As a gym girlie… 😬😬😬

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.

I think about digital security in the age of autocracy a lot. This thread from 7 months ago needs some updating and grain. I am especially concerned about folks working in higher education, most of whom are still in denial as to the degree to which they are being surveilled.

Shar pei in CONNECTIONS and WORDLE in 2. I’m out for the rest of the day.

Guess what America? Even with RFK's harmful misinformation and mismanagement of CDC, 76% of you can get vaxed because you're overweight BMI > 25. Thank you CVS for publishing your vaccine availability. www.axios.com/2025/08/29/c.... CDC's risk factors for severe CoVID: www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-f...

[sings softly] i see your truuuu colors, shining through.....

Linus weighed in at 30lbs this weekend. He is growing so fast!! But ngl—I am really looking forward to the end of his Baby Shark era.

the question is no longer "if" RFK will kill people but how many orders of magnitude he will kill before he is stopped

“Prasad overruled dozens of career scientists to limit Covid vaccine approvals three times in the past few months”

Here are the Lehigh Valley’s largest employers. Gonna be great for post-industrial economic development when all the hospitals, the school districts, local federal offices, & Lehigh & Lafayette have mass layoffs due to the dismantling of the entire federal government.

I'm not sure if I already shared this:

Here the WSJ states plainly Trump’s retribution presidency is “worse than we imagined.” No one had to imagine anything. He said he would do this. All you had to do was listen.

⚖️ The Supreme Court is about to decide if the Voting Rights Act itself is unconstitutional. This isn’t just Louisiana. This could erase Black and brown representation nationwide. Without the Voting Rights Act, there is no democracy.

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

This is an important debate worth having, one that challenges a lot of American traditions and instincts about how to move past our most divisive moments.

This, from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, perfectly sums up the quandary that educators find ourselves in: “AI hollows out the foundation of learning because it strips you, gets rid of the mistakes, it gets rid of the opportunities for serendipity.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

Leavitt confirms that monthly jobs reports may be suspended "until they can get the data and methodology in order"

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

This is going to be a nightmare and Republicans are counting on frustration with the system to save money with Medicaid. "Health advocates point to Georgia’s system as a sign that the new law will lead to excessive red tape, improper denials, and lost health coverage." #Medicaid #WorkRequirements

Book cover designs by the painter, illustrator and designer Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), a hugely talented artist in her own right (no need to be defined as sister of).

really need folks to understand how close CDC came to a mass casualty event. i saw all the news photos and was still shocked when i saw the dozens of bullet holes across the windows of HQ offices—including some of senior agency leadership. it is truly a miracle more people weren’t hurt

Idiots like RFK, Jr., irresponsibly regurgitating nonsense about vaccines, don't just kill people through a lack of medicine.

This is not a knock on OP, just that the reality that white people will accept harder lives with less material prosperity for the sake of maintaining the emotional compensation of white supremacy should be a foundational concept at the start of these discussions instead of a “discovery” at the end

More than a century ago DuBois coined “wages of whiteness” just for it rephrased and repackaged a thousand different ways by white people who keep acting surprised

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ... That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

Aw, look! A wedding.

People should scream bloody murder about RFK blocking vaccines for kids. I mean it. Mothers and fathers should get hysterical. I'd rarely advise this as a strategy. But, I think it's appropriate for this. What could be more clear and stark? It's not hard to explain to reporters.

Per CNN, police believe the Emory shooter targeted the CDC because he was sick or thought he was sick “and blamed the illness on the Covid-19 vaccine.” And this is why we keep telling you that anti-vax conspiracy theories are dangerous. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

I’m sure that I went through the same frustrations & difficulties w/ my previous puppy, whom I raised from 10 weeks old starting July 2020, but I can’t remember any of it. I don’t know if that’s an artifact of the pandemic or some kind of survival of the species mechanism or what. But it’s wild!

interesting how some tech bros claim college is overrated and people should drop out but “Ph.D level” is a marker of expertise

Someone has gained a whopping 10 lbs over the month that he has been part of my family. And we have survived yet another witching hour in which he turns into a demon spawn.

Yet more abhorrent sabotage of life-saving vaccine research. “Kennedy said in the Tuesday statement that he wants the health department to move away from mRNA vaccines, calling on the department to start “investing in better solutions.” He provided no details on what those technologies might be.”

Trump's a huge liar and gets zero credit for honesty, but, as a way of understanding his actions, this seems true. A lot of his decisions (e.g., gutting FEMA, turning off weather satellites, etc) are hard to understand unless Trump sees the whole federal gov't as his personal funds.

A businessman should know this is impossible in the real world. A 100 percent cut would make an item free. You can’t cut more than that.

I don’t think there is a day that goes by that I am not reminded of an old teacher’s admonition: “If the only history that interests you is the history that makes you feel good about yourself, you are not interested in history; you’re interested in propaganda.”

Easy like Sunday morning

Let that sink in. What DOGE burned through in six months, through sheer stupidity, carelessness, and cruelty, could have funded the NEH for more than a century. This was never an attempt to save money, it was a mugging.

The truth is, that living or dead, if but decently treated, whales as a species are by no means creatures of ill odor

Have we forgotten everything we know about corporate COI in research? Citations to papers (paper-shaped objects) by "OpenAI" and "Anthropic" are citations to advertisements. #acl2025

Texas library users statewide are going to be losing a LOT of databases available through TexShare, thanks to IMLS cuts. Here's the list: www.corpuschristitx.gov/department-d...

Acrylic painting on canvas (Edvard Munch's Scream) used as a protest sign @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Please do support your local bookshops. They are esential for independent publishers and have been the patron saints of my writing career through their word-of-mouth support.

Me, 2019: "Epstein gambled on the differential between his power and voice in the world and theirs and for the most part he won, because the game was rigged by dozens of people around him... Monsters rule over us, on behalf of monsters." lithub.com/in-patriarch...

Without federal funding, public media — and the truth-telling, community-connecting role it plays — is at risk. Local stations may vanish. Millions could lose trusted news and vital information. If you are ready to join the fight for journalism, donate now: n.pr/458sOhq

This looks like: 1) a genuinely nice role for someone 2) Sheffield has resurrected Shelley and is using him as a Research Associate - taking Gothic Studies to the next level!

Good morning.

(1) that STEM produced more job prospects. Then has been debunked w studies showing employers increasingly seek humanistic skills & this will increase w AI. “when it comes to employment prospects, majors in art history and philosophy outperform some STEM-based counterparts.” according to the Fed/2

Station Eleven Wrinkle in Time Cloud Atlas House of Leaves Kindred

🧪 UPDATE: All 63 House appropriators will meet **this Thursday** about science funding levels. They'll deliberate on the proposed multi-billion dollar cut to NSF's budget ($9.0B --> $7.0B). If you think that's bad for our country, here's who to call: appropriations.house.gov/about/member...