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being a plant gay is repotting house plants each day the weather is remotely nice.

‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

Indeed
Men of America - we need tone doing MUCH better

The Horrifying History Behind a Beloved Skin-Care Ingredient Retin-A was developed through tests on incarcerated people.

Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated people in Philadelphia.

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

A poster for the economic blackout on February 28. It is a big red Jack rabbit on an aqua blue back ground. It says economic blackout in hand done black type. There are two black speech bubbles. One says “don’t buy stuff Friday February 28th. The other says we have power. Below it says No Amazon, Walmart, target, gas food, gas. Below that it says OK small business, use cash. Designed by Martha Rich.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

i mean, fuck

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

Audacious ideas

Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.

Today's small joy: Lawrence High School theatre absolutely slaying opening night of HadesTown and our group of grad student friends coming out to support my theater kid.

The abstract for Jess and Jess's article on influencer snark

my latest with @jessmaddox.bsky.social is out this morning in @femmediastudies.bsky.social! We propose influencer snark as a feminist media practice to address concerns of credibility, authenticity, and representation in the influencer industry.

please share!!!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XZSZD...

Archivists, historians, scribes: your time is now. Yours is among the most urgent work needed.

Yes, it can happen again. 👀

Waking up to learn Meta users are now automatically following potus and vp w/o consent is a scary reminder that we’re breathing in the propaganda.

ON JANUARY 20TH, READ MLK! READ ABOUT THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT! READ ABOUT RECONSTRUCTION! READ ABOUT JIM CROW!

You want to do something for the good of history? Do something constructive and learn from the ancestors.

With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’ Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to "little red book," to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.

NEW: TikTok users are protesting a potential ban by joining Red Note, aka Xiaohongshu, another Chinese app entirely in Mandarin.

“I would rather stare at a language I can't understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one. www.wired.com/story/red-no...

Excerpt from HIDING on climate change and vicious exploitation by plutocrats who want to depopulate the earth

"In the eyes of autocrats and plutocrats, the future is not a right but a commodity."

-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

hidinginplainsightbook.com

This!!

Currently overthinking what kinds of content I want to post on this app…
*no I don’t study the algorithm or digital media, why do u ask?

My FIRST EVER PUBLISHED SHORT STORY is out today in Electric Spec! Come for the dragons, stay for the @themountaingoats.bsky.social cameo. electricspec.com/Volume19/Iss...

AND YOU GET A CODE, and YOU get a CODE