Despicable fucking government.

MAY THE BELTANE FIRES BURN FOR SOLIDARITY.

WRITERS DO NOT WRITE LIKE AI! AI-GENERATED TEXT IS A SIMULACRUM OF PRE-EXISTING WRITING CREATED BY PEOPLE. Just because you can make it look the same doesn't mean you can give it the same meaning. Meaning MATTERS. People care about it.

My expertise may not be economically meaningful but by god at least I know more than the last 40 words written by Catholics on just war theory and how they relate to each other.

Ohio's public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1 • Ohio Capital Journal Nearly 90 degree programs have been identified to be cut at Ohio’s public universities since Senate Bill 1 was signed into law a year ago.

If you think legislation that targets “low enrollment degrees” only impacts the humanities please look at this list. Degrees in chemistry, math, physics, political science, data analytics, psychology and economics are being eliminated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/o...

How often do parliaments call for no confidence votes? A lot, when they can and feel the need! It doesn't break the system.

everything about DOGE was fucking wildly illegal and everyone involved in it should spend time in prison and have their assets seized

I have not even watched this show but I really respect what it's doing.

What babies have in spades is The Audacity.

Freedom, autonomy, and social reciprocation are interwoven concepts that often get discussed as if they're separate, but it's hard to really get deep into one without touching the others.

A baby has a lot of freedom FROM but not very much freedom TO. Which is to say they lack both obligation to external forces AND autonomy. Other people do give up a lot of autonomy on the baby's behalf as well.

It's hard to articulate the level of anger & rage I have about watching this happen. I first saw weev doxx people I love *TWENTY* years ago. I spoke to founders of multiple social networks about the risk of these people over 15 years ago. I wrote about it all a dozen+ years ago. They let it happen.

a dog wearing a knight 's helmet with peteneems on the bottom right Alt: In a screengrab from the PBS children's television show Wishbone, the faceplate of a set of knight's armor opens to reveal the face of the titular Jack Russell terrier dog inside the helmet.

I read this post to the tune of the Wishbone theme song.

Anyway if you were debating whether to take a class with no possible economic benefit beyond making you feel like you learned something, or starting a creative project just because you want to and not because it'll be good, consider this your sign to do it. Time's gonna pass anyway. Fill it up.

I look at the world and it's genuinely bananas how we expect to be set in our lives and ourselves in our twenties and stay that way forever. Nuts! If I live to statistically average age I still have half my life left! I've only experienced half?!? I refuse to believe the WHOLE SECOND HALF is misery.

Then I saw a reel of two women who have been best friends for thirty years but are EIGHTY YEARS OLD so they were older than I am right now when they met!

On my way home from the grocery store today I saw a man of approximately 65-70 react with childlike delight when the school crossing guard blew the whistle and stopped traffic for him.

AND IN FACT, in some cases when you're trying to reduce an unwanted thing in your environment, the BEST way to do it is to selectively place specimens of a thing you do want in the place you've removed the unwanted thing. Weed out, enthusiastic replacement in its spot.

It's possible to get rid of crab grass with sprayed chemicals, but that's not the kind of outdoor environment I want.

It's possible to get rid of fascism by implementing a different kind of authoritarianism, but that's not the political environment we want.

"I'm making those choices to appeal to men, and these dudes are too, but they got there from incel philosophy trickling into the culture.

They removed women from their aesthetic calculus because they hate them."

ICE activity in Chicagoland has been on the rise with the temperature the last few weeks. These incidents don't have the spectacle that characterized Greg Bovino and Border Patrol's raids in the fall, but people are still being abducted by federal agents across the city and suburbs.

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What drives me crazy is these people have perfectly natural questions, but instead of just asking them, their stance is: "I've never studied this, but I already know everything and couldn't possibly have anything to learn. The only explanation is a nonsensical conspiracy."

And now in 2026 Canada has passed policies that extend citizenship descent based to people whose Canadian ancestry comes from a time when the country was even whiter than now, while cutting off other avenues of immigration.

Canada (like most of the Commonwealth/FBE) has never hesitated to enjoy the outputs of slavery without taking responsibility for the horrors of the inputs.

A fun fact about me is that every time one of my passports is up for renewal I have to actively decide what my name is going to be for the next decade. Like the most boring kind of spy.

She's not there for the baby.

Reasonably confident my yard on the eastern side of Toronto has gotten some early arrivals today, racing the storm. Noisy as heck out there this morning in the gap between rain.

Yesterday I offhandedly told my (complaining about boredom) child that boredom is the natural state of childhood because it makes you stretch your brain and that's the whole point of being 8. She did not like that opinion one bit, but I stand by it.

This is something I'm going to keep in mind when I teach other courses on systemic oppression. A lot of students are less interested in understanding the problem and more interested in "doing something" about it, which is a fools errand if they don't know what they're "doing something about.