Having to finally clean out and organize the messy and chaotic basement several years after moving into the house (kids getting older, in-laws downsizing). Has gotten significantly better since I started loudly announcing "I am descending into madness!" every time I go down to work on it.

A little disappointed that it's such a beautiful day because now I can't stand on my front porch on Father's Day, look at the rain, and point out that we really needed this

Literally a hell of our own making.

"Is the 6 am screaming my 8 year old in trouble or just up early and singing Hadestown at an inopportune time" challenge (it was the latter, of course)

Ending the "asfaltterreur van de gemotoriseerde bourgeoise" still goes pretty hard as a political demand 60 years after Provo

Romcom pitch: He was a baker/bagpiper from Glasgow She was a parks planner from Southie One afternoon at the Cop Slide tourist attraction, their eyes met. She gave him a coffee from Dunkin. He gave her a can of Irn Bru. They danced to The Proclaimers. World Cup Match, coming spring 2027

Officially renaming all locations to Duncan' Donuts

He has a name and it’s Alexis de Tocqueville

This is an incredibly smart sentence.

I have deliberately not named the show because a quick search of Bluesky reveals to me that several of you are also weird enough to remember the show like I did.

Air to Ground Message: DANGGGGGG HOLD BOARDING THEN Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Embraer 175 (Enhanced Wing) A: #ae02c6355a2 F: #f54145fb685

Publication day! My contribution to Volume 26 of the Annual Review of Political Science, "Participatory Democracy and Its Limits" is now officially available and is OPEN ACCESS (meaning freely available to all): www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Today is Décadi the 30th of Prairial in the year 234. Prairial is the month of meadows. Today we celebrate the hand cart.#JacobinDay See today's page

me, walking into the British museum

So, the story of how I was once the only other person who ever remembered a show thought forgotten...no, desired to be forgotten...much to an actor's chagrin... 1/

what if the thing that finally vanquishes the lanternflies is a replication crisis

I have deliberately not named the show because a quick search of Bluesky reveals to me that several of you are also weird enough to remember the show like I did.

So, the story of how I was once the only other person who ever remembered a show thought forgotten...no, desired to be forgotten...much to an actor's chagrin... 1/

The point of having students do peer review is not to fix the essay, it’s to give the students a concrete experience of delivering their ideas to an audience and being in community caring about their compositional choices.

Final corrected version now published open-access Jacob T. Levy. 2026. Conceptualizing Academic Freedom. Annual Review Political Science. 29:57-72. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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a perfect bit

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

2024: Will the Kowloon survive in the new dining out economy? 2028: Kowloon's new Braehead location, 3rd in Scotland, recreates the original Saugus landmark's architecture

I always thought Calliope Hollar as a stage name or band had a great balance of circusy/folksy/nerdy/goofy. So if you're looking to launch a troupe of punk Americana acrobats you can have that one for free.

Now that it has been returned to the traditional green color it's also worth pointing out that as it does not have pockets it is technically the Reflecting Billiards

OK I will do a prompt to keep myself entertained and less stressed. What names have you mentally claimed for the band you're never actually going to form? Like, you'll be angry if a real band "takes" your idle idea. Set it free here. (Mine have been "Flying Oscar" and "PICNIC COMMA LIGHTNING")

UK people being snarky about Trump trying to take birthright citizenship away from Americans need to understand that there isn’t birthright citizenship in the UK because Thatcher got rid of it

What are the easiest ways to get my RA (trained in Python) up to speed in R so she can a) grow her marketable skills and b) take on more tasks? #rstats

OK I will do a prompt to keep myself entertained and less stressed. What names have you mentally claimed for the band you're never actually going to form? Like, you'll be angry if a real band "takes" your idle idea. Set it free here. (Mine have been "Flying Oscar" and "PICNIC COMMA LIGHTNING")

Today

After having pretended to read "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" I'm finally actually reading it and yeah it's actually as good as all that. I can imagine lots people not liking it but not the kind of people who hang out on Bluesky

I know we've settled on airport sushi as a risky choice, but chat, how do we feel about hospital lobby lobster roll?

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It's @unlawfulentries.bsky.social day on Drafting the Past! Want to know how Anna, a political scientist, learned to think like a historian for her new book? Listen to our conversation: draftingthepast.com/podcast-epis... We also talked about 2nd book challenges, sexy writing tools, and more! 🗃️

Trying to decide if Ashurbanipal implies the existence of Oakurbanipal, Ashruralipal, or Ashurbanifoe

Spouse was concerned at first about the person yelling repeatedly and frustratedly in another language in the closest hospital bathroom stall, but then she heard the Duolingo "correct" chime and figured out what was happening

I know we've settled on airport sushi as a risky choice, but chat, how do we feel about hospital lobby lobster roll?

Did you hear that love, government says this counts as social interaction!

Inviting Gary Snyder to do the opening ceremony and we are absolutely going to finish the job and levitate that thing

What need has He for milkshakes who has drunk from darker seas? What hunger stirs that formless body, Royal purple, wine-dark, free with smiles too wide, his mouth consuming all whose gluttony is only super-sized by mortal measure. Oblivion, the final grimace, overtakes us all. Not He.

Vozinha was spectacular for Cape Verde. This is shameful.

Did you hear that love, government says this counts as social interaction!

Tomorrow's going to be a hard day so I will either be posting on here non-stop or not looking here at all and my skeets will be of either significantly higher or lower quality or both or neither

Boston Public Library will have some contemporary materials relating to the Haitian revolution displayed at the July 2 Special Collections open house.

It is really embarrassing to have Herman Melville getting me so completely dead to rights

Like, ghost of Andrew Jackson gets summoned briefly back from hell to be shamed by the size of this cheese.

You couldn’t make The Office today because the Scranton branch would have been closed in 2023 after Dunder-Mifflin invested heavily in AI logistics

Big. Hunk. Of. Cheese.