Erik Severson

"While the fish is still alive, we need to take the time to look into its eyes, recognize its creatureliness, attend to its suffering, then set it free"

Time to log off

Really good poem about a fish in here

screenshot of elon musk tweet that reads, "Optimus will bring the food to your car next year." image one shows a happy-looking young woman serving a strawberry milkshake to a smiling couple in an open convertible in front of a mid-century LA backdrop image two shows a terrifying tesla robot with no face serving a plastic burger to a douchey bro in sunglasses in a tesla backed by the dystopian tesla diner

thanks to elon, we'll finally have a political party to represent the 0.7% of americans who would rather live in the second picture than the first one

I'm embarrassed about how long it took me to understand this

Good info

I’m in Montreal and the place I went to dinner had all the US wines crossed out lol

Waiting for some sort of verification on this. It’s scary, but definitely need more than “friends of a friend”

We need a new Woody Guthrie

📣 Event reminder!

Join us this time NEXT WEEK for the open keynote session of an upcoming Participedia workshop.

More info on the poster below. 😊

📚 “Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Representation”
📆 March 27
⏰ 11:30am-1:00pm EST
📍 @umontreal.ca and Virtual

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is really scary. Legitimacy requires criticism.

Yeah I think you're right. I guess my point is just that its not so surprising from Bezos.

Idk I kinda feel like people should have stopped reading the Washington Post a long time ago anyways

Earthquake in Vancouver, BC just now. One way to get your adrenaline up!

From a snowshoe the other day

"Meta admits some people can’t unfollow Donald Trump on Instagram
Users including Gracie Abrams have said they never asked to follow presidential account – and are unable to stop" www.independent.co.uk/tech/instagr...

Duke Political Science is accepting submissions for a Frontiers Workshop in Democratic Theory!

Please share widely!

Map showing the number of times a location has burned in SoCal and which kind of fire it was: one burning under Santa Ana winds, or one that was a summer, fuel-driven fire without Santa Ana winds. Malibu area had burned at least 8 times from 1900-2017, and has burned twice now since. Image from Kolden and Abatzoglou (2018): https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/2/19

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

Tweet from furby Hancock: Waiter: so how is everything? Me: great! Waiter: (disgusted) even war?

being on bluesky

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this.

Even if it is just ripples from Covid, social isolation does seem to be having an effect on our social and political lives.

Attempting to make sense of these effects is an interesting project, even if people disagree with some of the ways the author is interpreting that effect.

I guess I am not sure that this article actually is crap. I don't know much about this Derek Thompson guy, but the problem of social isolation does seem to be important and interesting to talk about.

It's not like this guy is a Nazi (as far as I can tell)

I guess we may have seen different posts, but I remember that when I joined there was a strong narrative of Bluesky being an alternative to the toxicity of X.

Remember when Bluesky was all about positivity? Funny reading the comment sections to viral posts nowadays. Take a look at the comments on this one - everyone is just fighting.

What happened?

Is there a starter pack for academics who also like sports? Looking to combine my two reasons for being on social media lol

The most difficult little sliver to read lol

United airlines is pretty bad, though.

Air Canada to introduce carry-on fees for basic fare passengers Air Canada said on Wednesday it will start charging for bigger carry-on bags from passengers opting for its lowest-priced basic fare for North America routes starting Jan. 3.

It’s funny to see the contrast between US vs. Canadian airlines. US airlines are (surprisingly) more fair in my experience. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Someone should do to Instagram what Bluesky did to X

Has to be embarrassing to drive a Tesla truck… right?

“There was then the high-speed chase, scattering chickens in small villages”

Fascinating.