If you look real hard at the Americans who look away from the plight of trans people & who refuse to defend us, you can practically see them doing active calculations about how much time they are buying for themselves

Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers Although the monetary value of the deal is unknown, Instructure says the cybercriminals have returned the hacked personal data and offered assurance “that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident.” https://bit.ly/4nud54a

in retrospect, Twitter changing favs to heart-shaped likes affected how I use social media. I started to let those suffice as social interaction instead of replying as much. Over time I stopped hanging out as much. Perpetually smoking out back, as it were.

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Does anyone have reading recommendations on the history of the W. Bush-era No Child Left Behind Act, like a historiography of especially the early special interest groups & lobbying figures & think tanks behind the act's policies, and how the ideas developed?

The pattern is now quite clear: this Roberts court strikes down Trump admin policies that embarras white people, and whiteness does not find anti-Blackness to be embarrassing; For Heritage Foundation, the Trump administration's fundamental anti-Blackness is worth executing a judicial coup to save

We proposed this before the Canvas outage, but we’d like to thank the Canvas hackers for driving home the need for this language: "Provided instructors are meeting accessibility and pedagogical needs, faculty shall NOT be required to use ed-technologu." Full proposal here: https://loom.ly/rBZQFeA

if you have parents that are even semi decent, you have a hundred advantages that people w developmental trauma and shit parents do not. i am trying to raise $2000 to $4000 to help my trans friend escape an abusive situation and rebuild. i have $400 thanks to peoples help the other day.

Me when I walk around the house audibly stimming.

in order to remain sane in this moment you have to be both the woman in the blue jays hat AND bluegrass tony

Now I am pleased to announce that the volume has been published, with sixteen essays, one of which has never appeared anywhere before, a brilliant and thorough Introduction by Antonio Vargas, and a preface by Michael Griffin. prometheustrust.co.uk/product/poly...

high noon at the edtech omnishambles

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

🪩 one week from today in Philly! the first Track Changes reading/listening/convo series event in its beautiful new home at Solar Myth, ft. the stellar Kirwyn Sutherland (Philly) + Steffan Tripplett (Pittsburgh) reading & discussing their fave music join us! 🎟️ may-2026-track-changes.eventbrite.com

Dem politicians and most of the mainstream press are part of the same self-loathing liberal bubble so when someone like Obama says something insane like "we Democrats are too woke and academic" nobody asks the obvious follow-up question, "what the fuck are you talking about?"

Rutgers School of Engineering canceled a commencement speech by Rami Elghandour—an alum and executive producer of an Oscar-nominated film about Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child killed by Israel—because "some" students complained: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... His response (via X):

just bamf out! you can leave! - mission too dangerous - boring xavier lecture - logan making scott uncomfortable - sentinels if your quick if it sucks... hit da bricks!!

A little friend I met today.

"Trans people curdle the milk; we do it even as we're being milked, our transness extracted from our overall humanity & funneled through narrowing, pathologizing rhetoric. We're not real. We're not real, and yet we're ruining the nation" @meganmilks.bsky.social MEGA MILK @feministpress.bsky.social💥

picked up a visual upgrade for my cheeky Sefris cycling deck :D

Happy May Day, hail to the workers, and hail to the spirits of liberation

Plenty evidence of political competition in state-approved religious myths. Like, take the Millenarianism in Norse mythology. Many link it to possible Christian influence after the fact, inserted via Snorri's subjectivity. But what if it was a dialectical influence during the mixed-religion period?

We do not concede the south, the birthplace & continued lifeblood of the Black American experience, to people who hate us. We do not throw in the towel. Black people have every right to be southerners & very much are no matter who likes it.

Michigan State Police are investigating after an MSU zoology student from Maryland that was getting ready to graduate was shot, by his mother's count, 17 times by police. 17 times.

I haven't posted my disdain for, and political distance from, trans women defense contractor employees because duh. That any trans woman feels a social pressure to have to post to distance herself from such a shitty woman simply because both women are trans is evidence of how transphobic bluesky is.

this is unironically how things are going for some of us

1966-1999: SCOTUS rejects various challenges to VRA 2006: VRA reauthorized with 98-0 senate vote 2008: Obama elected 2013-2026: SCOTUS dismantles VRA

If the Voting Rights Act is rightly seen by many of us as the real beginning of American democracy, then it is fitting that a Court hell-bent on undoing democratic rule, including granting the president king-like powers, would seek to dismantle it.

not to lib out but if you want to hold onto any semblance of national mythology at all then you really got to make John Roberts' name one of the most maligned in national history.

the assassination of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness by the coward John Roberts

Lying is a virtue to fascists. Cruelty is a virtue to fascists. Violence is a virtue to fascists. Killing is a virtue to fascists. It's not inconsistent at all; it's all very consistent to the one true belief of fascists, which is domination.

Broke again after bills until Wednesday, and out of SNAP benefits until the 1st of the month. Please help if you can, and thank you. Venmo: @susantkeiser

Klay is a generational fumbler

I'm not the first to note this but AI psychosis just seems to be "experience what it's like to have yes men" and shows what has happened to any billionaire who has any kind of public profile

we remain in a very strange era of describing human emotions as their chemical compounds (serotonin, dopamine, cortisol) in a similar way that stories and art have been reduced to corporate buzzwords (content, IP, franchise)

AI is best understood as a cyberattack against a functioning society and should be treated as such

I echo Dr. Hörst's thread. This semester has been *tremendously* disconcerting. I've been teaching in higher ed for 16 years; after yesterday's class ended I said aloud to myself "I don't want to do this anymore."

Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

What about patients who have to intervene because their doctors advise handwashing for an airborne illness? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

GET SALTMARSHED IDIOT 🧂

Transphobia is state terror www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

playing magic with my sweetheart @dykeanthrope.dog

There's a very good essay to be written about the profound emptiness of *winning* when your project itself is joyless and cruel.

marsh time yesterday for me & @dwindlingbeth.bsky.social 🥰