The Irish government is doing more to house computers than it is to house people, and is somehow making less money from it.

#SpeirGorm

ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart

I first saw this story a few days ago and was horrified a frail, elderly woman was stuck in ICE detention. But that was only half the story.

Probate judge: "[Ross's son] a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse...used his position...to have Ms. Ross-Mahé arrested"

Meet my box of tits.

5 little needle felted sculptures of British tit species, all handmade with 100% wool.

Each bird is approx 5cm tall and are solid wool sculptures taking around 5 hours each to make.

£130 plus P&P

mademe.co.uk/product/box-...

#birds #sciart

a frog holds itself upright while poking its upper body out of a manhole cover set in a pavement or road

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

Montana Supreme Court Effectively Strikes Down All of Montana’s Anti-Trans Laws in Unprecedented Ruling In a 5-2 decision, the court upheld an injunction blocking Montana’s policies that ban gender marker changes and ruled that trans people constitute a suspect class.

Montana Supreme Court Effectively Strikes Down All of Montana’s Anti-Trans Laws in Unprecedented Ruling

transitics.substack....

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

LETTER | Tell Congress to Save America’s National Forests and the Science That Protects Them Sign our letter calling on Congress to to take immediate action to protect the U.S. Forest Service and the public lands it stewards.

Save the US Forest Service from destructive “restructuring” peer.org/letter-tell-...

There is a stark divide between people who realize that humanity is a separate and valuable quality that requires immediate and urgent protection in commerce, media, manufactures, publishing, government, education, and those who don't (yet)

When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"

Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.

New Journal Article: "Emerging Forms of Open Research in Social/Cultural #Anthropology" (via The Journal of Electronic #Publishing) journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/... #openresearch #infrastructure

Annotated Edition: Yale Trust Report (2026) Critical analysis of the Committee on Trust in Higher Education report. Annotated by Chad M. Topaz.

@yale.edu released a report on why the public (allegedly) doesn't trust higher education. The @nytimes.com covered it uncritically. So... I'm "pleased" to unveil my next debunking: an interactive annotated doc that points out factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Enjoy! #AcademicSky

Platner's working-class aesthetic makes people assume that he joined the military and Blackwater out of economic necessity, rather than his admitted desire to go kill brown people.

Counterpoint: I use em dashes with abandon and will not let "AI" steal them from me. I was overusing them first and will continue to do so long after "AI" is a crater in our financial system, or our merciless overlords, or both

A Man and His Meat Boy kibble went viral. Here, John Paul Brammer explains why you'll have to pry his dry, loose meat from his cold, dead hands.

In my latest for Playboy, I wrote about meat, masculinity, and "boy kibble," the trend of men eating a pack of unseasoned ground beef for dinner. I argue it's the perfect meal to illustrate the isolation and nihilism in our ultra-capitalist system www.playboy.com/read/lifesty...

A Man and His Meat Boy kibble went viral. Here, John Paul Brammer explains why you'll have to pry his dry, loose meat from his cold, dead hands.

another gift here, from @jpbrammer.bsky.social pairs well with the podcast www.playboy.com/read/lifesty...

I am CRYING laughing at this. "One o'clock!"

also UGH women ARE in these conversations and many of them are saying STOP USING IT

A screenshot of the employee controlled Instagram account shows a post from staff with over 6,300 likes and hundred of reshares. The post reads "Hey Y'all, long time (10 years 💔) employee of Vortex Doughnuts here."

A photo of a text exchange between an employee and owner Mollie Skalski. The employee says "Hey I really need to know because I have auto pays due the next couple days are we getting our paychecks this week?" Mollie replies "Unfortunately that is one of the reasons why we closed abruptly. We don't have enough money for payroll or any of the other things that need paid. There is more money going out than coming in. We tried to get a loan to help with that but no luck. I would suggest you apply for emergency unemployment. That's always why we were offering the equipment to offset that. I know that's not what you want to hear and again we are truly sorry."

The owner of Vortex Doughnuts in Asheville concealed the imminent closure of the store and now refuses to give employees their final paychecks. Staff had been seeking to purchase the business 💔

Also, if the problem is that trust has "eroded" in the last decade & 📈 costs are the problem, then 1) we should talk about the central cause of 📈 costs at public universities, which is declining state $$; & 2) we should talk about how inflation-adjusted costs have actually <declined> since 2013.

The one thing you might say is a reasonable claim is that rising costs have "eroded trust" in higher education. And sure. But here at public universities, we cannot solve that problem on our own. There is a solution, but it's not one we can implement ourselves. It requires the politicians:

“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Indy and I agree: triceratops

That author needed an editor who gave them that advice. It's definitely advice I was given (and followed) for my own book.

as a teen in the 80s we got to worry about STDs AND pregnancy it was "great"

in the summer I have one in every bag, and I look for new ones every time I am at an arts market or fun clothing store

a handheld folding fan :)

Pearl Jam vindicated

I Stripped All the Copper Wiring Out of My Country's University System and All I Got Was This Work Permit That Cost Mid-Six Figures

striking that the UK govt has decided that the institutions best placed and often designed to widen participation in HE are disposable. They could choose differently.

Celebrate wins more than you morn losses. That is the rule.