Today is Quintidi the 5th of Brumaire in the year 234. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate geese.#JacobinDay More information on geese

women are about 78% of the healthcare workforce in america. i know people know this but it’s always worthwhile to state it outright. not only is it gendered to underpay healthcare workers but men who get “caught up” in it are undervalued for doing female-coded work. same with teachers.

This perfectly describes how day to day life feels lately when every bit of news feels like an assault on decency, logic, and reason.

I'm so sick of technology. I want my devices to do their basic functions such as "text/make phone calls" or "access the internet" or "have word processing software and decent storage capability." I do not want one billion gigabytes of AI bloatware that spies on me and fucks with my work!!!!

Tried to move away from Gmail and use more privacy-oriented email services instead but now I have four email accounts with multiple aliases and everything I actually want to receive gets stuck in the spam filters. My Gmail's running out of space, 15 years of data to sort through.

Public health is like cake. Cake has layers. Public health has layers. And when we stack the layers of public health – think combining sanitation + nutrition + medical treatments + vaccines + addressing social & environmental factors that impact health – we get to enjoy more birthday cakes. 1/9 🧵🧵

In Defense of Being Human aeon.co/essays/our-c... with @allisonpugh.bsky.social #LastHumanJob #digitalwthics

Lately I've been thinking of this as "platform logic" bc it's pretty much always got a platform You aren't connected to a person or people. You're connected to the platform, which can facilitate specific types of interactions with people. You don't have a dr, you have a care platform

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

Web searches I never expected to make: "how to borrow a puppy" 😂 #parenting

‘The internet was better when it was on a computer in a designated room and not in our pockets’, we all post, from our phones, that we purchased for significant money and use for hours every day

Happy 3²/4²/5² day

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

Found a cool coffee one too 🤩

EVERYONE STOP cheese wheel of cheeses

Last time I was at pride it was still in the little park by the library, and I had a partner and a toddler on our shoulders. It's bigger now. I'm bigger. The kid is bigger. Our family is bigger. And I'm all alone now.

Must read by my former @brooklyncollege.bsky.social student and EMS union leader Anthony Almojera: Time to let FDNY EMS stand on its own thechiefleader.com/stories/time...

at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.

Defeating fascism cannot be done under the guise of a “return to normal” - doing so will just reset us to a point where we will once again work back towards this political moment. It has to be about creating a new world - and that means a complete change in how our world works, tbh.

Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.

Now, instead of reading the latest email from the Subdean for Academic Affairs and Climbing Wall Management, simply click on the ADMINISTRATOR LANGUAGE DETECTED icon to reveal the message in simple English and determine the threat level to your department, program, or mental health.

This might be the greatest speech from a living politician I've personally heard youtu.be/Q04p3OJdhpU?...

I think about this James Baldwin quote a lot, especially now. “The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

New BSky game just dropped - pick your date for the Fall of the American Republic.

This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."

people are really hurting, it is making it difficult to be on this website, but just going to try to emphasize anyway: we’re not going to i-told-you-so our way out of this, solidarity cannot be built on doom alone

"Knowing glance exchanged with colleague."

all of these techniques are invaluable for golden grill style cuisine

okay we're doing this again I guess! I am cis and I wish ill on JK Rowling stop suspending trans and nonbinary people for saying it @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team cis people we are all Spartacus, please quote with your own ill wishes

I give voice to the voiceless. When a middle-aged woman walks into Reformation, the salespeople barely blink. But if she wears a large mustard-yellow acrylic choker designed by a Scandinavian architect? She exists!

What some conservatives call “socialism” can simply be parsed as “community care.” We should replace one term with the other so it’s clear what they object to. “Universal healthcare?!! That’s community care!!” “Free preschool?!? That’s community care!!!” The horror.

When “Flanagan talked of ‘a certain Marlowesque madness’, he demanded: ‘You are quoting from this Marlowe. Is he a communist?’ Metaphor evaporated in front of literal-mindedness…. Flanagan flummoxed everyone when she said: ‘I am combating un-American inactivity.’”

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics. IG nytimes

60's BART 🧵, as promised: My grandpa took some pretty cool (above & below ground!) construction photos of the San Francisco BART 16th St Mission station from the early 1970's. I restored the slides as best I could & I will be adding to this thread throughout the evening with more images & ALT text.

I really needed this today. Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social You can get lost in it. A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.

A statement by Jewish Studies faculty at UVa a link to the non-paywalled version): archive.is/tVJb5?fbclid...

This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.

Look at this old timetable for the C&O George Washington service. Imagine if once the Commonwealth Corridor is built, we could add a local service that restores train travel to some of these intermediate towns that were once centered on it. Trains to Crozet! A Kings Dominion stop at Doswell!

You gotta realize that there are many men who use being an “ally” as a veil to be creepy to women.

I would be ashamed not to stand up for trans folks, not just because there are trans folks I like and love, but because everyone should get to live with the same personal freedom and dignity I get simply for existing. Who are we if we do not wish for others every right and privilege we have.

Anybody else feel like taking a few days to crumble into dust

Making sure people are able to have access to affordable AC is a disability justice issue.

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Today is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. Did you know that Black women have to work 191 EXTRA DAYS into the year in order to earn as much as white men? 191 EXTRA days. #blacksky This is #TheDoubleTax.

See, I think this is exactly the reason kids need to learn file systems, both analog and digital. Creative knowledge work isn't just knowing how to FIND information, it's understanding how to organize and sort & reconstitute information in new ways. Systematic categorization is a key part of that.

When you’re just functioning in the shreds of what was familiar.

golden hour sun showers double rainbow bought a dryer locked myself out of my car full of flautas and kombucha second wrist brace, new mascara, couldn't resist the gf frozen potstickers and it all turned out alright

Moving completed. Air conditioner installed. Exhausted from it all plus yesterday's migraine.

Every 4th of July, I take the time to read "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July." Let us begin: "I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."