Growing up, our fairgrounds were a little over a mile from our house. METALLICA played the state fair when I was maybe 4 or 5, and it’s one of my earliest memories. I distinctly remember getting out of my family van and feeling the air around me vibrate from how loud it was #musicsky #heavymetal

I think one of the benefits of the popularity of Project Hail Mary is it teaches incels that having a romantic relationship and kids leads to a lower probability of them being forced into a military operation to save humanity that includes them being ejected from our solar system #scifisky #booksky

Doc series on Netflix: woman says she was duped by a “really good” con man. She then details how the guy asked her for $10k for “work equipment”, she said no, but then her pastor gave a sermon on generosity and she changed her mind. 😐

I’m lucky to be friends with #disability activist Mallory Kay Nelson. They gave an incredible reflection on disability care this past Sunday. Give it a listen: youtu.be/ilUbCyngvuk?...

Still requesting gas money so I can go to the courthouse and pick up medications from the pharmacy. Gas- $50 Food- $35 Anything helps! CA, Venmo- ladyasterianox #helpsky #mutualaid #aidsky #aidrequest #HelpFolksLive #HelpFolksLive2026 #TransCrowdfund #DisabilitySupportCrowdfund #MedicalMA

My phone clearly overheard the people cutting my hair yesterday because now all my ads are Just For Men haircare products.

In case ppl wanted to know why the schism Catholics (SSPX) being mad about Vatican II + yelling "We just want to pray in Latin" & Vatican II apologizing about its long tail of antisemitism are connected, aka "we just want to pray in Latin" is "ethics in game journalism", here's the text in q:

If only people who claim to have studied the Bible, would just read it... once. ⛈️

Got to witness two people fighting over a Pokémon vending machine situation. I couldn’t figure out any of the finer details, but I thought that was something that only happened to other people. Happy 4th ‘Merica

Watching new X-Men 97 and Jean’s line “Screw any timeline that doesn’t let a child be with his parents” made me choke up.

Now is a great time to remind people that CARDIAC ARREST and HEART ATTACK are *not* synonymous. Having had cardiac arrest, and having a child that experienced it, I would know.

God I miss my son

Wind thoroughly removed from my sails. Thanks for that.

Today, I introduced legislation to require that the minimum wage be a living wage. $25 an hour is what’s required for a full time worker to pay their bills, and we shouldn’t accept that full time work leaves people living in poverty.

I love that the first lesson in Bart Ehrman’s book “Love Thy Stranger” is that cops lie. Even when they don’t have to.

Day 4, book 4 preparing for my new job:

The more I learn about octopuses the more I love them. Like how they tried isolating them and offering food but manipulating a lever? Octopuses didn’t like the experiment, broke the lever, climbed out of their tanks, and spit water at the handlers. Octopuses are antifa

Day 3, Book 3 as I prep for my new job. Today’s pick: Timothy Snyder’s “On Freedom”

I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter - sign the petition below! c.org/NpvY4sR9gH

I continue to think that Mamdani’s inability to stop smiling really takes the sting out of this stuff “this man is destroying the country!” *smash cut to an extremely happy-looking Mamdani smiling like a dork* everyone else in this one looks quite nice too

The US had concentration camps even before the internment of Japanese people. Farm Fascism was uncovered in 1935 in a book called “Factories in the Field”. A concentration camp was discovered in Salinas that held farmworker union activists. They also said it was for striking Philippinos, not whites

We are in the midst of a new Red Scare in case you weren't paying attention. Not coincidentally as more leftist politicians are rising.

Day 2, Book 2 on my reading list to prep for my new job!

Just discovered that, in French, “lol” is “RAE” (rire aux eclats)

I wouldn't even have a PhD much less an academic career if it were not for the public scholarship, the guidance & the friendship of Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou, but she's bafflingly at risk of redundancy because of cuts at @exeter.ac.uk. The world needs her work now more than ever.

Book 1 on day 1 of preparing for my new job! A re-read, but well worth it! @theradr.bsky.social

Guess what? I’m at risk of redundancy. My job - and those of my colleagues in my department and across our wider faculty of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences - is one of those currently targeted for cuts. I received a personal letter today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy Father’s Day to those who celebrate

The only World Cup I care about youtu.be/PjV9eZzNs2g?...

Wow, it was also a Republican-controlled congress that did nothing except hunt down supposed communists and their sympathizers

Concerns from the conservative right during the Red Scare of the 50’s included being “cancelled” by the “Communist left” Something something doesn’t repeat but it rhymes? [From Clay Risen’s “Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America”]

Never did I expect to read a Bart Ehrman book and find a sentence that includes “…and that’s the problem with having sex with prostitutes.” #booksky #religionsky #theologysky

The wait at Jersey Mikes is insane

RJO, interestingly, was also given high recommendations during his career which typically included pleas to overlook his Jewish background/identity. “One of the good ones” kind of language. Until McCarthy

I'm at 9%, can anyone help to push this over 10%? Please share and donate as you can. And if you quote tweet with a few words it helps get more eyes on it. I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you all.

Really funny how Oppenheimer was super important to the US government until JRO realized advancing the nuclear program meant more lives lost. *Then* his “leftist” background suddenly made him a liability.

I'm absolutely fucking ashamed of Ireland to the depths of my soul. We are, as a people, people who should know better than this just looking at our own history. And we can't help but be the biggest cunts to people who are doing exactly what we did for generations.

I am homeless and I was living in my car until it was repossessed yesterday. I need $3,300 to get my car back. Currently I have $720, which leaves $2,580. I have 13 days until he (my car is a he) goes to auction. CA, Venmo- ladyasterianox

My wife and I discovered Assassins Creed Valhalla has an extension that includes (accurate [allegedly]) Irish mythology. I still have 3 AC games I’ve yet to complete. I don’t know that I’ll enjoy the franchise enough to spend more. So first…to Origins

The lesson Israel has learned, time and again, is that it can commit genocide and other atrocities with near-total impunity. Now it's exporting the Gaza playbook to Lebanon. Israel's war in Lebanon is killing thousands and displacing millions. NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL.

Why did it take me until today to find out the dad from 7th Heaven was a monster?

A friend showed my wife pics of a guy they are talking to on Bumble. It took me five minutes to find the IG account of the Spanish model the guy was stealing the pics from. It’s fun helping others this way.

No, but Ryland KEPT getting distracted! He needed to clear his head!

Look, babe, Dr. Ryland Grace proposed to Barbie on my Tomodachi Life island, so that’s why I couldn’t take your ca…BABE it was IMPORTANT

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May everyone complicit in all of these abusive systems reach the FO stage of their development speedily, and in our days and let us say AMEN

Turns out my wife, instead of cooking her breakfast in the pan I used on the stove, cooked our daughter’s pot stickers. Today’s going to be a fun day. #celiac #glutenfree

Reading Recursion has made me wonder who’s gone in the tank to make *gestures broadly*