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Ah shit, Gerry Conway died. He created the punisher & was very outspoken in saying "if you're a cop who wears a punisher logo, frank castle fucking HATES you." He said the punisher only existed because of a fatally flawed system, & so those most harmed by that system have more claim to the symbol:

This was, in all seriousness, the point of the Harper’s Letter

The NYT asking where have all the book reviews gone? Please! You killed them.

please make way on the timeline, cattle coming through

Another day of the Israeli 'ceasefire': Israel bombed multiple villages and towns in south Lebanon and continued to detonate entire villages

Public discourse around trans people seems genuinely insane if you know enough trans people. Despite all the Ideology Stealing Our Kids narrative what I overwhelmingly have experienced is, basically, sad nerds who become somewhat happier nerds once they decide to transition. it just seems fine 🤷

I just got back from the @bjsociology.bsky.social conference (which was great) but I was disheartened to hear from American colleagues who are self-censoring or in departments capitulating to right-wing propaganda. And it wasn't just red states or public colleges. www.chronicle.com/article/near...

This in the most damning indictment of Gavin Newsom as a person I've heard this week.

Our representatives are nasty work man. They really don’t know they are public servants. They think they are nobles. But then they don’t want to be treated as such by the people.

For #MosaicMonday the flooded crypt of the Basilica di San Francesco in #Ravenna. The Basilica dates to the 10th century and was built on a 5th century church. Due to Ravenna’s marshland and the subsidence of the ground's surface the crypt is permanently submerged by ... 🧵1/2 🏺 📷 Nicola Strocci

Last week, there was a mass shooting in Mike Johnson’s hometown. Afterward, Gabby Giffords – a Democrat who herself survived an assassination attempt – tried to meet with Johnson to discuss gun reform. He refused. Days later, a gunman tried to breach the dinner he was attending.

Oral sex ideally is not one-sided pleasure. It should be fun for giver & receiver. You should like giving a blow job, you should like eating someone out, enjoying your partner's body & getting off from the signals of their pleasure they send.

everyone kept asking if Tâf enjoys Water The Dog

I think this child is like, a god damned superhero. I also think his single wish highlights a series of interconnected problems that stitch together like an M. C. Escher painting. 300 people only got to eat because of magnanimous act of a child battling cancer.

Of all animals in that collective wooden bestiary called pew end, my favourites are avatars of the Queen of Owls. Whether Fethrower or Owlpad, they manifest her mysteries. They give her eyes, give her carved eyes. They make even a church part of her kingdom. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982

I wonder what those are

As a millenial, it's really jarring to from having an abudance of arcades, malls, libraries, and other 3rd places and affordable hobbies to *widely gestures*

important timeline cleanse from @blueheronfarm.bsky.social

New discovery: gold jewelry from the Middle Bronze Age (first half of the 2nd millennium BC) uncovered during excavations on the Greek island of Aegina. The finds include gold pendants, gold beads, and carnelian beads. www.sn.at/panorama/wis...

"The dean of the graduate school has told faculty members not to share the memo [explaining the new rules] with prospective students and to limit talking about it with them, according to an email obtained by The Chronicle." Everybody seems very proud of the decisions they've been making

This is the current director of Pompeii. I could not be more furious and I believe he could not be more wrong. www.westernwheel.ca/weather-news...

How can politicians — who turn airstrikes into memes, whose colleagues cheer it on or laugh or look away, who do nothing about mass shootings, who fund a government killing journalists, and who journalists wine and dine with anyways — lecture us about "desensitization" to violence?

This week’s astonishing artifact is an adorable llama 🦙 that reminds me of Kuzco in the Emperor’s New Groove. 🏺🧪

⛵️ Over 50 vessels depart Italy bound for Gaza in largest civilian maritime mobilization yet The Global Sumud Flotilla departed from Augusta, Sicily with over 50 vessels setting course toward the eastern Mediterranean in what the organization describes as the largest coordinated civilian maritime...

This is an incredible piece of forensic analysis by @boxomcfoxo.bsky.social. Thank you for your service and for educating us. I don't know if I would have caught any of the signs. Part 1: boxobarks.leaflet.pub/3misaejnoqs2k Part 2: boxobarks.leaflet.pub/3mj42airv3s2o

Turing Test 2.0 existentialcomics.com/comic/652

Goodnight from Basing Street, where even its phantoms are tutting about diabolic liberties taken by the police as they harass its sex workers. Goodnight from Barry Creed, bathroom cowering from horrors he unleashed by stealing from the charity box at St. Ælfgar’s. Goodnight from Hookland.

Matthew is an incredible disability policy expert, attorney, and activist who has done so much for so many years: matthewcort.land Please donate and/or share. Thanks.

Imagine running a sub-2 hour marathon and coming second

An estimated 1.1 million children in Gaza now need mental health and psychosocial support, as a growing number lose their ability to speak due to trauma and injuries from Israeli attacks.

Honestly seeing the extent of the BlueAnon conspiracy stuff on here has made me reappraise my relationship to the place, I don't want to end up like that. The thing is I still have Silly Things I want to discuss through social media (working on a 40k post now!) so I am not sure how to handle that. 🤷

I've spent years chasing Joe Bell through the smog-choked alleys and crowded slums of Victorian Edinburgh, and I cannot wait for you to meet him. Cover reveal coming on Thursday, along with details on how to grab one of the limited number of signed copies available through independent bookstores!

Okay, you got there. Now admit people tried to tell you this in advance, and promise to from now on listen more carefully to and also heed the people who understand the harms of "AI", and then we'll have an easier time moving on and going forward.

Duke is a particularly powerful hedge fund/university. There is no reason it needs to bow to the anti-DEI bullshit except for the fact that it was always looking for an excuse to do so.

As bad as this is, I think it soft peddles the government restrictions on academic freedom in the US relative to China. The government will come after you for even using the words bias, gender, diversity in science papers, or even covering certain topics. Funding for vaccines has been cut.

It's been a great 2026 season of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week.' We started in the darkness of early January and ended in the light of April after the clocks had gone forward. Here's all the weeks put together as we moved from 5pm darkness to 5pm sunshine. 💡

This is too precious! Love this so much. Teaching the youngins consent in a healthy way, from a male role model. This goes far. If boys can simply be taught another way, they won't want to harm!

This is a horrifying story about American fascism. I hope these kids will one day be ok.

spent the day with charles burnett as the city of los angeles honored him with distinction and friends from across his life sung his praises. deeply honored to co-present the award and be in the number of those singing his praises.

the doctor is going to call between 7:30 and noon so unfortunately I can’t do anything at all this morning

Apropos of nothing: Days ago, I followed moms of gun violence victims around Congress. They begged politicians to do something. Crickets. The next day, Israel killed our colleague Amal Khalil. Crickets. And only now, DC is up in arms on how we're all "desensitized" to violence. Listen to the moms:

I echo this from my fields: “You study it because it’s fascinating. You study it to understand our world!” #academicchatter

…….. This headline is the basis of at least ten PhD’s in four different fields

Even of the brightest of days, when the boneyard is dappled and the dead below feel the warming of its soil, we walk its whispers. Shaded voices eager to gossip, eager to tell secret for some brief company. This is a place which refuses to be anything other than unquiet. – #CLNolan

There’s a shop in Nakameguro called ACTS run by an eccentric embroiderer & artist I visited in Dec 24 & became obsessed with him. He makes & prints everything I went back yesterday. I spilled my heart to him. Said I think about him daily. He remembered me I bought a lot He made this sweatshirt

Andrew Wyeth, "Master Bedroom," watercolor on paper, 1965 (cc: @sarcher.bsky.social)

Ok...so you're out fishing & you've caught a bunch of big eels. Dinner's all set, yes? Hold on...are you in medieval Glastonbury? In the 1250s Glastonbury Abbey employed a guy whose job was to go around the abbot's waterways & take the best eels from any fishermen he found. 1/2 🗃️🧪

Multiple Democrats have been shot and one died in Minneapolis They did not respond like this This isn’t the “second as farce” we passed that about four years ago but folks didn’t like the targets

We've lost Tinu, Safiqah, and Alice in recent years. They have done so much to advance our understand of disability justice. I am thinking, thinking of Matthew as they recover. 🙏🏾

I think some of the best researchers are just insatiably curious (and nosy). You find something you just want to know more about, and you keep reading or asking questions and suddenly you accidentally have a study.

I did some work that made some people angry/annoyed and I took that as a sign that I was doing a good job

Maybe, just maybe, the head of the teachers union should have listened to the many many many teachers and professors who shared their worries with you while you blithely enabled gAI to become more entrenched in education

Stop reposting clear AI slop y'all. It's gross.

So much pollen... This is why I need a ballroom.

This is a heartbreaking and illuminating first hand account of someone who experienced ChatGPT enabled psychosis. I'll also note how the TESCREAL framing of "alignment" is corporate marketing pushed by the same funders of the AI companies in the name of "AI safety." joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis

I actually clicked through and read this story to see if there was any possible confusion at all or variations in enforcement and nope my man just drove in the clearly marked and signed bus lane because he thought it wasn’t a real bus lane

Again, the civil rights era never ended. You are still in it. Black people never got the equality that we seek. The US government just eliminated all of the Black leaders. And what little gains were made, are now being rolled back.

Anyway. I won. The universe, the world, Mother Nature, they all tell me the same thing: I love you. Keep your head up.

⭕️ US sanctions are the primary cause of a 148% rise in Cuba’s infant mortality rate since 2018, new report finds Cuba’s infant mortality rate has risen from 4 per 1,000 live births in 2018 to 9 in 2025, a 148% increase, according to a new report by the Center for Economic & Policy Research. The...

More winning under Labour: “The Foreign Office unit tracking potential breaches of international law by Israel in Gaza and more recently Lebanon has been closed because of cuts within the department” They have at least 26,000 “verified incidents” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Later we need to examine Young Jeezy from the perspective of being one of the greatest beat selectors in rap history. Maybe only 2 Chainz is in his rarified air of pure consistency. But Jeezy specifically chooses beats that sounds like Black superheroes are walking towards the screen in slow motion

🤔Wait... What happened to that US Research funding line? Seemed like it was almost parallel to China, and then something weird happened recently? What happened recently? You can't do science if you fire the scientist, cut their funding, put anti-scientists in charge, and put your energy into hate.

Been working in Egypt for 26 years, #1 rule is keep the F*CK away from snakes, unless you want to die. No show is safe. The authorities will do nothing. Stay away.

You can't stop science from happening. You can only stop science from happening *here*. 🤷🏿‍♂️ The last 20 years saw the rise of: * Smartphones * Drones * mRNA vaccines * CRISPR * Robotics * Cheap solar + EVs If the US stands still for the next 20 years? Then 2047 will be rough for us.🤷🏿‍♂️

Fahrenheit 451 was a prophecy

Many know I’m a Beatles Disrespecter. Mostly as a bit. It was a major drama on here. Pizza is super trendy in Japan. It’s now globally among the best. A SHOCKING turn of events So I tried a spot. It ended up being Beatles themed When I say this pizza was so elegant & perfect… MAN! I want it DAILY

Are rich people human? Discuss. I have doubts.

A new talking point from an Israel lobby group in the US, aligned politicians, is extremely dangerous, and even more insidious than the positions of AIPAC. The US public wants an end to complicity in Israel’s genocide, apartheid and illegal military occupation against Palestinians — now.

At some point ? People will recognize that people who start being anti Black and anti queer never stop there And they’ll stop babying the folks who do it

They already absorb all of our tax money to brutalize us & the resulting settlements rob us of even more after that and you want them to pay even LESS money into the system when saying their FIRST $100,000 indicates their pay is already so high that they routinely bathe in coins like Scrooge McDuck?

I'm still disturbed at so many intelligent and thoughtful people who I followed have their brains melted via social media to the point where it sounds like they're ranting on a street corner. Like, what are we even doing?

Podcast: This War Is Going To Starve People Caitlin and Tim discuss the global consequences the US-Israeli war on Iran is set to have on the weakest members of the poorest countries, the latest Trump assassination attempt, BBC headline shenanigans, and more. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/podcast-th...

I love reading stories about the moral hazard of sports betting

Look at this well appointed knob. Have we run out of things to show you? Possibly. However this knob or fixing is actually rather interesting…🧵

Yeah, we kidnapped a bunch of people and sent them to concentration camps, but do you have to be so mean to us about it?

Get to know the largest member of the dog family in South America: the maned wolf. Standing about 3 ft (0.9 m) tall at the shoulder, this critter dines on small mammals, fish, reptiles, & birds. It communicates with deep, gruff roar-like barks. Photo: ligiacarvalho, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

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oh my god this is incredible

I spent today at CleanTechnica's Electric Home Show in Hawaii. It's the first (not not the last) one - national politics isn't stopping people finding the local solutions that are best for them. It felt like the first Fully Charged Show LIVE, 8-9 years ago - a new community forming. More of this!

It’s haircut day!

Saying "we'll need UBI when AI takes our jobs" is free to say. Funding UBI is not free. So, I've just launched The AI Pledge for Humanity. It dares the people profiting from AI to do the second thing. Sign and share. And reply with this every time another tech CEO talks UBI without backing it up.

Philosopher Thomas Nagel was known for clarity and plain language, but maybe should've pulled up a little on this one.

Love changes everything

The # of Silicon Valley chodes who push me nonstop to "pivot to a for profit model" for my research where they have suggested "selling" archaeological sites I find, mapping sites-???-profit!, or some other nonsense. Note: this is not consulting services but profit off my research 😬

I’m sure this will reach the intended audience????????????? Anyway please do your job and enforce checks and balances instead of lobbing disgusting & purposeless nebulous chastisement at justifiably concerned citizens that make it sound as if any of us are conspiring to do harm.

Men learn their misogyny from other men, in man culture. They watch each other, check for each other's behavior to model, seek approval from each each, & form bonds over it. How they relate to women comes from how they relate to each other about women. Changing that prevents violence against women.

It’s really unfortunate that is a thread where are a lot of people disingenuously feeding red meat to one another & saying that when I say I don’t actually mean it or am lying when I say I don’t want Ukrainians invaded even though I have 30k posts & have only said I am unilaterally against injustice

If I weren’t so burnt out by trying to convince people the systemic multi decades long attacks on the humanities are dangerous for many reasons, I would laugh (bitterly, yes) at the AI bros and management types ‘discovering’ why ‘human skills’ and ‘critical thinking’ matter

What the fuck does that even mean ‘trained on maternal instincts’

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In Gaza, thousands of children have lost their parents — but the law doesn't recognize it. Without proof of death, they can't access inheritance, bank accounts, or legal guardianship. Hear the full story on the +972 Podcast: www.972mag.com/podcast-disa...

anyway the arson attack at the queer club this weekend is really fucking with my head so if you need me, don’t

Is it possible to have this ass clown replaced?

L’il Ol Me

Secretary Hegseth took Kid Rock on an “incentive flight” — a joy ride — on an Apache helicopter today at Ft Belvoir

Listening to Angine de Poitrine on loop while reading all the amazing Bsky posts about my essay and suddenly hoping the universe will find a way to get me tickets to their sold out show here in DC in September... ✋️🔺️🤚