CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

I am very happy to rarely use the internet for work at this point but I am collecting sample research proposals for my MA methods students! If anyone has any laying around, especially if they are Media Studies -adjacent, I'd be super stoked to receive them. Thank you!

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

100% fucking true

I have watched my talented, ethical friends lose their jobs because Nazi fuckups like Weiss siphon all the money out of the room and use it to create propaganda mills where sycophants tell the Führer and his thugs they're so special and brave and everyone loves them

The cuts at the National Endowment for the Humanities go far deeper than any of these agencies - almost 70% of 179 people were terminated, despite no change to the agency's budget.

There were no savings here - only idealogical destruction. #NEH

genuinely so funny to see this and have been alive in 2007

Proud to be part of AAUP. Running for a leadership role right now to help reinvigorate our chapter in these critical times.

Miss Major, one of the mothers of the trans liberation movement, has been in the hospital for 10 days with sepsis and a blood clot. She has looked out for us for generations, now it’s time to look out for her. Donate if you can: fundly.com/missmajor

The book Technocreep and the Politics of Things Not Seen, from the chapter “Surveillance Vigilantes, Property, Porch Pirates and Paranoia on Nextdoor”

Given how trans and autistic populations overlap, it's less moving on than doubling down

Taking a non-story and making it into a new moral panic

The "liberals have to learn how to live with people we diagree with" line kinda stops making sense in a world where the central disagreement is whether disagreeing with them should be allowed at all

Y'all meed to know that today is the final day for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's extensive archives of public media.

Getting deleted forever.

Frfr fuck this fascist regime

Texas Tech isn't the only university system handing down chilling, verbal-only directives banning discussions about transgender identity. If this is happening at your institution, I want to know about it--reach me on Signal at emmawhitford.96

www.insidehighered.com/node/192421/...

i know it’s pointless to ask where the fuck were these people when college kids were getting expelled and doxxed and beaten by police for daring to oppose a genocide but seeing them all line up for mediocre rich white comedian is really sending me

Hey Bluesky it's my birthday next week. I'm turning 50. Officially turning into an old leftist. If you'd like to celebrate with me, help me raise funds for the Sameer Project. If 50 people contribute $20 for every year I've been alive, that's $1000! chuffed.org/project/1132...

Teamsters are on strike at the U of M. Don’t let anyone fool you, this is all about fairness. All are welcome at tonight’s rally, 5:30 on the East Bank at Northrop.

I can’t quite put it into words yet, but something is happening, a kind of global singularity—a fusion of tech/media/news/government/employment which allows the global elite to push single agendas: “You WILL care about Charlie Kirk. You will NOT care about Palestine. You WILL fear cancel culture.”

Even omitting that, far-right and neo-Nazi militias were engaged in guerilla conflict with the US government for the first half of the 90s culminating in the deadliest act of domestic terror in American history

*watching innocent people rapidly acquire the cursed knowledge that has driven me to madness* oh no

Update

UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...