Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/28/ngugi-wa-thiongo-kenyan-writer-dies?CMP=share_btn_url

Trump is actually more like Imelda Marcos than anyone. His power consolidation playbook and motives match in a way that is uncanny. To say nothing of his shared love of bling.

Read “Writing Renaissance?“ by Jeshua Erickson on Medium: https://medium.com/@jeshuaerickson/writing-renaissance-f84260316a13

This photo shows a gray cat leaning over a Guinea Pig cage and looking down. She's standing on a table with her paws on the metal of the large white cage. She's simply doing a wellness check, of course. #catsofmastodon #caturday

New blog post! ​:blobcat_thinksmart:​ My thoughts on and journey to escape enshittification. https://bugwhisperer.dev/blog/fleeing-enshittification/

#blogging #enshittification

Time to organize, folks. Organize in any possible way you can. Get together. Support each other. Keep organizing.

Happy Friday!

I started a new job as a security guard last night. Before he left my boss told me I had to make sure I watched the office all night.

I am on season 2 already but I don't know what it has to do with security.

I ran the numbers, and according to my calculations, people have lost their goddamn minds.

“The #DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks…”

“The employees grew concerned that the NLRB's confidential data could be exposed, particularly after they started detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in #Russia”
#fascism #elonmusk #trump
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

A University of Houston assistant professor says he is preparing to return to South Korea after telling students over the weekend he could no longer teach their class because of the "unexpected termination of my visa."

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/04/15/518784/uh-assistant-professor-says-his-visa-has-been-unexpectedly-terminated/

#Education #EducationNews #Houston #Immigration #Local #News #RevokedVisas #StudentVisas #TrumpImmigrationPolicy #USDepartmentOfState #UniversityOfHouston

AI doesn’t need to become self-aware to be dangerous. It just needs to be plugged into HR, healthcare, and credit scoring systems with no appeal process.

Pepper hides from the world. She says, "There is no cat here" on the day after #caturday. #catsofmastodon

My daughter holds Pepper, who basks in the midmorning glow of a proximate lamp on the day after #caturday. #catsofmastodon

In an age of information, the truly subversive act is to think slowly.

Noting the problems with Signal, the Trump team now has a Discord server. The admin promises not to invite the kid from the school newspaper who no one likes. Dude, how did he get on the chat last time?

I washed my clothes only to discover, I missed a sock. One lonely, dirty, unpaired sock. It will have to wait until next time. Such a disappointment.

Tip: in case you lose your phone and so all your Signal chat histories, add a reporter or hostile nation state to your group chats for free backup and recovery.

@Axomamma looks like an Oreo cookie Blizzard!