Colin

“Wed-ness-day” and “Pho-ee-nix” are still with me!

Schnurkeramik-Kultur mention 🎉🏺🎉 🥳🥳🥳

SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL (cc: @proprietous.bsky.social)

I just can’ttttttt. This was already a stale trope by the ‘90s (maybe earlier)! At least pick a different category! “Not a big market for wrought iron these days”?

ICE is bad. Deportation is bad. Immigration restriction is almost always bad. Armed masked men going into homes without warrants is so obviously villainous that the fact anyone approves it is a stain that will haunt even generous histories of our nation ever after.

I am anti-ICE.

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

I wish that my rage about this could be turned into a source of energy to power the world because it is truly incandescent and limitless.

Big exhibition on the Shakers opening later this month at the Institute for Contemporary Art here in Philly! Just in case you find yourself wandering through town :B

Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate

jfc

I AM ALSO SCREAM

Heck yessssssssssss congratulations!!! ❤️

Jaya, this completely rules. Thank you for giving it to the world! ❤️

Surely the statute of limitations has expired on that one?

Oh yikes Sarah, SO sorry! [huggggg]

hi, cis folks!

if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now.

the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE.

we need you to call senators: reps.fyi

more info & script downthread.🧵

Wuthering Flats

The way that just about *every* line of copy contains a plausibly deniable double entendre…LLMs could never

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

According to the Wikipedia article for "extract" (surely an unassailable source? :B), "feedstock" is it! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract

Slightly diminish a band: Ironeye Span

Smarmy PA Republican Senators are now proposing to rob SEPTA's capital budget to pay for highways to nowhere in their rural counties in exchange for not bankrupting SEPTA's operations.

We are the economic powerhouse of this state and we are treated with profound disrespect. Absolutely disgusting

I really and truly need people to understand that a chatbot does not and cannot know anything. Like, I need them to understand that in their bones. It is very good at looking like it knows something, but it does not and cannot know anything.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

I would like to be clear. My writing doesn’t have em dashes because I use AI. AI uses em dashes because stunningly effective writers like me use them.

The oatGOAT

Trains Magazine: Amtrak's Borealis reaches 250,000 rider mark

A slow daily diesel train between Minneapolis and Chicago sees 100,000 more riders than it was projected to see when it opened a year ago, and you all want to tell me there’s no demand for fast and frequent trains in this country lol.

(I would love to know who/what you’re reading! This is the particular academic/professional sandbox I spend most of my time in 😊)