it's been shameful living in a country that does not have a Quality Ballroom

That U.S. academics didn't collectively develop strong labor consciousness is really going to bite them in the ass as universities bend the knee to this administration. Politely worded letters to presidents and trustees are not going to count for much of anything.

Mass Funeral Held in Gaza for Unidentified Palestinians Whose Bodies Show Signs of Torture

I think next he should sell it

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

what world are these dweebs living in

I have been reading about the evolution of human tools and language for five hours and I will never think or feel about my hands the same way again. Thank you beautiful hands, I love you. You are smarter than me

would be interested in ideas for how to not-use canvas if your class is 150 students. Genuinely--I'm desperate for such ideas

The commodity contemplates itself in the world it has created

oh no not our beautiful white house

they should do one where 007 has to apologize to women

Everyone loving the Louvre heist is one of many examples of the fact that people hate class society

Stop expecting corporate media to fix this and stop expecting corporate Democrats to fix it. You’re in a class war and the sides are very obvious. Continuing to not see this fact is chosen denial and we don’t have the time or privilege to live in denial anymore.

We have a lot to do and not much time to do it. Basic media and political literacy is the absolute bare minimum because it means understanding the problem and what needs to happen. This constant state of chosen amnesia isn’t going to cut it anymore.

Sorry to report I hate this kind of shit and I think this kind of naivety is dangerous and should be loudly pushed back against

I have to say that in a certain bounded sense there is no one more annoying than university upper admin

At the South Portland ICE facility, after pushing back the crowd to let some vehicles leave, agents gassed the street for approximately 10 minutes solid. S Bancroft was opaque with gas; agents also threw flash grenades and shot pepper bullets.

missing the final Mariners-Bluejays game because I have to go to a performance of Hildegard von Bingen's sacred chants. My two worlds have never more violently collided

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Everyone wants to streamline bureaucracy, but maybe we'd get better results by making it *harder* for university admins to chase fads. Imagine the money we'd save with a mandatory cooling-off period before launching a "Center for Blockchain Studies" or dumping millions into the latest edtech toy.

Also we'll be stuck with the shame of still having it woven into all the university-mandated tools we have to use (Canvas e.g.). It'll be universities propping up the few remaining parasitical data-siphoning corps. It's truly so embarrassing and will all happen again with the next stupid bubble

Guided By Voices - Women Don't Like the Vehicle

You're writing this down right? Good. As I was saying my car sucked so bad my wife left me. Yes I can spell my name for you.

husband keeps telling me "we don't have to watch baseball every night," but he's only saying it because he wants me to think he's not psychotic. Well it's not working

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

"In the images of the area, even the sunlight looks different and otherworldly. I couldn’t figure out why, until I realised it was because there were no structures to filter it. No shade, no shadows. A home returned to is just a plot on which to pitch another tent and wait for aid."

i say governors and mayors should be arrested all the time and no one makes a big fuss

⚡️Drop Site Daily | October 7, 2025 At least 92 Palestinians killed every day in Gaza for 2 straight years; U.S. opens the door for war with Venezuela www.dropsitenews.com/p/two-years-...

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

They should create a living man out of the body parts of various corpses

Trying to not weigh in on this ai discussion but it’s important to remember technology exists in a political economic context and what a tech “is” and whether it is a net positive or even useful to most people is largely contingent on that context

In the third quarter of 2025 we received 55 tips totaling $273.56 (thanks!) and we matched that total to donate $547.12 to our comrades at Decarcerate Western Mass. So far this year we've donated $9,000.44 to prisoners, bail funds, jail support, and The Sameer Project in Gaza, among others.

The most relaxing thing in my life is the fact that at no point have I cared about Taylor Swift one way or the other

lol

With the mainstream media distracted by the made-for-TV drama of James Comey’s indictment, Trump has signed a little-noticed national security directive identifying “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views as indicators of radical left violence.

LOVE TOO read a new Fukuyama essay about the dangers of moving toward an illiberal world

nobody on earth wishes you more harm than the people in power and their financial backers

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

To understand Donald Trump's vendetta against "antifa," we have to remember that in 2017, his supporters tried to build a fascist street movement—culminating at the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, where one of them murdered Heather Heyer—but were ultimately thwarted by anti-fascists.

Let the great side taking finally begin

I'm not loving how every failed presidential candidate gets paid the entire budget of the publishing industry that year to write a book called I Learned Nothing

look at these big boys inventing Concepts

It me

Heavy from Craig Corrie—the dad of young American Rachel, killed by Israeli soldiers in 2003 as she protested Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes: "People talk about this human rights champion…I just think of this…Strong woman, and a cute little girl, and all the stuff in between…I miss her."

I spent three years writing a book about this and they just....skeeted it out

losing my job because I referred to Ezra Klein as a "dork-ass loser" in the "sourdough baking" subreddit

New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year. Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.