Dr. Kit
@drkitcellopunk.bsky.social
queer antifascist cello
also swords, dogs, and books
other web:
drkitcellopunk.com
https://www.youtube.com/@DrKitCelloPunk
https://www.patreon.com/DrKitCompositions
https://drkitcello-punk.bandcamp.com/
also swords, dogs, and books
other web:
drkitcellopunk.com
https://www.youtube.com/@DrKitCelloPunk
https://www.patreon.com/DrKitCompositions
https://drkitcello-punk.bandcamp.com/
oh and thanks to @thunderhand.bsky.social for the art!
June 26, 2026 at 10:13 PM
oh and thanks to @thunderhand.bsky.social for the art!
Happy Pride, and 10 anniversary to my PhD this month, as well as my official 10 year social transiversary. www.erininthemorning.com/p/pride-bird...
Pride, Birds, And The Beauty Of Survival
Everything beautiful survived something to get here.
www.erininthemorning.com
June 2, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Happy Pride, and 10 anniversary to my PhD this month, as well as my official 10 year social transiversary. www.erininthemorning.com/p/pride-bird...
Scroll down for good news! yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-19-u...
Covid-19 update, common cold, ticks, and lotssss of good news
The Dose (June 2)
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June 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Scroll down for good news! yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/covid-19-u...
xkcd.com/3253/ alt text feels particularly relevant in OR
Sunbeam
xkcd.com
June 2, 2026 at 3:30 PM
xkcd.com/3253/ alt text feels particularly relevant in OR
"Until recently, we weren't accustomed to encountering coherent strings of words or polished images that had no intender, so we imputed the existence of that intender to them, ... we tried to mentally materialize a facsimile of the feeling the artist experienced while creating the work.”
June 2, 2026 at 3:29 PM
"Until recently, we weren't accustomed to encountering coherent strings of words or polished images that had no intender, so we imputed the existence of that intender to them, ... we tried to mentally materialize a facsimile of the feeling the artist experienced while creating the work.”
"when the AI expands the three sentences in your prompt into 100,000 words or 1,000,000 pixels, it isn't adding any of its intention to the finished work, it's diluting the intention you fed to it. ... average intentionality that's so low that it's practically homeopathic."
June 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
"when the AI expands the three sentences in your prompt into 100,000 words or 1,000,000 pixels, it isn't adding any of its intention to the finished work, it's diluting the intention you fed to it. ... average intentionality that's so low that it's practically homeopathic."
Art and intention: pluralistic.net/2026/06/02/m...
Pluralistic: The tedious power of storytelling (02 Jun 2026) must-we-pretend – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
June 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Art and intention: pluralistic.net/2026/06/02/m...
I feel like this is probably related to why those "diseases" are also higher in indigenous communities? I wonder if anyone has looked at trans/queer data. 6/x
June 2, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I feel like this is probably related to why those "diseases" are also higher in indigenous communities? I wonder if anyone has looked at trans/queer data. 6/x
Also bonus reference to stress and disease: “ …the connections between racism, stress, and diseases among Black Americans such as hypertension and type two diabetes – in other words, racism can literally make you sick, even terminally ill, in this way. 5/x
June 2, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Also bonus reference to stress and disease: “ …the connections between racism, stress, and diseases among Black Americans such as hypertension and type two diabetes – in other words, racism can literally make you sick, even terminally ill, in this way. 5/x
"That's why I've occasionally argued that the real divide in this country and beyond is better described as connectors and disconnectors, the relational and the isolated, than left and right.” 4/x
June 2, 2026 at 3:26 PM
"That's why I've occasionally argued that the real divide in this country and beyond is better described as connectors and disconnectors, the relational and the isolated, than left and right.” 4/x
"It's a regime that believes in isolation, of the races, the genders, the classes, the ideologies, of the US from other nations, and that denies the existence and necessity of the underlying systems that connect as they stabilize... " 3/x
June 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
"It's a regime that believes in isolation, of the races, the genders, the classes, the ideologies, of the US from other nations, and that denies the existence and necessity of the underlying systems that connect as they stabilize... " 3/x
( the military is a way out of that poverty, and the asthma diagnosis could shut it off to them – and of course more poor kids live in places where air pollution results in asthma. ) 2/x
June 2, 2026 at 3:25 PM
( the military is a way out of that poverty, and the asthma diagnosis could shut it off to them – and of course more poor kids live in places where air pollution results in asthma. ) 2/x
“in some poor communities of color, there's a real question about whether a young person's asthma should be put on their medical chart ... and of course more poor kids live in places where air pollution results in asthma. … I suddenly felt in a new way how the land and the people aren't separate 1/x
June 2, 2026 at 3:24 PM
“in some poor communities of color, there's a real question about whether a young person's asthma should be put on their medical chart ... and of course more poor kids live in places where air pollution results in asthma. … I suddenly felt in a new way how the land and the people aren't separate 1/x
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/it-makes-you...
I've also been reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer again, and this rhymed with that.
Takeaways: Land and people aren't separate, the divide in our (national) culture is between connectors and isolators
I've also been reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer again, and this rhymed with that.
Takeaways: Land and people aren't separate, the divide in our (national) culture is between connectors and isolators
It Makes You Sick: The Attacks on Health, Healthcare, and Care
When I was young I believed that the ideas I needed to grasp were complicated fact-dense new ones, and maybe back then I did need to take in more data. As I've gotten older, I've come to realize that ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
June 2, 2026 at 3:23 PM
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/it-makes-you...
I've also been reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer again, and this rhymed with that.
Takeaways: Land and people aren't separate, the divide in our (national) culture is between connectors and isolators
I've also been reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer again, and this rhymed with that.
Takeaways: Land and people aren't separate, the divide in our (national) culture is between connectors and isolators
Looking forward to hearing this!
June 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Looking forward to hearing this!
Reposted by Dr. Kit
The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.
June 2, 2026 at 4:44 AM
The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.
and today's Cory Doctorow: pluralistic.net/2026/06/01/d... looks like a book I should read
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
Pluralistic: Molly Crabapple’s ‘Here Where We Live Is Our Country’ (01 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
June 1, 2026 at 4:31 PM
and today's Cory Doctorow: pluralistic.net/2026/06/01/d... looks like a book I should read
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
"The internet is a strange place. Everything is heightened, so much is manipulated, a lot is fake. And yet, it’s all real; real as in: it has real measurable impacts on the world around us. "
June 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
"The internet is a strange place. Everything is heightened, so much is manipulated, a lot is fake. And yet, it’s all real; real as in: it has real measurable impacts on the world around us. "
Always interested in @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social 's writing: ijeomaoluo.substack.com/p/boosters-f...
Boosters, Fake Psychologists, and Twitch Streamers
Beyond the Book: Commentary on the Internet and the Real World
ijeomaoluo.substack.com
June 1, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Always interested in @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social 's writing: ijeomaoluo.substack.com/p/boosters-f...
"What do we think “success” looks like, based on images presented to us by corporations that just so happen to also be trying to sell us things? What actions do we believe are available to us, based on what is presented as “legitimate protest” by the “legitimate authorities”? "
June 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
"What do we think “success” looks like, based on images presented to us by corporations that just so happen to also be trying to sell us things? What actions do we believe are available to us, based on what is presented as “legitimate protest” by the “legitimate authorities”? "
"What erroneous beliefs do people pick up from the news about those different from them? How are our views about what makes a “real” man or woman shaped by stories supposedly about people’s lives? ...
June 1, 2026 at 4:28 PM
"What erroneous beliefs do people pick up from the news about those different from them? How are our views about what makes a “real” man or woman shaped by stories supposedly about people’s lives? ...