Ash B 💗📚💗

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and higher the top of that delight, than the bottom of the woe is deep

I will look and see what’s possible - thank you!

I may try! (my place IS pretty small and broke tho)

The Public Scholar Workshop There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher educat...

Brief self-promotion: This spring I am doing workshops and talks for a humanities collective at nyu, association of women in math, teaching advancement folks at UNT, a school of social work, a bunch of brain scientists, an anonymous neighborhood group in occupied MN, and some folks at UVA.

Something extremely funny could happen tomorrow

But then you compared this fictional story to an actual true letter? The Atlantic is a major platform and doesn’t usually publish fiction like this. There may be a place for stories like this, but I believe doing actual journalism in the Atlantic would have a greater impact.

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.

Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court

*she (missed that this was Elizabeth and not Matt)

I would argue that Dahl’s letter is a lot more devastating BECAUSE it’s true. Brueing has access - why couldn’t he do some real reporting on this?

Operation Hornidoll is GO! (As soon as I get some rest.)

come on the blue boat home, friend

Illustration of Jackass Jenny, standing on the body of a nazi wolf to punch an ICE agent dog in the nose (subtlety is dead). Text reads: "New Dogs, Old Tricks"

Jackass Jenny #3 - if only they'd learn "lie down" and "play dead" #illustration #meltice

like I have definitely stumbled across stuff on ao3 with the same vibes which I have backspaced out of very quickly. but fictional children can’t be harmed and thus none of this stuff should be considered CSAM.

gross and definitely not my kink, but it shouldn‘t be CSAM If it doesn’t involve actual non-fictional children.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

it has more in common, in fact, with with the antebellum slaveholder preoccupation with (its vision of) medieval europe, a romantic notion of Anglo supremacy that you can see articulated, in similar form, during the early days of american imperialism at the turn of the 20th century.

rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.

four score and seven years later, lincoln would defend the american experiment in similar terms, rooting the the war effort in a defense of freedom and equality — those were the things that made american civilization distinctive in his telling.

interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”

A brown cat with its mouth side open lays across a laptop computer.

You must respect the wishes of work stoppage cat.

📸 cat_anko3

photo of a poem in a book: URGENT MESSAGE TO A FRIEND IN PAIN I have to tell you a little thing about living, (I know, I know, but listen), a little thing I've carried in the dark: Remember when you saw the stars of childhood, when you knelt alone and thought that they were there for you, lamps that something held to prove your beauty? They are they are they are they are they are. — Joseph Fasano

Several times today I got in a happy mood, then was reminded of this. As @ajaxsinger.bsky.social pointed out earlier, the Nazis did this. Literally. We have concentration camps committing atrocities committed by the Nazis.

Someone I know posted this when they read about this Thanksgiving sadism

Don't mind me, just thinking about them again
#edizzy #t4t #ofmd

Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off

Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech but Abe Lincoln is replaced by the Punch Ice In the Face Kid

"yeah I'm gonna punch you in the face"

Happy Valentine’s day to a man who deserves love and more 🩷

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Vanguard of the Republic.