A succinct verdict on the persecution of the poor young academic who just died by suicide. Plagiarism is common. Persecution of the kind he endured is uncommon, aka selectively applied. The reason why he was targeted seems as clear as it is ugly.

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · yesterday

The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.

New: 3 yrs ago I published exposé revealing Richard Hanania used pseudonym to write for Nazi sites Ever since I've watched centrist media rehabilitate him, accepting his ludicrous claim to have left white nationalism behind. My look at what it means, for @marisakabas.bsky.social' The Handbasket

You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania

The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.

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yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

there's a lot of dunking on kids and "kids today" in the comments, and can I just cordially request that as millennials we, uh, don't fucking do that? it's the worst trait of gen x and boomers. we could just NOT do that. this isn't a story of "kids today" its adults Big Brothering society.

jon christian@jonchristian.net · 3d ago

kids today are literally confused about whether "partying" was real or an urban legend

Trump is “a developer with the heart and soul of a rapist. Not just a sexual predator, Trump sees the whole earth as a thing to be seized and used. There’s no reverence to his vision of life, human or otherwise.” www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-desec...

Trump’s Desecration of Big Bend Reminds Us Nothing Is Sacred In His America

Yet another example of how his nationalism prioritizes exclusion over veneration of what makes that nation great.

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There's also the fact that star faculty members do get away with pretty odious behavior. HR policies are a woefully inadequate response to that.

I really can't get over this, this is such a wild example. there was a whole Church Inquisition torturing and extorting suspected heretics in Newton's day and we are being invited to ask whether he would have survived land acknowledgments lmfao bsky.app/profile/pwhi...

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 4d ago

Apparently the test of the modern university is whether it would accommodate a seventeenth century academic exactly as he was

Do the people asking these tedious questions not think that historical figures were actual human beings? Isaac Newton probably had to deal with weird academic bureaucracy. And yes, I would expect him to show basic courtesy by learning people's pronouns if he were alive today.

Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 4d ago

Apparently the test of the modern university is whether it would accommodate a seventeenth century academic exactly as he was

It's a big day when you realise these people don't exist in real life

Chris Maliga@chrismaliga.com · 6d ago

If there's one trope I'd really like to see in the dustbin, it's the hyper competent asshole.

This is awful, and I know so many people who went to Interlochen! People trust settings like these to care for their children and this is such a betrayal.

An arts school where Epstein allegedly preyed on students reveals decades of abuse

In a new report, former Interlochen students detail some 70 allegations of sexual abuse by nearly 50 adults employed or affiliated with the school. One of the former students tells his story to NPR.

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I spoke to the mutual aid groups and mask blocs combatting the spread of COVID and viral illness by freely distributing masks and tests and lending out air purifiers — who nationally have now distributed thousands of masks for wildfire smoke, too, amid an anti-public health admin @us.theguardian.com

How clean air clubs are protecting Americans from wildfire smoke

Mutual aid groups that started giving out PPEs during COVID are now loaning air purifiers and distributing masks to fume-addled communities

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I’d like to make it clear for all the people following me what the sheer gravity of the news is. Without this facility we can’t ensure constant communication with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. If this facility is off-line, the Artemis program cannot send a crew to the Moon.

Andy Scollick@andyscollick.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex at Robledo de Chavela municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain on fire. Burgohondo wildfire. 📷 via Infues Avila

Hey friends, I’ve been away camping for the past few days, so I don’t have anything new to share this week. But today, August 6, 2026, is the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, so I wanted to revisit a piece from a few years ago. www.flakphoto.news/p/the-last-s...

The Last Survivors of an Atomic Bomb

Kentaro Takahashi's portraits recall Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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I am

we must recover the old wisdom

Charlie stopped by to visit today. We wrestled near the Dean's pollinator garden, but he got tired.

I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.

I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.

“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...

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SARS-CoV-2 did not come from a lab. There is no evidence pointing to laboratory origins. There’s been a massive disinformation campaign to convince the public otherwise. It’s scary how effective that campaign has been.

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Apollo 14 launched on Jan 31st, 1971 containing about 500 tree seeds (and also 3 human astronauts, for ballast, one presumes). These tree seeds were bold pioneers: Earthling visitors to our nearest neighbor in space. They returned to Earth & were planted across the country. MOON TREES!

What in the World Are Moon Trees? - NASA Science

Fifty years ago, the Apollo astronauts carried some souvenirs from Earth to the Moon, and then brought them back.

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“If this was true, I would be in jail” is not a real profession of innocence; it is a brag about how strenuously the state protects the male right of private sphere violence against women and children.

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

Those who believe things like this are working hard at not understanding the finite options available to someone whose abuser has not been prosecuted, found guilty, etc. by the law. And how rarely those things happen to abusers, esp. high-status white male abusers.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

Allegedly Nolan had comrades tie him to a ship's mast before being read Wilson's review

I am currently reading @sesmith.lol's tremendously good book "All my Dead Cats and Other Losses," on grief and the difficulty of grief in the cultures many of us live in. Having lost my mom a little less than 2 years ago, and a dog about 3 months ago, this excerpt resonated with me.

one tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon

“This summer… An epic tale of betrayal and the quest for forgiveness. In a world struggling to produce enough food, one man will brave the cold to survive. PLUMS only in cinemas.”

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 3w ago

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

"Violence against women begins and ends with silencing; the two are not separate phenomena; a voice is what a human being has when that human being also has rights and membership in society..." -- @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, whose voice is always clear despite our horrors.

Penelope Speaks: Rebecca Solnit on the Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women

The following first appeared via Rebecca Solnit’s Meditations in an Emergency. Last weekend, the film The Odyssey was released and the Tate brothers were arrested in Florida at the behest of the Br…

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it's time to live mas

John Wick Cocking Pistol - Keanu Reeves

ALT: John Wick Cocking Pistol - Keanu Reeves

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heaumeau e. rotacism@vashwood.bsky.social · 4w ago

joining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell

Marvin's family has now created a GofundMe to help with funeral expenses and to support Natasha and the kids in the difficult days ahead. If you're able to contribute or share the fundraiser, I'd be deeply grateful.

Donate to Support for Marvin Johnson Sr.'s Family and Honor his Legacy, organized by Erica Day Ruffin

It is with broken hearts that we share the unexpected passi… Erica Day Ruffin needs your support for Support for Marvin Johnson Sr.'s Family and Honor his Legacy

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Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm heartbroken to share that Marvin (known to readers of There Is No Place for Us as Maurice) died earlier today in a workplace accident. He was 43. Natasha (Natalia in the book) asked me to share this news because she is too devastated to do so herself. We are all in shock.