When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

George Orwell

For the cynics who think it doesn’t matter, that the compensation for authors whose work was stolen will be so low it’s not worth fighting, I personally think it’s worth making the monetary punitive damage these companies suffer as big as possible to deter similar theft in the future.

I’ve seen this sort of sentiment pop up a few times this week, so just to mention: this happened because of Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, when reviews became not an argument but a numerical datapoint influencing the seemingly objective measure of a piece of art’s worth.

Absolutely fuck Air Canada, solidarity with everyone on strike, this is such an appalling state of affairs. I thought I had a working understanding of the grievances & demands but it’s so much worse than I thought.

Remember, kids! Hating on workers who want better working conditions is boot licking 101.

Flight attendants are literally not paid until the doors close on the plane. If you showed up to work at 9am but didn't start getting paid until 11am, you'd feel some kinda way, too.

理良猫 by Girls

This was a fascinating find because this band apparently set one of the molds for josei bands in the 70s. Half of their album is Japanese while the other covers songs like Honky Tonk Women and Cherry Bomb.

It’s so hard to find them on streaming platforms…

Oh, Two Major Dramas Sung And Performed by Players of the Komparu and Kanze Schools of Noh, Tokyo.

This was an interesting find even if I can’t fully understand it. It did come with a handy book to at least get the gist of what both plays are about in English! It also came out of Lawrence HS…

浪曲十八番競演集　(The Favorite Roukyoku Recital) by 天中軒・雲月　IV (Tenchuken Ungetsu IV).

Roukyoku is a sad story told by way of sung and spoken word accompanied by a shamisen. This record features two stories— 「花の雨」(Rain of Flowers) and 「芋代官行状記」(An Account on the Behavior of the Potato Magistrate).

Targeting “mail in” balloting will disenfranchise military members who are serving overseas and on naval vessels at sea. It will also disenfranchise the elderly who might have mobility issues in getting to the polls, not to mention those who might have no transportation resources at all.

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous.

Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

@adorabirb.bsky.social on funny WEBTOON censorship, Hilary on fluffy bunny rabbits, @danmorris.bsky.social on the newest Inio Asano!

For art, learn the skills you need. Those will last you a lifetime. Software and tech change all the time. Your skills will outlast any company.

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The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

I am a bestselling author with my books in print in over 100 countries and 7 languages. Writing is still not my only income source.

“It took 2,000 years for women to get their rights, and trans women having rights would compromise that” is hilarious if you know anything about how universal suffrage was achieved. Not every woman counted, and some leaders liked it that way.

Glacier Bay Books has launched a Kickstarter campaign for its fall releases, including 5 titles such as True Blue Never Fades, Baku Chan, and more.

Hey! I'm Baxter and I've got a blog called Tsundoku Diving that's my little heaven for fans of Japanese media.

There's deep dive essays, subs for obscure films, scanlations of alt manga, an archive of movie pamphlets, 150+ hand picked recs, and even some of my own fiction!

Jump in & swim around :)

This is the way.

RFK wants to lean into “whole cell” vaccine technology, which has existed for decades, comes with increased risk of side effects and can take years to develop.

mRNA vaccine technology comes with far decreased risk of side effects and can take mere months to develop.

Make it make sense!

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Love these angles.

Drawing this tight space, and making these talking scenes visually dynamic and engaging, that's what it's all about.

We (retroactively) think of the "golden age" of comics as the golden age of *superhero* comics, but what people were actually reading and buying during this period was largely "funny animals", humor (Little Lulu, etc.), westerns, and licensed TV/movie stuff. Look at them Dell sales numbers!