In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

of the dodgy odyssey takes, 'odysseus is meant to be a stoic badass unaffected by war' probably winds me up the most. in the text the king of the phaeacians correctly guesses odysseus is a veteran of the trojan war because he keeps bursting into tears whenever anyone mentions it

I don't much care for mnemonic devices—I can't remember them, har-de-har-har but it's true—but "discrete" means separate, and the two e's in "discrete" are separate.

I've seen really sharp folks over the past couple of days remark on here that they're surprised by Iran's hardline response to Trump & his Team Clown Shoes diplomatic overtures, to keeping the Strait of Hormuz, & the Iranian response to renewed US strikes. There's a reason for the befuddlement. 1/

Are you sure you want to endorse countries paying climate damages sir

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

yall i don’t fly as much as i used to, is it a good sign when the gate agent leaves or no

This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.

So far in this corner of Logan, jetblue seems to have lost a pilot (for the LA flight) and 2 flight attendants (for mine)

For folks who don’t know, recent contracts often have a reversion clause in the event POD sales drop below a certain level to address this problem, if your agent knows what they’re doing… but contracts from before “good“ POD may well not have it

My pre-write turned out to be 70% a. CDC's comms have been wildly irresponsible; b. If I couldn't prove lettuce is not from Taylor Farms, I wouldn't eat it; c. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

A fun publishing fact: If you go to buy an author's book and the paperback is $24.99, chances are that it is print on demand-- because it is out of print-- and it will be a weird size with weird paper, and this is not the author's choice or fault. This is how publishers avoid giving our rights back.

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dawg the brazilians are calling it asfaltos unidos in the QTs we're getting cooked

Raffi you’re so right

On Tuesday, a New Jersey town pulled $91M out of Citizens Bank over its business with ICE prison contractors GEO Group and CoreCivic. Yesterday, Citizens announced it was ending its relationships with GEO and CoreCivic. Money managers should DIVEST from #$GEO #$CXW www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

The best metaphor I read was inagine you’re trying to get off oxy and your phone randomly dispensed tablets and every ad is getting you great this is

Our county partnered with a local food recovery organization to put commercial refrigerators in affordable housing complexes and then stock them with fresh produce for residents to use for free. Amazing pilot programme and I hope it expands. Push for similar initiatives.

hi this is a really big deal. Chaco Canyon is one of the most important historical sites in North America. the area tribes are extremely opposed to this. please please please comment on this with the BLM. it takes two minutes.

Plenty of lettuce today i see

The two eras where I've likely been shittiest toward other people's ideas are immediately after giving up Catholicism and God, and then what Max describes here: good enough to critique the writing of others, not good enough to be useful or at least not harmful. They're versions of the same problem.

A bio-inspired robot crosses paths with a real insect , 400 million years of evolution face to face with human engineering.

Among the many dangerous stretches of the art-journey, some of the most perilous are those moments when you’re good enough to identify flaws but not good enough to critique them without destroying your fellow artists

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Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

COYOTE RUN is part of the Horned Lark Press Summer Sale! This means you can pick up a paperback for $10USD (and shipping) until 7/31; other paperbacks are $10USD as well. A great time to stock up, especially if you love punching fascists. hornedlarkpress.com/product/coyo...

When you (an editor or a critique partner or a classmate) comment on someone's writing, you can absolutely deal them a disabling injury if you're thoughtless about it. I'm not saying anyone should be dishonest or refrain from pointing out issues. I'm saying

My favorite way to put this, as someone who studied Classical History in actual college (not just on Twitter): If you told an ancient Roman or Athenian that his culture had "more in common" with a German or Briton than with an Egyptian or Ethiopian, he'd punch you in the throat.

Emma Landis is the woman who was shot, and here is her gofundme. The gofundme contains a narrative about what happened: the woman was engaged in peaceful protest, spoke to an agent, and he shot her in the foot. www.gofundme.com/f/support-my...

For no reason whatsoever, I checked my voter registration today, and if you are a US citizen I encourage you to do the same/update that voter registration if necessary/register to vote if you have not already done so: www.vote.org

This is exactly it -- if you make a kid use generative "A.i." or an LLM, you're telling them they're not good enough. That their own minds and ideas and experiences and abilities are not enough. That's a terrible, thoughtless, cruel thing to do. Shame on Kaepernick and everyone involved in Lumi.

Urgent freelance art commission! My previous arrangement has fallen through, so I need someone who can look at this sad lil' placeholder kaiju and whip up a proper, looming, nicely lit and atmospherically appropriate monster I can place into this same composition. Feel free to reply here- THREAD 🧵

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

the children yearn for the [physical media they actually own]

If you would like to help indigenous communities in northern Ontario who have lost everything in the wild fires, you can donate with True North Aid. Miigwech. truenorthaid.ca

i had canva open

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DUNE font but it says DUNC Picture of an iced coffee

I think the notion that a super-intelligent AI would be able to convince anyone to do anything across an air gap is a bit of a joke—but the current market makes more sense if slime-mold language models have "convinced" self-impressed idiots with a lot of money to get them more food

The 2020 election was not rigged and no votes were changes. Donald Trump's reaction was to sue and incite a violent insurrection in the Capitol. Donald Trump is once again laying the groundwork to try to overturn elections he is about to lose. We need to be prepared and to fight back.

Apropos of too many things lately, here's a spite poem I wrote a few weeks ago **makes unflinching eye contact while jamming more em dashes in** full disrespect to anyone writing with AI and also to the idea that we should change our voices and styles because the plagiarism machine is copying us

as @profgabriele.com @lollardfish.bsky.social reminded me, don't just Buy a Book, make sure you review the book too!

As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.

Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."

quoth @maxgladstone.bsky.social on how to use a typewriter: "the pointy end goes in the other man" 👍 sure does

Is Strossian a word because I mean that in the best possible way about the new Max Gladstone short story involving Holo-Jesus and soul collateralized debt obligations

I would at least consider buying a ticket to THS THDPSSSSPS and will consider referring to the Nolan Odyssey this way moving forward