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I believe I made the switch to Affinity Publisher in 21, on CS6 before. Did a couple layouts and then didn't touch it for years. Picked it up for a layout a few weeks ago before the newest re-release and felt like I struggled a lot more than I ever did going back to Adobe but it's been quite a while

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

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I've had a copy of this photo hanging in my office for several years now to remind me that we can refuse what is unacceptable in our society.

If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):

a halloween costume labeled "Sexy Nurse" with an image of Walt Whitman

I’m dead— my grad program just rescheduled a panel discussion titled “Building Community in Graduate Programs” because everyone was too busy to attend

Kermit the Frog biting Vincent Price on the neck.

me and who

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If museums are makin' you sad, maybe blame your great, great grandpa instead of the museums.

that’s my emotional support three-hour sad/confusing movie

punk rock af

As @evanbernick.bsky.social wrote back in January, "When the Supreme Court eventually weighs in on the order, we will not learn whether it is constitutional. We will learn whether the Supreme Court is prepared to follow the Constitution."

Everyone loves monster-fuckers. Everyone loves sex with unnatural entities. Yet when I, Olivia Nuzzi —

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Guy who controls a multi-billion dollar weapons technology company and a network of political dark money and whose hand-picked protegé is vice president to an elderly and infirm president: "the Antichrist would probably be a powerless teenager concerned about climate change and genocide"

One way this cashes out is that it seems obvious Ed lacks authority to issue the proposed rule. Ed is laying claim to a power that it has no expertise in administering, and which SCOTUS has already said Congress intended to deny to another, more expert, agency.

11/13

If you’ve lived and worked under the domestic terrorism of the last 14 years, this has been a hard week. I’m sorry for that.

He died as he lived, contributing to the persecution of educators for their social media activity

We are in the middle of a campaign in this state to turn Charlotte into Chicago in the general public’s mind. For the obvious reasons. I would just like to add that this Republican controlled general assembly still has no budget & likely won’t this year.

Lmaooo how he even let those words come out his mouth when there was a school shooting the week prior, the day of and the day after feels like a real mental health crisis

1. Been thinking a lot about Judith Butler’s notion of “grievability” with respect to Charlie Kirk, Gaza, Melissa Hortman and others.

It’s a way of thinking about whose lives are socially recognized as valuable and, therefore, whose deaths are publicly mourned.

Islands by Muriel Rukeyser Islands O for God's sake they are connected underneath They look at each other across the glittering sea some keep a low profile Some are cliffs The bathers think islands are separate like them

Islands by Muriel Rukeyser

quick and easy! dunno if it's because I don't post much or if it really is just that simple

The DOJ in the US is investigating how they can ban Trans people from owning firearms and that should tell you everything you need to know about how deeply unsafe it is to be Trans right now.

poem in which you become the “you” by nat raum i am writing an ars poetica in which i bury you, in which i close the widest point of the wound myself, a farewell. still crying in my car sometimes. for your specter.

you gotta read—& gotta SEE—AMAZING new nat raum today!

I.i am
A. writing
1. an ars poetica
i. in which i bury you,
ii. in which i close the widest point of the wound myself,
2. a farewell.

https://www.havehashad.com/t727h

Everyone should watch THE RETURN OF GODZILLA. It is THE Cold War Godzilla movie.

It's also a great time in its own right, with a unique atmosphere from other Godzilla movies (and if you can see it as a kid and have nightmares about the giant sea louse scene, even better 😌)