H-Squared

The Uncertainty of the Poet, by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:

"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

💥 BREAKING: Levi Strauss shareholders voted today to reject a proposal calling on the company to cease / abolish all DEI efforts (tally TBD). LEVI Board: “Diversity and inclusion principles are critical in ensuring that our products reflect and are relevant to our diverse global consumer base.”

I have always found learning fun and have always been dismayed when others didn't understand.

School can be terrible for sure. But learning can and should be happening everywhere.

begging people to consider if those pushing the message that “the resistance to Trump is dead” may not actually have our best interests at heart

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

We are speedrunning the Declaration of Independence, folks.

the emperor’s favorite concubine fired one of his top internal security officers while rumors abound that the household eunuch has lost the emperors favor

We talked about whether or not he’d break this record today in my social media class. Delighted to know he did!!

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#TransDayOfVisibility

If it's classified and you know it
Don't send a text
If it's classified and you know it
Don't send a text
If it's classified and you know it
And you don't want lawyers to show it
If it's classified and you know it
Don't send a gotdamn motherfucking signal text!!!

little old Southern ladies come in looking for books to help them better understand their kids or grandkids who are transitioning and/or gender nonconforming. people want to connect with their autistic kids, their chronically ill siblings, their immigrant neighbors. I see it every day. every day.

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

This is why the people who want raw milk are dumb ass rich people who have never been in the same zip code as a farm.

Not magical boarding school but magical community education classes at the library

What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack. Security experts say that's not how it works.

MUSK: A sophisticated cyberattack from Ukraine took out Twitter's servers

REALITY: Twitter's servers were not secured properly and were publicly visible

Great explainer here from @lhn.bsky.social

www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...

Hey, nondisabled folks, you see how he is blaming us for disease, right? How he’s teeing up something?

Please, god, tell me you see it.

SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained "I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.

He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

every single person who is currently supporting what’s happened to Mahmoud Khalil is a fascist sympathizer, a coward, or both

this is “they came for” and it’s happening right now

Green fronds with nearly black stems deep in a shaded crack in granite rock

Asplenium trichomanes, our rare Maidenhair Spleenwort, found this morning on Horsetooth Rock deep in a crack in a rock. This species hasn’t been observed in this area since 1897. 🌿 S1

Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency.

via Brett Murphy:

The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:

The reason we have sports segregated by sex is, at the core, because men lose their shit when they get beaten by a woman.
Every time women smoke a coed competition in the Olympics, for example, they end up creating a women's version, slightly different than the men's, even for stuff like shooting.

And for planting them, I had my 5-6 year old dig holes in the yard 'big enough to fit his fist in' and then I dropped bulbs in them. I love a random scatter of flowers and he had a great time playing in dirt and helping.

Just put (native) stuff in the ground; if it dies, try something else.