On this Fourth of July, celebrate by getting yourself or a loved one a $20 ticket to learn about all the ways in which Samuel Alito is a whiny pissbaby. www.32auctions.com/organization...

There's some cool stuff in here and I encourage everyone to check it out. I got outbid on a few things (which is good! more $ for voting rights!), but I managed to snag a few "buy now" items: a sticker, a murder duck, and @courtneymilan.com 's "Samuel Alito is a Whiny Pissbaby" video talk.

If someone from the FBI visits you about your algae posts the correct thing to do is to say you won’t talk with them. Please do not talk to the FBI. Like, at all. They have no sense of humor and they will take your stupid joke and charge you with lying to an agent.

Art.

I saw "Kermit as Starbuck" and thought this would be a Battlestar Galactica post. Now I want to watch Muppet BSG.

There are currently three federal book ban bills aiming to ban all trans books from U.S. public schools! HR 2616, HR 8705, HR 7661. Please call your representatives and ask them to vote no on these bills! Follow @authorsabb.bsky.social for updates. #bookbans #bookchallenges #HR2616 #HR8705 #HR7661

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

My office mate and I sat through a pitch for a similar platform and the first thing we asked was "can instructors turn off the AI feedback?" The product reps could not understand why we would want to do that.

Join me in telling the FCC we don't need content warnings for LGBTQ people in our media.

"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." -Ursula K. Le Guin, *A War Without End*

The world is becoming harsher for transgender people right now. Darkness stretches before and behind them, and the pain is growing. Their wish remains simple — to love who they love and live true to themselves🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 This is why we must join hands and change the world with compassion.

Is this anything?

Yes, please, help my students harness the power of the psychosis inducing, art stealing, environment destroying child pornography machine. /s

This feels like an excellent excuse to buy new gel pens.

I would hire a household staff: personal chef, cleaning service, and a personal assistant to make appointments for me.

time to make some disrespectful ass phone calls to your congressional reps

I get claustrophobic in airplanes. I am not built for space flight.

Few are brave enough to acknowledge the truth.

This weekend and always, NO LILIES FOR KITTIES. www.fda.gov/animal-veter...

I'd like to introduce you to Panulirus ornatus, the ornate rock lobster. They're native to the Indo-Pacific, with a large range centered on New Guinea & the Great Barrier Reef near Australia. They're a member of family Palinuridae, the spiny or rock lobsters. So why so colorful?

My favorite sign from the Long Beach #NoKings protest today.

This book sounds rad and I will be ordering a copy for the little free book cart. @stephcherrywell.com

Happy St Patrick's Day.

Happy Mothra’s Day to all who celebrate #art #Kaiju

Yes, I’m religious. I believe in the Holy Trinity.

Added some fun LGBTQ+ books to the free book cart outside my office.

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.

The morning so far

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "LGBTQ children's books ≠ teaching kids about sex."

Turns out I have a ton of favorite songs w/ absurdly long titles: Radiohead "Where I End & You Begin" STP "Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart" Caroline Polacheck "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings" Death Cab "I Will Follow You into the Dark" Nirvana "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle"

I should not have read this thread, b/c now I have ALL of the worst songs stuck in my head. My personal contribution to the list is Smashing Pumpkins' 1979. Absolutely the most tediously bland song I've ever had the misfortune of hearing.

Timeline cleanse ❄️

I AM ON FIRE; KEEP CLEAR OF ME.

Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside. I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start! SquidFacts.net

Whatever my uni declares, I am not going to engage with AI. I am not going to use AI or teach students to use it. I am going to continue to explain to students why it is harmful. Absolutely absurd to allow this anti-intellectual, environmentally devastating technology into the university at all.

Me, the week before the new semester starts:

Hey, I know a lot of you use Discord. You need to get on this survey and make it damn clear to them that this would be the absolute wrong direction. The last thing we need is the slop-spewing environment-chewing plagiarism bots invading there, too. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...?

Important info for teachers.

they'll kill you when you tell them you're not mad they'll kill you when you tell them you're furious might as well be furious

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Welcome to 2026. 🥳😮‍💨

All hail the New Year's Pigeon!