Reposted by Mary BKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 06/10/2026I introduce the concept of “Emotional Administrative Burden” to describe the additional labor required by having to look at that guy’s face every time I need to conduct some piece of official business. In this essay I w 522437
Reposted by Mary BJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1851871379
Reposted by Mary BRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Time for this classic again. 156164905558
Mary B @herself50.bsky.social · 27/09/2026As a mother of an autistic son and an autistic daughter, thank you. It needed to be said. 1120
Mary B @herself50.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Between this and oil extraction and everything else, it’s pretty clear that greed and hubris will be the cause of it all. 001
Reposted by Mary BFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else. 7838601024
Reposted by Mary BTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan 271842515
Reposted by Mary BKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/08/2026I'm sure this take has been took already but it's worth saying: the obscene, cynical performance of "It's about being against plagiarism" re Arday is absurd when the entire academic superstructure is being reorganised around mandating plagiarism using advanced plagiarism automation software 291880429
Mary B @herself50.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Just a random old lady-not a tekkie and I really enjoyed it. I would actually watch that and that’s saying something! Thanks for sharing it. 000
Reposted by Mary BBrendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 15/08/2026If you think intellectual diversity is a problem in the English department, but not the Finance department then you’re not a serious person 4698100
Reposted by Mary BTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Note from my notebook (2018). Still relevant. www.tom-cox.com/my-notebook-2/ 216536
Mary B @herself50.bsky.social · 04/07/2026This is the most authentic understanding of American life. 080
Mary B @herself50.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Thank God! The best of the USA when talent has room to shine! 010
Reposted by Mary BElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I cannot wait until I don’t have to watch any more fucking Fox commercials to watch an international sporting event. 90158884
Reposted by Mary BObsolete Dogma @obsoletedogma.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Reasons the Supreme Court should have upheld birthright citizenship: 1) The Constitution 2) Flo Balogun 126769
Reposted by Mary BKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Exactly right. Thousands of different cultures are mingling happily in lower Manhattan right now, and anyone who can't get on board with that is the social misfit. America always has been and always will be diverse. Love it or leave it, assholes. 181180225
Reposted by Mary BAdam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/06/2026For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.stanford.eduElon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to ScaleThe first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead. 17603249
Reposted by Mary Bjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice. 1034128807
Reposted by Mary BPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice. 6758601710
Mary B @herself50.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Seems as though the “participation trophy”grumblers are the subject of their own distain. 1642
Reposted by Mary B21st Century Schizoid Tran @grayathena.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn. 195222183258
Reposted by Mary BAnfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026If you visit Istambul, look up at the walls of Ottoman-era mosques, madrasahs, tombs or other buildings. You might find "kuş sarayları" (bird palaces), gorgeous stone bird houses in the shape of elaborate mansions. These were mainly built between the 16th to 19th centuries, to show kindness to birds 16805289
Reposted by Mary BTom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Eight *kids* and I had to ask my wife about it when it scrolled by on local news. We're a nation with massive brain-poisoning. 712011338
Reposted by Mary BAkilla Cooper @akelacooper.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Reupping this cause it’s evergreen and I feel better knowing someone out there called him out like this 21461527
Reposted by Mary BProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew! 3253161413
Reposted by Mary BTony Elkins @tonyelkins.com · 08/04/2026We are not equipped to deal with this much adrenaline and cortisol on an hourly basis. The burnout is far beyond our regulatory capacity. 120829
Mary B @herself50.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Is it possible to die from embarrassment? He humiliates all of us. 020
Reposted by Mary BRebecca Bratspies, Author @rbratspies.bsky.social · 04/04/2026I needed to see this today 0133
Reposted by Mary BMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/04/2026It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object. 6265671939
Reposted by Mary BMichael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 28/03/2026It’s far too often forgotten that these people are powerful because we make them so. Were we not insistent on integrating their products and services into every aspect of our life, their reach and influence would be orders of magnitude smaller.theatlantic.comThe Very Powerful Men Who Think Introspection Is DumbFor some of America’s tech oligarchs, looking inward seems to be a waste of time better spent moving fast and breaking things. 14515
