May I suggest for your end-of-year donations? Ozone House gives shelter and support to homeless youngsters, many of them abandoned by their families for being gay or trans ozonehouse.org/donate-now/

This is one of my very best friends and my heart is broken. Please share far and wide as her daughter and son need all the help they can get. @msaneles.bsky.social #Missing #Michigan #SelenaStrain

christmas loot outfit. very pleased with my fam’s vision for me.

Remember when some public writers (e.g. @lioneltrolling.bsky.social) were saying Thiel and Vance were fascists and the beard-strokers got mad? I think we'll run through the same cycle with LLMs/genAI, when we'll all behold the ashes of intellectual life in America, looking for the guy who did it.

My brother’s painting of the river Ems. He died on Christmas Day 25 years ago.

Tried to find something about Jesse Owens' time at Ford at the Benson -- no luck. Asked the archivist if they had anything sports-related, and he said "we have some box with correspondence about Joe Louis, don't know if it's interesting." It was, um, interesting. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The academy has run on interlocking honor systems, which worked reasonably well. To restore it, we need to relentlessly shame (and name) scholars who subvert it and introduce this fungus into the magnificent thousand year old enterprise that is (or was) the university.

Twitter is currently discussing whether Portuguese people are white and banking on Democrats’ deep love for Bill Clinton.

hi

Check out this little guy with his devil's horns

Blue Jay glamour shoot. 🪶

Sandhill crane plumage, photographed Leavitt style

Everything about the Brown denouement makes me terribly sad.

This is the commerce secretary, abolishing impostor syndrome for all Americans

and some more winter birds. 🪶 cardinal red is so shockingly red that it's easy to overlook how intricate and lovely the coloring is on their wings.

Black-capped chickadee, unamused. 🪶

Sandhill crane today, dealing 🪶

NYT testy tonight.

Checked twitter, and Elon's algorithm served me about a hundred tweets claiming that the Brown shooting was a "targeted assassination" because one of the victims, Ella Cook, was a Republican.

the last of the colors 🪶

we dropped Great Books requirements and got this in return

check out the 50% whole wheat beauties i baked

season’s greetings from your government.

Congratuations to @umich.edu's regents who swallowed this antisemitism on campus bullshit hook, line, and sinker. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I really appreciate @rephaleystevens.bsky.social doing this. www.michiganpublic.org/politics-gov...

magic geese in the winter mist. 🪶

@umich.edu continues its tradition of sex pests in high places

my measured contribution to a discussion of @umich.edu’s data center.

lovely backyard visitors

no idea if the study is any good, but I have seen a sharp shift back to support for traditional gender roles in my first year students -- it was a bit shocking, honestly. Also majority fine with beating children.

once agin: student journalists are the free press now. www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

fair

I want to belive that whoever designed our new intro to AI canvas course curated the C glossary with a sense of irony

friends of mine have an USCIS appointment on Friday and I am so worried for them. i suspect i might never see them again. they have prepared for all eventualities, but even so. the stress you can see in their faces and bodies makes me cry

The star chamber academy bicollegenews.com/2025/12/01/p...

my favorites are back

My feed is full of faculty raging about the OU horror and full of graduate students raging about how faculty don't care about the OU horror.

is there anything like a dog

let’s bankrupt those psychopaths www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

@umich just turned down a request for an ASL interpreter -- for a meeting to discuss how awful our disability management outfit is. For the grimly amusing files.

wait for the reveal

“this talented but undisciplined writer”

little pops of color on a gray day 🪶

good piece on the destruction of Indiana U, a previously great public university utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...

the sun about to rise over Lake Erie

facebook now lets you change the date of your posts. brace for a deluge of people who saw it coming, at a time of their choosing

demonic www.mediaite.com/politics/ex-...

At hotel rooms, on the bed, with brown liquor bottles being passed around and the guys commenting on your visible pregnancy. I miss the brown liquor norm.

Seated Trotsky is taller than seated Silky

James Ryan sets the record straight after Youngkin and Rachel Sheridan (board of visitors) lied about the circumstances of his resignation. Pretty amazing document. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...