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I gave an inch. Can you give an inch?

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

So so so so close!!

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submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

Good point! Thanks to reps like Frost, Crockett, Waters, and others for showing up to take action & also strategizing for the long term ahead

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

I would like to see my reps putting their physical bodies in the way of the current coup. South Korean legislators climbed walls to save their country from a coup. Why is physical interference not an option when the US treasury is literally being looted? Why are dems bringing lawsuits to a gunfight?

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

These are the same picture.

submitted 39 days ago • 65 comments

What we are all experiencing is called "resilience targeting." It is a deliberate attack favored by many of todays shitlords, and is a fairly well known theory in disinfo and climate circles; it's just that everyone seems to be in denial that it's an attack. Today might be a good day to read up

submitted 46 days ago • 108 comments

But can they kill enough of us?

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Propaganda cat

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Top Secret cat

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If ICE comes for you, know your rights: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri... If you're an organization dealing with an ICE raid, here's a toolkit based on real-world scenarios: www.nilc.org/wp-content/u... If you see ICE coming for someone else, protect your neighbors, or they're coming for you, next.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

A ceasefire is great news except for the fact that it hasn’t ceased Israeli fire.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Offered to give my parents a speech or essay about the existence of billionaires. They declined.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah democracy was cool bc you cd produce these reports, man, like Mueller and Jan 6 and Jack Smith. Reports, man, I miss those reports

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

If it can give you courage when you need it, here is a good boy

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

“Discomfort is not a virtue”—me to my neighbor just now, whose house is 45 degrees and doesn’t need to be

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Many of my most important life lessons happened in Ithaca. But one of them was def how to drive a stickshift on hills in the snow. Overhearing wheels spinning in Durham with 2 ins rn

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

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It’s always hard when friends leave town. Sometimes I get plants. Sometimes it’s hard when I get plants.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Living in a state of dissociation as survival for a long time, might have stumbled upon a new poem. Take it when it comes.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Curious about academic publishing? Don’t miss me and my brilliant colleagues’ panel at #aha2025 tomorrow, Jan 3, at 1:30. Want to make an afternoon of it? Don’t miss me and more brilliant colleagues chat about the ins and outs of peer review at 3:30! @uncpress.bsky.social @historians.org

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

“Please translate to old auntie language” is a thing I just requested of my gen z niece

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Eye exam today. I told my doc abt epiphany based on recent need to take glasses off & put my eyeball close to a thing (menu, phone, etc), & after 40+ years of eye exams, I now understand what I’ve been doing wrong the whole time. 1/

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

This is a great tutorial for alt text on bluesky. Note that in addition to making your images readable to more users, alt text allows discovery of your images in a text search!

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

A beautiful visualization of the passing of time

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I love that last-minute fam holiday situation comes w request to neither give nor receive gifts.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

I love and appreciate that my bluesky feed is expertly curated by … me, but I’m going to need more cat content or something if I’m going to survive the next … let’s say YEAR

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Sister sent unannotated vid of choir i correctly assumed was niece’s, but audio was only oohs & aahs and a deep voice saying, “james, james…” apparently “bond,” but I heard “Baldwin,” so i have both gratitude and questions