Great question! It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider. The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.

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(Redoing this due to typo) 29 ICE officers died in the line of duty in 20 YEARS, mostly from COVID and cancer. 32 people died in ICE custody just last year, they’ve killed or chased 5 others into death from July 2025-present. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... news.wttw.com/2026/01/08/d...

"I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way."

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Anyone Else Here xkcd.com/3188/

If you read nothing else this new year, let it be this piece. A former New York Times editor laid out how they're anti trans coverage was directed from the top by AG Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, and Carolyn Ryan. This was a purposeful effort to target trans people. transnews.network/p/a-directiv...

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

Happy Public Domain Day! Thanks to @publicdomainrev.bsky.social for creating this list. publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/01...

Liza Minnelli — David Lachapelle, 1989

Proust's proofs for "In Search of the Lost Time"

I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Cracking up since a robotext earlier couldn't make up it's mind on what to text, so it just sent EVERYTHING AT ONCE

the craziest thing about this is that all art generated is canonical

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family

Week 10 🫠

"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls." time.com/7335723/auto...

Thaler's post (click it for graph showing striking decreases in science spending) immediately under yet another repost of this fantastic letter to London Times. And I'd just like to say: can we PLEASE have a Democratic candidate who knows we need a massive reinvestment in US arts & humanities too?

“We said: Hell no” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"We have classrooms because you have to learn how to sustain a thought aloud— exposed to others and to your own ineloquence— to see that other people can help you reach where you can’t quite go and to see that you can help others reach better clarity…” - Lauren Berlant to 20 y.o. about college #Lit

Very Bernarr-Macfadden coded -- American's physical culture who "often walked six hours and twenty-five miles" to work and whose motto was: "weakness is a crime! Don't be a criminal!" (See Mark Adams' excellent book Mr. America for more!)

There are so many dangerous details / insights into strange user fantasies in this analysis of ChatGPT's capitulation to its users desired answers (ex. it begins w/ "yes" 10x more than "no") -- but something about "censoring its own swear word" really stood out here. Pathetic! archive.ph/gKgWf

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

A devastating loss.

He will awake fresh, anew, unburdened by time or memory

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

It was very surreal to teach students born c. 2003-2006 about this in my health humanities class last year (via Michael Moore, another ancient unknown for them!).

How do you make this your central demand for 40 days and then just let it go

Getting into mudlarking YouTube (“The People’s Antiques Roadshow UK”). Appeals to my inner Little Mermaid.

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

I miss you like the deserts miss the rain bro

🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨 Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...

This needs as much coverage as protests or ICE raids. Los Angelenos FTW. ❤️🙌

“their findings were unequivocal: ‘The conventional wisdom among non-experts has long been that there are limited data on the use of GAHT in pediatric patients with GD. However, results from our exhaustive literature searches have led us to the opposite conclusion.’”

There should be a country band that parodies Smiths songs, with titles like: This Farming Man Girlfriend in Oklahoma Some Grills are Bigger Than Others There is a Light that Never Goes Out (in my truck)

“Seven of the 10 judges in the majority also joined the opinion that “a library’s collection decisions are government speech and therefore not subject to Free Speech challenge.” This is bad. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Proud to have this new article out as part of the @nursingclio.bsky.social response to RFKs policies. This is the first piece from a much larger project I’m just starting but more importantly, wellness camps are bad. nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...

A very relatable 1906 Westminster Review headline / subheading combo as I try and make use of *my* brain this afternoon (though you do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to its author, "'scientific' phrenologist" Bernard Hollander. Source: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md... )

Researching feeding machines & came across this extraordinary woman: Bessie Blount gave her invention free to French WWII veterans; when asked later, said: "Forget me. It’s what we have contributed to humanity—that as a black female we can do more than nurse their babies and clean their toilets.”

Valerie the dachshund is found safe and well after 529 days on the run on South Australian island

To clarify this a little. In conversations with a lot of professors across disciplines, the amount of time and energy professors are dedicating to restructuring around cheating or detecting cheating has increased exponentially in the last 3 years. This is a completely uncompensated additional labor.

#Easter is an important day for many and sharing a meal is a traditional part of this celebration. People like Betty who harvests carrots in CA’s Central Coast, make these sacred meals possible. #WeFeedYou