situations that will literally never exist

This is all true but 1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law 2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.

If you are married to a US spouse, your temporary visa (usually for 3 months) will lapse before your case is processed. The government allowed you could stay in the US while awaiting case processing. Now the Trump admin is saying that is a visa overstay and arresting the spouses.

One of the best worldbuilding guides you can read is Tolkien's notes on translation, where he talks about the fact that *everything* you write is in practice being translated into English; is is no more anachronistic to use the word "September" than it is use the word "sword" or "house" or "hello".

not now babe it's infishtructure week

I just subscribed to The Onion because our dumbass President just announced a White Nationalist Ethnostate and all of my "serious" news apps are giving me push notifications about edible dining table centerpieces and fart walks.

Love it! Would you consider boosting the Bluesky Night Market feed today? More people need to know about it - artists and shoppers alike. Handmade jewelry, art, clothing from independent makers. Thank you for always making the Bluesky experience better 💙

I have a moment to breathe. Things I've made that I think would make great gifts. Amethyst. SO. MUCH. AMETHYST. $60. www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

We need to complete funding so this second book can be included in a February opportunity that will *further* lift human translation. We're funding an African small press owned by a Black woman who acts on her values for solidarity and a peaceful world. Would you help rally and close this up? 🙏🏻

ps I made a new crown necklace with pearls, tanzanite crystal, and glass 😘 www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.

statistically a lot of you won’t know about ocellated turkeys, so, here you go

Black Friday is in Google Calendar like an official holiday.

Cannot emphasize this enough. If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media. Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt

I just want you to know that if this year is the final straw, if you're realizing now that you cannot spend the holidays with the same people again next year... That's okay. And you will be okay. 💜

Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell. Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.

It’s really funny how a generation will roll its eyes at parents who watch Fox News but doesn’t see why being immersed in Twitter is having the same effect. Lots of serious people show up on Fox News too but that shouldn’t be your primary source on the news.

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Extremely accurate thread on how book finances work for trade published authors #BookSky tl;dr it’s not a lot of money per effort year and buying our books at indies makes a material, positive difference

For people with means, the Wampanoag tribes still exist and do accept donations. We can't undo what was done but you can support those who were harmed by the coming of the colonists. mashpeewampanoagtribe-nsn.gov

Hope today feels kind to you. 😽🤍

It forms perfect hexagonal marks in deep-sea sediment and also leaves perfect hexagonal Precambrian fossils and we know that it's alive because the marks reappear weeks to years later when disturbed. No idea what the animal is. Or if it is an animal.

AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!

Our USDA Secretary who doesn't even know what the cattle cycle is What a time to be alive

LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST? ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?

very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here

can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport

corollary: never ask a question online you're not willing to learn the answer to 150 times

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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention

Please understand this, folks. I'm asexual. I enjoy smut. I have written smut. Really weird shit! That doesn't mean I experience sexual attraction. I just think it's neat.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Amen.

It is wild that the LA jails are so dilapidated and dirty that the medical examiner bothers making note of it in autopsy reports.

West Point plaque: "Our code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law."

I really do get an amazing amount of mileage out of this shirt (Alt text for the quoted post: Me at the Texas Book Festival, showing off my aggressively pink, rainbows-and-unicorns shirt that says "ALPHA MALE" in big playful balloon letters)

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

This is so funny because recipes can literally already be copied and reposted with no attribution or copyright. All AI does here is add statistical noise and make the stolen content useless. AI can’t even steal content without fucking it up.

THREAD BUT ESPECIALLY THIS i've also seen a lot of "but the author only gets paid once" which still doesn't justify fucking stealing and *ALSO* some countries have public lending right and the authors do, in fact, get paid repeatedly and for years for every book in the library ✨

If you want literature to exist you have to support it and that doesn't always mean you, personally, will pay. The more we USE our libraries the better they can justify their funding, and the more people they can serve. By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.

On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote: “Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!” And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.

Trump tweeted a pic of a West Point plaque, but it notes that the US military places loyalty to the Constitution and the law over one man. Is anything more central to Trump’s presidency than his demand for fealty to him over the Constitution and the law? newrepublic.com/article/2036...