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2026-08-14 23:53:38 GMT

to repeat myself, IMO it is basically active disinfo* to call this year's situation “el niño”, implying "normal" oscillation, when it’s basically aberrant and way, way off the charts
*hate this term

2026-08-06 01:16:40 GMT

2026-06-27 20:34:28 GMT

"Over time, we simply stirred the virus in with all the other forms of disorder and dysfunction we live with — problems that appear to be acceptable because they merely inconvenience some large portion of people, even as they devastate others"
still one of the best pieces of writing about the pandemic (Jon Mooallem in 2023)
https://web.archive.org/web/20230302191258/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/02/22/magazine/covid-pandemic-oral-history.html

2026-05-12 20:07:53 GMT

I'm such a sucker for this midwestern industrial aesthetic, always
(via Jennifer Jordan; held in the University of Wisconsin art collection)
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/563/401/147/980/215/original/0cdd6654efa2920c.png

2026-05-09 18:31:26 GMT

a pinnacle of #flosstodon if i do say so myself
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/546/036/762/771/991/original/6cc7ce80e33a2178.jpeg

2026-05-08 08:43:39 GMT

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super-big thank you for your swift response here!! i'm sorry they misled you at sign-up...
they seem to be signing up for several accounts at once and burning through the process of getting reported and decommissioned fast 🫠
@npub1p09…m5vl

2026-05-08 08:10:56 GMT

Hi, I'm sorry to @ you, @npub19au…9lss -- but you appear to be hosting a ban-evading sock puppet troll , currently going by @articulately@ mastodonapp.uk
They're messaging me privately but I have a notification filter set so I can't see the content of their posts, and I don't want to click through/accept this communication. They've also blocked me so I can't use the reporting tool(?)
They're also stalking @npub1p09…m5vl , as is their custom.
(everyone else, please block and report as you see fit, thanks)
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/116/537/920/014/174/849/original/5bb1626336a370fe.png

2026-05-05 03:56:56 GMT

Nancy Fraser: "'Gaza’, I’ve suggested here, signals many things, but not least the crisis of the West’s moral order. If it now bids to replace ‘Auschwitz’ as the reigning symbol for human atrocity, might ‘Gaza’ also contain the principle of hope—of solidarity and social justice, self-determination and reconstruction, repair and care for the planet?"
https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii158/articles/nancy-fraser-gaza-as-world-event

2026-04-16 23:29:03 GMT

uhhh wow... they're not feeding the troops, nor are care packages sent by families getting through the infrastructural snarl
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/04/16/iran-war-mail-packages-middle-east/89609308007/
#uspol #IranWar

2026-04-16 06:03:13 GMT

Wetland Project invites listeners around the planet to tune in to the 10th annual “slow radio” broadcast on International Earth Day (22 April) 🐸 📻
more from @npub14ar…5ys3 :
https://mailchi.mp/4396a6512d1e/wetland-broadcast-2026
#radio #SlowRadio #EarthDay #wetlandProject #CommunityRadio

2026-04-13 06:49:14 GMT

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lucky you! i actually do wish i could blend in more online. my parents also both go by their middle names only and so somehow decided not to give us kids them at all

2026-04-11 00:22:29 GMT

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.... and, i heard no explosion

2026-04-10 23:54:39 GMT

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i'm always complaining about hearing explosions of unknown provenance here so i appreciate the heads-up on this one

2026-04-10 23:51:50 GMT

PSA: apparently we in SoCal may? will? hear a sonic boom with the #ArtemisII reentry so before we jump out of our socks, that's what the boom is(?)
supposed to be 5 or 5:15pm Pacific
#LosAngeles #SoCal #Artemis #SanDiego

2026-03-14 02:40:21 GMT

deeply disturbing... and according to the local story linked here, she lost her home, car, and dog while locked up
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/12/tennessee-grandmother-ai-fraud
#AI #surveillance #FacialRecognition

2026-01-08 22:25:59 GMT

Everyone who says that people in the US "aren't doing anything," please watch this video. (nothing graphic, but you might cry)
(CW for threats of police violence)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcSOyVrc5HM
#uspol #Minneapolis #ICE

2026-01-07 21:40:53 GMT

Good on-the-ground media sources for the Twin Cities are:
https://sahanjournal.com/
https://www.minnpost.com/
https://www.mprnews.org/
https://racketmn.com/
Oh, obviously, @npub16hp…cunh
I'll edit in more if I think of them, distracted right now
#media #Minnesota #Minneapolis #ICE #uspol #TwinCities #MNastodon

2026-01-07 02:11:04 GMT

#trashtodon but also a LichenSubscribe fakeout (so not tagging but it honestly was not easy to tell what i was seeing!)
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/851/379/030/253/202/original/590666e2e5545fd0.jpeg

2026-01-06 02:45:28 GMT

Tracker for the worst-voting Senate Dems:
https://fdt.beehiiv.com/p/the-most-fascist-senate-dems-of-2025
#uspol

2026-01-05 19:52:21 GMT

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I published a paper from a first-person perspective about how features on #Mastodon leave enormous loopholes for harassing behavior (OA, 🔗 ⬇️ )
I came over here in the Nov22 wave & never left, but I no longer invite people to join without giving (loud) fair warning about drawbacks. I can't in good faith recommend Mdon to anyone who's more likely to be on the receiving end of harassing behavior
We have proof of concept, but the stakes are *urgent* to improve!
https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644
#Commodon

2026-01-05 19:36:16 GMT

This from @npub1kqc…7wgd is important!! I too conclude that technical features cannot solve cultural problems, but solving the problem of not being able to control who replies would still help a good deal
https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115838969201343832
+
#mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia

2026-01-04 04:59:51 GMT

back on my bullshit (the LA River, an LA Metro train, concrete)
water is higher than usual but not at stormy peak
#LARiver
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/835/058/362/408/423/original/9f2e6243914ddd81.jpeg

2026-01-03 22:45:36 GMT

oil is not just fuel
maybe a good moment to reread Venus Bivar on #plastics
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/plastic-planet/
#energy #oil #plastic #pollution #geopolitics

2026-01-03 04:46:37 GMT

a monster on the neighbor's roof glowering down at me
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/829/344/302/739/771/original/a268cfcbbf4d66b6.jpeg

2026-01-01 19:19:40 GMT

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Happy new year, may we find some gentle moments #asstodon
Untitled, c. 1950–1960, Manuel Carrillo, University of Texas at El Paso Library
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/821/433/205/086/310/original/6d6df341de2ade66.png

2026-01-01 19:13:09 GMT

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here's a good example (next post and I'll post it on the #asstodon feed whereas these posts are not). this photograph could probably look better technically, but it's a real pic that a real photographer took of two animals, and thus has a story and context as opposed to a smooth glassy exterior, no interior, and severed from a past repository of images that went into creating it

2025-12-31 01:33:55 GMT

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i've posted before about how hunting for donkey pics on the internet has become less serendipitous now that there's a lot of slop out there. nonetheless i persist in looking for good #asstodon human-plus-ass-generated images (be they documentary photos or artwork)

2025-12-30 20:51:09 GMT

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lol, a bunch of people boosted it, too. poor judgment!!!
p.s. needless to say, i hope, i am not trying to get anyone to engage with the poster other than to use your own judgment on the matter. for me, it's aversion on two grounds: "come for the alt text fail, stay for the AI fail"
i boost almost everything on the tag but this is a nope

2025-12-30 19:43:01 GMT

not to revive old arguments but someone putting AI-generated art with no alt text on the #asstodon tag seems like a worse breach of norms than other uses of the tag one could imagine
#asstodonMeta

2025-12-29 18:16:36 GMT

"Is a Library-Centric Economy the Answer to Sustainable Living?"
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/environmental-law-review/blog/is-a-library-centric-economy-the-answer-to-sustainable-living/
#degrowth #environment #libraries #economy #LibraryEconomy

2025-12-28 01:22:54 GMT

many things are not very good, but the aloes aren't letting the situation get to 'em
#bloomscrolling
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/794/564/278/846/440/original/d078ad16ef074610.jpeg

2025-12-27 06:36:03 GMT

it's curious to think about parties who were VERY CONCERNED about "learning loss" due to remote education in the early pandemic and yet are not the least concerned about hastily handing over both higher and lower ed to a chatbot now
comment via/in dialogue with [@n_hold](https://mas.to/@n_hold ) who's not here

2025-12-27 04:51:43 GMT

Well, hello: INTERTAPES is an updating collection of found cassette tapes from different locations. The audio fragments include: voice memos, field recordings, mixtapes, bootlegs and more
https://intertapes.net/
#DeadMedia #CassetteTapes #Intertapes #Mixtapes

2025-12-24 18:22:57 GMT

I don't observe Xmas but here's my Xmas thread on what community members are doing to resist ICE 🧵
The Horns and Whistles Work:
What it’s like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/the-horns-and-whistles-work/
#Ice #uspol

2025-12-24 04:09:03 GMT

The First National Website Dedicated To Documenting ICE License Plates Is Here, from #LATaco
https://lataco.com/ice-license-plate-tracker
#ice #uspol #sousveillance #journalism

2025-12-23 21:57:56 GMT

#AAUP is publicly expressing concern about the Education Department working with #Palantir
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/12/19/aaup-raises-alarm-over-palantirs-work-ed-department
#academia #HigherEd #uspol

2025-12-21 19:27:34 GMT

in re the waymo meltdown in the power outage: you know what's a really good disaster escape vehicle? a bicycle

2025-12-18 03:08:01 GMT

simply dreadful: "The Center for European Studies, the African Studies Center, the Carolina Asia Center, the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close"
https://dailytarheel.com/article/university-breaking-area-studies-centers-closing-20251217
#uspol #HigherEd #academia #UNC

2025-12-14 01:24:44 GMT

"“Never before in my time across multiple presidential administrations did we send out press releases essentially saying workplaces or colleges were guilty of discrimination before finding out if they really were,” said one attorney"
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-13/former-doj-attorneys-university-of-california-ucla-antisemitism-investigation
archive link: https://archive.ph/NIjFG
#UCLA #uspol #HigherEd #academia

2025-12-11 02:40:42 GMT

"You couldn’t dream up a more fitting way to mark L.A.’s decade-long failure to make life less dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists... a Los Angeles police officer on Sunday arrested a guy trying to make streets safer"
https://www.golden-state.org/disgraceful-end-to-vision-zero/
#LosAngeles #WarOnCars #VisionZero #LAPD

2025-11-27 18:17:24 GMT

New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It
A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine
Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
https://www.interruptingcriminalization.com/block-it (sharing verbatim from #InterruptingCriminalization on bsky)
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/623/023/042/475/433/original/84ec62ea1475d4da.png

2025-11-18 19:08:28 GMT

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thanks, but my post already included an archive link. if it didn't i'd edit yours in!

2025-11-17 18:32:50 GMT

A report from Los Angeles about what actually happens when immigration enforcement arrives — how people mobilize, and sustain energy to defend their community (support local media!)
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/avoid-organizing-burnout/
#uspol #LosAngeles #ICE #immigration

2025-11-13 20:20:34 GMT

"in some letters declining the compact, much ink was spilled to reassure the Trump administration that universities were already complying with many of the proposed changes—without even being asked! These practices chill academic freedom" - my #USCAAUP chapter pres in LA Times
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-11-13/trump-compact-higher-education-academic-freedom
archive link: https://archive.ph/TxBWo
#HigherEd #academia #AAUP #uspol

2025-11-02 17:06:51 GMT

#trashtodon chimera near the #LARiver. 2022
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/481/182/664/904/921/original/4e4a506b29bc3b12.jpg

2025-10-23 20:24:41 GMT

We’re in a bad, bad place
#uspol
From: @npub1nzj…pmgc
https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/115424904339095963

2025-10-23 20:17:41 GMT

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Beach the other day:
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/425/318/819/093/229/original/40bbc16d0491d814.jpeg

2025-10-23 19:54:46 GMT

Post a recent outside picture in the replies, I loved this one from @skinnylatte@ hachyderm.io
https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115420892649636985
and I'll post one of my own in a reply
*edited to not blow up skinnylatte's mentions! But thanks for all the gorgeous pics people are sharing 😍

2025-10-20 05:21:57 GMT

Oil Beach
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/404/813/287/917/539/original/731d6ce3d752808d.png

2025-10-19 21:11:03 GMT

world's tallest donkey, world's longest-eared donkey
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9301drqwlgo
https://archive.ph/PdVUK
#asstodon #GuinnessBook
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/402/878/638/200/054/original/8561fbc9de1f1eb0.png

2025-10-18 20:45:37 GMT

Long Beach, CA
#LongBeach #NoKings #California #uspol
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/397/115/543/924/806/original/c0614c7544b7e96e.jpeg

2025-10-16 20:58:22 GMT

WOOHOO USC "respectfully declines" the higher ed compact as well. Students, faculty, staff, & community members including alumni & parents did this!! Faculty & students have been clamoring, petitioning, planning a rally & teach-in ✊🎓
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-16/usc-rejects-trump-education-compact
https://archive.ph/e9vrC
#HigherEd #USC #academia #uspol

2025-10-14 19:12:24 GMT

We don't talk about this enough but it is another factor affecting instructors' workloads, student learning in higher ed. If it feels like things never went "back to normal" it's cos they didn't
https://thesicktimes.org/2025/07/03/universities-get-an-f-on-long-covid-heres-how-they-can-support-their-students-and-reduce-covid-19-cases/
#LongCovid #CovidIsNotOver #academia #HigherEd

2025-10-11 21:13:25 GMT

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There's something for everyone
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/357/584/469/556/939/original/07dbf2d79f1e4dcf.png
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/357/589/848/631/346/original/cda895e0506265f2.png

2025-10-11 21:08:21 GMT

I didn't realize I had particularly strong feelings about Pepe--well, I don't--but it is making me really quite happy to see the lil frog cartoon reclaim frogs from the fascists

2025-10-10 21:30:38 GMT

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I regret to inform you, completely real 😩
This flows from universities adopting something called the Chicago Statement, which designates "time, place, and manner" for protest (protesting outside of the allowed time-place-manner gets you in trouble)
"the University may reasonably regulate the time, place, and manner of expression to ensure that it does not disrupt the ordinary activities of the University."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Principles

2025-10-10 21:03:08 GMT

This is a pretty good summary of US higher ed for the past ~year and a half. It may thrill and embolden the current federal administration, but they can't take credit for it--their predecessors and university leaderships beat them to it
(via a colleague across town, Miriam Posner, on bsky)
#uspol #HigherEd #UCLA #academia #PolicingTheCampus
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/351/887/218/965/163/original/290be1f62cdbe7b6.jpg

2025-10-10 17:00:55 GMT

MIT rejects the mafia's offer!! This is good news as it gives other universities who were afraid more permission to assert themselves--and makes them look like worse collaborators if they don't. This is the argument we are already making at home
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/executive-leadership/2025/10/10/mit-rejects-proposed-federal-compact
#MIT #HigherEd #academia #uspol

2025-10-10 02:24:56 GMT

Comrade Chicken!
https://www.wweek.com/culture/2025/10/09/an-interview-with-the-portland-chicken/
#uspol #Portland #chicken #DanceParty

2025-10-09 02:19:27 GMT

Hey some nerd (me) is quoted here in this Columbia Journalism Review story about how low-power FM radio stations weathered federal funding cuts by being too small to be eligible for federal funding... in contrast to NPR. The invulnerability of the truly grassroots? 📻💚
https://www.cjr.org/feature/public-media-funding-cut-low-power-radio-lessons-community-broadcasting.php
#LPFM #media #radio #PublicMedia

2025-10-08 02:06:15 GMT

They separated residents by race
https://southsideweekly.com/federal-agents-storm-south-shore-building-detaining-families-and-children/
#ICE #Chicago #uspol

2025-10-07 21:41:22 GMT

Faculty show support for USC to reject the federal government’s "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"
https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/06/reject-the-compact-petition-urges-usc-not-to-sign-trumps-contract/
#PolicingTheCampus #HigherEd #Academia #uspol #1A #AAUP #USC

2025-10-07 04:39:31 GMT

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If you've not seen, maybe of interest, a recent paper of mine. And yes that reply-visible-to-followers-only setting is pernicious. (also note, screenshots are not considered actionable evidence by many mods here, discussed in paper)
https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/115255339883075174

2025-10-07 04:09:58 GMT

Anyone got a favorite independent bookstore in St. Louis? (Want to get someone moving there a gift certificate)
#STL #StLouis

2025-10-04 06:03:18 GMT

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and now NYT has a story out about a single billionaire in the wings behind this "compact" universities are being "invited" to join... the entitlement of billionaires is boundless, for some reason
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/billionaire-marc-rowan-trump-deal-universities.html
(non-paywall link: https://archive.ph/mVlQV)

2025-10-04 05:58:15 GMT

when someone says they don’t consider other people to be their political equals, believe them
(i've been online but not here most of the past couple days bc of the higher ed situation, my workplace is being targeted...)

2025-10-02 17:32:19 GMT

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Thanks for reading and sharing!!

2025-10-02 04:22:56 GMT

"When can woman best represent man?"
The only Jane Goodall tribute you need (it's ambivalent, as it should be):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2DcAf16zeI
Edit, that's the Goodall segment ⬆️, here's the whole thing: https://papertiger.org/donna-haraway-reads-the-national-geographic-on-primates/
#JaneGoodall #STS #FeministSTS #DonnaHaraway

2025-09-30 02:48:20 GMT

Blooming yucca and bonus hummingbird
#bloomscrolling
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/290/956/992/157/783/original/08991291c6fc4e71.jpeg

2025-09-29 03:32:45 GMT

"articulable facts":
"Asked why agents arrested the man they’d run after, Bovino would not specify anything except that the man didn’t resemble the white reporter.
“He exhibited articulable facts that made us take a look, and then we took a look and our suspicions were proven true. It does appear right now he’s an illegal alien,” Bovino said."
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/28/ice-agents-spotted-downtown-on-michigan-avenue-along-chicago-river
#ICE #uspol #chicago #ArticulableFacts

2025-09-27 20:15:31 GMT

adding insult to literal injury, we're paying for ICE to expand its operations to kidnap & brutalize our neighbors; and we're also gonna be on the hook for payouts when ICE is prosecuted for individual cases of brutality and excessive force
Makes one think:
https://nwtrcc.org/resist/frequently-asked-questions/
#taxStrike #uspol #ICE

2025-09-23 19:48:39 GMT

Oops I did it again... published another paper about #Mastodon through the lens of the asstodon hashtag
This one's not very rosy, it's about how a motivated harasser had a lot of room to perpetrate harassment in a decentralized network where big servers were not very inclined to intervene ...
https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/article/view/6644

2025-09-23 18:07:32 GMT

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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history"
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/debatable-ideas/2025/09/19/censorship-authoritarians-dream
#uspol #PolicingTheCampus #academia #HigherEd

2025-09-22 21:25:46 GMT

Kimmel's back, now do the fired regular people including journalists and professors
#uspol

2025-09-22 19:16:07 GMT

#LosAngeles and #Chicago compare notes on #ICE, in #LATaco
https://lataco.com/chicago-ice-la-resistance-independent-media
#uspol #journalism

2025-09-21 20:55:35 GMT

This is a very long shot but does anyone know anything about the waterproof/water resistant qualities of silk, or treatments to make silk waterproof in the early 20th century? (perhaps including a very tight weave, or coating it somehow?) Got a source? TIA!
#textiles #Silk #crafts #HistSTM

2025-09-20 21:45:19 GMT

I give it one week before it's clear that California's mask ban for LE was a waste of time
*oh it doesn't go into effect until January and will be challenged in court in the meantime
I would however like to see our AG step up and prosecute federal agents who're doing illegal shit here, please share if you see stories about this here or in other states w D leadership
#uspol #California

2025-09-15 23:03:38 GMT

oh the shooter had a manifesto but the fbi is gonna reconstruct it because it got deleted somehow?
sure, jan
#uspol

2025-09-14 23:48:51 GMT

RIP Hermeto Pascoal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZbfNtDCHdM
#HermetoPascoal

2025-09-14 18:22:50 GMT

Local media in #Chicago on what happened in an #ICE raid where ICE killed someone they were pursuing
https://unraveledpress.com/what-happened-to-silverio-villegas-gonzalez/
#uspol #SilverioVillegasGonzalez

2025-09-13 22:35:00 GMT

Good. "Two-year attempt to prosecute opponents of police training center on criminal conspiracy charges ends in failure"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/cop-city-case-georgia-prosecutors
#StopCopCity #RICO #uspol #policing

2025-09-13 20:46:03 GMT

"Black thinkers have long argued that racial slavery created its own unique form of American fascism"
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/alberto-toscano-long-shadow-racial-fascism/

2025-09-12 21:10:48 GMT

👀 how innocence and victimhood are attributed to the in-group, always and forever

2025-09-12 05:33:21 GMT

UC-Berkeley gave a list of 160 names to the feds for their antisemitism probe. One is Judith Butler, in case anyone's wondering how that's going
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/uc-berkeley-gives-160-names-antisemitism-probe-21043760.php
archive link: https://archive.ph/WPln3
#HigherEd #academia #uspol

2025-09-12 04:30:20 GMT

It wasn't just HBCU's. This is a student journalist reporting on Black students being afraid to go to class today at the two biggest universities in LA
https://morningtrojan.com/p/usc-ucla-black-students-threat
#uspol #LosAngeles

2025-09-11 22:28:21 GMT

fuck you, ezra klein

2025-09-11 19:19:26 GMT

Gamergate is harassing HBCU's in the aftermath of Kirk's killing
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/multiple-hbcus-lockdown-after-receiving-threats-amid-rising/story?id=125483504
#uspol #academia #HBCU #CharlieKirk

2025-09-10 18:04:07 GMT

Two Donkeys In Kent, 8 May 1961
Credit: mauritius images / TopFoto
#asstodon
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/181/310/042/784/788/original/61558c3f4e2ec41a.png

2025-09-09 20:25:52 GMT

An important, but sickening read: US tech companies enable "digital caging" of repressed people in China
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
#surveillance #SiliconValley

2025-09-08 03:40:08 GMT

Who on here edits #Wikipedia and wants to make a page for #Blacksky ?
https://www.techpolicy.press/podcast-rudy-fraser-on-building-blacksky-and-the-future-of-middleware/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvj1h7OQPkk
Wikipedia as we know has a well-known racial bias, and based on a conversation here I was thinking it might help some of the #protocol conversations if info about Blacksky were available there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_bias_on_Wikipedia

2025-09-06 21:05:11 GMT

I'm following this stuff relatively closely and even I almost missed the distinction here. Go Harvard AAUP & National #AAUP ! 👀
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/5/harvard-lawsuit-trump-aaup/
#uspol #academia #HigherEd

2025-09-05 04:47:59 GMT

Giving a (remote) talk tomorrow at #4S2025 on current discontent through the artifact of the camping tent. Gonna talk some trash about trash, including Gavin Newsom. 8:30am.
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/149/868/573/705/972/original/ae7278c2d2739747.png
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/149/868/603/580/059/original/be6b76c3eddd356f.png

2025-09-03 03:46:16 GMT

Interesting study on using nasal spray #azelastine to inhibit viruses including #covid
Popular: https://www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna228500
JAMA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2838335
#CovidIsNotOver

2025-09-02 03:09:49 GMT

The sky did sky things today
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/132/501/963/783/327/original/0fcbd8df8546d75e.png

2025-08-31 21:21:10 GMT

Yo computer touchers: there's a history of Black invention and ingenuity you may or may not know about, *and* a history of Black inventors' ingenuity being denied at a systemic level
🧵

2025-08-31 17:31:07 GMT

Something wistful about the green grass… #flosstodon
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/124/554/906/915/889/original/4f1b39635356a72b.jpeg

2025-08-29 03:46:21 GMT

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An Update: guess what, even tho i am a competent (if perfunctory) writer, I use the online thesaurus sometimes, especially when writing evaluations where you try not to hammer the same superlatives over and over
anyway i think it's been replaced by a bad LLM
flip over? freak out on? get high on? groove on???
https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/109/996/919/409/542/original/e80f53a32652abd7.png

2025-08-28 23:05:49 GMT

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This is, btw, how I'll be spending "Labor Day Weekend"
(I know other people have it way worse, I feel bad complaining)

2025-08-28 23:03:28 GMT

I'm reviewing another file for academic promotion and honestly... reading it makes me so tired. It's great work, politically urgent, both smart and wise... but... like... I am just tired. Some of us really work ourselves to death

2025-08-28 19:18:08 GMT

AP live feed of the #CDC walkout in Atlanta right now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7QvPHjKRU
#uspol #RFKJr #RFKJrCanFuckRightOff #CDCWalkout