I used to finish my first class day with a Venn diagram where one circle was their responsibilities (Give everything a college try. Get engaged and curious in something. Don't cheat.) and the other was mine (Be fair. Be compassionate. Be excited to teach. DON'T BE A COP)....

Rain puddle reflection, Chartres street, New Orleans

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

Europeans when asked to unblock the Strait of Hormuz

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

Oh, it sucks when someone steals your shit, doesn't it www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...

The Supreme Court:

Should you want a definitive rundown of all the historical symbolism of the Bad Bunny halftime show:

I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity. They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.

Appallingly evil. ICE is an abomination.

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

This is how you say it. It's not that hard.

DUUUU VAAAAL

Happy Vince Guaraldi season to all who celebrate.

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).

It can’t be said enough that the heart of creativity is the process of creating, not the final product. It‘s the process, the struggle, the change in direction, the finding your way. That is everything. All these ppl slobbering over AI removing the process as if that can make art. It destroys it.

Have you ever seen such a beautiful sight

Kicking in the doors of daycares is a great way to turn wine moms into molotov cocktail moms.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing? Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

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RIP. D'Angelo was a genius. Voodoo is a sensual sermon about our wants, our sins, our needs, and our joys. It is a perfect album. And this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

Uh huh...

this is the shit i want to see

Read an excerpt from “The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by @csschmitt.bsky.social. @pennpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/free...

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people directly quoting you does’t sound like a personal attack on your character.

Ufff! And how!

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

that Alcaraz fake-dropshot, slice drive is so potent in this matchup wrote about it in CHANGEOVER www.simonandschuster.com/books/Change...

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda How quick we forget.

Any Senators here? I’m a biomedical scientist with immunology, cancer, infectious disease expertise. RFK Jr lied to you in his confirmation hearings. Repeatedly. Provably. He’s lied to EVERYONE for 30+ years. Repeatedly. Provably. He WILL lie today. Repeatedly. Provably. 1/

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. Andrew Carnegie

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

special place in valhalla for bartenders who take extra good care of kids, kings and queens, all of 'em

Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.

Me knowing everything this bard recites as I argue household temps in Mississippi with my kin.

Talarico on Fox: "If Republican policies are so popular, why do they have to redraw the maps before the election? ... this is like two football teams coming out of the locker room at halftime and the team that's ahead says they want to change the rules for the second half so they can win the game."

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

OOOOO, I do!

He’s good. He’s very good. This is the basic “speak like a normal human being” stuff more Dems need to do. It doesn’t mean being vulgar or crude, it just means being clear and to the point.

Bold move by Texas to say that the First Amendment only applies during daylight hours.

This is how insane people sound when you tell them why A.I. is bad

Everything about this thread made me laugh.

We know too well the devastating consequences of such action—families torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and multigenerational trauma inflicted on a community for decades. #AlligatorAlcatraz #NeverAgainIsNow

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.