Still buzzing about how lucky we were to be in the ballpark when it happened Baseball is good

Mariners clinch postseason! #GoMs

Earlier this month, three trans women were beaten by a group of young men in Seattle's gay neighborhood. According to the county prosecutor's office, there's been at least four more group beatings since June 2024. In one case, strangers joined in. The kicker? www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

I’m not interested in the causes of autism or queerness. I’m interested in the causes of bigotry and oppression.

Campus is finally full of people again. Walking around I’m overhearing students’ friend-making conversations. It’s cute.

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Another reason to never vote for Peter

The best thing to do now is to point to this over and over as an example of our collective efficacy and pick our next target

The loss of Cascade PBS -- my former newsroom -- will deprive Washingtonians of accountability journalism that kept an eye on government and corporate power. For shame.

Your job is to help puncture the illusion as often as possible. The less vulnerable you are, the more you are needed to help do this.

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Clothing store, Upper West Side.

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A nontrivial portion of my current emotional stability is based around the baseball season that is careening to an end. Uh oh.

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

I’m so proud of our big-butted guy

Hey @mayorofseattle.bsky.social the way to be a "leader" in "AI" is to not fall for the bullshit. It's super disappointing to see all of these city documents based on wishful thinking that talk about "AI" without defining it. www.theurbanist.org/2025/09/18/h...

Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

OOPS ALL HOME RUNS

It’s giving “makes law abridging the freedom of the press”

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

If some of you were in the faculty meetings we’ve been having you’d be absolutely shocked about what’s happening in higher education, but honestly no one outside of higher ed has any inkling.

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” James Baldwin

I don't think pointing out the fascists' 'hypocrisy' is a good use of time. It's not hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. They actually do believe that they have the right and obligation to dominate you because they are superior to you. They are using their power not being hypocritical.

Slowly and then all at once

This seems bad

Feeling this so hard rn.

Fascists do not believe in free speech as a universal principle. Free speech is a tool they'll happily use, but they don't think everyone should have it. They don't believe in universal moral principles at all. Rights and privileges are for the in-group, obligations are for everyone else.

I’m going to go to the coffee shop and see if I can find my cold brew limit

At least the mariners are hitting and running today. (I’m of course dreaming of a Phillies Mariners World Series…)

Our new kitten Ivy is so cute 🥰 🤭

#crixus #catsofbluesky

Wrong.

Anyone learning technology specialists or teaching faculty able to replicate this today in Canvas or Brightspace? Let me know.

I’m terrified and sad for this country. I keep saying, I don’t want to be someone who has to live through this. I wish we weren’t the people living through this.

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

Awful. And done in our name with our tax dollars

I present, the Golden Seal 🦭💀😂 #goldenretrievers #dogs #puppys

Watching that Texas A&M student’s video (the one that has gotten at least 2 people fired over someone teaching about gender) I keep thinking about what she and others learned— One part of which is that her bigotry is exceptionally powerful and can give her national renown if she weaponizes it.

If this sort of language is included in the senate version of this, Democrats have an obligation to filibuster it. This provision would be absolutely massive and hurt trans people of all ages.

this is a very long thread but I have two more points. first: if we're going to talk about harm reduction, we need to be clear on which harms, and to who. "here are techniques for getting incrementally more accurate answers from LLMs" reduces the risk of inaccurate info to end-users.

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

"Build Your Homeland's Future" — speculative whiteness in action

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