caidid
@caidid.bsky.social
Artist; writer; work: publishing, higher ed, theatre; volunteer w marine animals; curious about everything.
Children's Illustrated Clausewitz: helios.house/books/childrens-clausewitz
Lists: limulus.ghost.io
Is it OK if I bring my dog?
Children's Illustrated Clausewitz: helios.house/books/childrens-clausewitz
Lists: limulus.ghost.io
Is it OK if I bring my dog?
Real tech bro shit of trying to do an end run around everything that makes us human. These people truly can't stand any of the things that are actually beautiful about being human.
November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Real tech bro shit of trying to do an end run around everything that makes us human. These people truly can't stand any of the things that are actually beautiful about being human.
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I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
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oh hey look at that
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
oh hey look at that
Megyn, 15 is not "the barely legal type," it is the "illegal, literally a child" type. I'm sorry you internalized the experience of, um, all women of having been sexualized by predatory men while you were still a child, but there's no excuse for perpetuating that abusive and, yes, criminal bullshit.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Megyn, 15 is not "the barely legal type," it is the "illegal, literally a child" type. I'm sorry you internalized the experience of, um, all women of having been sexualized by predatory men while you were still a child, but there's no excuse for perpetuating that abusive and, yes, criminal bullshit.
Hey, if someone has spent the year terrorizing immigrants and starving poor children, they don't get to pretend to celebrate Christmas, the holiday about the birth of a poor immigrant child who grew up with the grace to want to save us all. Pass it on.
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hey, if someone has spent the year terrorizing immigrants and starving poor children, they don't get to pretend to celebrate Christmas, the holiday about the birth of a poor immigrant child who grew up with the grace to want to save us all. Pass it on.
I love a shaken espresso but I love Labor, unions, and people's right to organize and to make a decent wage under fair labor practices more.
Union Starbucks baristas have overwhelmingly authorized an unfair labor practice strike starting TOMORROW (Thursday, November 13th), grinding Starbucks to a halt during the company’s busiest sales day of the year.
#NoContractNoCoffee
#NoContractNoCoffee
It’s almost time. nocontractnocoffee.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I love a shaken espresso but I love Labor, unions, and people's right to organize and to make a decent wage under fair labor practices more.
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we need a department of kerning
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 AM
we need a department of kerning
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It didn’t go far enough. It never went far enough.
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It didn’t go far enough. It never went far enough.
Some things never change. Cato the Elder, about 2200 years ago: "fures privatorum furtorum in nervo atque in compedibus aetatem agunt, fures publici in auro atque in purpura" (thieves of private property spend their lives in chains and shackles; thieves of public property in gold and purple).
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Some things never change. Cato the Elder, about 2200 years ago: "fures privatorum furtorum in nervo atque in compedibus aetatem agunt, fures publici in auro atque in purpura" (thieves of private property spend their lives in chains and shackles; thieves of public property in gold and purple).
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
This is an imaginary problem. No one cares. This is a whole new Bond. You do not need continuity between Bonds. Just tell whatever story you want to tell by jumping right in wherever the hell you want him to be. If continuity mattered, Bond would be, like, 100 years old.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
This is an imaginary problem. No one cares. This is a whole new Bond. You do not need continuity between Bonds. Just tell whatever story you want to tell by jumping right in wherever the hell you want him to be. If continuity mattered, Bond would be, like, 100 years old.
I refuse to believe Senate Democrats are actually this dumb, but they definitely think we are, and it's fucking infuriating.
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I refuse to believe Senate Democrats are actually this dumb, but they definitely think we are, and it's fucking infuriating.
It's not like the shutdown was why they weren't working with you. They were already not working with you before the shutdown. They have literally never followed through on any agreement to work with you, and have never shown any willingness whatsoever to work with you. Quit trying to gaslight us.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
It's not like the shutdown was why they weren't working with you. They were already not working with you before the shutdown. They have literally never followed through on any agreement to work with you, and have never shown any willingness whatsoever to work with you. Quit trying to gaslight us.
Just absolutely inspired work from Senate Dems to stomp out the one brief thread of hope kindled by last week's elections and toss everyone back into despair. Five days. Truly a master class in momentum killing and vibe destruction.
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Just absolutely inspired work from Senate Dems to stomp out the one brief thread of hope kindled by last week's elections and toss everyone back into despair. Five days. Truly a master class in momentum killing and vibe destruction.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
It's fine though because they themselves have untouchable healthcare for life and never have to worry about this.
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It's fine though because they themselves have untouchable healthcare for life and never have to worry about this.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous
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Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
I really hope this is true because caving here, when the GOP was just finally starting to have to actually feel the wrath of their constituents, is indefensible.
I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I really hope this is true because caving here, when the GOP was just finally starting to have to actually feel the wrath of their constituents, is indefensible.
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Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.
USDA orders states to stop paying full SNAP benefits and "immediately undo" steps taken to issue them for November. Follow live updates.
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
https://cnn.it/47LOq3z
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Literally every dem should be shouting from the rooftops that republicans are giving Americans two choices: die from starvation or from a lack of affordable healthcare.
Guys, I haven't done the scratching yet, but I know a bit about eels, and let me tell you, there are some WILD facts about them. And the art on this is so good. And the money goes to support Skype a Scientist, which connects classrooms, libraries et al. with real working scientists of all kinds!
This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺
Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Guys, I haven't done the scratching yet, but I know a bit about eels, and let me tell you, there are some WILD facts about them. And the art on this is so good. And the money goes to support Skype a Scientist, which connects classrooms, libraries et al. with real working scientists of all kinds!
Don’t Watch ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Unless You Want To Cry About Your Dad - defector.com/dont-watch-d...
Don't Watch 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' Unless You Want To Cry About Your Dad | Defector
To say Deliver Me From Nowhere isn’t for everybody is to exaggerate its actual appeal. The Bruce Springsteen biopic isn’t even for all Springsteen fans. But aging dudes with daddy issues, which could ...
defector.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Don’t Watch ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Unless You Want To Cry About Your Dad - defector.com/dont-watch-d...
Fatphobia. Core value.
WTF
“The Trump administration has ordered visa officers to deny immigrants who are obese or have certain health issues, in yet another instance of the president’s strange obsession with fat people.”
“The Trump administration has ordered visa officers to deny immigrants who are obese or have certain health issues, in yet another instance of the president’s strange obsession with fat people.”
Trump Says U.S. Visas Can Be Denied to Fat People From Now On
New State Department guidance encourages embassies and consulates to deny visas to people with obesity or other health issues.
newrepublic.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Fatphobia. Core value.
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Next time someone sneers about how they need to stay on the low engagement apartheid machine because BlueSky is such an echo chamber, gently remind them that Elon Musk is one of the worst mass killers of this century.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Next time someone sneers about how they need to stay on the low engagement apartheid machine because BlueSky is such an echo chamber, gently remind them that Elon Musk is one of the worst mass killers of this century.