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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

In the era of slavery, free black people had to carry their "free papers" with them so they could prove to the authorities that they were free, or else they would be thrown in jail and sold.

Me when I cite myself:

Which is it man because you can’t say ‘be more normal’ back-to-back with ‘be less judgmental’ without a hint of irony because that’s just positioning yourself as cultural authority & then demanding the type of grace that by virtue of your immediately preceding statement you refuse to extend to us

i'm glad that stem colleagues now care that university administrators' claims of departmental "profitability" are all bullshit now that it's coming for them but a little solidarity while the humanities endured this for decades would've been cool

Men aren't more lonely than women but the loneliness epidemic is real. Millions are in isolation, it's capitalist individualism, & disability is isolating. Lots of folks are really alone. But it's not gendered, that framing is patriarchy, babying men like their unhappiness is everyone else's burden.

A CNN investigation found that the IDF gunned down starving Palestinians trying to collect flour in Gaza. Then they bulldozed the corpses into unmarked graves, where they were left to rot and be scavenged by ravenous dogs.

The UN resolution against torture had three votes against: Israel, Argentina and the US….

77% of Democratic voters say Israel is committing genocide and 75% want to cut off weapons to Israel. But HRC is out on the road claiming that TikTok and “totally made up” videos are the blame for young people’s opposition to genocide.

A few words on Anarchism, From David Graeber's 'Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!' davidgraeber.org/articles/are...

Early 2029 will be like a post-conflict society starting a campaign of de-Trumpification.

lol everyone finding out white men benefit from preferential treatment in college admissions is sending me. May the consequences of said actions begin. 🤷🏿‍♀️ hechingerreport.org/an-unexpecte...

*cough* If you're gift shopping for anyone interested in how the world works, do consider these. Storm in a Teacup is all about the physics of everyday life and Blue Machine is all about how the ocean works - the water itself, which is the biggest story on Earth. Share the joy of nature & science!

I want them all put under the jail.

For #AncientSiteSunday this fabulous aerial photo of the Acropolis at #Athens - a site I would love to be right now! 📷 Christos Kapoulas #Greece 🏺

The reason I don’t post pictures of suffering in Gaza even though I’m asked to at times is because I lived through a decade of folk posting basically snuff films of Black people back when we thought we could convince society our lives matter. It convinced no one. But it did fuck up my mental health.

The wise witch never takes more than her share. There are only so many bottles of tincture and syrup she can store. She learns to swerve greed, to leave an unexpected bounty for birds and sprites. Sometimes the best harvest is a memory of beauty. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Strays Christmas at the Chaos House: official invitation thread! Do you want to spend Christmas Day with people but have nowhere to go? Can you get to Oxford (England)? Come to ours.

Somebody said my momma is and i quote “ a young 73” Listen demon you stay away from her

I'm not a patriot, America happened to me, I'm subject to America, I'm descended from people who were dragged from Africa in fetid cramped ships & forced at the whip to labor for centuries then always kept down since. America is my condition. I don't support what it stands for.

adhd literally isn’t our fault it’s fucking genetic

I genuinely think what makes people yearn for Positive Masculinity so frequently in contemporary culture and politics atm is that the peculiar way these guys are awful to women is so tied to them being such fucking losers.

Spain aired a split-screen showing scenes of destruction in Gaza alongside Israel’s Eurovision performance, underscoring why the Spanish broadcaster withdrew after the competition refused to allow a vote on excluding Israel. Video: Trita Parsi via X (X: @tparsi, @tparsi.bsky.social)

In Gaza there is no peace: the brief quiet, punctuated as ever by Israeli gunfire and aerial attacks, is the quiet of a mass grave that cannot begin to be unearthed until Israel allows the land-moving equipment in.

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"The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Excellent article. Paragraph after paragraph is damning.

The Long Neolithic persists in a legion of ways, but its lithic manifestations and undismissable earthworks have peculiar power to infect the imagination. For it is harder to anchor folklore to ditches and droveways than it is to a stone. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

So here's something shitty: Apparently when they moved to Disney, all the Netflix Marvel shows got their subtitles redone, & so now, when you have English captions on, there are No English-Translated Subtitles for non-English dialogue. Like… What the actual fuck is the good of that???

Wrote something combining threads from here & elsewhere on meaningful consent, bias, dis- & misinformation, and harms to critical thinking & skills development and social interaction in the context of "AI." Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":

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This video should be far more widely circulated. It shows the British patriot Nigel Farage discussing how to make the UK subservient to MAGA-dominated, Hungarian and Indian far-right aligned globalist networks. On film. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Hillary Clinton doubled down at the Doha Forum on remarks she made last week at the Israel Hayom Summit, where she claimed young people who are pro-Palestinian have been propagandized & misinformed by social media. Moments ago, she said young people are getting an “incomplete” picture of the...

I don’t have to embrace anything that means me and us harm.

sometimes being deaf is a disability and sometimes you live with two toddlers and a dog who are playing a game of “run and scream as loud as possible”

Daughter didn't like my coloring page.

While centrists call us extreme for our impossible-to-achieve guillotine fantasies the people ushering in a dystopian surveillance state are exchanging ideas in lynchtanks

🇪🇸🇵🇸 Spain Warns Gaza Ceasefire “Permanently Being Violated” by Israel, Urgent Push Needed Toward Phase 2 ▪️ Spanish FM José Manuel Albares said there is “a glimpse of hope,” but warned the process must move very quickly into Phase 2 b/c Israel isn't respecting the ceasefire. Delays are keeping the...

Israel and its partners continue to wage genocide against the Palestinian people. Those who, so far, have survived the hideous attacks since October 7, 2023, now face ongoing jeopardy.

Day 7 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We hang the water folk St. Nicholas toy. Not the plump red-coated icon of most, but a ragged bishop fishing for Stay Belows with a ham dangling from his crosier. Yesterday was his feast and a little too much apple brandy was drunk on the canal.

Anyone who thinks immigrating is easy has never been through the system. Even under the best circumstances, it's a confusing, lengthy process that often requires expensive legal advice. This is unconscionable. Shame.

When people talk about “if you don’t vote Labour you’re splitting the left vote” How is voting for Labour anything close to “Left” at this point. Look at this shit.

1. Dems pick Newsom or Kelly despite all the warnings from Black folk. 2. Dem primary winner says "Be more normal! Abandon trans folk + immigrants! More cops!"🤡 3. Lots of would-be Dem voters sit out. Again. 4. Dems lose to Vance or someone else Thiel approved. 5. Dems blame Black folk. Again.

‘Masculine leadership’ And they say gender studies is all bunk

There are seriously trolls on here who reply to Palestinians begging from the rubble with, oh well, you shouldn’t have been a terrorist! I see it time to time. You HAVE to have something better to do with your life.

There are certain pools whose drowned spirits sing of weakened sunlight, weed-dressed bones. Sing of mud embrace, decay's alchemy. At the threshold of their banks the witch may sing back of those things she wishes transformed in their waters. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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I'm currently too disabled to immigrate to the United States if I wasn't already here.

no group in the world was more primed for radicalization than SV techbros: patted on the head for their ‘intelligence,’ the engineering mindset of tech and tech alone can fix this everything, the tie ups with the military, the lack of regulation, politicians and pundits sucking up, and the MONEY

I'm tired of the Lesser Of Two Evils argument. It's fucking stupid. It has paved the way for disaster. It is just another way of saying that we should compromise with fascists, that's it. It's not pragmatic, it's not open-minded, it's not an elevated position. It's just stupid and embarrassing.

What do you mean you don’t put invisible spells in your Christmas cards? In Hookland it is a least a third of the reason for sending them. #ChristmasCards

Sudan, Venezuela, And Other Notes If Maduro really was a monstrous tyrannical dictator the US would be selling him F-35s. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/sudan-vene...

December 7, 43 BCE: Death of Cicero. Antony ordered his hand(s) and head to be placed on display on the Rostra in the Forum, according to Plutarch (Cic. 49). penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Rom... The people shuddered because they saw “not the face of Cicero, but an image of the soul of Antony.”

Oh Matt Yglesias doesn’t believe in birthright citizenship now So are all the serious journalists who had to debate him and feature him over Black thinkers because we were just “online” And we didn’t understand journalism. . Can you come outside so I can ABSOLUTELY JUMP you

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Goodnight from The Mordant Arms, where the pub is thoroughly split on whether to believe if Neville Mercer’s van was attacked by a Fethrower. Goodnight from Trotton Grove, where the deep veins of the land throb with malice at recent plans for oil field expansion. Goodnight from Hookland.

I’m just gonna say it: I am all about tradition and everything but christ almighty, can we please start making U.K. marriage certificates A4

Stop selling your houses to corporations.

Remember how Alexander Morris was held in a psych ward & they thought he was delusional when he said he was a member of the Four Tops & tortured him? It's not singular. Folks need to know, that is the system of carceral psychiatry. You can't argue your way out or prove you're sane. Lots get clapped.

Meet the Snowy Owl! This bird is easily identified by its white plumage and piercing yellow eyes. Unlike many owls, it hunts by daylight, feeding on small mammals and birds. Its favorite snack? Lemmings. A single owl can eat more than 1,600 lemmings a year. Photo: Silver Leapers,CC BY 2.0, flickr

Why is anyone still on X? Seriously.

Remember when politicians said we were asking for too much when we asked to defund police and to have oversight ?

Breaking Points’ Krystal Ball responds to overtures from Nick Fuentes urging the progressive left to ally w/ him against establishment elites. “I feel like my bar for allyship is very low. My bar is you have to view all human beings as fundamentally equal and deserving of rights. That’s my bar...

🤔Newsome literally had Steve Bannon, Charlie Kirk, and Michael Savage, on his podcast. That's not a stand against fascism. At least, not an effective one. He's chasing "independent" voters, not fighting fascism. Good luck to him in that endeavour. Let me know how that works out for him.

Consider the gift of cash if you're not sure what non-cash gift someone would enjoy. Apply this thinking to universal basic income too. You don't know for sure what someone else needs. Only they do. Trust them to buy what they need when able to.

The hardest part of this political discussion is that I'm having it with people whose civic knowledge is so low that they think that our current political situation is solely the result of votes.

"For many [of Boulder's 2-year basic income pilot] participants, financial stability became a foundation for something they hadn’t felt in years – peace of mind... Participants also shared about the emotional weight that lifted when the constant financial pressure eased." This for everyone is UBI.

Do what you can to end suffering.

Palestine and Syria traded jerseys & embraced after a 0–0 draw sent both sides into the quarterfinals of the FIFA Arab Cup. After 5 previous Arab Cup appearances, this marks the first time the Palestine nat'l football team has ever advanced beyond the group stage. That breakthrough was set up...

Me, when one of my posts gets over 1000 likes.

Goodnight from Janet Rathbone, instinctively leaning in from the family car’s passenger window as if the darkness outside might shatter it at any moment. Goodnight from Freda Dix, rearranging knickknacks on her mantlepiece in hope of apotropaic alignment. Goodnight from Hookland.

🇳🇴🇵🇸 Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide challenged Israel’s narrative that it has no partner for peace in Palestine, saying: “We have to take away the de facto veto Israel has enjoyed for decades. They have a voice, but they cannot be the sole decider of what happens in territory they...

I 100% believe this because im still amazed and traumaitized by the stories that came from my current gf and also past women who I've dated.

Along Israel’s expanding Yellow Line, the war in Gaza never ended Israeli forces are advancing beyond stipulated boundaries, where Palestinians say supposedly safe neighborhoods are coming under fire without warning. By Ruwaida Amer www.972mag.com/gaza-yellow-...

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TLDR: Racial trauma can become intergenerational economic trauma. #blacksky

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We had our mothers serve as the official witnesses so that their names would be on the marriage certificate because yeah seriously what the fuck

As a bad as today's men are your great grandpappy was undoubtedly way worse. And your great grandma had no choice but to continually bear him children into her grave no matter what. She might not have been happy about it.

We are dads (loved Ken Burns Revolutionary documentary) and also gay (now watching Heated Rivalry).

At 35k followers I will tell you which demographic is to blame for the politician you don't like (and why it's surprisingly not just "the people who voted for them").

Disgusting. This shit must be stopped.

A river god with flowing robes becoming flowing water. This meticulous detail from the pediment would only ever have been known by the gods if the Parthenon in Athens had stayed intact. Now even mortals can see it at @britishmuseum.bsky.social 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

if you don’t teach what you want to see… you will continue to see what you don’t want… www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

⭕️ Qatar's FM/PM at Doha Forum: “We are at a critical moment. We have a pause… but we’re not there yet. A ceasefire cannot be completed unless there is a full Israeli withdrawal, there is stability back in Gaza, and people can go in and out – which is not the case today.” He said mediators are....

lol Sydney Sweeney betting her career on appealing to men who don't read and hate women was such an intergalactic fumble.

Not only is capitalism isolating and debilitating us it produces ‘care’ which only mocks and minimizes us when we express distress and suffering or seek comfort and/or help for said suffering. ‘Suck it up, buttercup,’ might not be the best way to approach this

This fluffy little tart demands endless love what can I do

"Having courage to finish that swim meet or ask for that big raise isn’t like having the courage to be Black in a country that wants us dead." I love what Dr. Jackson says here. As I write in #TheDoubleTax, the sort of courage Black women need to exist is fundamentally different than white women.

I got bored and decicded to search for random local news stories from the 90's and bruh, the 90's were really violent.

Women straight up have choices now. A long time ago they were forced to be with a lot of horrible men they didn't want to be with. Because they had no rights. Now that they don't have to, they're not putting up with anything.

I blame the flat earthers

Musk: Reality is probably a simulation Also Musk: Race is definitely real

It’s the second Sunday in Advent and Day 7 of our advent calendar. Therefore it would be remiss of us not to share the chapel in candlelight. May it soothe and calm your Sunday… 1/2

Civil Rights attorney in the bio?