China drives on the right side of the road, so this would effectively turn every sidewalk in the country into a firing range lol

I so mad that West Virginia University has operated a safe, free/affordable, and adorable rapid transit system for over FIFTY YEARS and I never knew about it.

Wikipedia is the greatest website on earth because no matter how safe and mundane an article sounds (e.g. "coconut water"), there is always a 10% chance you are about to learn about something truly horrific.

Gut-wrenching. Bluestockings is a legend, even out here in California.

Okay, I guess it's okay to say this much: Adelanto was supposed to close in late 2024. The ICE contract with GEO (the private prison company that operates it) was extended under Biden. The cycle of oppression and death did not begin with this administration.

Everything I have to say about this would violate TOS to post.

WE WILL REBUILD

The Kimmel Incident should be seen first and foremost not as a struggle over the first amendment but a battle over a subset of capital attempting a takeover of traditional broadcasting infrastructure. It has more to do with the Ellison/Weiss takeover of CBS than it does “free speech.”

An apartment next door to me is being sold; nobody is living there. The open house begins in 30 minutes, and all of their curtains are open. We just saw a naked man we have never seen (not the owner) walk out of the shower.

How are there still criminologists in the year 2025 who take the concept of criminality as a scientific category for granted. How do they have jobs.

It just occurred to me that they are 10000% going to make a hamfisted AI hologram of Charlie Kirk and bring it to college campuses for debates lmao

If you aren't reading the ORB Calender every week, then you are simply wasting your time in Oakland. Essential reading for locals.

A decade without heat and apartments with mold, bugs, and rodents—tenants and their tenant union (TANC) are locked in an ongoing battle with the landlord, Byong Yu, who also owns KP Market in Uptown Oakland. bayareacurrent.com/a-decade-wit...

Nate Silver, more like Nate Neurological Side Effects of Ingesting Dangerously High Levels of Colloidal Silver

"Don't post anything that you wouldn't want read aloud in court." Flash forward two years. I am seated next to my defense lawyer at a sedition trial on a hot summer afternoon. The prosecutor screens a video of animated crabs dancing to an EDM track. The jury is bewildered, but intrigued.

I am the head steward of Antifa Local 4532. Kirk was a stupid bigot. The ability to transition with the assistance of modern medicine is one of humanity's greatest accomplishments. Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza, but Palestine will be free. I teach geography at UC Berkeley. Do your worst.

Some of you desperately need to reflect on what went so wrong in your moral and political development that you make Will Stancil look like a courageous voice of reason by comparison.

Personally I think it's kind of cool that we have a nightmarish inter-dimensional SCP anomaly serving as First Lady.

I wrote a vibe report on the "9/11 Truth Movement" film festival for Oakland Review of Books. @oaklandreviewofbooks.org tl;dr: The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born.

"I found myself suddenly willing to believe all of it just so I could stop thinking about this shit. Yes, Tower 7 was destroyed by explosives, fires cannot melt steel, whatever you say, just don’t make me look at another fucking slide." love this piece from @xlenc.bsky.social

I hate watching football because seeing players walk around doing nothing while the clock is running makes me feel so annoyed and stressed that I could puke. It just isn't natural.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Can we please talk more about Robert Redford instead of the infinitely less-interesting guy.

Given how popular football is in the U.S., it is astounding how few decent football movies there are, especially compared to baseball movies. The sport as a whole just doesn't seem to fit well into narrative film structure.

The reason the current freakout is so disproportionately loud is because they recently saw how happy people were just PRETENDING Trump had died, and realized how many people will feel joy when they're gone too. That kind of realization that will drive anyone crazy.

Your cowering won't protect you, it only emboldens them.

In general I feel like you shouldn't be allowed to be fired for saying something that was also said on stage at the Emmys, the nation's tamest awards show.

If a stochastic terrorism advocate is killed by a stochastic terrorist, and their followers respond by advocating more stochastic terrorism against the people who denounced the stochastic terrorist advocate, then I feel like everyone has a moral duty to denounce the dead stochastic terrorist.

It is truly horrifying what is being alleged against the Trump administration in the Ghana case. Here is from an affidavit filed in the case today: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is a very big deal. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I've been on the job market for 24 hours and boy, you folks weren't kidding.

Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

"Don't post anything that you wouldn't want read aloud in court." Flash forward two years. I am seated next to my defense lawyer at a sedition trial on a hot summer afternoon. The prosecutor screens a video of animated crabs dancing to an EDM track. The jury is bewildered, but intrigued.

Saturday's geology walk in downtown Oakland has tickets available! The sales cutoff was an operator error. Get tickets now til then!

please help Ruaa, she has the chance to find some safety but needs our support. don't lose focus of Palestine and especially people in Gaza ❤️

The pivot to immigration detention is already one of the biggest transformations in carceral infrastructure in the history of U.S. mass incarceration. Is there a specific name for this yet? www.wusf.org/courts-law/2...

Wow it's so scary to think of what could happen next. Just imagine, Trump could use this as a pretext to send the military into DC or LA. He could start to deport people (even legal residents!) to torture sites in El Salvador. He could claim the right to bomb anyone he accuses of a crime.

You shouldn't post incriminating shit on here, sure, obviously. But I'd argue that acting really scared on social media is just as dangerous, and just as likely to make you a target of right-wing violence, as posting bellicose agitprop.

[Guy who has never once posted about Gaza] I'd like to take this opportunity to denounce political violence.

Weird to think that if Marx was writing Capital today he would be posting his venmo code in instagram stories instead of writing letters to Engels.

Gavin Newsom office will not provide stopgap funding for Bay Area transit agencies facing budget shortfalls, according to lawmakers. Without the loan, BART officials say they could be forced to cut services. www.kqed.org/news/1205499...

I am now 100% convinced that most of the top admin at American universities are now terminally reliant on AI to function, encasing them in a completely alien alternate reality. As in, they are using it WAY more than the undergrads are.

I show up to teach my first class of the semester. My students aren't here. I double-check my documents, the class SHOULD be here. I check the online catalog. 504 error. I ask a random student for help. 504 error. I try to call my department. Calls won't connect.

If a government steadfastly refuses to release a document for a very long time and then suddenly releases the document, it's pretty likely that they finally finished changing the document.

I have only a few hours to finish this dissertation before Silksong is released, at which point all hope is lost.

It is time for someone to produce a new film adaptation of The Swimmer.

My record is skipping/looping, but the cat is on my lap. How did my ancestors deal with this problem.

I have a few scattered opinions about who should be the presidential nominee in 2028, but my main one is "It is 2025, can we please talk about something else for once? Seek professional help."