“Don’t worry, I’m not gonna crash the bus” - this bus driver, inspiring confidence

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

nytimes.com

They asked for non-healthcare volunteers to help with visitor screening and my job became making families choose who would see their relative on their last day of life, and I usually don’t mention that anymore because I expect people to be dismissive about the circumstances in Spring 2020.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d ago

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

"when experts suggest abandoning New Orleans, we have to ask: Whose city is considered worth saving? What is being framed as inevitability is, in many ways, future-framed environmental racism. But what if we refused that frame?" - Maddison Wells

Solarpunk or Sink: Who Gets To Decide New Orleans’ Future?

Op-ed: New Orleans is sinking, but Black people have always known how to live in the places we were never meant to survive.

nextcity.org

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

might start selling a line of long division workbooks for adults who just wanna fucking RELAX

Still punk I say as I mute “diarrhea” on Bluesky

If you see this today, take a moment to write a few sentences on this proposed rule! Public comments have made a difference recently and there are so many reasons to be against subjecting scientific grant approval to political approval.

Alejandro Soto@soto.space · 3w ago

I finally submitted my comments on the OMB proposed rule changes. I took so long because I was over thinking it. You don't need to address everything. Just state your position (hopefully opposition) and your reason. Here's some advice and help. fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...

Actually want to amplify this further--95% haven't been digitized and even beyond that, archival CATALOGUING is its own patchy horrorshow of varying strategies, standards, and funding levels. To DIGITIZE something you have to FIND IT first!

Amalia S. Levi, PhD@amaliasl.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · 3w ago

I wrote about "performative reading," resentment, and how tech CEOs managed to make us so incurious, to their great benefit johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/on-perform...

one day I will perform two-factor authentication for the last time and won't even know it

When i see the word 'unprecedented' about what's going on, i wonder, 'really?' Proclaiming this time to be uniquely bad compared to every other time in even recent history, does that discourage more understanding of the tactics & history of how people fought back then? We could use those tools.

the reason that people are being so loud about "i told you so" with platner is that it sucks shit to have to spend your entire life doing an uncredited minor in how to avoid being the victim of sexual violence and then have that expertise dismissed as you being a shrill hysterical bitch

Lemme explain what the words BELIEVE WOMEN should mean. They don't mean you have to believe women no matter what. They do mean that you have to treat women as a source the same way you'd treat a man.

Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98!

Reviving the TNN thread on panicslop today, because the actual news is bad enough and the last thing we need is bs about how we're all going to be thrown in asylums tomorrow. Stop treating our communities as automatically powerless. We have a long history of survival and resistance.

Trans News Network@transnews.network · 5mo ago

It's also important to look at the worldview panicslop peddles, because it's even more insidious. It depicts trans people and communities as powerless, helpless before our enemies. This isn't just damaging. It's a lie. We have a long history of surviving — and resisting — against the odds...

He met his wife at Camp Mystic. Generations of his family attended. Then he lost his granddaughter there in the Hill Country floods. bit.ly/4etVKW4

Feeling like an empty gogurt (grief genre)

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · last mo.

What do you mean abolishing ICE is not doable? It was created in 2003. There are Missy Elliot songs older than ICE.

I don’t understand how now, in a time where the material suffering around us is harder to ignore than in most of our lifetimes & the reasons why are as clear as they have ever been, we still have so many for whom the very easy position of ‘we can & should help people unconditionally’ is unfathomable

Subway Takes: for when you want Labov to start haunting you but don’t have the time for a seance

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

gatekeeping who can and cannot be a “real New Yorker” is some absolute loser behavior and goes against the very ethos of New York City. and the cherry on top is that JLo lives in LA now

Staying alive today is the most punk rock thing you can do, and after that it's to create things and help others. I don't care what people say, I see this on bluesky in spades every day. There is joy and comfort and hope in people's days because of you, I'm glad you're here. Thanks for existing.

some of this blistering stress is due to the final stages of pulling off an intricate wedding and someone harshly asserting their professional boundaries when I inadvertently texted them about work last night, having lost all track of time, but the Spurs' missed attempts may be most to blame

Still a little light outside but go spurs go as always

These ICE Air flights, where your neighbors are shipped away from their families, to distant government camps, in chains, without probable cause or due process, for indefinite detention, are not unique to Minnesota - they happen at least weekly at every airport on the map below.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo ago

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

we should not underestimate our power to make it a huge pain in the ass to execute on their racist projects.

Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICE eyes selling mega-warehouses purchased for mass detention The agency is also considering selling several planes ICE purchased for deportations under former Secretary Kristi Noem, but no decisions have been made. | NBC News www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

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I teach a grad seminar, Affect Theory and Power, that connects the late writings of Foucault to affect theory. And every year the students (coming from a range of disciplines) blow me away with their fascinating, passionate, groundbreaking papers. Some of my favorite titles from this year -->

not sure why De Gruyter is mocking this great work of scholarship in the DuckDuckGo search results but go off I guess 🙃