this is an embarrassing thing for this guy to say in public but also touches on something that constantly rankles me, which is the vague idea of "feeling unsafe" as a problem that someone else needs to solve for you regardless of whether you are actually unsafe or not

The promise of AI efficiency should always be followed up with “efficient for whom?” Considering that illustrators are more efficient than ever and yet wages have not increased in 80 years.

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Don't think about it too hard

my pants straight up just ripped?!

#METGALA2025 #fashionsky

Jodie Turner-Smith attends the #MetGala2025

John Imah and Sergio Hudson attends the #metgala

laura harrier is so fab omg #metgala

THATS MOTHERRRRRR #metgala

✨JEREMY POPE✨ is wearing the vintage Margiela FW97 burlap sack top! #MetGala2025 #fashionsky #filmsky

André 3000 on the #MetGala carpet. #fashionsky

Jenna Ortega attends the 2025 #MetGala. #fashionsky

Janelle Monae will NEVER disappoint #MetGala

Cardi B #MetGala2025

Tessa with André leon talley on the church fan, is iconic #MetGala

Janelle Monáe and Issa Rae at the 2025 #MetGala together. #FashionSky

Janelle Monáe for the 2025 #MetGala #fashionsky

Cardi B attends the 2025 #MetGala #fashionsky

GORGEOUS

i may not be a security threat to the nation but i Could be a security threat to your kneecaps

I would be remiss to not note that Sinophobic rhetoric goes down so easily because of the longstanding orientalism that paints us all as collectivist drones, that we move through life with our supreme leader’s voice in our heads, ready to do his bidding at moment’s notice.

remember that soulmate bond fic about ransom and marta from knives out from like six years ago. i still just think about it sometimes. i reread it last night 😮‍💨

saw a video about mindful consumption the other day where the OP said in her effort to be more creative, she tries to produce three things for every one thing she consumes, or something like that. and i have to say this does not feel like the way lol

i make it a point to discuss my financial situation frankly whenever possible, especially if prospective or junior students ask for advice. academia is not more enlightened than any other workplace, and anyone coming in deserves to know all the risks, rewards, and contextual factors.

it’s very unbecoming to me when (usually white) academics obscure their class privilege. it’s OK your grandma paid your tuition, or your father fronted you the cost of a conference, or your spouse is in big law & makes up for low starting salary. transparency leads to change.

I wouldn’t have financially survived my PhD program or first year at William & Mary (as my spouse had to quit his job for me to take the offer) without my parent’s help. so, in my mind, that means wealthy parents are necessary to make it in academia, & that’s … not good.

Editor creates an AI executive who is "an expert at building and scaling digital media companies." Decides within minutes that the AI is "one of the most knowledgeable and energetic colleagues" he's ever had. Asks the AI to create a headshot of itself. It does. He sexually harasses it immediately.

every one of these stories of people being detained for arbitrary reasons or tiny infractions just Coincidentally mentions that they participated in a protest that goes against US military interests

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

i hope this conclave is like the one in the movie conclave

Free link: archive.ph/G5E8H International students have always been a substantial source of revenue and cheap labor for schools, the exploitation was always there, they’ve always been vulnerable to this kind of abuse. Pay attention to this, as it’s sketches out the shape of things to come for all.

So the University of Minnesota is the only university in the country to have a contract with ICE. We also produce more ammunition for them than any other state, and we are only behind Texas in terms of leasing gun ranges to them. From the @minnesotareformer.com minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/18/w...

I have my problems with any Pope, by definition But you gotta hand it to Papa Francisco for coining the phrase "theirs is the construction site of hell" in a description of American fascism and then dying almost immediately afterward

My internet friend and fav indie lingerie designer, Karolina Laskowska, is moving countries after some big life-altering events. Moves are expensive, but moving a business? And a museum?! If you have any money to spare, it would do a lot to relieve some serious financial stress. gofund.me/d786e22c

Among the horrible things about the case of Aditya Wahyu Harsono - here legally until his visa was revoked in secret - is that the hospital where he worked collaborated in his arrest. ICE asked them to schedule a fake staff meeting where they arrested him. Bastards.

Cultural appropriation is not about respecting cultural authenticity it’s about theft and profit within a racialized marketplace, and can be done in great taste. White people making bank selling dupatta is the problem, not calling it “Scandinavian scarves” and using the wrong colors and fabrics.

Pride & Prejudice, but set during the Spanish Colonial Period in the Philippines

i completely forgot about this app

Someone recently asked me what's the point of having two or three buttons on a tailored jacket if the bottom-most button isn't meant to be fastened? It's easier to understand style if you think of it in terms of social language, not purely as function. Let me give you some examples. 🧵

The Selkie and Her Family

you’re doing the thing i fear

please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that

Ayo Edibiri did an homage to Julia Roberts and she absolutely SERVED

mansion of the owl moon

slowly (or quickly) becoming an ottessa moshfegh superfan