This is Diesel. His bed has been taken over by a two-pound kitten. Wondering if you can ask them to please move. He is too scared. 13/10 (TT: lahdeedahdee)

sorry the only "real" new yorkers are the rats who work in the kitchen in Muppets Take Manhattan

Burn. It. All. Down.

I've used "lake" pigments most of my life and I (strangely, fo me) never dug into what "lake" meant. Fascinating thread! Also, bonus etymology: "Lake" here isn't anything to do with water. It comes from "lac," the Persian / Hindi word for shellac, which is where we get lacquer

Media editors (and others), please stop repeating the lie about #Juneteenth, that enslaved Texans "didn't know" about the Emancipation Proclamation. As Christopher Wilson explained, "It Was Not the 'News' That Traveled Slowly — It Was 'Power'” to end slavery. www.zinnedproject.org/news/junetee...

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

Need to save this quote for internet responses

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Adorable young kestrels surprised by a butterfly.

someone on Twitter once posted a breakdown showing how many gay men died of AIDS in various districts of Florida, overlaid with how many votes Gore lost those districts by in 2000, and I've genuinely never been okay since. there literally would have been no George W. if those men were still with us

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Shocked. So shocked. How could any of us have predicted this? /s

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Last night, the Supreme Court ruled that the VRA cannot protect even against *intentionally* discriminatory voting policies When we say there is no federal statute remaining the enforce the 15th Amendment, this is what we mean

Saw this image a few days ago.

This! Thisthisthisthisthis! Safe, sustainable climate control (as she says downthread) is especially important for less-wealthy areas--and especially in the global south--where public resources are often unequally distributed.

Work on accepting that it's okay to: - Not know everything - Change your mind - Ask for help - Be your full, unapologetic self - Walk away from situations & people that refuse to work on accepting these things with you

"Bobby, please jiggle Grandpa's rat so it looks alive."

I think a lot, A LOT, about what Brian Eno said about a medium’s limits becoming its signature, about how mistakes are the most interesting thing about AI-generated stuff, and how AI pushers just keep trying to make things that are flawless imitators of something else

Unnoticed by whom?

LOOK AT THIS ROMAN GLASS BOAR!!! LOOK AT HIM!!!

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Thisssssss I'm casually expected to produce ~5 journal articles a year, which goes against every fiber of my being because I want to write high-quality, thoughtful, meaningful papers with my community partners, not produce churned-out, "efficient" crap with little practical use.

You can absolutely unlearn the negative parenting BS passed down by your family while keeping the good stuff and building new skills. It takes work, and you don't have to do it alone.

the world needs more guinea pig cartographers

In which the TERFs argue that because Dax has had a male host they are now socialised male and must now be treated as male regardless of the nature of subsequent hosts.

White people.

By the way, lose your sanist use of "schizophrenic" to mean things that wildly contradict or appear to show two opposing faces. That has nothing to do with any actual symptom of schizophrenia, so you don't look smart as you are intending by it. You're just another who hates mad people. Get in line.

You might think, "oh, this just applies to research grants!" but SAMHSA grants fund an enormous amount of clinical services nationwide. These services will still exist, but they will be crowdfunded, fragmented, and understaffed.

Everyone needs to see these (and also I'd like a set of them)

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

GRADING IS DONE!!! NO MORE TEACHERS! NO MORE BOOooooh no <pile of work that I said I'd get to after grading falls on my head> www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oo8...

Too real.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from what you do now: - US Census data entry specialist - Receptionist temp (I was not asked back because I dropped 100% of transferred calls lol) - Campus security escort (with walkie-talkie and day-glo vest!) - Drapery salesperson

All those "cash for diabetic supplies" signs popping up everywhere are nothing to worry about, either, I'm sure

Oh hey, my university finally put out an alert that Canvas is down. After 2 hours of radio silence. 5 days before final grades are due. Wheeeeeeee!

What fun! This shut down literally in the middle of a meeting with a student where we were going over their final project on Canvas 🙃 I also can't do my grading, which is due Tuesday *kermit flail*

So Tiff reminded me of the single best day of Fenton’s life:

To be fair, this does follow the tried and true British convention of turning innocent words into swears by adding "utter" or "absolute" before

HERE IT IS! In August 2025, a massive landslide brought a big chunk of mountainside into the Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska, causing the second-largest tsunami ever recorded. My latest for @eos.org is the story of the forensic investigation, and why the culprit is climate change: 🧪

The automatic door in my building is timed perfectly for my walking pace so I either have to stop or run into it when it's half open. It's probably a sign from the universe that I need to slow down or something but I'm taking it as a personal affront instead.

MY LOVES THERE IS SOUND. I AM GETTING TO DO MY WORK TO THE SOUND OF PUFFINS AND WAVES.

Music for grading and calming the utter rage I have from dealing with multiple horrible systems www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ektt...

Having a jolly old time trying to get AirBnB to give me my rental cost broken down by housing cost, fees, and taxes so the university will prepay for it in this budget cycle rather than reimburse it in the next. Apparently this is impossible and has never been done before 🙄 🤦

Ok, what is up with landlords that require you to submit and application *with application fee* to schedule a tour of a rental property?! I don't want to give my financial info to someone until I'm ready to sign a lease with them, and those fees add up fast!

A visibly emotional Anne Hathaway responding to a trans kid--who named herself Ella after Ella Enchanted, and thanked Hathaway for her courage as an ally--saying "Ella, sweetie, I want to make something absolutely clear: It takes zero courage to love you"......now I might cry too