i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.

It was very naive how many STEM people thought Republicans would stop at the humanities

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

Just a reminder that a staggering number of Black women have also lost their jobs due to capitulation to this administration. That deserves more outrage.

A giant flag was hung on campus for yesterday's vigil after the Charlie Kirk shooting.

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

I thought this book was great: www.mrjamesnestor.com/breath-book

This man is a pet groomer in Iran.

I don’t know anything about this particular kitten, but there are many street cats in Iran, and Iranians often take them in — so pet groomers always have lots of customers.

Wait for the last couple of meows.

If anyone doesn’t see the pattern yet, it’s all about controlling the disbursement of federal funds. Musk wants control of all the federal money to start. Treasury > foreign aid > financial aid/student aid. Next will be IRS, then HUD, HHS, and any programs that fund from the government to public.

yeah as someone who worked in SFF publishing/for NG’s publisher, I have heard a lot of stories that aren’t mine to share directly, but just let me affirm that these allegations are not new nor are they the only ones

Just fluoridated another conservative child by blowdart. I can do this all 4 years

The prose was...really something. But I wanted to focus on the gender politics of both McCarthy and the fan who tried to romanticize his creepiness, which oozes out anyway.

I will never indulge in goofy liberal optimism again.

An incompetent fascist with dementia is still a very dangerous entity.

Trump’s only a “fascist” in that what he says he will do meets the textbook criteria of same, some of his former closest senior advisers define him as such, and he has been laying the groundwork at the state and federal level over the past 4 years to facilitate being one.

L.A. Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks Harris endorsement Mariel Garza resigned after billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong vetoed the editorial board’s planned endorsement of Harris. The Trump campaign seized on the move.

“L.A. Times publisher blocks Harris endorsement,” states article in newspaper whose publisher is blocking Harris endorsement.

Screenshot of a NY Times headline that reads “Harris and Trump Deadlocked to the End, Final Times/Siena National Poll Finds”

Polls are not votes. The candidates are not deadlocked. There is no ahead or behind, even “with 72% of precincts reporting” on election night. The way elections work is they’re 0-0 all the way up until the votes are counted and then someone wins.

Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters My "we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience through tokens, crypto trading or NFTs" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt. No not that crypto-grifter....

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Just keep in mind: The concept of "laziness" is mostly a capitalist myth invented to justify wage slavery.

They’re trying to push you out.

The bluesky nuclear block is more or less genius, since for 99% of users it's just "begone from my sight" but the people who are annoyed by it are precisely the people you don't really want hanging around.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,822,913, craniac ‪@dopaminimal.bsky.social‬, joined on Nov 3, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,822,913!

Gonna have to add an entire unit to my history classes on "how to look things up now that Google is useless"

People get all this money but fail to find any meaning in life so the only hobby they can come up with is nearly dying

Immortan Joe: You are awaited in valhalla!!!

War Boy: Finally! Shiny and chrome!!

Me, getting pulled apart by five motorcycles: War Boy wait!! That's love bombing, War Boy! He's withholding his praise!! That's classic abuser behavior, War Boy!

From the beginning, the danger hasn't been Trump. He is constitutionally lazy, ignorant, unambitious and just generally not good at things. The danger is from people supposedly in opposition doing fuck all to stop the rest of his coterie, categorically more evil, ambitious and skilled than him.

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