Marcipan

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Detroit is a union town!

the kind of wisdom one would hope to find in anxient tomes 🩸

My vet called and told me not to tranquilize him before bringing him in. He wasn't tranquilized, he was just a floppy, carefree, boneless hairball doing a vague cat impression. Miss that guy.

Exactly this.

And this is why it is extremely important that if you care about bodily autonomy you have to care about trans healthcare rights.

If the federal government can take away my right to testosterone, they can take away your right to birth control.

And they want to do both.

Workers Need More Paths to Join the Labor Movement [This article is part of a Labor Notes roundtable series: How Can Unions Defend Worker Power Against Trump 2.0? We will be publishing more contributions here and in our magazine in the months ahead. C...

To build an organized working class that can take on the billionaires and ICE’s reign of terror, the labor movement should be steadily bringing in a lot more motivated people into its ranks, write Roz Hunter and Megan Svoboda of @organizeworkers.bsky.social labornotes.org/2026/02/work... 🧵1/6

Don’t spend the precious moments of your life watching an old rapist lie to you on TV tonight, do something healthier like chew on roofing nails

His research method is impeccable.

I am picturing people using a pop tart as a pretend phone and it is getting funnier and funnier to me

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Today is smiling happy union member day on my timeline.

I've rarely smelled a smell worse than the used hat with the stupid plume they made me wear while playing "Love Shack" on a saxophone in the middle of a football field. The sweat of 20 years of band nerds foreheads just cooked into the felt.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu…

Trump’s FCC pressured CBS into not airing Stephen Colbert’s interview of James Talarico.

Here it is on YouTube. Worth watching.

youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Irish national—married to US citizen, valid work permit, green card pending—thrown into ICE's "concentration camp." His story rips the mask off: Not safety, just cruelty. Locked up, dehumanized, family shattered. This isn't America. Shut these camps down. Demand justice. #sheshed

If you can read this without feeling sick to your stomach, I don't know what to say.

image from wallace and gromit, a calendar showing February 12th labelled on a calendar as "Gromits birthday"

baby gromit with a pink boneshaped cake with one candle

everyone shut UP it's gromit's birthday HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROMIT

UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.

"As UAW members, we speak truth to power. We don't just protect rights, we exercise them. TJ, we got your back."

— UAW Vice President Laura Dickerson

www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

Photo of Roscoe Van Zandt, the only Black worker officially acknowledged to have sat down inside the plants during the Flint GM sit down strike in 1937.

Photo of Roscoe Van Zandt holding a U.S. flag and fellow Flint GM sit-down strikers outside an auto plant after workers won their union on February 11, 1937.

Roscoe Van Zandt, a janitor at Chevrolet Plant Four, was the only Black worker officially acknowledged to have sat down inside the plants during the Flint GM sit-down strike.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

Please take the time to read what the children detained in Dilley wrote me in their own words: www.propublica.org/article/ice-... 10/

"Trash. Trash. Trash."

"Push. Just push where it says push. No, that's an ashtray. Just push. Push. Push on the thing that says push."

#OtD 7 Feb 1919 construction workers in Essex, NJ, voted to strike if alcohol prohibition came into force. However, union leaders called off the action, saying it would make them "look ridiculous". We made this commemorative merch: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

The people whose names literally show up thousands of times in the Epstein files want you to think a 5-year-old refugee and star kindergarten student is the problem with this country rather than the white pedophiles in charge of it who keep stealing American money and assaulting American children

This is our year! Let's go!

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

My actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.