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*.

Rhys is a real one (we're in the same Quaker meeting), and I love that the article ends with him sharing the most Portland story

"the ballroom isn't being paid for by taxpayers, it's being paid for by corporations and billionaires!!"

back-to-back on my feed

Do you need a new book to read specifically on May 12, 2026? Yes? Oh cool, then you should pre-order the book @deandettloff.bsky.social and I wrote. Here’s the link: tinyurl.com/MagnificastP...

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

UAW international, auto workers, academic workers

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

"With Helene, there was something about the manifestation of Heaven on Earth the second time around that seemed to make it more expansive. Heaven wasn’t just a fleeting moment, but it was an entire mycelium network, growing and healing together..." rednecksrising.substack.com/p/i-saw-god-...

Highly recommend you read Sarah’s article for some history on Trump in Portland newrepublic.com/article/1591...

So top Portland cops wrote & *testified* that fed agents have been "instigating and causing" conflict. They said agents were firing pepper balls unprovoked and "without any apparent warning" When a Portland chief called a federal agent w/ Qs, the agent hung up. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Hi, folks. Briefly back from taking my own advice and Logging Off. I spoke to the "How to be a Better Human" podcast about my book, and why posting and politics are seldom a good mix. It was a great, wide-ranging conversation. Thank you (in advance) for coming to my TED Talk!

Several researchers have let me know that my introduction for "how to read an HCI paper" as well as my stance against generative AI (in an assignment I gave a former research assistant) has been really helpful to share with their students and RAs. Sharing here, in case this is useful for y'all too:

if you liked the latest (or really any) episode of @ifbookspod.bsky.social, I think you'll also enjoy this piece by the ever-insightful @quinnae.com!

me all day as I'm waterboarding myself with social media

LINKEDIN is more popular than X! It doesn't even come close to the number of users for YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, & TikTok.

Pretty bizarre to use a religious exemption to deny workers the right to a union when your actual religion teaches unequivocally that workers have the right to a union.

I passed my dissertation proposal defense yesterday!! I really appreciate the support & feedback of my committee. I've been extremely stressed all week, but when I started and saw them & my other supporters there, it was like... I trust that everyone here wants me to succeed 🥹💛 all shall be well

More Academia Starter Packs!! 👇 MA: buff.ly/4fGOCTm MI: buff.ly/49Z9S5I NC: buff.ly/4gWOkZU NJ: buff.ly/4hgQOm7 NY: buff.ly/4gtEGho OH: bsky.app/starter-pack... PA: buff.ly/3BP1IAk TX: buff.ly/3PiiJG3

General reminder that people who engage in political assassinations often have pretty muddled world views.

I recently joined a Discord server that uses Translator Bot (lit its name) so that people can read/write in their own language in the same convo with other people reading/writing in another language, and even though this is not new technology it's blowing my mind because I feel like I'm in Star Trek

6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”: ‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU: 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing’

At a preliminary hearing for Jacob Hoopes, the Quaker accused of assaulting an ICE officer, the federal prosecutor showed a video he claimed shows Hoopes forcing the door of a building open then throwing a rock inside. Hoopes’s attorney stated the identity of the person in the video is unproven.

Holy shit, I checked my friends: this has accuracy to the literal street level for dozens of people instantly. What a massively dangerous feature that totally will be used by ICE, stalkers, employers, and more. Horrific this rolled out at all, moreso without any notice.

➡️ Funding disruptions are threatening lifesaving improvements and innovations in behavioral and mental healthcare. These cuts are already forcing researchers to pause or leave projects that directly save lives.

Niemöller was a Nazi. He fought in the Freikorps. He was a willing participant in the Third Reich because he had sought and received assurances from Hitler himself that the Nazis would not go after Protestants. Then he ended up in a Camp. He was wrong. That’s why he wrote the poem.

At a rally ahead of a court hearing for Jacob Hoopes, a Portlander who was arrested Friday (apparently for allegedly assaulting an ICE officer at a protest—he was arrested at home, not on the scene). Hoopes’ father is speaking now, emphasizing his son’s adherence to peace.

Again we see the incoherence of right-wing policy. Rounding up homeless people and imprisoning them *is* housing them! Punitive solutions to this problem also cost a shitload and require a massive bureaucracy. They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.

i am always blown away by just how far ahead of its time DS9 was. really some of the most remarkable feats of writing in TV history. and the kind of show that could only have worked with 30+ episode seasons

I love birding but the way I do it is NOT relaxing and mostly involves cursing out birds I can't see because they're hidden in trees and fly like they're late for an appointment

I am definitely from a cohort of Americans that will drink unknown substances from a glass jar