Tara Shea

One of the more depressing aspects of the GLP-1 stuff right now is how utterly inescapable it is. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, there are people shrinking at alarming rates, and endless discussion of said shrinking. There's seemingly no place to just *rest.*

the entire point of therapy is THE human relationship! lordy lordy lordy

A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.

Chromebooks are going to close the achievement gap! Learn-to-code programs are going to close the achievement gap! AI is going to close the achievement gap! [This shiny new tech thing that is funded by VC] is going to close the achievement gap!

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"

I can no longer go to AWP! I'm caring for my old dog who keeps racking up ailments! But you should go to this great reading since I can't! Anything @riverriverbooks.bsky.social or river adjacent is honestly gonna be 🔥

Honestly it feels like we've been in varying shades of "emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting" for the better part of the last decade

The Trump Administration is Testing Conversion Therapy By Medically Experimenting on Trans People in Prisons The Bureau of Prisons is subjecting trans people to conversion therapy and denying them care with the goal of helping them "recover." It's trying to prove dangerous conversion practices can work.

Under a new policy released Thursday, the Trump Administration will test conversion therapy on trans people in prisons. It explicitly states that it aims to help trans people “recover,” all the while forcibly detransitioning them both medically and socially.

transitics.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

Teaching is really fucking hard right now. I'm with you.

I'm not going to say Harper is singlehandedly responsible for Trump's victory, but this *is* the phenomenon that resulted in so many Americans having no idea what they voted for.

Across mainstream media, pundits refused to draw a clear distinction between Ds & Rs and lay out Trump's agenda.

Every teacher fighting against AI and the dehumanization of knowledge right now—meanwhile, the government using AI to murder people at long distance.

These things are not unrelated.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

My favorite part about The Traitors is how easy it is for people to forget what the purpose of the game is. Just a beautiful game of how the human mind works.

just one? 🤭

this is the way

Good. You know how many more jobs we’d have if we removed abusers from their positions of power and teaching across our universities.

They always help me feel less crazy out here 🫶🏼

new york times headline, "t. rex ran on its tiptoes 'like an 8-ton chicken'"

the only nyt headline you should care about today:

I know I yell about this a lot but I literally got the best opportunities of my life just from sharing my weird art online. You can, and should, try the things that you've wanted to do but didn't because there was a part of you that said, "what's the point?" Sometimes the point is the joy of it bro

Wild how what’s happening in Mexico is hardly a blip on this website

oh man.

Poem text: Listen to yourself, the therapist said; do you hear how you sound, she said, and I heard the sound of a mare trying to turn around in a stall too small for turning. Trying to know the other view. This is not a metaphor for an unhappy life. This is how my body felt. This is how neurology followed its groove, showed me a picture of a mare in a stall too small for turning. Mare's shoulder pressed in one direction, mare's flank pressed in the other. The torque involved. The stillness at the center. And field in every direction: visible field. From THE VISIBLE FIELD

Zoë Ryder White, from The Visible Field

Publication date: tomorrow! 📚💙🎉

riverriverbooks.org/store/-Preor...

Nobody talk to me about that baby monkey I will actually crash out.

Relevant to AI writing, Toni Morrison, Octavia E. Butler, and Sonia Sanchez noted that many want to be writers but don’t wanna write.

As Morrison said, “Writing has become almost a celebrity thing in the sense that people don’t want to write; they want to be authors. And that’s quite different.”

y'all know George W has a damn substack? and he's reposting articles he wrote for the gd free press? I wish we'd get off that crazy platform, yet another site that's made billions off our desperate need to write and write about writing and share writing...billionaires got rich off all our ideas

what a solid title

You know who really has a good vantage on what universities can and should be? Faculty. Not always the organizational structure and operation, because that's not the job, But what it takes to educate? Yep. Yet the overwhelming media coverage is by and about ppl w very little to no experience.

And it's yet another company that has buried how to delete your account with them in a ridiculous runaround of clicks that lead you back to the same FAQ page. I don't want any of this crap anymore!

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.