The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

"A kindergarten teacher, teaching 25 new people a year not to bite each other and to work in occasional harmony with strangers, produces far more social good in a lifetime than an industrialist does."

Drake sitting there reading about how good the judge thought the song was and how everyone really enjoyed it

One episode to go and Alien Earth has to be one of the worst in the series and there have been a lot of terrible sequels... Even the xenomorph is badly designed...

Maximum Overdrive is on my list of the Top Five Most Batshit North Carolina-Based Movies www.ncrabbithole.com/p/north-caro...

My letter to the editor:

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

i’d day this nails the South as well

GOOD NEWS ! "A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions." #baroque #music www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

/adds to lexicon/

MONDAY. SPITE AS FUEL.

October 1 means a new thread of horror movies I’ll watch this month #shocktober

This is why you make sure there’s a girl in every group during breakout.

Martin is a piece of work

Trump sicced the National Guard on LA, ramping up immigrant arrests in a city that’s been targeted by ICE for months. Here’s how @lataco.bsky.social, a local taco site tracking the raids, became an essential reporting powerhouse to their community. Listen here: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

My statement is simply this: they're using deadly force on unarmed, peaceful civilians. At some point they're going to kill someone on camera, and I do not know that we can control what will happen after that.

I don't even own *a* gun, Stacy

French PM Lecornu resigning after 13 hours now makes the Lecornu the shortest length to measure political time. For those of you using old measures this is 1/18 of a Scaramucci or about 1.2% of a Truss

This should be the extent of the human condition

Portland Frog updates about getting pepper sprayed in his fan intake 🐸🫡

wizard frog is insane

AI at its peak

jocky's ridge mini golf, nags head, north carolina, 1985

Time to repost a classic. clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

Thanks to all who attended my Dublin Festival of History lecture @nlireland.bsky.social detailing my research on the Catholic Standard newspaper. Great to have an interested audience and a lively Q&A. My research is being undertaken @dublincityuni.bsky.social and funded by @researchireland.ie.

oh good lord www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

Ray from Car Talk is still alive, let's set him loose

🛒 Fall fashions & car batteries: #autumn, Kmart style, 1989. 🍂 Thanks to a forward-thinking staffer, this & many other in-store audio tapes were saved from the dustbin—now preserved at the #InternetArchive. 🎧 Hear the full tape ⤵️ archive.org/details/Kmar... #preservation #1980s

I just want to tell NPR: honey, you got dumped. Stop groveling. They’re not going to take you back. There are millions of other fish in the sea who will respect and want you once you stop self-sabotaging.

Dundalk is having a North Carolina night. This air is like cool silk. If I close my eyes I'm back home.

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag. KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense. KOKO: jealousy professor

In case anyone is in the market there is a Harris Teeter Harry the Happy Dragon coin ride for sale on Facebook marketplace

Delighted to see my upcoming talk on the Catholic Standard newspaper in 'What's on at the National Library of Ireland'. Part of the Dublin Festival of History, it takes place on 1 Oct @nlireland.bsky.social @dublincityuni.bsky.social @researchireland.ie Register here: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-...

Our neighbors left Ireland today, to move to Italy. A Buckeye kid in his 70s and a girl from St Petersburg in her 60s, and an 18-year-old Jack Russell named Jack. They left for Abruzzo, because it's what she chose and what they could afford.

The most palpable evidence that education has become a commoditized service is the discontent among grad students that the experience isn't what they hoped for. My PhD cohort organized most of the things that made it interesting. We didn't wait for faculty the schedule things for us. We did it.

read about the Moldovan election last night. wrote this story today. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

The casserole 😳 dang

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Anyone guess what this is and where it is located?

strong vibes

Reposted from @conelrad6401240.bsky.social Ping @nuclearanthro.bsky.social

Primal scream

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry