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Holy shit these are really good!

Y’know, watching Episode I, the Jedi are kind of reckless

Sometimes, you just need to fall back and work on some classical geometry problems

Me: I see mutuals behaving in a problematic way with regards to misgendering, I'll write a skeet clearly addressing them. Bluesky: 100s of reskeets and likes Me: 🤯 Random cis people in the comments: actually, misgendering isn't that bad... Me: 🤬 I should have known.

Assumed abundance is a beautiful way to begin as a perspective of things.

I’ve accidentally had my stopwatch on for 47 days

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Posting my embroidery so people can find me... 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

Eugenics & fascism go hand in hand. White supremacists don’t want disabled people around. We remind them of their fragility. We question their supremacy. Stand up for disabled people. Fight mask bans, Medicaid & Medicare cuts. Wear a mask. It’s one of the most powerful things you can do.

Tiger style

Black people deserve it all. Power, peace, and tranquility

New art! 🎨 Winter by the Sea No. 7, oil on Arches oil paper, 6"x4" Available (ships when dry, approx 2 weeks): tishamark.com/shop #art #painting #bsnm #ArtShop

The Pioneer Fund was created in 1937 and has been funding and promoting "race science" ever since. That is only one example of how these ideas have never "gone away", they just became more or less visible at different times en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer...

Haha this just gets better and better

BANK TELLER: to open an account I'll need a first name ME: Robin BANK TELLER: and a last? ME: Dabanc BANK TELLER: so you're Robin Dabanc Me: *slowly reveals gun*

Mathematician W.K. Clifford read a remarkable paper to the Cambridge Philosophical Society #OTD in 1870. "On the Space-Theory of Matter" speculated that space might on average be described by Euclidean geometry, but behave more like the geometry of Riemann on small scales. ⚛️ 🧪 🧮

This month, at Xtra: I wrote about despair, and how protest isn't something you do because it guarantees an outcome -- it's something you do because doing it keeps you from falling apart. (This is scientifically true!): xtramagazine.com/health/menta...

okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

If you do not view - Black - NGC - Indigenous - disabled - women - lower class -immigrants As people When you design software for “people”/ users You will make choices that enforce that and MUST ADJUST FOR IT Like you adjust for altitude in baking

AI will not destroy jobs, it will actually create jobs. For every AI you have to assign 2 guys to monitor it because it's stupid and sucks ass

SOMEWHERE IN THE VATICAN: “Sorry bro, have to cancel Ibiza this year. Yeah: conclave season, boys”

professional tightrope walkers have the best work/life balance

Enough with the unproven sex supplements! Health Canada is again warning people to stop using unauthorized sexual enhancement products www.cbc.ca/news/health/... "...have not been assessed for safety, effectiveness and quality,"

Nice, subway discourse! Subways are great! 🚇

Report: CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA!

I am very sad to say that I would have said this is a straight line from exactly what the signals were online, and nobody was listening to the whole cohort of folks shouting about this for about 10 years straight while having their lives ruined for mentioning it

Alright let’s do a painting auction! This little buddy is 8x10. Painted with bees wax. Reply with a bid. Highest bid gets it. Bid will be donated to @translifeline.bsky.social. Shipping is extra. (Int’l bidders beware.) If you’re in the Bay Area bonus studio visit. Let’s GIVE TRANS PEOPLE MONEY!

Just saying: Better Man is a good movie, actually

I need to speak to the modern art manager.

We're finally gonna get a James Bond movie where the villain is a union organizer

My employer's Board of Regents approved our Bachelor's of Science degree program in Climate and Atmospheric Science. This is highly needed to train weather forecasters and quantitative climate and ESS scientists. (We already have a policy focussed BA and an MS.)

you can tell this place is taking off because people keep wrongly assuming other people are american

I'm participating!

And I should have said I cannot thank the inimitable @hencarnell.bsky.social enough for this awesome piece. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

have they figured out how many it takes to fill the albert hall

people who say “why do we need [fine arts, humanities degrees, mid-budget films] when they don’t make a ton of money?” are insufferable. why do we need chrysanthemums? why do we need bonfires or baleen whales or the color blue? we just do. we just do.

Wow it sure is a great time to be a very wealthy assoholic man

if “emailstrom” isn’t already word it needs to be (email + maelstrom)

More specific alt text: Batman stands, protecting a smaller person behind him from a large, muscular man who pushes a long barreled gun to the dark knight's chest. As the smaller person standing behind him looks on fearfully, Batman says "You small, small man."

Barbara Broccoli did say she struggled a bit with what threat Bond would face in the next instalment of the series, maybe a maniacal billionaire trying to break into Fort Knox