"In a country without the NEA, NEH and IMLS, hundreds of small local #arts groups would likely cease to exist entirely — and with them, the community, education and enlightenment that underpin our increasingly fragile, fractured society." @jessicagelt.bsky.social in @latimes.com
If you paid taxes for 2025, you likely paid:
$124 — school lunch & nutrition programs
$49 — diplomacy to prevent wars
$19 — USPS
$19 — Federal Aviation Administration
$18 — national parks
and
$4,049 — weapons and war.
These priorities are hurting us all. We need change. #TaxDay
Oh, you get me!
This is excellent.
Don't sleep with your employees. Don't sleep with people when you have the power to fire them. Don't sleep with young idealistic people who could face longterm career damage if they say no and you don't like it.
If you do any of that, I will never think you can be trusted with power. Ever.
Struggling with the work/WW3 balance.
"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/41M4pvK
Between large book cases, a researcher is conducting research in the museum collection. Photo by Almicheal Fraay
Fellowships! The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam has published a call for proposals to conduct research into its maritime historical collection.
More information, including the English translation of the call texts, can be found here www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl/collectie/on... #skystorians
Looking forward to talking about Úrsula next month!
Trans Day of Visibility is tomorrow. #TDOV #ProtectTheDolls
In case you're doubtful, there are quite a few entries at this level or below on the 2025-6 list.
So, here is my basic Anthropic story. In February, I submitted 14 books (some others were too complicated to submit) to the settlement. I got to the last page and...nothing. But it seemed to be finished. I got no confirmation number. Then, a few weeks ago, I got an email saying I had no submission..
Letting it grow how it will grow despite my planning is the reason gardening is good therapy. Why give that up?
An incomplete list of Trump pardons and how much money we lost for each. Totals almost $1.4 billion, just from this list alone.
Look how much money we lost because because Trump pardons corrupt people and cancels their debts. Apparently he pardoned 77 people guilty of Medicare fraud this week alone.
I wonder how much they paid him?
Those Somalians, though, right?🤷♀️
And strangely, as I was typing all those emojis, my phone (or BlueSky?) suggested that I was writing in Korean?
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Hi wear your mask at the airport even before you enter, for the following reasons and more:
Airports are the global crossroads of viruses, bacteria, and germs.
Facial recognition, biometric theft starts from the outside of the building.
Interdependence, not individualism.
And they are so quick!
This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.
A CFP for the #DHmakes crowd!
Another opportunity for to share my Free to Use Picture resources for writers highlighting public domain sources:
world.hey.com/jordanacosta...
Folks, if you see this, please, please report it. If you tell me, I will report it too, and get others to report it.
Bluesky will 86 folks, at least for repeated offenses. (idk their internal strikes/points system.)
For the record, the Nazis are spreading terms like “zio” and “zog” into leftist spaces intentionally as an on-ramp to fascism.
This is what cryptofascism means.
They explicitly talk about doing this on their forums and telegram channels.
You’re being played.
In honor of Mr. Rogers's birthday, I'm resharing this thread.
We are in desperate need of good neighbors. Being a good neighbor benefits everyone involved and will rip you from the malaise of hopelessness into the potential of community.
Do something. And if you don't know what to do, let me help.
This Russell Vought, trying to usurp the power of the purse.
Congress and the people have made it abundantly clear that they want to fund science.
But Vought keeps trying to steal those funds.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump's DOJ isn't hiding the "Epstein Files." They didn't care enough about Epstein to keep him alive, much less hide his files.
Trump's DOJ is hiding the *Trump Files*. They are covering up Trump files, including videos and pictures of Donald Trump raping underage girls. This is not about Epstein.
A figure stands on a ladder in a library, text reads: Getty is funding 102 paid internship opportunities at organizations across Los Angeles.
Share this opportunity with an undergrad! Apply now for a paid summer internship in the arts!
Getty is funding 102 paid internship opportunities at organizations across Los Angeles.
Learn more about eligibility, what orgs are accepting applications, and how to apply: gty.art/getty-marrow...
It appears that Trump's OMB illegally sold off NCAR's space weather program to the for-profit company Lynker in January, before NSF publicly requested bids in a Dear Colleague Letter with a deadline of tomorrow.
