Katie Levin

You need a titanium-clad autoresponse (I say from my new position as someone with no administrative or supervisory responsibilities 🙄)

YOU CAN DO ITTTTTTT

Never apologize. A.J. Pierzynski deserves constant busting from all directions.

General Mills Sued for Racial Discrimination and Retaliation - UNICORN RIOT Former employee is suing General Mills for racial discrimination and retaliation over speaking out about racist Black History Month literature.

As corporations across the US gleefully regress back to their racist roots, a worker is fighting back after he claims he was fired as retaliation for speaking out against racist Black History Month literature made by General Mills.

Stencil in pedestrian lane: in the foreground, YIELD sign; farther away, a worn-down pedestrian symbol facing left, with a fresh layer superimposed but facing right. They look like partner dancers.

Very specialized lane on campus: yield to dancing pairs.

My Thoughts on the 'Gen Z Stare' And I do have thoughts.

I love Charlotte Clymer. charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/my-thought...

we must not look at LLMs
we must not buy their fruits
who knows upon what text they fed
their hungry thirsty roots

I can see the goose poop from way over here!

I can't stop thinking about this because so much of the "benefits" of AI are for problems that could be resolved in other, more enjoyable & humane ways. Not having time to write an email or read a book has better solutions than getting a bot to do it for you for the illusion of having done it

Gloriana, Frangipana MY ASS.

YouTube video by jamzftwneverdies They Might Be Giants - (Untitled)

(Please tell me you are referring to this: youtu.be/KkhK8Imqo9o?...)

But how do they make any money?

Nice! I had it on cassette tape 😂

I adore that movie.

Sec. 9.05. (A) As used in the Revised Code: (1) "Boy" means a juvenile human male. Am. Sub. H. B. No. 96 136th G.A. 15 (2) "Female" means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell. (3) "Gender identity" means an individual's internal and subjective sense of self, disconnected from biological reality and sex and existing on an infinite continuum, that does not provide a meaningful basis for identification and cannot be recognized as a replacement for sex. (4) "Girl" means a juvenile human female. (5) "Male" means an individual belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell. (6) "Man" means an adult human male. (7) "Sex" means the biological indication of male and female, including sex chromosomes, naturally occurring sex hormones, gonads, and nonambiguous internal and external genitalia present at birth, without regard to an individual's psychological, chosen, or subjective experience of gender. (8) "Woman" means an adult human female. (B) It is the policy of the state of Ohio to recognize two sexes, male and female. These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.

A very scary bill just passed in Ohio for transgender folks. No one but local LGBTQ+ orgs are talking about it.

First, Ohio is only recognizing sex assigned at birth, male or female. You can get in trouble for stating otherwise on documents, I imagine. I may need to change my state ID back. 1/5

I’ve stubbornly avoided listening to Sheryl Crow’s 2002 earworm “Soak Up the Sun” for over 20 years so I’m pretty confident I will never use your AI “Assistant.”

autumn should start in july, after pride month. yknow … because pride cometh before *dodging rotten tomatoes* PRIDE COMETH BEFORE THE F *hit in the face with glass bottle*

Oh, thank you! 😍

This is affirming, illuminating, and quenching. Thank you so much for digging it up!

And I’m sorry about the terrible surprise.

Oh, ha! I mentioned shattering 😅. Clearly my brain is not at its very finest.

Yes, breakage! Thanks for that word.

<3

Thank you so much for replying, and for the <3! I like the group chat idea very much.

Amidst the many horrors in the world today, I'm contending with reality-shattering news about the abhorrent behavior of a (once-? still-? is that even possible?) beloved friend. Somebody out there must have written on processing.
@whatashrinkthinks.com ? @theradr.bsky.social ? (pls forgive tags)

“no kings, all bricks” Full text of the poem that KTM/Guante shared at the St. Paul No Kings protest on June 14, 2025.

Since people were asking about the words I shared today at the no kings protest, here's the full text. Thanks @indivistwincities.bsky.social and @mn50501.bsky.social.

Wrote it last week, but because it ended up being about how we carry grief and what we might do with it, it felt appropriate:

San Antonio Express-News ® @ExpressNews Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.

headline construction masterclass

On little cat feet.

Thank you! And oof.

Thank you Greyhound!

Anonymized email with subject line, “New Self-Leadership Series and Programs to Enhance Your Resilience”

A giant READ THE ROOM to the folks who, at the end of a day (week, month, year) of blows from leadership to everyone’s sense of safety and wellbeing, have the audacity to send me this.