doctor of softboyology

I may feel drunk right now but I swear that taking melatonin 2 hours before my alarm clock was the smarter option of the available options at the time

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

U of North Texas Cancels Exhibit With Anti-ICE Art The University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design removed an art exhibit that includes anti-ICE artwork, the artist told The Denton Record-Chronicle.

today in "campus free speech":

Close up on the head of a black and white speckled dog as I scratch him on the chin

I have a houseguest

For the past 30+ years, Washington state spending has declined by 61% in K-12 education, 68% in higher education, and (since 1998) by 44% in social, health, and human services.

#WALeg

Husband asked if I will only be wearing baseball themed clothing going forward

Did not win a thing. Congrats to the person who won the thing!

GEORGE RETES: “My name is George Retes. I was born and raised here in Ventura, California. I’m 26 years old and I am an Iraq combat veteran. I was going to work like normal. I show up. ICE is there. There’s kind of like a roadblock. I get out. I identify myself — that I’m a U.S. citizen, that I’m just trying to get to work. I’m trying to leave. I’m getting ready to leave and they surround my car, start banging on it, start shouting these contradictory orders. Even though I was giving them no reason, they still felt the need to — one agent knelt on my back and another agent knelt on my neck. And during that time, I’m just pleading with them that I couldn’t breathe. I was in isolation. I was in basically this concrete cell. I was stripped naked in like a hospital gown. And they leave the lights on 24/7. They just came out and they said that I was violent and that I assaulted agents. Why lie when it’s on video of everything that happened? Why lie?”

PBS News Hour: U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated.

Watch the segment here www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMgC...

I'm clipping transcripts of the citizens speaking in this thread 1/3

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

Framed photo of dog with white flowers in a vase in the foreground to the left

It was Rainn’s birthday today. Miss you buddy.

It’s so cool to live here while all of this urban investment is coming to fruition. It feels like life is getting better all the time.

Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.

Ok thanks, Matt. I guess it may be different for poster sessions, I hope!

AERA-attending folks:

I-Presentation….

I can just not do this, right? I just want to plug in my laptop like a normal human being. I didn’t attend last year so I’m not sure how fanatically they are trying to enforce this nonsense at the meeting.

Southaven, Miss., is a diverse suburb of Memphis with higher than average levels of air pollution, was selected by XAI because the state will do nothing to protect the community. This would be one of the largest fossil power plants in MI & one of the largest data center complexes in the world.

My friends and colleagues know I’m becoming increasingly unhinged and erratic as it gets closer. The pressure is building!

Happy birthday

I know cis people don't realize the cruelty, so with gentleness and empathy for them, let me try to explain.

Being trans is difficult. Instinctively, you already know this because you think it would be better not to be trans.

People blocking seats on public transit during rush hour are a specific form that evil takes

A SKELTEN SCREAMEN AND SCROLLEN THERE PHONE ALOT, AND IT SAYS HELL NO I DONT HAVE ANY EXEUTIVE FUNCTION!!! MY BRAIN AIND IN CHARGE OF ME!!! AND THERE A VAPE PEN "HELL YEAH" WHEN SOMEONE TRYS TO TELL YOU WE DIDNT MAKE ANYTHING GOOD FOR A FEW DECADES REMIND THEM OF THE VAPE PEN, WHAT A NICE TREAT "SOME WEED PLUS SOME POISON AT SMAE TIME" I LOVE CONVENIENCE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

HELL NO - dashare.zone ADMIN

Then why did that one agent clap and cheer after Alex Pretti was full of bullets and why did that other agent call Renee Good a “fucking bitch”? Those are well understood social markers of satisfaction.

I hope we are all prepared. ICE isn’t going away. It’s just (maybe) leaving the city most accustomed to responding effectively to its presence.

I’m on an email chain with senior colleagues across my university and some of them are using this opportunity to demonstrate that they do not possess reading comprehension skills

I will also just add that it doesn’t have to be a geographic region. Your affiliate group could be based in some other kind of shared affinity.

I’m tween-crush-just-died years old.

I hope his family is surrounded by love. That’s way too young.

AI is the “steal your work use your water fuckup your power grid tell you lies with a straight face” regime and you can literally just say no regardless of what other people are doing.

Inevitability narratives are reality crafting tools, and all you have to do to prove them false is do otherwise.

They posted the same on the non-pedo platform bsky.app/profile/seat...

A busy Westlake and 4th

People crowding along the sidewalk at 4th and Cherry

A very busy 4th Ave and S Washington St

It's filling up out there for the Seahawks Victory Parade along 4th Ave. Thank you for bringing your patience if you're traveling today - and for taking transit, biking, or walking to the parade. Let's celebrate!

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.