one thing I haven't heard in discussions of the higher ed loyalty oath: would the terms of the Compact not endanger accreditation? p sure faculty control of the curriculum and involvement in hiring is a standard

They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.

trying to get calories into a dog recovering from GI surgery with a bland diet is so hard already, but trying to manage macros at the same time? what do you MEAN i'm making an eggwhite and cottage cheese aspic to mix in with the chicken and rice

this is cover. if nyt focused on the count, they'd have to say things like: "hundred of thousands protested. a few people said [whatever problematic shit]" if they focus on "content" they can say shit like "protesters gather; some resorted to property destruction/antifa-ing/antisemitism/whatever"

You're right. I don't believe it.

Weed, Sluts, Bitches, Jesus. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony......

If the government wanted to spy on Bluesky users they wouldn't need official accounts to do that, those are only here to get people in trouble for posting dumb shit at them

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

And cosmopolitan enough to know the difference between subregional cuisines, small but meaningful differences in local cultural practices. If we can distinguish parmesan vs pecorino or camembert vs brie, we should also be able to tell the difference between northern vs southern indian food

One of the things that the greater left needs to do ASAP is start making a virtue out of cosmopolitanism and epicureanism. Wanting to die without having experienced as much as possible of the world should be seen as a serious character flaw.

I'm sure I'll get accused of being anti fun or whatever, and I'm not gonna lecture anyone about wearing inflatable costumes, etc. just try and give a shit about where you send money. on a related note, the Portland Defense Fund is doing a street faire to raise money today. details in flier

your fucking tax dollars and mine paid for a bunch of professional government trolls to have at least(!) one actual fucking meeting about how epic it would be to all join bluesky at the same time. people wrote fucking emails about this. from dot gov addresses

vance has got to be the most cucked vp of all time. absolutely no power, completely subservient to a sundowning blowhard and an unelected nazi sleaze, so bored of waiting around for grandpa to give him something to do that he’s organizing forum raids like goons dropping in on habbo hotel

i believe all parades have a right to exist and defend themselves

the dog had five pounds of fabric and mud and rocks, including an entire hand towel, in his stomach. surgery, two overnights in the hospital, a bunch of fluids and two plasma transfusions, a scary opioid-antiepileptic interaction, and NG-tube feeding. home now, very happy with chicken and rice

You gotta include the Umberto Eco quote!

It’s sad to realize how much of Andrew Cuomo’s career was just riding the coattails of his famous father. by Meghan McCain

holy shit

dumb dog has eaten enough dirt to block his whole gi system so he has to be roto-rooted BUT potentially, the mystery of eating dirt AND weird labs AND why other meds aren't working as well as they should could be solved if he has IBS

who whistles vengabus at 60bpm in the back hallway of an emergency vet

ATTENTION BAJORAN WORKERS

all shifting-POV multi-narrator novels are epistolary if you imagine each chapter starts "Hey Siri" verse ≠ poetry most of rimbaud boils down to "gold-star gay" misogyny don't write like hemingway. don't write like kerouac. they're good because they were geniuses, not because of mini/maximalism

"resting just-checked-into-the-White-Lotus face" deserves its own emmy

sometimes you have the kind of day that can't be solved, but you'll never know if little chocolate donuts will help unless you try

they had a reason, and brett kavanaugh told them it was an acceptable reason, despite it being unconstitutional and immoral

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

it is with deepest regret that five years later i am still writing "soup, for my family" on my grocery list whenever i want to stock up on cans

ben thornewill was listening to a bunch of stephen schwartz when writing In The Waves, right?

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

the interview where a local reporter said basically "this is a tactic so that less lethals hit the suit, right?" and the original frog guy responded "nah man, we're just being silly to show that this is absurd" really hit me in the soul

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

On one hand: don't anthropomorphize AI. On the other: LLMs exhibit signs of gambling addiction. The more autonomy they were given, the more risks the LLMs took. They exhibit gambler's fallacy, loss-chasing, illusion of control... A cautionary note for using LLMs for investing without guardrails.

dumping schmidt for vasquez was one of the dumbest things we've done as a county in the last five or ten years

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

in case you were wondering why this whole town would brawl for Angelita

Portland City Council member Angelita Morillo humorously criticizes Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, leading to laughter from CNN's Boris Sanchez.

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

The best part of how Portland is handling this is they’re not only protesting, but also angering the goose steppers by not taking them seriously. Pretty genius. Because even ICE & the national guard don’t want to be displayed as that asshole fighting people in cute costumes.

It's @ingforart.bsky.social's theory of Antifascist Clowns. Fash street thugs want to fight to show toughness, but clowns are a step too far. If they win against the clown, the best they can say is they beat up a clown. But if they lose? Even if it's a %1 chance... there's no coming back from that

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

how many times am i going to get an email notifying me about changes to the calendar invite i declined to a professional development seminar on how to use ai in teaching which i don't want to do even if my job would let me teach anymore

tesla’s self-driving cars:

Trump and Vought just re-invented ship money from first principles