Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?" Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

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A web developer has created and released an infinitely generating "tar pit" designed to trap AI training bots in an endless maze: "Just me unleashing shear unadulterated rage at how things are going" www.404media.co/developer-cr...

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Another rejects pardon. When he mentioned his husband I was angry in Queer. Then when he mentioned he's a recovering alcoholic who wasn't recovering at that time, I went 'Ohhhh'. It's a good read. And for the repentant, this is how you atone. You speak up and out.

Warner Bros are uploading full movies to their YouTube channel to watch for free. The initial batch is like being in the video store on a Saturday night five minutes before they shut. A couple of gems in there though. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

They set up a snitch line for DEI in the federal government. If you feel like sending your best copies of the bee movie script or some queer smut, have at it. [email protected]

There is no calamity so huge that there is not beauty and humor and joy to be had in the moments between actively working on solving or evading it. Learning to take those moments, embrace the hell out of them, is what will make it all worth it, at whatever point you reach the end.

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

Nice people are struggling over the revelations on Gaiman, and something I keep hearing is, 'His work had a big influence on how I shaped my own identity.' So here's something to remember: You did that. He didn't do it for you. 1/

Open source TikTok clone loops.video entered public tests around the start of this month and I've been really wanting to tell people onhere about it but I wish I could have promoted it on terms of "it's less corporate" and not "the increasingly fascist government is forcing you to stop using TikTok"

Incidentally the Pixelfed dude is soon coming out with Loops, a currently-beta service which hosts video instead of images and replicates the feel of TikTok moreso than Instagram. It looks really good and from what I've seen of the UI/UX it's user-friendly in the way Bluesky is and Mastodon isn't

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”

However long the hot water tank is supposed to take to replenish so that the next person can take a reasonably warm shower, my apartment’s is failing so hard. It’s been more than 5 hours since my kids bathed and I’m currently cramping from my 5 minute shower because my muscles are all locked up. 🥶

I can’t get over how cartoonishly evil this is putting in your fucking “hate speech” policy that a particular kind of hate speech against a particular group of people is explicitly allowed - and therefore encouraged - is the kind of shit that should be done from a volcano lair with a shark moat

incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

I'm editing @hpafter2020.bsky.social and @lorriekim.bsky.social & JC's talk with Brett Satterly for an upcoming s8 episode, is I think one of my favorite talks they've had all show. Like, the kind where I'm like, should I have gone into social work?? I miss having teachers I just loved to hear SPEAK

One of my classes this semester did a section on AI in ministry, and I am strongly opposed to it. Feedback was that it will be present, so how am I going to include it? I’m going to fight it every step of the way. The climate, the irreplaceable human soul in preaching and worship? The theft. No.

I’ve noticed Facebook posts by bigger pages have started to do what Twitter best practices have been, which is posting only images and then linking an article or whatever offsite in a pinned comment. (A reply, on Twitter.) It is so incredibly obnoxious as a practice. Fucking algorithms.

Mister Rogers never misses

I'm not on here super consistently but I got a whiff of Blacksky folks talking about Luther Vandross being queer (I gather) from a new documentary, and I'm just gonna say that I'm grateful to be able to keep up with such things that I might otherwise miss.

i love fan exchanges the concept is so funny like what if we all loved these guys so much that we gave ourselves homework about it

he's a 78 year old incoming president via historically narrow margins promising fascism while ineligible for another term with a single vote to spare in the house, any democrat who looks at that situation and with a straight face says "we have to work with them" deserves to be ejected from the party

Youtube served me up a new-to-me science channel and I have to admit that the clickbaity title did get me to click on it.

the all time winner here, for every child who grew up on the Chronicles of Narnia, is Turkish Delight which is absolutely nothing like the sugary taste explosion you imagine when you hear that Edmund was willing to sell out his entire family for it

Cheers!

“Cockroaches don’t look like they have wings, but they actually have wings. To help them jump.” -six year old as he drifts to sleep.

Kasey Bonifacio's 13 Days of Accessibility is a great way to dig into the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, which are international standards used to measure accessibility. Kasey's resource makes WCAG more digestible. a11ycalendar.kaseybon.com

Dear children's author, I want to talk to you about kerning.

It looks like the ebook of Witch King is on sale at Amazon Kindle for 2.99: www.amazon.com/Witch-King-M...

It is Egyptologists’ favourite time of the year again.

It's on my to do list to unfollow some people (no mutuals, nobody reading this is part of it) who make my timeline too depressing and bloated. I need to crank the dial up on the escapism, much as it feels like defeat to say so.

Full disclosure, living "rent-free in my head" is not exactly the real estate windfall it's been made out to be. That neighborhood has a TON of issues.

Fandom folks who also use Tumblr: add to Toast's data pool in this fandom + education level poll!

When people ask why Black people always have to create their own space within spaces, show them this & remind them how LOUD and persistent racists are. Thank you, Rudy Fraser, for #Blacksky.

Across the country, people are starting meal preparations and traveling to be with friends and family. Tell us your favorite dish on the Thanksgiving table, and we’ll share our knowledge about the work behind the ingredients. #WeFeedYou

This needs to be said, loud, and often.

me when it’s sunny outside

This…this is it. In a nutshell, yes.

A love letter to BTS, for fans by fans 💜 Happy to announce this joyful book I’ve been working on since 2022 with @featherfully.bsky.social & @majablanque.bsky.social Inspired by BTS’s music, Maja & I want to speak ourselves: the book is BDS-friendly & a portion of proceeds will go to Pal ARMYs.

So uh I guess we're trying for a minor rebrand. antaranya.bsky.social-> annacoleyouth.bsky.social

This Trans Day of Remembrance, the only message I have is: It's not enough to remember us, you need to support us while we're still here.

gen-z grand vizier whispering "they will cook you for this, my king" in the sultan's ear