Shawn Gilmore

Aggies for academic freedom!

A broad coalition of faculty, students, staff, and community members are out here at Texas A&M to say NO to censorship and YES to making higher ed a common good!

@tamu-aaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org
@movetexas.bsky.social

Large study finds COVID-19 shots don’t affect fertility

In today's COVID-19 vaccines are safe news. A large study out of Sweden found no association between the vaccines and effects on fertility.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lar...

Adorable snowman made by UIUC undergrads

Please enjoy the work of our undergrads:

I really enjoy seeing my WorkingMan font, which I designed for Blambot around 25 years ago, used so much by letterer Rus Wooton on Skybound's Invincible Universe comics! I designed this as a homage to John Workman's sound effects lettering which I've always loved.

In case you missed it, my first book as a writer – a four-issue body horror mini-series set in Bollywood, if that's your jam – was announced. This thread has all the details, and I'll be updating it as we go.

The confrontation is necessary, but the stuff they are FREAKING OUT about is community.

"The Signals!!!"
"They have coffee and handwarmers ON THE STREET"
etc.

The rightwing mind cannot conceive of earnest neighboring.

NST #1367: George Saunders, "Sticks" (1995) — The Vault of Culture A totem variant appears in “Sticks” by George Saunders, which first appeared in Harper’s Magazine in 1995, later included in Tenth of December (2013).

A totem variant appears in “Sticks” by George Saunders, which first appeared in Harper’s Magazine in 1995, later included in Tenth of December (2013): www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/20...

Simpson Family in their church outfits. Homer has a little flag that says 'AWARDS' on it

i haven't done this since twitter but at the request of 1 (one) person, OSCAR NOMINEES AS SIMPSONS SCREENCAPS THREAD

In theater. So they think they’re at war.

Yale Daily News Masthead with Headline: English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings Amid the rise of artificial intelligence and concerns about distraction, more English professors are turning to no-technology policies that prioritize physical books and reading packets.

“The English classroom is increasingly a kind of special place where it’s still possible to converse without the screen.” —Nancy Yousef

yaledailynews.com/articles/eng...

Protected speech made my agents murder these people, says federal official

Of you looking down on the trading floor in the small figures of the Traders rush around and exaggerated poses of joy and despair or simply stare at little pieces of paper and towed up their profits and losses little slips of paper cover the floor as well

New York Stock Exchange — Tony Sarg, 1927

Drawing from early last year ✍️

#art #drawing #charcoal #darkart

Candlelight Dialogues page 1

Candlelight Dialogues page 2

Taken delivery of a copy of Mighty World of Marvel issue 7. Once again I am rendered speechless by Alan Davis' work on Captain Britain

A little armored one / turtle rabbit in the wild

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

Hell. Yes. Bjorn Barends absolutely CRUSHING it on this new SPACE GHOST cover!

Dr. Mitchel A. Obremski ~ Manhattan Bridge and Statue, New York City, 1930s

#Photography #NewYorkCity

you can’t fucking dox a public official!

Tom Wilkinson’s armload of baguettes in Michael Clayton

We may need a lot of them, à la Tom Wilkinson in Michael Clayton

YouTube video by Dr. Ben Mitchell Moral Treatment: Neurodivergence, Libraries, and Labour in Historical Context

New recorded lecture just dropped from the OLA Conference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9_L...

“In 2029 we will rebuild the East Wing as it was, where it was, and pay for it with seized assets from Trump, his family, his companies and organizations, and all companies involved in the illegal demolition of public property.”

French photographer Pierre-Yves Petit (aka Yvon)
Eiffel Tower, 1920

#Photography #Paris

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Comics #28 (1944). On the cover Porky Pig looks startled as he watches Bugs Bunny ice skate because it seems Bugs doesn't realize he is about to skate right into a big hole in the ice. He has a cocky look on his face but doesn't see the large "danger sign" coming out of the hole.

The amount of money the US government spent on troops in DC in 2025 ($223m) would have been enough to give the city's ~5,100 homeless residents each $43,000. Instead, federal troops destroyed their meager encampments.

Half a billion on terrorizing citizens but we can’t have universal healthcare or basic income or affordable housing or public transit or

Earth-size planet spotted with yearlong orbit Long-overlooked Kepler signal discovered by citizen scientists reveals promising world worth a closer look

New planet just dropped and it

1) is almost exactly Earth-sized

2) has a year that's almost exactly 1 Earth year.

3) orbits a star that is not a 💢temperamental little shit M-dwarf 💢but is instead a 🧡 good orange boi 🧡

Me for @science.org based on results presented at #RockyWorlds4: 🔭🧪

Oh, nice! I'll see about putting examples of that type in the NST queue. 🐙

Ilan Wurman's anti-birthright citizenship Supreme Court amicus. I won't mince words. He bastardizes the common law. It is a methodologically bankrupt approach to the history of Anglo-American constitutionalism. It is little more than preening to gain someone's favor, but certainly not a scholar's.