Amanda Unvarnished

To mollify parents and obey new state laws, teachers are cutting all sorts of lessons.

Disability Dongle by Liz Jackson (blog.castac.org)

Disability Dongles are contemporary fairy tales that appeal to the abled imagination by presenting a heroic designer-protagonist whose prototype provides a techno-utopian (re)solution to the design problem. Disability Dongle rhetoric instills in students the value of a quick fix over structural change, thus preventing them from seeking out, participating in, and contributing to existing inquiry. By labeling these material-discursive phenomena—the designed artifacts and the discourse through which their meaning is constituted—we work to shift the focus from their misguided concern about our bodies to their under-analyzed intentions and ambitions.

Should trial judges have the power to issue nationwide injunctions? A lawsuit over abortion drugs is the latest major case to raise the question.

Far-Right Author Roasted After Trying To Lecture The Pope About How Christianity Works by Peter Karleby (Comic Sands)

Oh, that is rich.

A small cross-disciplinary team of engineers worked together to add a feature so journalists at The Washington Post could link their Mastodon profiles from The Post’s website and verify themselves on…

Error message: "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint."

As Jews around the world commemorate the rescue of Persian Jewry, how do those who live where the story took place mark the day?

CPAC showed how the MAGA movement still can’t decide whether its problem is too much Silicon Valley or not enough faves

History has vital lessons when it comes to brazen attacks on trans identity and people.

The high cost of cutting expenses

Go ahead and laugh. They deserve it.