Question about "reading" books: I'm thinking about setting a goal of certain number of books to read in 2026. I often listen to audio books when I go out for runs, does this count as "reading"? #reading #books #running

Happy New Years to all of you! I hope that all of your best wishes for 2026 come to pass (especially the wishes of FC Heidenheim supporters). 😀 #FCH #FCHeidenheim #Bundesliga

I'm sure this is a delightful account and the "don't forget to lichen subscribe" is amusing, but I have no idea why Bluesky would place this account at the very top of my discovery list. Is there any sort of algorithm at all?

I might include this in my introductory lecture this coming semester.

Football - the sport of the common man.

@bencollins.bsky.social After all of the other presents were opened this morning, I told my college freshman that I had also gotten him a subscription to @theonion.com and that it would start arriving in a few weeks. (It was like when Ralphie got his BB gun; hopefully he won't shoot his eye out.)

Exactly 81 years ago, my great-uncle Oliver Weissert "celebrated" Christmas by fighting in a skirmish in the small town of Verdenne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. (He was KIA two months later a little bit north of Aachen.)

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Hard to have a worse sports day than I had yesterday: Bundesliga: FC Heidenheim loss to FC Bayern 0-4 NFL: Lions go old-school and blow their season against Steelers NCAA Basketball: Southern Illinois loss to Bradley Fantasy Football: Lost in playoffs because Josh Allen scored a measely 6 points

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go. Professors punching Nazis. (submitted without futher comment)

At least this is a start--there are two many creeps in the economics profession.

A Thanksgiving Miracle. (We are at my mom's for the weekend and after FCH scored their second goal, I screamed so loud that I scared my mom.)

Happy Wednesgiving* to all who celebrate! *Wednesgiving is a holiday my family made up a while back that allows my siblings and I to spend part of Thanksgiving week celebrating with my dad and stepmom and another day with my mom and her side of the family.

you can tell the catholic church hates JD Vance because there have been like 8 Pope Urbans and no Pope Rural

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

YOU GOTTA DO SOMETHING ✊🏾 m.youtube.com/watch?v=iX6L...

This is one of the craziest games I have ever seen.

"Lloyd Dobler stands outside Diane’s window holding up his phone. He prompts 'Siri, 'Play 'In Your Eyes' by Peter Gabriel.' Siri streams 'Private Eyes' by Hall and Oates, right after playing a thirty-second Geico ad."

Posting for no reason in particular: www.youtube.com/shorts/tqOkW...

All football clubs should be majority fan owned (cf. the 50+1 rule in the Bundesliga).

Things are awful, but today at work I got to tell a very good person some very good news. One of the best work days I have ever had. 😊😊😊

We used to call this stupidity. There were smart people and stupid people and we let the smart people do the things they were good at and the stupid people were taken care of and didn't need to worry about what the smart people were doing. But now we let the stupid people think they're smart.

I'll admit, I was skeptical when they said Gemini was just like a bunch of PhDs. But I gotta admit they nailed it.

FC Heidenheim with a comfortable match against 4th tier Bahlinger SC. Fun fact for me is that the Kaiserstuhl region in which Bahlingen is located is where my Giedeman(n) ancestors were from. (I still have long-distant cousins living in the area even if I don't know any of them.)

My annual "mitgliedskarte" from FC Heidenheim has arrived. 🙂🙂 It will be a hard year for FCH. The only silver lining is that it will be impossible for them to finish lower in the Bundesliga standings than they are expected to finish. 🙃

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

No Elinor Ostrom signposts today, but the hike from the Simmenfalle waterfall (1104 meters above sea level) to the top of Wildstrubel (3244 meters above sea level) is one that I (and my legs) will remember for a very long time.

I think it would be more correct to say that Sweden lost on penalties.

Took a hike above Lenk, Switzerland today and I looked over and saw a guide post that talked about Nobel Prize winning political-economist Elinor Ostrom. (Can't wait to add this to my course lecture slides about property rights.)

Some simple football arithmetic: Chelsea 3 - 0 PSG + FC Heidenheim 0 - 2 Chelsea = FC Heidenheim > PSG 🤣🤣

Happy 4th of July--FC Heidenheim edition. (It's the most red, white, and blue shirt I own.)

Amerika, Ihr aktueller Standort. 😞

Remember how all the rich people and politicians said that people should learn stem and work in technology? Well human product, the needs of capital have shifted and we need you to learn the exciting field of Chimney Sweep

I asked ICE where the “413% increase in assaults” justification for its officers using masks came from. They didn’t answer. So I dug into it, and what I found … did not boost their argument. Gift link: wapo.st/4l7a1ch

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @dccartoonist.bsky.social ) #Juneteenth

Apparently Jeanine Pirro and Pete Hegseth are now dictating policy at the Department of Health and Human Services. apple.news/Ax0neqHIBQuu...

Haliburton, as called in: Brazil, France, Iceland, U.S. (in Spanish), Albania, U.S. (ESPN Radio), Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Canada, and Croatia:

Celebrating "Christmas in May" with the FC Heidenheim victory to stay in the Bundesliga!!!

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Preparing for Union Berlin - FC Heidenheim match with other FCH supporters at (actually under) the Brandenburg Gate.

Live-tracking the uncontrolled descent of a 1970s-era Soviet space probe.

Or — hear me out — we could all pool our money together and hire experts to do the research for us, thus creating a "center" for disease control and prevention.