I have things to do today, but Pepper has other ideas...

So I got hit with a layoff notice on Friday, just due to contract financials. I have a couple months left with the company to wind things down and do handoffs, etc, but I'm officially looking for something new. Cybersecurity, director-ish level. If anyone has some connections, let me know!

The lovely @ltimonin.bsky.social discovered that there's a 1975 adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome's _Three Men In a Boat_ featuring Tim Curry and Michael Polin, so we're watching it on YouTube...

The garden of the house on my crossing guard corner has been freshly mulched; it smells like JMU in spring time here...

I am not ready for it to be this warm. Luckily, there's snow in the forecast for Monday...

Season 2 of Designated Survivor - released in 2017 - opens with a pandemic threat (episode 3). I'm beginning to think we were, perhaps, not really paying attention...

A short bedtime tale by the 4yo: "Once upon a time there was a little boy who really wanted a unicorn. But every day, no unicorn came to his house. He would shout, "UNICORN!", but no unicorn came to his house. He wished EXTRA SUPER HARD but still no unicorn came to his house! Only tigers."

I'm not as anti-screen as some folks are. Kids are going to graduate to a world where being able to use a computer for daily tasks will be expected. But schools keep giving them laptops and then restricting what they can do with the laptops. Let them create or give them typewriters instead!

I don't play TCGs, but I love play mats as big mouse pads. My current one is from my flgs, the art was done by a patron.

It's almost game time! Behold! My disaster of a desk set up!

A rabbit hole thread. What context do you need? Hmmm. Ok. 1) In Finland, when you get your PhD, they give you a fancy top hat and a mother fucking SWORD, with which to defend your dissertation. It has the title engraved on the blade. 1/8

So @profgabriele.com and Sarah Baires spoke about this on American Medieval last week. I'm teaching the first half of the US survey next semester, with a focus on First Nations, so this was an easy grab for me! I hope to find a section I can share with freshmen readers...

Oh my goodness, I almost missed it! It's Rex Manning Day! Happy Rex Manning Day to all who celebrate.

I said we needed to submit to the jurisdiction of the ICC, repeal The Hague Invasion Act, and promise to send everyone involved to The Hague the moment we had the chance to do so.

Imma historian and imma judge y'all the fuck right now 🗃️

Interesting thread!

Still watching _Designated Survivor_. I'm not sure why this show is so compelling - it's not sure if it wants to be _24_ or _The West Wing_ or something else, but it's really got that strong "just one more episode" thing happening.

This is an important piece of investigative journalism.

I'm watching Designated Survivor today, because if I have to watch a fake president handling a crisis, why shouldn't it be Kiefer Sutherland?

Yeah, we see you, robin. That's your reflection, not an interloper.

Tonight's movie - a big dumb action film, _The Old Guard_, which I haven't actually seen before.

I fear that, when we had the house rodent-proofed last fall, we closed up a place that robins nest, because a group of robins have been attacking the house for the past couple of days. Not like accidentally flying into the windows, but actively and deliberately, claws out, flying into the windows.

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using with no explanation.

On a whim, because I'm home alone and it's on Netflix, I'm watching _Johnny Mnemonic_. And it's supposed to be set in 2021...

I'm watching the Masterpiece adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo. The problem with adapting Dumas is that there's so much of it, so the adaptation requires cutting, and they've chosen to cut out bits that I really wanted to see done...

Little known German Shepherd fact - they are made of spun sugar and will melt in the rain. No walk today!

WE DID IT!!!! EVERY SINGLE SEAT IN THE STATE HOUSE OR EXECUTIVE LEVEL IS CHALLENGED BY A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE!! I LOVE YOU, SOUTH CAROLINA 💙

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Good news.

Wait, Matt Walsh has a time machine, and this is what he's doing with it?

We read Animal Farm in 10th grade, but I had already read it, so I read 1984 instead. I was never assigned Fahrenheit 451, I read it on my own.

Members of Contract Faculty United, a @uaw.org local at NYU, have won a tentative deal for their first contract that includes— ✅ 95% of members will get >$100,000 ✅ Lowest-ranked faculty will get $91,000 ✅ Every member will get a raise of ≥$14,000 starting the next academic year #ShareGoodNewsToo

Find Tony, the guy who emits the WiFi signal for the park

To paraphrase Arlo Guthrie...

Just started listening to @socialistdogmom.bsky.social's take-down of _Hunter_, a neo-Nazi novel by William Luther Pierce, and I'm struck by how much her description of the leaden prose and readership assumptions match the evangelical Christian novels I read in high school.

ISTR that @thoafood.bsky.social had some thoughts on why 40 acres was considered the standard size for a farm. 1 acre? Ha!

Hi! 👋🏼 I’m a feminist public health professor and the only elected union leader in the race for Susan Collins’ US Senate seat. Andreaformaine.com

Hey, fellow academics - I've been asked to write some letters of recommendation for a student seeking transfer to a 4 year. I had this student in one class, and they were a delight, but I don't really know them that well. Also, I haven't written many letters like this. What do I put in it?

Daemon online, come visit and chat with me! http://www.twitch.tv/risingvandal

That's me next to the giant rabbit.

Proof of cats. They're enjoying some cat tv ...

Similar, "Whacky Weatley's will be closed today so we can offer exceptional savings tomorrow..."

Saturday! That means it's D&D, and we're discovering the changes made to the D&D Beyond. Utterly unnecessary and unhelpful interface changes! Did Microsoft buy WotC?

move slow and repair things

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Artillery officer, then itinerant worker, then plant biologist. And, on the other side, accountant, then some sort of quartermaster in India, and then an accountant again.

_American Hero_, by Larry Beinhardt, the book the movie was based on, purported to present evidence that the First Gulf War was a deliberate collaboration between George H.W. Bush and Saddam Hussain to buoy each of their flagging political positions. It was very "this is fictional, or is it?".

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