Reminder to make sure your Bluesky settings require alt text on every image!

One of the few clear memories I have from my analysis in Rn class was a study group most of the way through the year: "It's hard to understand big numbers like 3"

Before Elvis, she made it a hit. But he got the credit.

Big Mama Thornton’s “Hound Dog” sold over a million copies before Elvis became a household name.

Singer. Pioneer. A voice that shaped rock and roll.

#SheShed

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The Soviet-Chinese propaganda posters seem to be the story of a beautiful interracial gay couple who met in a metallurgical and got married and had beautiful children and a farm [Images of two beautiful men, one white, one Asian, variously: smiling at each other coyly from under face shields; posing with sleeves rolled up; posing with their beautiful children; holding each other in front if an apple tree; holding upraised hands with words FRIENDSHIP FOREVER in Russian and (I assume) Mandarin]

Found this classic looking through my photos and thought some of you may enjoy (since most of you are queer commies ♥️)

Some of the most commonly enforced Jim Crows laws historically were anti-fishing and hunting regulations. At the time it was openly discussed that if black people had access to their own food procurement they would refuse to work as hard for white business owners or worse potentially go 'off grid'.

at this point anyone arguing about how they aren't concentration camps needs to just be ignored and discussion with them moved on from

"a public institution [..] shall not discriminate or
retaliate against a person on account of the person's:
(1) Sincere religious beliefs; or
(2) Opposition to abortion, homosexuality, or transgender behavior,
regardless of whether that opposition is motivated by religious or non-religious beliefs."

I'm gonna need more of this research on the discourse practices of white women's social media beefs. I'm fascinated. I also would have thought naming and calling out would be a power move

"We lost grandma yesterday."
"Oh, I'm so sorry. Who took her?"
"Stockard Channing."
"Oh, well, at least THAT must have been fun!"
"It really was."

we need more linguists because i don't want to have to explain to otherwise educated people that there's no such thing as a "biological pronoun"

I didn't realize how pessimistic I'd gotten about the Overton window of shit until I was surprised by this

Windows Error Message from Torment Nexus: "For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience."

“City salary data shows that 73 officers and 63 sergeants earned more than Mayor Libby Schaaf, whose compensation package, including pay and benefits, was $337,140.”

(That’s roughly 19% of all sworn OPD)

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‘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 don't know much about WW2 mythmaking but I found this thread interesting and I think it's worth adding that doing harm is just plain easier than building systems people can thrive in, and it skews perceptions of competence a lot

Louisiana GOP races to eliminate an elected office won by an exonerated man A New Orleans man exonerated after serving nearly 30 years in prison has a new fight on his hands. Calvin Duncan has been elected as the city's new clerk of criminal court, but now Republican…

Calvin Duncan, wrongfully imprisoned for nearly 30 years, won 68% of the vote to become Orleans Parish Clerk of Criminal Court. Now, Louisiana Senate Republicans have voted to eliminate the position before he’s sworn in. This attempt to overturn the will of the people can't be overlooked!

Upon divorce, a woman lost her credit rating into the 80s (but men got to keep theirs.) So even if they left, they had difficulty getting credit and penalized for interest rates if they could even get a mortgage.

Funny how when it's been the other way around, the girly applicants need to figure out how to appeal to the manly jobs

It's the annual Ask a Manager salary survey! Every year, vastly fewer men fill this out than women. Men, please share your salary info (anonymously) so we have concrete salary comparisons to inform pay negotiations and fight the pay gap

*sips tea* hai.stanford.edu/news/covert-...

Last night Reps Greg Stanton, Yassamin Ansari, and Adelita Grijalva conducted a surprise inspection at a Mesa Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility after an AZ Mirror investigation found ICE was moving detainees to hide overcrowding from announced visits.

some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

I like how George Washington abused the powers of his office by asking a local federal official where Ona Judge had escaped to try to find her; literally an impeachable offense by the first and 'greatest' president

Mine is how he relentlessly pursued Ona Judge who was a fugitive slave of Mount Vernon all of her life but he never caught her 🥰

On this Rex Manning Day, may all self-important blowhard predators get exactly the comeuppance they deserve.

WE DID IT!

Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.