Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈

our adopt a rent donor list is running dry. i might have to set up an illegal lemonade stand in front of my house.

Trump after trying Pokemon Scarlet and not caring for it

Hahahahhaaaa

A Greek nun holds the hand of a man on the deck of a ship in a storm. Their clothes and the ropes of the ship are blowing in the wind, waves crash behind them, and they are lit up as if lightning has just struck nearby. Paraskevi looks encouraging while the man looks shellshocked but hopeful. Golden Byzantine saints’ icons hang from around their necks and glitter in the light.

Here's my newest Women of 1000 piece! This is Paraskevi, also known as St Parascheva. She was a Byzantine hermit nun who defied her parents to live an ascetic life and travelled to the Holy Land as a pilgrim.

#medievalsky #skystorians 🗃️

YOU'VE EARNED IT!!!! 🎓
(free high-res digital download here: ko-fi.com/s/e5b1b60187)
#OFMD #OFMDfanart

Crochet sword with flowers on a cream backdrop

Finished with the main piece, will crochet it to a rod and add a border

#crochet

I don’t feel well, maybe I’ll go watch the new season of Bridgerton

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

Texas’ Senate Primary Race Is the Most Expensive on Record, Ad Tracking Report Says A staggering $128 million has been spent in Texas’ Senate primary, per an ad tracking report, thanks mostly to John Cornyn and Republicans.

Ad spending in the Texas Republican race has stacked up to $98.9 million, according to AdImpact, which noted that GOP spending alone would be one of the most expensive Senate primaries on record.

We’re here to break down the numbers for you.

thebarbedwire.com/2026/03/03/t...

Today is primary day in Texas! Want to keep up with the coverage? Follow these Texas politics reporters and elections experts for the very latest

a close up of a cookie monster 's paw holding a cookie Alt: Me, eating *all* the jobs. Nom nom nom nom nom. I look exactly like beloved Children's Television Workshop's creation "Cookie Monster," except I'm very, very mean.

"If someone who has a PhD in sociology can use AI to do an end-to-end analysis and write a paper in ~1 day"

You can give me his job.

I am now the Job Monster.

I get *all* the jobs of people convinced they can do them with an LLM.

I give them, like Santa Claus, to the good little grad students.

I believe every claim of the AI enthusiasts: it does simplify your inbox, Yascha Mounk did use it to write theory papers, you can write 1000 manuscripts for a hundred bucks. But I am a solid month into using the most expensive Claude Code for the most basic tasks and I cannot trust it.

Collin County early voting turnout highest in 20 years Democrats in Collin County led a surge in early vote turnout ahead of Texas' March 3 primary.

Texas primaries are today!

Go vote!

www.dallasnews.com/news/electio...

A good deal of the argument that AI can produce publishable research is based on the fact that bad research already gets published. Hallucinations don’t matter, they say, because academics sometimes cite things they haven’t read. Guys, you aren’t making the argument you think you are.

@democracyforward.org released some heartening stats about pro-democracy litigation against the Trump admin.

Our legal victory in AAUP v. Trump, which blocked the weaponization of civil rights law and withdrawal of funding at the UC system, is part of this welcome trend.

Read more below👇

Texas is on the front lines of the fight against government suppression of academic inquiry. We must continue to hold the line against those who wish to control the range of topics that can be taught in the classroom.

Keep fighting. Our democracy depends on it.
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org

Texas A&M helped me thrive as a transgender person. Now, it's complicated. A mostly good college experience is hard to square with the school that exists now. 

"When people would ask me what it was like to be trans and go to A&M, I'd tell them, actually, I had a pretty good time. But that mostly good experience I left with is now hard to square with the Texas A&M that currently exists."

Notable A&M alumni warn 'excessive' politics is reshaping campus leadership Some Aggie alumni and supporters are voicing worries about Texas A&M University's independence from partisan politics.

The warnings and worries are correct....

#LetStudentsLearn
#BTHOcensorship

Opinion: Take your feet off our necks Against my better judgment to not put sensitive information in writing — the greatest, yet-to-be-censored lesson the regents still ought to learn — I’m confessing my feelings: I’m exhausted. The regents have officially graduated from demoting deans, botching a professor hiring and firing lecturers to eliminating our Women’s and Gender Studies program. Care to guess...

"We’re all bearing witness to the institutionalization of intellectual violence at a university that should be free from aggressive political interference."

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

BREAKING: Our client Mahmoud Khalil is appealing an immigration judge’s ruling that says the Trump administration can re-detain and deport him.

This judge’s order was baseless and retaliatory, and must be reversed before Mahmoud’s rights are violated again.

[update] Investigating: Following guidance from our vendor, we've brought #AO3 back online to help troubleshoot. We expect the site will go back down, although we don't know when that will happen. If you choose to post or update your works while AO3 is up, we strongly recom...

“From the team behind FBI and CIA, comes IRS. Coming this fall to CBS.”

Shoutout to every writer out there writing the kind of books fascists keep trying to ban.

Obvious ai manipulation on the left. Original photo by David Batcheller on the right. Look at the wings, feather shape, head, neck and bill shape, lack of tail etc. This is way more than a filter and absolutely destroys the joy and wonder of the original.

So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.

I really wish I could spend some part of my life not being angry at <waves arms at all the shit> or sad at <waves arms at all the shit>

Le sigh

If you’re part of any creative groups, unions or other organisations in the uk you should be passing news like this along and spreading the world. News like this gets has the chance to be overlooked but if enough organisations kick up a fuss things can change.

I think it's weird that there are a handful of Big Twitter Accounts™ that seem to lurk on Bluesky in search of Content™ they can share in the form of screenshots, tbh. Kind of pathetic, honestly.