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I told this joke on tv but I also told it not on tv.

rest in peace to Dolores Huerta. after a lifetime of organizing, in her last year on earth, she chose to be brave enough to change the historical record; in doing so, she set an example for generations of feminists

these true crime shows are getting wilder and wilder

NEW WRITING! I had just a few things to get off my chest about physicists and others collaborating with technofascists … “Why am I so convinced that companies like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are a danger to us? Because, to paraphrase a David Cross joke, that’s what they fucking said.” 🧪⚛️🔭

Brewers fans are going to get so drunk. They were already drunk, but they’re going to get to drunk 2.

of all the people and entities I used to love who are now fully AI-pilled, this is one of the ones that breaks my heart the most. their ENTIRE REASON FOR EXISTENCE was to democratize human art making and insist that writing a novel was something any of us could do

a cool thing that out political leaders could do to honor Dolores Huerta is commit to ending the exclusion of farm and domestic workers from the protections of the NLRA or they could just tweet si se puede idk one of the two

Maybe focus on Huerta today as opposed to her rapist.

it's his co-anchors face that sends me

I'm not responding person, but someone was trying to justify the NYT using AI to scale recipes by saying "what if you have to go from cups to tablespoons..." and I cannot believe our stupid system of measurement is getting people to think it's okay to boil the oceans.

Dude is literally, openly, fleeing the country??? The US takes people's passports when they've committed crimes and are deemed a flight risk?

A friend asked, "How are you doing with all the Cornell stuff" & a version of this poured out. I'm on the board of a nonprofit devoted to ending campus sexual assault. It's about to die due to lack of funding. The really important stuff is bolded. Please share 💚🔥 www.moryan.com/on-cornell-t...

on exceedingly rare occasions, National Review likes to mess with its audience, and this is a prime example. (Hint: click the links) www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-lis...

Cool kind of citizen-science on carbon removal here. one detail that stuck out: "Our study shows that if we were to implement regenerative row cropping systems on a national scale, that it represents the best climate solution currently available. And farmers don’t lose money or productivity."

update to the story on that 3 year old who was so good at soccer that the other parents called the cops: Eddie Johnson (from the 2010s USMNT) has invited him to his academy. love to see it sports.yahoo.com/articles/for...

Many years ago, the Chicago Freedom School invited Dolores Huerta for a keynote conversation at our annual fundraiser “Moments of Justice.” She was in conversation with a young leader. Her admonition was to be committed and to remain hopeful as we struggle for more justice.

The President was credibly accused of rape this week.

Here are some nice mushrooms

YES YES THIS IS THE TAKE

I looked up the firm currently arguing for preschools' religious right to refuse to enroll kids w gay parents turns out it's the same firm that argued for a right to refuse to provide adoption services to gay couples, & to opt kids out of books w LGBTQ characters ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/st-ma...

White reconciliation politics

the delusion

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

the anti-Somali lies pushed here in America don't exist in a vacuum. this happens a lot in the West: demonize a group locally because they're being murdered abroad.

If you are planning to vote and you can vote early, you really should.

I'm sympathetic to the idea here - we should try to figure out how to answer / cultivate this sort of demand - but I'm pretty skeptical of this approach. How much of Moby Dick or The Iliad can you really talk through in 1-2 lectures, especially if doing close reading for the first time?

*breathes into a bag*

It will never not fuck me up that Anthropic is like "hello our product may end humanity" and the market is like "sure, a $1.6 T valuation makes sense, take our money."

I'm tired of "I regret voting for Trump" profiles. let's see the "I knew exactly what Trump stood for and I love it" pieces! the people who love ethnic cleansing and think the higher prices and sicker population is worth it.

neotradcath types are very interested in how they FEEL during Mass fuckin lol

We are in for a full week of interviews with "undecided voters" telling journalists, "I can't afford shoes or food anymore, and that bothers me, but I just don't like that Democrats are trans-ing kids at the Cheesecake Factory." We just have to breathe through it.

I mostly feel really sad about AI infiltrating NYT Cooking, but I would also like to shout out commenter Susie Smith of Portland, Oregon, for typing out and hitting publish on this truly magnificent sentence

the unlikeable jerk to right wing chud pipeline is undefeated

and a third: trying to make anything better is bad because the thing you're trying to improve is bad and we should just focus on the thing being bad and never change it because it will always be Bad

but (trust me) we’ll mock him.

What I love about BlueSky is wandering into people nerding out about heirloom apple varieties! Applesky for the win !

In addition to further entrenching transphobia into law, this is also a very easy way to devastate youth sports for girls in general because so many parents will just nope out.

you have never, in your life, seen levels of cope like what's going on in the Bigfoot community as of October 2026. "the new footage is AI." "the head appears to be morphing." "the gun disappears and reappears." qanon after trump loses levels of cope

Of course they thought about completely ruining an academic’s life

imagine all your dating app info used to train AI.

"After The Texas Newsroom’s initial records request last summer, the governor’s office ultimately shared 1,374 pages of communications. However, all but about 200 pages were entirely blacked out."

Congrats to Brewers Nation, and to the city of Milwaukee, and to the state of Wisconsin. A richly deserved championship.

Literally have a dude named Chad trying to tell the internet that *I*, a Black woman who works in Black studies, don’t understand what’s at stake in news coverage about anti-Black racism in academia Ok, Chad

A piece of NYC movie history dies tomorrow; it's the last day of operations for Cinema 1, 2, and 3 on 3rd Avenue. From the 1960s into the 1980s, Cinema 1 and 2 were the most sought-after bookings in Manhattan. That street, which also housed the Baronet and Coronet, was known as The Block. >

well I guess it worked because I have no idea who tf you are

Why is BLACK RIVER ORCHARD three bucks at your chosen ebookmonger? I don't know! But it is! So if you really want to embrace both apple season and spooky season, I have a horror novel about evil apples infecting a small town with their sinister apple magic. I hope you check it out.

gonna be on the BBC in about ten minutes to talk about the legacy of labor icon Dolores Huerta (!)

I admit that I chuckled...

tax them out of existence

I told you guys Stevens was a racist fuck

This is just a data point but I’m sitting in a doctors office waiting room in Georgia listening to two older white women with books on their laps about the Bible talking about how much they don’t like that Trump keeps talking about people’s butts

I love blocking racist white people.

Genuinely, one of the best ever to do it. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

The funny thing about the "how to scale a recipe" thing happening in my mentions is that I was 7 out of 9 kids when I was growing up. I never made a single recipe of ANYTHING until I was in my teens.

The older I get the more I understand why my dad got so excited about a particularly good episode of Antiques Roadshow

One thing that strikes me about this and other such articles: the number of companies *requiring* their staff to use AI tools even when staff find those tools are not helpful. If you have to force your staff to use the tool, maybe rethink why you need them to use it? 🤔

Prodigy is a spectacular show on so many levels and it truly gets the heart and soul of Star Trek, but crucially it is also the best Voyager sequel you could possibly imagine. Janeway deserved to be written by women who grew up with Janeway as their hero. And s2 gets Chakotay on a molecular level

Fox News is averaging 98,000 25- to 54-year-olds during the day. That is around .03% of Americans. Not three percent; one one-hundredth of three percent! So maybe political media could finally stop pretending that Fox is somehow speaking to the heart of America.

"With the help of the American Humanist Association, he asked for an accommodation under Title VII... In September, the university agreed and granted him a religious accommodation, meaning he does not have to use AI to complete his work. "

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The acceleration is facilitated by the fact that many people on the Lefts are also Islamophobic. It's bigotry that isn't socially sanctioned in the U.S.

any preschool provider is welcome to participate in Colorado's free pre-K program and get state funds, so long as they agree not to discriminate two preschools want to get the funds AND discriminate and they argue that they're constitutionally entitled to both ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/st-ma...

"DHS, flush with funds and new hires, is now Trump’s primary tool against dissent, with a powerful array of post-9/11 investigative authorities brought to bear against everyday Americans organizing... [unseen] since the fed govt’s counterinsurgency against the New Left and the 60s/70s anti-war mvmt"

I absolutely adored her. Farewell to Barbara Barrie. ❤️

Imagine if you will the behavior of parents who decide to pay and do this who are then raising a child they’ve been told is genetically superior.

May Dolores Huerta rest in power 🙏🏽

The rich, warm, elegant doc Once Upon a Time in Harlem is truly special; grab any chance to see it. It's double time travel--back to 1972 Harlem and from there to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s/30s--that will impel you to plunge into much more of that culture/history. What a gift. Take notes!

I feel extremely resentful that I have to use up precious time that I would like to devote to other projects talking to people about why collaborating with fascists is bad Absolutely no fucking lessons learned from 20th century history at all My brain: 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

Since we are all correctly talking about how amazing apples are, here are my choices for apples: At a grocery store: Cosmic Crisp, Opal, LucyGlo Orchard: Jonathan, GoldRush, SunCrisp, Cortland, Golden Russet, Ashmead’s Kernel, Esopus Spitzenburg, Cox’s Orange Pippin, Blue Pearmain, Arkansas Black

I just really hope someone is using their graduate degree to help archive the feminist internet of the 2010s because I wouldn't have pursued my job or my life had I not had it as a younger person, and present and future feminists need to be able access it

Professionals who work in publishing hate the AI tools being foisted on them, authors hate AI (including me, I'm quoted here along with @scalzi.com ), but other than that, it's all going great in publishing!

I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling

I'm not making any guesses about Tuesday, but I am keeping in mind the counsel of a pretty well-connected Democrat who told me that the GOP's secret weapon is "how much they hate us." There are a lot of voters out there who'd rather win and suffer than lose. So...you know. Please go cancel them out.

This genocide is one of the reasons I think it’s problematic for people based in the US to only connect the Nazis to foreign influence (American racism) when not only did they have a centuries long history with antisemitism but also had direct and recent experience with committing genocide

They do not actually want to make a piece of software that we even like using so good luck with that lol www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...

This is not legal advice, but if I personally had a publisher that had rights to my work, and they were claiming that I got a 6%-15% share of the settlement even though the contract was silent as to a settlement split? I would absolutely threaten to take my ball and go home.

Who could have predicted? www.newsweek.com/vivek-ramasw...

[Enter Prince Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedick, and Leonato.]

I'm glad Stevens lost. She would have been HORRENDOUS in office.

My dog does not understand why I need to brush him so much before his grooming appointment this weekend, only that he does not like it. Brushing also makes him extra floofy.

It's been a while since we've had a good food war on social media. Discuss.

I’m proud of our students and colleagues who worked to hold the provost accountable.

"Hey, sis!" "Hey, baby bro! Where's big brother?" "Maybe he's with dad. He's been kind of upset ever since he retired two weeks ago." "We should take him out. Mom's birthday is tomorrow." I will not name the TV show; I will just say that this kind of writing makes me question the existence of God.

On some level it is genuinely impressive how easily Obama can trick these racist goofballs into screaming about nothing

Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his legs became weak and his knees were knocking. (Daniel 5:5-6, contd next post)

this is a perfect typo

one of the least charming features of earnest lefties on this app is the way they can disagree with a total stranger about something and immediately come to the conclusion that the stranger is a terrible human being who does not share their values are you guys 5? disagreement is normal

An hour and forty minutes of my descent into madness. Enjoy!

This year, Halloween is once again on Shabbat, which means that it's a chance to brainstorm on the most hilarious and perfect ways to manifest a Jewish Scary Shabbos meal -- from demon tracks and leviathan snax to amulets of dubious provenance and beyond... Come brainstorm with us 😈 😈 😈

What a giant. What a force for solidarity, change, and truth, up through the last. Sending so much love to all who mourn her. May her memory be for a revolution, as was her life -- ❤️‍🔥

“This band sounds like a nu metal Soen,” I say aloud before remembering that everyone else on Earth died years ago

Hey! Last night, the Textbook & Academic Authors Association sent a letter to the judge saying essentially that textbook authors were being steamrolled in this situation and provided with very little guidance. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“The sitting Republican president raped a bunch of people with his best friend, the blackmailing pedophile; while the former Democratic president impugned the honor of the Cheesecake Factory”

Oh, this one. From the 1990s. About the 1990s and now too.

remember when “economic anxiety” was the euphemism for why people voted *for* trump apnews.com/live/trump-m...

I should have asked for the linear version of grief where if Tuesday is better than Monday then Wednesday is better than Tuesday, it is just logic

one of the most painful parts of following US foreign policy in Africa is how much they know people don't care—and they capitalize on it.