Interviewer: “What do you say to trans kids who are starting their transition?” Zohran Mamdani: "We're gonna make this a city that doesn't just protect trans kids, but also celebrates and cherishes them."

Watching Tremors to celebrate the start of my Thanksgiving break. Such a great movie (also just listened to the @youaregood.bsky.social episode about it)

Can't wait to repurpose old USSR jokes A person walks into a shop and asks the clerk, "you don't have any meat?". The clerk responds, "no, we don't have any fish. The shop that doesn't have any meat is across the street"

How did I miss the resemblance for so long

Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share

Pleasant surprise of the day: I was playing the Yeah Yeah Yeah's inimitable album "Fever To Tell" during work time today, and I noticed one of my students singing along to "Maps"

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

New HHS guidance

45 years later, "Set The House Ablaze" feels more relevant than ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=VghQ...

I must not fedpost. Fedposting is the mind-killer. Fedposting is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

“Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement”

Still convinced that this was Worf's greatest moment

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

I'm halfway convinced that binder clips reproduce asexually. I keep finding them everywhere: in my pockets, in my briefcase, on my desk, etc. A more realistic answer would be that I keep forgetting to put them away, but I think office supplies spawning more office supplies is the better story.

*looks at timeline* Ok I’m bringing the baby Great Egret floofs out of the “emergency cute” archive. #birds 🌿

Small moment of joy for the week: I stopped to let a couple of pedestrians cross the street and they did a goofy walk/dance to get across

Calling it now: 2025 word of the year is "immiserate"

The photos crossed our radar first and we genuinely thought they were faked but nope! The Pope hates Illinois Nazis! www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Damned cloud cover

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

Dinner tonight: vegan jambalaya made with seitan and two kinds of beans. First time trying this recipe & first time cooking with seitan. Reallly tasty. Would make again.

From UWM: an interactive map to see the history of racial covenants in Milwaukee County sites.uwm.edu/mappingracis...

🤞last-second Ron Johnson brain aneurysm🤞

How I enter a room

If you have a Dem senator and you're seeing this right now, CALL THEM RIGHT NOW and tell them NO. If you don't know anyone who would be affected by this, call them for my friend Lisa. She cannot afford insurance without ACA subsidies and without health insurance I'm terrified she will die.

Say it ain't so, @baldwin.senate.gov

This feels like a scam (Loft is a RealPage brand and Amenify bills itself as "AI Powered Home Services").

lol she got his ass and he knows it

While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too. If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole. apnews.com/article/pets...

Welcome to Target

An excellent piece of journalism here from the New York Times about just one large vendor, Equifax, who will profit from the new Medicaid work requirement that will cause people who desperately need health insurance to lose it while for profit companies benefit. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/h...

ffs, @nytimes.com

The fifth(?) version of Star Trek 4 finally being killed and the Kelvinverse crew being benched is one of those depressingly stark moments where you realise that the entire franchise is, in some ways, a Kobyashi Maru scenario.

Mother speaks out after ICE raids #Chicago day care center. “They are coming for all our children!” #immigration

Happy birthday, Harris Yulin

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Because I'm a dork, that smells like part of a base64-encoded PNG file. If you decode it, the first few bytes are "......IHDR"

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

I’m sharing this again because Alma still hasn’t been released, and neither has Rodney Taylor. ICE is targeting disabled people and counting on society not caring because they see us as expendable. They also grabbed and dragged a disabled blind man in Portland last week.

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I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

Jesus H Christ www.cbc.ca/news/investi...