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since i'm apparently already feeling angry and vindictive today it feels like a good time to ask where the "don't call Trump fascist" debate has landed, you know, post-secret police

how to use civility to stop the borg

Much as there's no central committee of who's allowed on the literal actual public streets of a pride parade and there is thus no actual point to an annual "who gets to be at pride?" debate, there is also no central committee of deciding what flags people wave that you might persuade to be tactical.

Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

Just on a very petty and personal note, the Irish over here are not going to carry anything called a 'BritCard.'

This is how they'll build a cult

Brutal clarity in this FT mapping of Israel’s Gaza relocation plan: crushing two million civilians into a tiny strip of land and drip-feeding them aid, producing conditions that will be unbearable at best and deadly at worst. Aditi Bhandari & Mehul Srivastava, @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/4mHB7rm

when historical figures have their names taken off things they may not have wanted their name on, but it's because bigotry

what do you call this but evil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Family Research Council in 2017 vs. Nancy Mace yesterday

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Buenos dias! We're seeking participants who speak both Spanish and English to participate in this research survey: pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

BREAKING: 1,000 RNs in Pittsburgh are unionizing with @seiu.org @seiuhcpa.org

Dog? Clearly a gift. Cat? Could be any of them.

My Chemical Romancing The Stone

Hey, ever notice how people in power ~HATE~ collective activism: protests, unions, solidarity movements, etc.? And that they'd much rather you we can individually and "politely"? There's a reason. Collective action *works* and individual politeness DOES NOT. It's not complicated.

Back in 2020 a number of Linguistic Society of America members asked whether we wanted such a person serving as a highly visible public advocate for the field. Perhaps there is a lesson for Harvard here, as well.

Pinker has been a loud-and-proud voice for anti-intellectualism and a promoter of chin-stroking race-science platforms such as Quillette for a decade. This isn't lack of awareness. It's an attempt to protect his extremely lucrative brand from association with the causes that helped build it.

I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!

The answer is no. But read the article, it’s good history. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Take the fictional character quiz and post the first four you know: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

The top economics journal in the world nearly published an article that, to all appearances, is 100% bullshit. It claimed that AI accelerates scientific discovery. An MIT PhD student appears to have used generative AI to fabricate the whole thing, data and all.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

The petition to ban conversion therapy practices in the EU is lacking enough votes from: - #germany (49.9%) - #sweden (49.96%) - #Netherlands (94%) - #austria (25.5%) - #Slovenia (83.14%) - #portugal (24.46%) If you're a citizen there you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy by voting:

Lifehack: it turns out that you actually do NOT need to save the reviewer comments and rejection letters from every abstract, article, or grant you've submitted since grad school #proFLife #springCleaning

free dissertation topic: the language of this Black Mirror episode (Hotel Reverie)

I have never felt less relieved on the last day of a semester #proFLife

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

Don’t let the arrest of a Federal Judge distract you from the announcement that ICE can enter anyone’s home without a warrant to look for migrants.

BREAKING NEWS: Kennedy Center events scheduled for the World Pride celebration in Washington have been canceled, organizers say.

A question I somehow haven't heard anyone (in office/media) ask: the folks we (illegally, unconstitutionally, wickedly) abducted to El Salvador haven't been charged/sentenced for anything in either country AFAIK; so are they now supposed to rot in prison for life?

As discussed here, there is a real resistance among leftists like me to leaning too heavily on "science." But it's worth seeing that part of the issue is a pop science / working science gap. Like, the Joe Rogan complex finds very working allies in mainstream evolutionary psychology (evo psych). 1/n

Today I finally noticed that ketchup is sold by weight, but mayonnaise is sold by volume

March and speeches at the Media courthouse #tdov