Richard Littauer

Dear NZ: fight civil asset forfeiture with everything you have in you. Love, the US

Frankly I’m with Lubo

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy. Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

The ACLU petition still hasn't reached it's signature goal? WHAT? That needs to change now. 200k signatures is nothing, let's GET IT. AT LEAST!
action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

Day 188 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's #JohnOliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John(H. sapiens) with a Leptopecten gilbertharrisi, named for PRIs founder, who didn't trust Cornell to value his science/collections 👀 #SavePRI
#Cornell ⚒️🦑🧪

As a non-Maltese and non-British person who lived there for almost a year: I am very unsurprised by the interactions you've witnessed. I'm sorry.

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

This has not gotten much attention, but it should.

Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.

Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

Forest & Bird: Four of five whitebait species endangered - NZ Herald Forest & Bird: Four of the five native fish species that make up whitebait are endangered.

Thanks for focusing on the excellent schools here in Island Bay. It's great.

But maybe eating whitebait should not be encouraged. Four out of five of our native whitebait fish are endangered. www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/...

Damn

@dominictarr.bsky.social Did I make you use my plastic mug from my boat? Because I used it yesterday and thought, "Man, I miss my boat", and then was like, "I hope Dom knows that this was the only thing I kept from it."

Seattle GNU/Linux Conference SeaGL is a grassroots technical conference dedicated to spreading awareness and knowledge about the GNU/Linux community and free/libre/open-source software/hardware.

There are also a ton of other great talks you can listen to in advance. Join us!

seagl.org

ON THE OTHER HAND I have actually talked about my talk in advance! And you can join and watch it, for free!

You can even see my slides a day early! I've never done this before wow

github.com/RichardLitt/...

Ask me questions or comments?

I am glad I am not alone.

Yep been there. :)

Time zones are horrible. See you all in 24 hours.

Amazing! That's super fast.

Don't stop aiming high! Desk rejections are OK. They happen. Sometimes they help. Keep it up.

@naturalist2008.bsky.social I am having a really tough time finding a copy of Haneda, Y. (2008). Taxonomic guide to the Japanese Aculeate Hymenoptera. 8. Subfamily Crabroninae (1). Tsunekibachi 13, p. 1-17. Any chance you could help? It's only in 日本語。日本語で話しません。。。

I am giving a talk in a bit at #SeaGL on my favourite stuff to talk about, the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Wikipedia, birds, and Code. pretalx.seagl.org/2025/talk/P8...

Probably easy to join?

Statement from The NewsGuild of New York and Condé United on illegal firing of four union leaders who demanded answers about this week’s layoffs at Teen Vogue, other brands Late Wednesday night, Condé Nast’s VP of Labor Relations notified the Guild that the Company was immediately terminating four Condé United leaders for engaging in the protected concerted activity of gathering in their 1 World Trade Center office to demand answers on this week’s abrupt layoffs at multiple brands including WIRED and the consolidation at Teen Vogue. These egregious terminations are a flagrant breach of the Just Cause terms of our contract and an unprecedented violation of their federally protected rights as union members to participate in a collective action. Through these illegal terminations, Condé Nast management is attempting to intimidate and silence our members' advocacy for the courageous cultural and political journalism of Teen Vogue, as well as diverting attention away from the obvious lack of corporate leadership at the company. Condé United members illegally fired are: Alma Avalle: Writer, digital producer at Bon Appetit; NewsGuild of New York first vice president, trans activist, and union leader Jake Lahut: Wired senior reporter covering the Trump White House Jasper Lo: Senior fact checker at The New Yorker and US Army veteran: outgoing first vice chair of The New Yorker Union Ben Dewey: Videographer at Condé Nast Entertainment, former vice chair of the CNE unit “Management’s attempt at union-busting, using intimidation and grossly illegal tactics to try to suppress protected union activity, will not stand,” said Susan DeCarava, president of The NewsGuild of New York. “The NewsGuild of New York has zero tolerance for bad bosses who harass, target and disrespect our fellow Guild members. We represent nearly 6,000 media workers across the tri-state area and we stand firmly in solidarity, ready to fight for the rights of our members illegally fired from their jobs at …

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

THIS IS AMAZING

David became a freelance bioinformatician due to the situation he describes 👇.

Freelance workers are typically looking for the next contract. That's how it is. Maybe we could boost this signal so that people who appreciate David's experience and principles can find him?

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

Information on the 2025 Marsden Fund round Information about the number of funded proposals in the 2025 Marsden Fund round broken down by research area and institution, also including gender and ethnicity data

I'm sure it's totally coincidental that the AoNZ government's changes to the Marsden Fund have been followed by successful applications led by female investigators dropping from 55% to 33%, and successful applications led by Māori investigators dropping from 13% to 5%. 🫠 🧪

just tell your partner what you want. ask to get your needs met. communicate. tell them if you are upset. just you know, talk to them and be honest?

Speaking as a Jew, someone desperately needs to write a piece about this specific flavor of hysterical derangement

This shit ∨ ∨ ∨ Not to get all 「 Walter Cronkite 」 but speak to people like they're educated adults and they will rise to meet you

I don't get it, how did they get your photo to put on a mug

SO HAPPY RN