Problems have solutions. Contradictions do not. They are permanent points of tension that can only be managed within the system in which they are embedded. They only go away when the system as a whole disappears. www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Without feminism, the sequence of events that led to Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest would never have happened. It’s a reminder that feminism is powerful and important and even transformative, which is why there’s so much pushback..."

& their Tiny Desk from this past summer!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p8T...

every month I find a Bloc Party song I have not (yet!) listened to that came out when I was 11 years old & it still slaps incredibly hard. This was today's! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzZQ...

This is a Alysa Liu stan account #MilanoCortina2026 #Olympics

@edsbs.bsky.social Oakland City Hall currently

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

ICONIC

broke my Ash Wednesday fast tonight by having some pad see ew & basil tofu + finishing the 2/3 of Skyfall (2012) I had left from the night before. Anyway, life can be fun!

A CIVILIZED SOCIETY!!!!!!!! New York priests respect our morning routines!!!!!

sorry to report I have swapped my parasocial crush on Timothee Chalamet for a parasocial crush on Jacob Elordi

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

I reviewed MARTY SUPREME, which whipped insanely hard. Nobody does stories about creeps and losers like Josh Safdie, and he still manages to make you love them every time. www.patreon.com/posts/150464...

Great read

Football should be iillegal but nobody listens to me Halftime shows are great, though!

5-6 of my students (all 18 or 19 year old men) chose to write their research projects abt CTE in my Fall Comp courses...anyway I welcome the day Superbowl Sunday fades into the background...one of my least favorite days of the year & rly enjoyed not being in America (I'm in NZ rn) for it :)

To reject the US as a fundamentally American country with a deep shared history and commonality with the rest of the Americas, including that Spanish has long been our de facto national second language, is on a deep level anti-American. It's hating actual American culture and history and tradition.

Happy Superb Owl day to all who celebrate.

I've been looking for housing in the bay & today I came across a house where one of the roomates 1) was a clown and 2) you must be "Nudity Positive" *sigh*

I have an essay out in Gulf Coast abt God & becoming an adult Catholic convert gulfcoastmag.org/stories/how-...

reposting with alt text for accessibility: Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

went to a Lana del Rey drag show alone tonight & talked to 5+ strangers & breaking the ice rly can be something as simple as "Do you come here a lot?" or "when do you think the show will start?" & compliments! are key for posi social interactions

Seeing Zohran instantly getting a bunch of shit done in like a week makes you realize that politicians could always do that on some level if they wanted it bad enough and very few of them actually do.

I think it really can’t be undersold how soul-deep terrifying it is to guys like this to have regular people, unarmed, fearlessly screaming obscenities at them and telling them to get the fuck out

If you're cold, they're cold. Bring the Federal Reserve inside.

“My dear, if it is not a city, it is a prison. If it has a prison, it is a prison. Not a city.” Tongo Eisen-Martin

Ameen.

Today is very bad and we should all be very angry but I am here to remind us that the birthday we are celebrating this year is not for the Constitution but for our rebellion against monarchy. The sincerest form of flattery is imitation.

Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"

just submitted my grades for my first semester as a CC prof :') I worked so hard and my shoulders and jaw are so tight

a student just copied the wikipedia page for Dire Wolfs as his essay...

DERP

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

🎶 because I knew you I have been changed for good 🎶

today in bay area poetics: a local press published a poem by Curtis Yarvin, whose wikipedia page u should read if u don't know who he is & why that is alarming en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_...

Caught 4 students using AI to write their papers (& suspect 3 more, but can't prove it) & tbh for an online class, that's not even all that many...but it still feels like SUCH a gut punch every single time

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

lol she got his ass and he knows it

who would have guessed that the dumbass who won the popular vote by a sliver because median voters just thought of him as President Low Prices Who Will Make Low Prices Comes Back in January would be eating shit like this, after not solving any problems and kidnapping many defenseless people for fun

Bluesky rn

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

Happy "PROFESSOR!!! CANVAS IS DOWN!!!" day to all academics who celebrate.

Canvas has been down alllll day. Maybe monopolies ARE bad!

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

genuinely squealed like I saw a celebrity

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

september 30 ... october 1

🗣️THIS is the message!! Brava, Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social!!

this is my villain origin story