Your Mom, PhD

Jesus Christ, man, you need to apologize for your craven cowardice on the nonexistent “DEI” panic, hire more people to fix the disgusting unattended shelves due to chronic understaffing, and stop making people need security to unlock a cabinet to buy underwear. This isn’t complicated.

Oh, also World History 1500-present. Developing a new course about Adventure Time.

Academic history colleagues, list all the courses you teach. 🗃️

Mine are:
1. African History to 1800
2. African History 1800-present
3. WGS in African History
4. Modern African Novels
5. African Humanities
6. Cultural Memory
7. The Satanic Panic

More soon!

I am so excited for more and more people to discover Judith Butler

If you’re having a tough day or maybe need a little pick me up, just remember that someday, after we have crushed the fascists, motherfuckers like Kristi Noem will be held responsible for their crimes against humanity.

It must be really hard working in a professional kitchen what with all the spies and secret agents in hot pursuit of bad guys constantly running through smashing up all your shit.

"If we were in a relationship, I'd be the man in the relationship."

-Markwayne Mullin on his "new friend" Sean O'Brien, Feb. 2025.

Wonder if the Teamsters will stand up to DHS violating its members' civil rights or if Sean and Markwayne will just have a good laugh about it over cigars.

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

I cackled.

You can call your WA legislators at 800-562-6000 to let them know you support the millionaires' tax.

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

‘We’re in it’: Democrats won’t rule out giving Trump more money for Middle East war Democrats will have to balance a desire to criticize Trump’s offensive in Iran with pressure to support funding to defend the nation now at war.

Senate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico:

Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov
Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov
Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov
Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov
Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov
Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov

Mar 4 2026 BlueSky post claiming that it explained why we bombed a school in Iran "INFORMATION THAT IS A DECADE OLD" and had A Claude chat answer as its source

Hey guys this is not a viable source. Besides the fact that any AI system being used by the government presumably has access to more updated date (I sure hope). Claude is not a person, it can't answer questions about why it did something, it confidently lies, it doesn't have access to other's state.

All these companies are like "We can't just turn these chatbot services off," really, I'm old enough to remember Vine

This is the exact same Guy you could find 2,000 years ago as a Roman senator gleefully listing the number of Germani slain and sold into slavery, 900 years ago exulting in the sack of Jerusalem, or 100 years ago celebrating 500 yards taken on the Western Front. Timeless chickenhawk scum.

Yet, this well-documented pattern did not appear among Black participants. The data provides evidence that Black women do not shy away from competition, nor are they any less willing to take financial risks than Black men. This suggests that the broad behavioral generalizations scientists have made about men and women for years are heavily skewed by predominantly White study samples.

*looks at camera Black womanly*

That's my fear (always). Like one of the reasons I don't want a smart anything is that I don't want a company to just be able to shut down my car/refrigerator/sewing machine if I don't want to pay a subscription.

Enshittification is the word of the era.

You stop that *slaps hand*

1. I absolutely agree 💯

2. I don't know how it would work for folks with older cars who specifically drive them bc we do not want "smart" tech that surveils us.

Really and truly would love a solution for this! Bc it's a great idea!

Actually yes I am saying that you shouldn’t dehumanize anyone

No exceptions to the rule

🤷🏽‍♀️

yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)

Good example of the way anti-trans hate and antisemitism continue to be intertwined in American discourse. Once more subtly, now far more overtly.

Oh.

I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

Yeah.......

imagine spending your career working to get all those lil patches only to end up taking orders from donald trump lmao

Whooooooooooo boy.