Sara Monahan

This is who we’ve always been

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

SIR. Unless that’s immediately followed by “and understand how wrong it is and why you’re angry” that’s grounds for immediate intergalactic space yeet.

They're just trying to preemptively suppress voter turnout by making threats, and you do not, in fact, have to help them do voter suppression by boosting their voter suppression efforts as though it's a done deal and everyone will have to run a tear gas gauntlet to vote.

This is not a thing that they can legally do, even if they had enough people to do it. We need to keep reiterating that they're openly threatening to violate election law and not let them pretend this is law enforcement that they can legally do at polling places.

It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:

They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.

The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.

Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.

An associate dean told English faculty “literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities should not be taught in core-curriculum classes…faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material.”🙃

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

Close-up profile of a grey and white tabby yawning. His mouth is wide open and all four of his canine teeth are visible.

Me, opening my faculty email account this morning

Today is Monday, Jan 5
Good morning ❤️

Well, the regime sure chose a hell of a way to start the year. And our job remains:

eat
take your meds
hydrate
tell your people you love them
let them love you back

We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other & fight like hell.

One of the Trump regime's arguments for Greenland is that they don't manage their resources properly and so we should do that.

Colonization is the term for this.

To wit. Current status:

The cats definitely approve. They’re going to be deeply annoyed in the coming days when I stop reading on the couch all day. I have become *their* couch.

Well I was until I woke up this morning and read the news…happy new year to you as well, friend! See you Wednesday?

I am considering going back to bed until 2027.

I saw this earlier today but the nature of the threat wasn’t specified in my source. Thanks for this additional information.

Deep is a wise and lovely former colleague. When he speaks, listen.

I gave this advice at Alpha: listen, you can use LLMs all you want. But if you rely on it, if you bust yourself down to most generic type of writing, you'll sound like everyone else; you'll never know what you think, you'll never develop your voice, and your voice is the only thing you have.

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

“Whale hive, do your thing”

It's utterly insane, but statistically probably unsurprising, that there was more than one Brown student who had previously experienced a mass school shooting, including one who was actually shot, @miatretta.bsky.social.

It doesn't have to be this way.

“What I’ve been feeling most is just, like, how dare this country allow this to happen to someone like me twice?” Weissman told the New York Times.

Yeah, no. Exhibit a: my profile picture. I think I was 52 at the time? Or maybe 51?

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Jesus just @ me next time 🤣

DM: The orange fascist lurks in his lair, hunched behind his massive desk, revelling in his stolen power. His acolytes hiss at you as you approach. What does your human bard do --
MAMDANI: Active perception check.
DM: ...that's a natural 20
MAMDANI: Let's fucking go. <FLUTE TRILL>

Barthes-let, if you will

Sadly no, it is a shark apparently

Thank you! Just what I’ve been needing after this long and exhausting week.

Note to self: read at home where autofill stores my password 😬