As we end the month, we wanted to reflect and share all the good things that happened in March... These victories show that when we work together, we win together ❤️

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

Posting this highly unnecessary investigation into the void: In Voyager s3e16 "Blood Fever," the holographic Vulcan woman the Doctor creates (for Vorik's uhh pon farr relief) is wearing Sarek's necklace he wore in TNG s3e23 "Sarek" as well as Star Trek IV & VI.

I (genuinely) want to know what purpose diagnosing Trump with personality disorders serves. People have been doing this for 10 years and the main effect I've seen is that it just reinforces these disorders as another set of insults to toss around rather than doing anything useful.

Joe Kent received campaign contributions from Peter Thiel, went on Nick Fuentes' groyper show to discuss the ideal ratio white Christians to others in the US, and hired a Proud Boy as a campaign campaign consultant.

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

This is, unironically, part of why I watch Air Crash Investigation. It's like a procedural, but about skilled investigative officers who do real good in the world and genuinely make everyone safer.

There's so much that doesn't reach the level of national news media. One example is that anti-ICE school walkouts are happening every day across the country, but are really only covered by local news. And those walkouts are *meant* to be highly-visible actions. Most community organizing is not!

about 95% of what my parents get up to at church would be fedposting if I tried to describe it to you

I really don't think people understand the degree of organization that is happening in so many regular neighborhoods in America.

This is not the place to tell me that Americans aren't doing anything about this because we're docile cowards. Americans are doing a lot about this and you just don't know because our media isn't talking about it.

Broke: humans evolved hands for tool use Woke: humans evolved hands to pet fuzzy things and turn them into friends

no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit

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I'm so excited that @mad-in-america.bsky.social launched a (free!) Substack!! As a supplement to their main website, it will provide coverage of breaking news as well as commentary and insights from their editors and staff, which I'm really looking forward to seeing.

many people are going to be tempted to say this proves the weakness of peaceful protest. this is incorrect because it assumes this happening is a failure of peaceful protest rather than the mechanism by which it succeeds

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

It's counterintuitive, but people thrive on believing awful things. Take it from someone who is often told (in her private life) that she's catastrophising. I know what these spirals are like from the inside. They're awful, but they're addictive because they give you the illusion of mastery.

We are so far beyond "show us your papers." They don't want to see the papers. We are now into the "give us the names" stage of the occupation.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has canceled over 2,000 grants related to substance abuse and mental health services, totaling upwards of $2 billion.

FYI: this was in 2020

They keep doing it because they were recruited to do this, their bosses encourage them to do it and their is no meaningful pushback

oldhead advice from an oldhead. every couple years, newcomers to the movement think "THIS is finally it, the moment when the dam breaks and the whole system is overthrown" and when it doesn't happen they lose patience and get disillusioned and drop out of movement work gotta build for long term

"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?" If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.

1) every RPG should have a story mode 2) story modes should not include fighting or platforming mechanics

"Voters know this trick where we justify regime change by talking about how bad the dictator was, they won't fall for it..." My guy, we just went through an election where everyone across the political spectrum had mass amnesia about a guy who was president literally four years ago.

the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Everyone who didn't say Charlie Kirk was a saint should be doxxed and fired from their jobs. Here's why it's fine that Donald Trump is celebrating Rob Reiner's death.

This is what frustrates me so much about these articles: Propagating the narrative that large numbers of kids are faking disabilities is just going to result in a world where disabled people are *even more* scrutinized when they ask for accommodations!

Julian of Norwich after eating a hazelnut: bro

Rest in peace, Alice Wong 🕊️ thesicktimes.org/2025/11/15/a...

It's insane because like...there are much better comparisons in our own country's history! The long Redemption of the late 1800s/early 1900s, the Red Scares,

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

One of the reasons people--myself included--are upset is the lack of transparency from the Times about this entire situation when they've gone on endless crusades against transgender people on flimsy evidence or ideological whim; we can also talk about the Mamdani/Columbia thing or Claudine Gay.

I feel like Some People want to think that politicians like Zohran Mamdani or Bernie win because they're charismatic snake-oil salesmen, because that's far less threatening than voters electing them because their policies are popular.

and, not for nothing, there is a further acute moral injury in becoming so used to it all, and so used to it not mattering, that you begin to think of terrible crimes with real victims along the lines of "maybe this will be what hurts him politically"

"phillip k dick, but stupid" describes everything now

This is interesting, but I really hope doctors inexperienced with ME/CFS don't use this study's findings to recommend yoga over potential medications. (Also study only had 57 people w/ ME/CFS, so ofc limitations there). www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

oh my god they actually did it lmao

When Republicans win elections: The people have spoken, we must let them implement their agenda. When Democrats win elections: This totalitarian FREAK must be prevented from implementing the policies he ran on nypost.com/2025/11/05/o...

No thing is just a tool; all tools construct us as their subjects.

Hell yeah

One of the things I really need to write about is the fact that this current wave of fascism, but most especially its transphobic component, is the product of a tiny number of epistemic elites cooking their brains on social media and group chats.

I think it is very clear that the Trump regime sees the right-wing influencers on the ground in Portland as an informal arm of their government www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

It's definitely worth observing how it is that, for instance, Ross Douthat knows so much about certain far-right subcultures while sounding so credulous about them. See here. Ask yourself how he even knew who Keeperman *was*.