Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Many thanks to @ben-rog.bsky.social for this thoughtful review of @stuartgwhite.bsky.social 's and my's books

#MultilingualCritical

Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. @princetonupress.bsky.social

Author: @anniemcc.bsky.social
By Zone Books

Okie from Muskogee book by Rachel Rubin

Today is the birthday of that great American, Merle Haggard--and also the day he died. If you don't know much about him--or think you do!--you should read this short and amazing book. It happens to have been written by my partner but it is truly profound, I promise.

I really never thought I'd see the day that Rachel Corrie's story would be shared* and acted upon by a majority of Democrats in the US Senate
*at least, by anyone besides Bernie Sanders

this is as bad as the "if it has an em-dash it was written by AI" rule. I use em-dashes! & I often begin emails with "I hope this email finds you well". here's the thing: the LLMs use such punctuation & wording BECAUSE ACTUAL HUMAN WRITERS USE THESE THINGS! AND THEY WERE TRAINED ON OUR WRITING! smfh

KEY TAKEAWAYS: For readers sturdy enough to endure his nausea-inducing wokery, the professor's book is a valuable chronicle of how, within "a couple of decades," cops became "well enough organized to be able to command resources and respect from Congress, the White House and city halls and statehouses across the country" - and do so "without a single, national police union."

Reviews of BLUE POWER are coming in! Sturdy readers, pick up your copy today…

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

Do you realize how much water and power it’d take for AI to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Wall Street watchdog says private credit is ‘not a systemic risk’ SEC chief Paul Atkins dismisses concerns about adding unlisted assets to retail portfolios

Given how much SEC has been gutted and Atkins is basically a crypto and dergulation guy, is this headline gonna be one coming back to haunt the US one day?

www.ft.com/content/9bde...

pulitzer grade journalism to assign the clavicular interview to a man who looks like that lmao

Interesting tool created by @tedalcorn.bsky.social for searching through NYT 2000-25.
tedalcorn.github.io/nyt/

e.g, the below is coverage by country. The stat on the right is fascinating. China gets 0.48 articles per mil resident per year; Israel 44.7 (but if you + Gaza and W Bank, ~62).

Not me—I love content. Can’t get enough of it! My coffee mug says “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my content.” Hate form though.

Texas Tech University to Close Gender, Sexuality Programs All majors, minors, certificates and graduate degrees that are “centered on” sexual orientation or gender identity must be phased out and canceled, Texas Tech University system chancellor Brandon Crei...

“The decree is an escalation of the course content review policies implemented last year and reflects a trend of academic censorship at Texas public institutions.”

Pope Leo is no angel.

‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

I named my dog "Nature" because he abhors the vacuum.

#OtD 13 Apr 1919 the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place when British troops in Amritsar, India, opened fire on a crowd of predominantly Sikh pilgrims, but also with many Hindus and Muslims, murdering up to 1000 or more people and injuring many more stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8446...

Emotions and Philosophy of Disability Abstract. The role emotions play in mental, psychological, and psychiatric disabilities has occasionally been addressed in philosophy of disability, philos

My article “Emotions and Philosophy of Disability” has been published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies.
I hope it does justice to the literature on emotion, affect, and disability.
#philosophy #philsky #disabilitystudies

Gramercy Park & the Chrysler Building NYC

maybe all those guys back then really were just taking issue with Judith Butler's sentence structure choices but I will not be taking that bet

Hungary's Viktor Orbán concedes defeat, ending 16 years in power Hungarian voters turned out in the greatest numbers since the 1990s to turn away from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing populist Fidesz party, putting an end to Orbán's 16 years in power.

This is a massive rebuke of Orbán AND Orbán succeeded in moving Hungary to the right.

"PM Orbán congratulated Magyar...less than 3 hours after polls closed. Ballots continue to be counted but the trend suggests a possible 2/3 majority for Magyar & his Tisza movement... shorturl.at/N80eU

Tabby kitten peeking from behind a desk with text above. Transcribed Text: can't have 3rd dinner can't eat plastic can't eat my humans toes can't meow at 3am can't do anything

Sunday

Both ends of the line are exposed

I mean, to be fair, the checks clear so...

Congratulations on a job well done, bike guy

an orange cat is snuggled into blankies like a fat little shrimp with his back feet in the air showing his pink toe beans. he has one eye slightly open

Sorry I can’t help clean up right now I’m actually super busy

Hormuz has that MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY

"Heavy rainfall on Hormuz Island washes iron oxide rich soil into the sea, turning the coastline blood red."
x.com/Rainmaker197...