“My total and utter victory over my ex-wife will be signified by her moving in with that guy Rick.”

i work with words for a living, so I am biased, but I really think we've got to bring back words. really useful if you imbue them with meaning and arrange them properly!

I'm working on becoming the former.

This is it. It wasn’t the murders. It was the ads.

Lyft offers rides to trans Kansas residents as driving licenses voided After Kansas brought in a law banning trans people from using driving licenses that align with their chosen identity, Lyft is offering the community discounted rides.

If you're trans in Kansas, this might be helpful info:
Lyft offers discounted rides to trans Kansas residents as driving licenses voided
www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/02/l...

The Unrepentant Puppy Killers --- 95th line, teeny-tiny print, in next Bonnaroo lineup.

I suddenly need an upsetting woodcock costume

Giganto-glimpsing

In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

If you're a DC area bartender or related service industry worker and you hear govt./military people talking about the strikes on Iran, let me know what they're saying. I'm on signal at nslayton.12

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

I hope someone in the furry community is organizing an anti war movement called Operation Epic Furry.

One year to the day after Pam Bondi promised the full Epstein files, we got war with Iran instead

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Where is this loveliness?

This made me laugh.
Also, it's the correct response.

Thank you. You did the right thing.

I am. But glad to hear it.

Lovely. Stargazer?

Please please please leave a public comment about this!!

Also @darkskyintl.bsky.social is out there doing important work!! Follow them and learn what you can do to keep our skies dark at night

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

Thanks. As it happens, I've been searching for some good history podcasts.

A morsel of trouble -- but the entertaining and charming kind of trouble.

Ooh, this is lovely.

Wow. Everything about this is righteous, especially those boots. (That the woman and cat are righteous goes without saying.)

This is precisely what polling places were like for part of the 19th century.

People often traveled long distances by horse to vote. It was a big deal when folks got together this way.

They have the same eyes. (A compliment.)

Trumpists do not believe that people who disagree with them are entitled to a voice in government.