QnA after screening of “Changing Lanes” documentary at Laemmle Monica theater
“The priority has to be human life over cars. Period. Full Stop.”
Santa Monica Mayor Caroline Torosis at screening of “Changing Lanes” doc by Ben Wolf
🎥 chronicles fight over safe street redesign of McGuiness Blvd in Brooklyn which was finally implemented this year
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That's what this has all been about.
"Correcting diversity."
Deportations, concentration camps, murdering protestors, anti-DEI, forcing trans people into hiding, it's all for one reason....
Of course it also means that every time someone is made redundant or takes VSS, they are de facto leaving academia — nobody is hiring, so losing a job means never working in academia again. Which is never part of the official discourse about “new beginnings” etc.
When people retire it’s a huge fight to replace them (we’ve been on “no new hires” for years, and had to really fight to replace two retiring professors with one more junior position in a field central to our department image). It’s so, so stagnant and it’s really stagnating scholarship.
A dull marbled space with some art, I guess.
Look I know I’m a grunchy grouchy grinch but I’m pretty sure this space at the Met (Charles Engelhard Court) used to be a garden full of statues and now it’s a wedding venue.
for real? ughh
The lack of history jobs anywhere at any level has effects all the way up the pipeline (though ofc it’s worst for people navigating from unemployment). But there’s no movement between institutions, either: nobody getting promoted from one place to another, nobody moving to a better intellectual fit.
Join us tomorrow for the official launch of the Protopian Prize! @locusmag.bsky.social will be joining us to talk about the role of hopeful stories in working for a better future. luma.com/sygvk1ms
i hate to be that person, but if you (the author of the piece) are so dumb that you think that someone asking for more sensitive language at an event is equivalent to the use of state power to curb speech maybe your stupidity is part of the problem with higher ed
Sam grinning and holding up a copy of Rabbit Test and Other Stories
Good morning, book birthday is finally upon me!! Rabbit Test and Other Stories is out in the woooorld 🥳
There’s a transit strike in London today which basically means that the trains run at the same rate as the NYC subway.
I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org
I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
Happy book day!!!!
Text: Welcome to the Infinite Pantry. A cozy fantasy chock-full of love and deliciousness. Book cover for Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry, by Jo Miles. An illustrated fantasy castle accompanied by playful cats, teapots (one cracked), and an assortment of foods including cinnamon buns, bread, cheese, and tomatoes.
Happy book birthday to Tea & Treachery at the Infinite Pantry! 🎉🎂🫖
A museum of rare and precious foods. Lovable found family. Loads of queer characters. A tasty mystery & a sweet F/NB romance.
Get your copy: books2read.com/tea-treachery
#BookBirthday #BookSky #QueerBooks 🌈 #CozyFantasy #SFF
*banging pots and pans* DEAR QUEER WRITERS AND POETS: IT'S OTHERSIDE'S LAST DAAAAY OF OPEN SUBMISSIONS FOR ISSUE 2!! GET YOUR STORIES AND POEMS IN!! 👀
“A poll last year by Florida Atlantic University … found that 80% of Florida residents were concerned about housing affordability and 43% said they lived paycheck to paycheck. Nearly half said they had considered leaving Florida because of the cost of living.”
“Among the 25 most populous metro areas in the U.S., Orlando, Miami and Tampa ranked among the bottom five for median household income in 2024, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report last year.”
Two men playing chess, with dog, 1590. By Ludovico Carracci, whose birthday we are celebrating today.
The Trump administration used tariff threats to pressure countries into gutting their own tech regulations. From Indonesia to Brazil, Big Tech's wish list became US trade policy, according to an investigation led by Agência Pública as part of the series The Invisible Hand of Big Tech.
a lot of the quote posts of this are in the "don't get your hopes up/don't be delusional" genre which, I think, miss the point.
the GOP is gonna be losing a lot more sleep at night if it's starting to look like they might have to fight to keep Mississippi.
we don't have to win there to fuck 'em up
I just checked on AO3 and you know how many Campbell & Forgan fics there are?
None. NONE. Massively gay-coded recurring spy/model train maker/freelance psychopath couple in a once-successful spy franchise, and not one lousy fanfic!
I'm assured by writer friends that one good thing you can do to support them is to buy not just new releases but explore their backlists.
Read SF/fantasy? Like queer stuff? I am part way through a project looking at great queer SFF from the 2020s.
2021 is here, and... 1/2
If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.
I should absolutely make clear again here - current vacancies
The problem when I graduated was that there were 200 modern British history PhDs putting in applications for every job, you had to apply for like 50 jobs to get one, and a fair few people left academia before they did. That was unpleasant in its own way, but it wasn’t a death spiral like it is now.
New England has some of the highest electricity prices in the country. But this past winter, 140,000 households in Massachusetts got a break on their bills because they have a heat pump.
A screenshot of the app Watch Duty, which shows active wildfires across the US. The area is focused on the SE, from Virginia down to Florida and across to Texas. Fire icons are heavily focused in north Florida and southern Georgia, but spread up the east coast of both Carolinas as well.
I'm not saying the entire SE is currently on fire... but it's giving 1998 wildfire vibes
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection tariff refund system went live Monday, marking what small business advocates call a “complex” first step for entrepreneurs to recoup $166 billion in import taxes accrued under President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs #ncpol @ashleymurray.bsky.social
