Rosanne Brooks

Geez. Mine's December 3rd...of this year

Mad Magazine, over 50 years ago

There's Wild Detectives, too. Are you here tomorrow night? There's a reading there I'm going to

An oral report in front of the whole PTA

It would be nice if just one person with power in academia recognized ai as the threat that it is rather than support it and offload responsibility to teachers

YouTube video by pthiso LBJ Orders Pants

How I managed to live my life and not see this absolutely epic piece of internet culture that illustrates audio of LBJ ordering pants is beyond me. There are still tears in my eyes from this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_m...

The alt text is a masterpiece

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Grim.

WASHINGTON, D.C, (May 2, 2025) — Patricia Harrison, President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), issued the following statement today regarding the President’s Executive Order on public media: “CPB is not a federal executive agency subject to the President’s authority. Congress directly authorized and funded CPB to be a private nonprofit corporation wholly independent of the federal government. “In creating CPB, Congress expressly forbade ‘any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over educational television or radio broadcasting, or over [CPB] or any of its grantees or contractors…’ 47 U.S.C. § 398(c).”

Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases.

After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

A photo of the printing event in Mainz (from April 26-27th, 2025) showing a moment of the printing process: two men are lifting the paper from the woodblock. Copyrights from Markus Kohz.

A photo of the printing event in Mainz (from April 26-27th, 2025) showing the giant woodblick, and the giant printed paper open air. Copyrights from Markus Kohz.

Just in case if you missed this printing event in #Mainz: they publically printed a giant page of the Gutenberg bible in the format 5 x 7,20 meter. #bookhistory #skystorians

Actually, I've seen so many movies more than six times. I never grow tired of watching my favorite movies.

Sigourney Weaver holds "Jonesy" behind the scenes on Alien.

happy #alienday to all who celebrate

John Waters standing beside a wall with a sign that says: The John Waters Restrooms. All Gender. Not my photo.

In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD

If you have non-perishable goods and can give them, that’s certainly better than nothing, but what usually ends up happening is everyone gives the same things and then we have like 100 cans of beans to give out

I saw advice to buy extra cans of food when you’re at the grocery store to donate to the food bank.

I want to politely nudge you to give the money directly to food banks (or to mutual aid groups if you know of any).

We can usually stretch a dollar farther than a dollar’s worth of canned goods

A stylish cat wearing glasses and a tiny hat is held by a person in a fur coat

'Jeanette Macdonald with her cat Puzzums, 1932'

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COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

Karma-flavored ice cream is sooo delicious.

A pie chart showing all federal government spending in 2016. A nearly invisible slice, a single line on the pie shows the portion of the roughly 4 trillion dollars of federal outlays that goes to the National Endowment for the Arts ($148 million or 0.003 percent), National Endowment for the Humanities (148 million or 0.003 percent), and the Corporation for Public broadcasting (445 million or 0.01 percent).

An image that has stuck with me since the last Trump presidency when his administration proposed cuts to the NEA, NEH, and public broadcasting. You can't save money by cutting these programs, but you can cause immeasurable harm.

The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊

Hahaha no way

girl what

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes.

Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out