I love my country of Illinois

There's a large road bike LEGO now

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

People who are unfamiliar with the UCMJ may not realize that for an active duty major to do this in uniform, the consequence can be court martial and incarceration. All of it is prohibited, but the wearing of the uniform was an intentional choice, and a likely forfeit of both his career and freedom.

I am a member of the House of Bishops theology committee on AI and I approve this message I also just bought 5 stickers

Adventures with aging parent, no central air, and oven hot plus smoke- Mom finds any temp under 80 to be cold. It’s a function of age plus a pain response. It’s 86 degrees outside and she’s saying “it’s cold”. So she turned off both AC units upstairs and opened windows Letting wildfire smoke in

Shoutout to the employee that made this display at BN

I second this.

Re-reading Leaves of Grass to celebrate the nation and came to my favorite part: This is basically just the intro to College Game Day, 19th-century style.

Hot take: It is very good when news outlets put the party of politicians in headlines like this.

Yes, a projected high of 92 is objectively lower than today's 96 but it feels disingenuous to tell me a lower temp is coming weather app.

Why don't our schools get the funding they need? Because there's not a lobby for public schools. Kids don't have a corporate PAC. We must be willing to take on the political system that always puts corporations over people.

The odds that McConnell is dead and yet remains in office are high and bodes poorly for other historical events which have not yet transpired

Friday night.

The Onion presents Birth of a Nation, the only movie ever named this, is now live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTi...

Public health advice if you're in the greater DC area: 1) avoid the entire national mall area — risks include heat stroke and getting blown up 2) run all of the air purifiers you have

Chain of custody is one of my main concerns with the use of LLMs in journalism, too. The deal Is, we’re always supposed to be able to show our evidence. Hard to do that when an LLM read or analyzed something.

LLMs are a kind of uncertainty filter that give credible sources and bad ones the same glossy finish, severing the links so you can't really be sure

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

Plan something huge for the Constitution. It’ll be 240 years old in 2028.

If Mike Pence has the courage we can get the right result from this

#DHManga Anime Expo Announcement 🚨 The next H.P. Lovecraft adaptation from Gou Tanabe, The Haunter of the Dark, releases next April! Pre-order: https://bit.ly/4xQ0BbS By Gou Tanabe

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

CABO VERDE, THE ONLY TEAM IN FIFA WORLD CUP HISTORY TO BE UNDEFEATED IN REGULATION

At some point we're going to have to reckon with the fact that part of learning, part of educating yourself, is figuring out how to deal with the friction between yourself and the world at the limits of your knowledge in ways other than retreating from it or making it someone else's problem.

This extends beyond education and literature into the space of social media. Khaless help me if I make a post that uses the technical language of my discipline to describe a problem with precision. More often not, such posts are treated as "too theoretical" or "too complex" because of the language.

Goodnight, friends. Happy Taylor and Travis Nuptials Day to all who celebrate. If that's not your thing, raise a toast to Air Conditioning Appreciation Day or Disobedience Day instead. I love you.

L - Before Trump arrives. R - The time the event is supposed to start.

I encounter students who're like "give me something easier to read," and when I ask what they mean, they say "something with smaller words," and I struggle not to tell them to pick up a fucking dictionary or raise their hands in class and ask a question about the word they don't understand.

The Trump admin went too far going after trans people for even Judge Reed O'Connor. Great writeup by @chrisgeidner.bsky.social www.lawdork.com/p/ftc-wpath-...

Loving an underdog sports team is one of the purest things uniting all humanity, Cabo Verde gave the entire world a gift.

Literally shut this entire industry down.

LRP: I'm still upset that the language we offered to explore the concept of 'public good' was "too complex" and that we had to make it an eighth grade level. For a professional document. Readability is important but at a certain point we're doing *everyone* a disservice by avoiding hard language.

I have made it an annual tradition to document Mark Twain’s hatred of July 4th celebrations, but I saved something special for America 250. Twain was part of the centennial celebration in Philadelphia in 1876. He was part of what the dubbed the “Congress of Authors”…

FTR this is your invitation to infodump, tell me all about the physics of explosions, please

Andy Reid Approaches Floor For Traditional Coach-Tight End Wedding Dance https://theonion.com/andy-reid-approaches-floor-for-traditional-coach-tight-end-wedding-dance/

These books are nice. I wonder if mine would be as nice about me.

I woke up at 4:30 EST. It is 8:40 EST. It is 6:40 where my body is...

Oh, yeah - definitely nothing will go wrong with ppl betting HUGE amounts of money on whether there's a fire in their town - I mean, it's not like just anyone can go set a fire or anything! I'm sure it'll be fine.

Hack from a friend. Fill refillable water bottle with ice. Put on hotel fridge. Great cold base to start from at conference center!

Not me arranging my hotel room like everything has a place...

"Teachers Asked to ‘Turn Off Lights’ in County Packed With Data Centers" www.newsweek.com/teachers-ask... #AiIsTheProblem #TechLiteracy #TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrarians

Door Dash is my friend...

Me when I have terminal lib brain and think the fuckin military of all things ain’t political

Digging through some boxes I haven’t been through in a while, I found some @paultremblay.bsky.social from way back when. Harlequin was the first of his I’d ever read. Highly recommend it.

For today’s #LayoverLibrary, I’m reading ‘The Wager’ by @davidgrann.bsky.social. The book tells the compelling, captivating story of the HMS Wager, which sunk off the coast of Chile in 1741. This was a hard one to put down, definitely my favorite of 2026 so far!

Beloved, Toni Morrison The Lottery and Other Stories, Shirley Jackson Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Shirley Jackson understood America like nobody else.

Holy wow. I'm so glad everyone is ok!

Why can suddenly everything be legally gambled on? What the hell changed?