The 90s kid in me is still shocked that you can order TWO TERABYTES* of storage to your door, and it can arrive less than 24 hours later.
*I know that 2TB isn't even all that much. It's still shocking.
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
Your dad taught one of my favorite classes at LVC, Religion and Lit. He changed the way I engaged with books.
When The Actual Star caught my eye a couple years back, I flipped it over, read your bio, and immediately got to reading. It felt like a tether to a cherished past. ♥️
Same.
I’m working on a piece on exactly this—in additional to the biological reality, this is a core principle of feminist theory & epistemology.
The only thing better than closing out of Zoom for the week is closing out of Zoom for THE YEAR.
TFW you're putting together a list of 2025 recommendations and lots of things you want to include you actually read/watched/listened to in 2024
Fracking love this.
Film you’ve seen more than six times. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
I just listened to the latest episode and wondered if this was what you were hinting at! Can’t wait!
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
1. Dave Matthews Band
2. John Mayer
3. Jennifer Knapp
4. The Chicks
5. Grace Potter
(yes, I am an elder millennial mom…)
Ever since my daughter got excited about "supporting" Taylor Swift by buying "Taylor's Version" albums, I've wanted to write something like what @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social did so brilliantly here. Spot on. Swift is the embodiment of capitalist realism.
To me, notifications about IG, TikTok, or texts from friends & parents are the same as notifications about grades.
Except that the notifications about grades feel WAY more high-stakes, at least to my kid.
This can't be healthy.
My daughter's school instituted a no-phone policy this year—she loves it. However, the students are on their school-issued iPads all day long. And those iPads deliver push notifications anytime they receive a grade: homework, tests, papers, etc.
This stresses her the F out.
Today I discovered @ceaubin.bsky.social’s pod This Guy Sucked because of a mention on @annehelen.bsky.social’s Culture Study pod.
Put all the millennial scholar podcasts straight into my veins. (Guessing on gen… but you catch my drift!)
"I am someone who does what I do pretty well, and does very little else willingly." = My Whole Vibe
Also @katemanne.bsky.social admitting she'd "rather experience growth as a beginner than regression as a more expert practitioner": SAME.
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
Screenshot of a black hole of "get off my lawn" search suggestions including: How to keep kids off my driveway, Child trespassing laws, How to keep neighbors kids of my property, Neighbors kids keep playing in my driveway, How to get rid of annoying neighbor kid
Went looking for the research (I think?) on how playing in a fenced-in area can actually get kids to explore/roam more than in an open area... and the search results for my query were... disheartening 🤣
"Traditional economic theory assumes information flows serve resource allocation. But increasingly, resource allocation serves attention flows. We've moved from an economy where attention supports other forms of value creation to one where attention is the value creation." - @kyla.bsky.social
My god.
it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
Teaching people how to use LLMs is not "upskilling", it's the opposite.
ptotic autisto-mystical withdrawal @CHRISF0GLE Crazy how much hate Greta Thunberg gets for simply being autistic and having the correct political opinions on everything 2:18 PM · Jun 9, 2025 · 3,136 Views
It is a BURDEN
The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.
Mockup of Ritz Crisp & Thins Original snack bag
In honor of this week's Maintenance Phase episode on ultra-processed food, I must highly recommend the Ritz Crisp & Thin original chips. They kinda look like diet food... but I don't think they are? Anyhow, they're freaking wonderful.
Listen to @melissafebos.bsky.social on The Feminist Present with @adriandaub.bsky.social and Laura Goode this morning and PHWOOF (in the best way). Brilliant conversation, recommended it immediately to my husband, AND it unlocked part of an essay I was in the middle of!
episodes.fm/1517251918/e...
Disturbing. Fascinating. And I’m absolutely hung up on the AI’s use of the word “lie.”
I’ll be thinking about that for the rest of the day, thankuverymuch.
“The one thing that today ought to define ‘the left’ is the impulse to denounce the radical insufficiency of managing the given.” — Yves Citton, Mythocracy
‘The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.’
—Adrienne Rich