Six-Eyed Kitten

Ken Paxton now should really talk to Ken Paxton then...

New York opens first-in-nation homeless shelter for transgender people The shelter will offer services to 150 residents.

It’s good to remember there are still people out there doing the right thing.

Counterpoint to the AHA Committee: it is NOT OUR JOB TO TEACH AI literacy. It is our job to teach students history, critical thinking; how to interrogate and analyse sources, primary and secondary; how to write and weave historical narratives; how to communicate history to the public and more.

"Produce a historical image"?!? Like I don't agree with the others either but that seems to explicitly not be a historical image then?

If we emerge with a non-fascist society, each and every university administrator who Chamberlained or Vichied to any degree must be ruthlessly expelled from any position of responsibility or influence. Let their name be stricken from every tablet. They shouldn’t run a hot-dog stand.

Really seems about time for the faculty to revolt. And any students who have the privilege of a soft landing.

F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats

This is a demand for unconstitutional, arbitrary power. There is no offense against the United States here. The FBI has no role to assist the State of Texas in becoming an authoritarian enclave.

F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

I cannot describe the rage I feel when the guy trying to inspire pity for the billionaires refers to the rich giving a horrific "15%" of their yearly income in taxes when as a self-employed author I was often paying fucking 30%.

(seeing the president wandering around on the roof while the economy adds 3 jobs per month amid weekly pedophilia revelations) time to sign a billion dollar settlement with this man

Any of my Bluesky friends fluent in asl? Looking for someone to interpret a seven min presentation! Will pay.

Sarah Lax I am so sorry I did you the disservice of thinking you would give an anonymous quote instead of CALLING A REPORTER YOURSELF TO DEMAND CONTINUING COVERAGE TO PRESSURE THE CHURCH

great quotes in here from parents pulling their kids out and from the beloved teacher who resigned

The Only Good Billionaire Not dead? Get fed by Ted.

Look, it's supposed to be a secret, but we all know the "secret": the billionaire Theodore Rufus MacIntyre the Third is grinding up his own endlessly regenerating flesh for the poor to eat for free. That's all there is to it.

This is the only way anybody needs to be talking right now.

A postcard, front and back. The front shows several pictures of the city Bergen in Norway, three along the top and one along the bottom. Text above them all reads Bryggen i Bergen. The top pictures show buildings and squares from around the city, while the bottom picture is a view from the water with boats lined up in front of a mass of peaked houses, a hill rising behind the city. The dominant color is red. The back reads: Dear J, I have landed in Bergen, and I'm being treated just as you feared I'd be: regardless of what I say, they won't stop giving me money. I sit at a cafe for coffee and a croissant and not only will they not take payment, they load my plate with coins. If I refuse to take the money, I find it piled outside the door of my hotel room or slipped into my backpack when my back was turned. I'd hoped our family's crimes had been forgotten. I am given everything except a ticket out of town. All my needs and desires are met before I can voice them. I just fear that soon the townfolk will come to collect. ~A

Regardless of what I say, they won't stop giving me money.

Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax' Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state.

2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible.

www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

What Has Abbott’s $100 Million in Border Security Bought Taxpayers? Office Renovations and Expensive Trucks. Gov. Abbott’s highly-touted Operation Lone Star has sent more than $100 million to Texas counties, but the money is funding office renovations and equipment seemingly unrelated to immigration enforcem...

Gov. Abbott’s highly-touted Operation Lone Star has sent more than $100 million to Texas counties, but the money is funding office renovations and equipment seemingly unrelated to immigration enforcement — despite that the grants were earmarked for border security.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/05/w...

AI is not useful for educators.

🧵A president on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here in our little country of America, you might say every one of us is a president on the roof, trying to create an authoritarian state without breaking his neck. It isn't easy.

Get more from Seize The Press Magazine on Patreon creating an anticapitalist dark fiction magazine.

Been a while since I’ve rattled the alms tin so if you enjoy our peculiar brand of weird shit, have a few quid/dollars/euros/whatever to spare and fancy chucking it our way you can do it on our Patreon.

It’s the only thing that keeps the lights on round here so it’s much appreciated.

We were robbed last night. When it’s our stock or our money that is targeted, there’s insurance and systems in place for this, but when it’s stealing from a charity in an extremely direct way then we just can’t abide it.

scottishbooktrust.com/donate

@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social

My friend and fellow journalist @alecluhn.bsky.social is missing. If you have any info/sway that could help this situation please send me a message 💛

Digital artists keep fucking telling you: the product is fucking vapourware. We’re arguing philosophical hypotheticals when the product doesn’t work, and the claims are a deliberate attempt to justify wage theft…

Spoiler! What comes next is a lot of waiting! (Usually!)

That's awesome! Congrats!

Hey! Some news. Very excited to announce I am now represented by @mkcurry.bsky.social at the Donald Maass Literary Agency! I'm an admirer of many authors who work with Michael and DMLA, especially ones who do stranger work, so I'm glad I get to join them. Looking forward to what comes next!

YouTube video by Sam Moss Author Tutorial: Finding a Link to a Story that is No Longer Available

Have you ever published a story, poem or essay online, only to have the venue fold and your work disappear?

It's not fun, but there is a good technique that can help you out.

I put together a quick video that shows how to find a saved copy of your work: youtu.be/v_Pym4yd528

Never forget that Charles Manson read How To Win Friends & Influence People in prison and credits all the lessons about how to seem pleasant for his success in recruiting people to a literal death cult. Charm is a verb as much as it is an attribute.

The persistent belief that people who believe abhorrent things are identifiably abhorrent 100% of the time is honestly going to kill us all.

Zero Tolerance Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?

"The fact is that telling a voiceless person they have free speech is like telling a poor person they have freedom of money: Nice work if you can get it!"

This is a great essay about Thomas Chatterton Williams' new book, but also about America in general.

Inside Instacart's Astro-Turf Group Opposing Worker Minimum Wage - Streetsblog New York City Instacart is trying everything to pressure the mayor to veto a bill that would require the company to pay its workers minimum wage.

Instacart is ramping up its effort to push Mayor Adams to veto a Council bill that would expand the delivery worker minimum wage to its shoppers, placing op-eds in local papers, funding a fake grassroots group and targeting individual Council members. buff.ly/SPF2TAU