Readers should note that this in not just one or two posts, but indeed, the song continues over a whole thread, with footnotes.

Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yf you spye a fadid signe at the syde of the roade that saith 'V short leagues to the Shack of Love'

If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them. defector.com/the-right-ha...

The Right Has Created Their Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN…

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oh hell here we go

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · 3d ago

Ancient Life Discovered in Antarctica's 'Blood Falls' May Finally Reveal Its Origins

The alternative wasn't ideal either. I worked in a district that reopened August 2020 (hybrid/alternating). The fear/stress was intense, with kids and teachers constantly pulled for exposure, and policy/guidelines changed weekly through the fall and again with spring statewide testing.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

the big complaint generally revolves around schools, but the timeline there was pretty sensible: most schools were fully remote until the vaccine rollout, after which they fairly quickly moved to in-person learning.

We'd better raise an Aaron Swartz statue when this is over.

I don’t remember who/what convinced me to add The Fall (2006) to my watchlist, but I’m very thankful.

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

I can’t explain it, but “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” requires Muppets.

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

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

It is right and good for people to have divergent critical opinions and perspectives concerning art and media.

*whispers* Plumbers have the right to be well-educated, too.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Linda McMahon says some elementary school students should be put on a "pathway" to become plumbers

*X-Files theme plays*

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 2w ago

How does one become indoctrinated into bisexuality?

When I say a politics of white reconciliation based on a premise of anti-Blackness people act as if I’m spinning shit out of thin air but…

The Odyssey (2026, dir. Chris Nolan)

This video of a woman telling an anti-abortion asshole to, "Shut the fuck up" is exactly what I needed to see on a Monday morning

Feeling a tad petulant as I work on my fourth to last final ever that it has me adding items to my already monstrous reading list. This is probably as it should be---I picked a topic close to my ongoing research after all---but it's truly spoiling the checklist moment.

Large language models, used these days primarily to produce synthetic text, are a scourge on our information ecosystem. The role of the ACM and other scholarly organizations is to curate and produce and archive scholarly work. >>

Fun fact about bisexuality: at numerous points in history (and at least once a generation since 1850 or so), it gets “discovered” as the “new, futuristic” mode of sexuality/relationship! Look up press coverage of famous bis from Ma Rainey (1920s) to David Bowie (1970s) making this claim.

shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 3w ago

on this day in 1995, scientists discovered bisexuality. happy 31st birthday to all my fellow bs

My latest for @theguardian.com: I got to dive into the impressive and passionate resistance movement within the D&D and TTRPG community, featuring THE @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social @dsa.la @criticalrole.bsky.social @9thlevelgames.bsky.social @roughmagicrpg.bsky.social @twicerolledtales.bsky.social

Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 3w ago

Brennan Lee Mulligan’s Dungeons and Dragons push is part of a wider trend using tabletop games for political action

After hours of lightning talks the last week, I'm saddened by the number of librarians approaching GenAI from a consumer perspective rather than as information specialists. The field is constantly trying to make these services more closely resemble our notions of what AI should be.

"No income! Only subscription!"

If you think the practice of politics does not include the deliberate shifting of public opinion, you just don't understand the game that's being played. It's like saying basketball players should stop trying to get those stupid rebounds and focus on the only important part, scoring.

Literacy is not an individual skill. Literacy is a public infrastructure.

sometimes a news photo is also a Far Side cartoon

According to the most rigorous studies, 10.8% of college men perpetrate at least one rape before graduation. This statistic always comes to mind when I see men in power reacting with disgust to the idea that one of their peers could face even a shred of accountability.

I don’t think "Dem HR ladies" is labor coded or working class aligned. It comes from the same place everything that is terrible in the last two years has come from. The backlash to the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements.

When a dog acts like a round of intense barking was hard work. That's representation.

Ok I figured out who needs to hear this

weeder@weeder.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not sure who needs to hear this but admitting you're wrong doesn't kill you instantly

I can't wait to install the driver, she thought as she ordered the new scanner. She wondered how many startup apps it would auto-install. Would there be a branded one whose function was mysterious and imperceptible?

I'd love to read a paper on how media flips from the "quoting the press release" phase to the "now's the time to ask these important questions" phase.