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Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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This is a Black person who has been on Bluesky forever and apparently just got banned for calling Jay transphobic.

We are at the "hurting the mods' feelings is a bannable offense" stage of Jay's meltdown, now

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

"How is it that the country committing genocide is granted any say in the future of the people against whom it has committed genocide?"
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One of the largest school districts in the nation, which was taken over by the state of Texas, deciding to shut out local media (us at chron.com and the Houston Chronicle included) should be a bigger story imo

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

it's why i had to drop out of veterinary school. bc it was tanking my mental health to see so much suffering and be unable to help. this isn't compassion fatigue; this is just ppl being callous and using psych language to make themselves feel less bad about it.

to do so. it's meant to refer to like... nurses who see ppl in poverty unable to afford care. it was never supposed to mean "you can't feel compassion anymore bc you're tired boohoo." it's meant to give a term for ppl who experience clinical anhedonia as a result of their occupations.

This right here. See also “self-care.”

i hate this so fucking much. gay youth are disproportionately likely to experience homelessness but sure, lock them up so that you don't have to see them and feel uncomfortable for a second

I reduced mine to one cup in 2022 and my husband can always tell when I’ve gone in for a second because I suddenly have ALL THE IDEAS and need to act on them ALL AT ONCE but also have to TELL him about them in EXCRUCIATING detail.

Thank you.

On @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social ‘s piece, which I really wanted to enjoy — we so need more substantive writing on this subject — but proved so disappointing. It’s a bunch of half-thoughts scrawled while looking after my mum (a former prof who remains an avid reader even now!) but will have to do 4now

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

9/I’m going to come back to this when I can—currently in the midst of caregiving responsibilities—in a long form piece bc we cannot afford to have the terms of the debate be defined like this. We really, really, CAN’T. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

8/ This was such a waste of a good opportunity to write something intelligent&thoughtful abt the state of intellectual thought,reason,expression,&creatitivity post-smartphone &its implications for democracy. What we get instead is a provincial,&blinkered,screed jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

7/ I got frustrated by the repetition&from the myriad errors in reason&sleights of hand. The argument falls apart because it relies on a series of at best limited, at worst intentionally occluding, definitions of literature, media, culture,&critical thought. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

5/ James needs an editor&wider intellectual horizons. The relationship btwn literacy, attention spans,&critical engagement in the smartphone era is a fascinating subject. So I’m getting bored & impatient tho the problem isn’t my device: it’s your writing! jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

4/ The conflation of capitalism with democracy, rational thought, scientific reason, the enlightenment, and critical thinking is certainly a choice. And in keeping w/the article’s broader oversimplification of cultural production since the 18th c. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

3/ I counted 1, maybe 2 references to female thinkers&I don’t think even 1 non-white or Western one. This is reflective of the article’s broader sense of the significance of the printing press and why the written word matters. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

2/ The assumption that video content is inherently biased and propagandistic while the written word seeks only to establish the truth is a staggering claim that erases the rich history of film AND literature’s own role in upholding inequality. jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

🧵There are some valid points in this piece abt the “post-literate society” but the poor argumentation&baggy writing spectacularly undermine its claims that the printed word is the haven of rational,affect-free argumentation&that reading fuels great writing jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o... 1/

It’s never too late to start masking again.

It can be daunting to mask back up when no one else is bothering, but your health is worth it.

Every Covid infection is a dice roll with disability, and a good respirator like an N95 stops chains of transmission.

You’ll also get less colds & flus!

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

I wish I liked Taylor Swift’s music because having this kind of response to something sounds absolutely epic.

If we harassed climate change skeptics instead of engaging in their astroturfed tactic of pushing civil debate, we could have moved forward into solutions 20 years ago. Debating them didn't change their minds, either, it just legitimized the skepticism

This is important because now the press is insistent that what Trump is doing must be okay since “people voted for this,” so pointing out the very same people were insisting that “this” wouldn’t be happening at all is necessary.

UofG crows showing our incoming new students the values of hard work, focus and perseverance

Ugh.

Thank you! I found the exchange after doing a search for waffle CEO Jay and now I can’t unsee it. Jesus. Then again a Silicon Valley social media site CEO who’s that enthusiastic abt LLMs clearly has no *actual* integrity or values so I don’t know why I expected anything better.

Took me ages but I figured it out and boy is it depressing.