me: reactionary centrists don't understand why people criticise them john: the line hundreds of people think applies to me? def not about me

Sickos yes dot gif

Beginning the year as they mean to go on

Nodding soberly at this take from….[squints]….a robin with enormous balls

1. no it won't 2. they would lose 3. don't threaten me with a good time

It was one of my silly sabbatical goals to read the whole of Proust’s Recherche — six months in, I have finished book one. lol. Lmao. Anyway it rules

Much like that Mitch Hedberg joke about baked potatoes, I buy Hachiya persimmons because they’re great if you think you might want a piece of fruit in about a month

not just established scholars

it does kind of feel like a lot of bluesky users spent four days around their extended family and immediately got on here to be like "the pizza you ate as a child sucks. the twin cities are overrated. what else. pencils should be illegal" you all are disregulated and you need to settle down!!

Boxing Day is actually the last real day of 2025. Thereafter we enter the Fake Zone until 1st of Jan 2026.

The Avatar movies are simply none of my business, glad people are enjoying them

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

Everyone’s replying with the class they didn’t want to take but still applied to their major, but mine was Discrete Mathematics I floundered my way through it, which taught me how to seek help from my classmates, and/but also got to experience mathematical elegance firsthand

calling for the ban all travel from Europe because of a single murderous Voyager who crossed the Atlantic from Portugal is poetry

For…..reasons, we’re back to doing the written portion of PhD comps in a wifi-less computer lab. I voted in favor of the decision, but this doesn’t feel sustainable tbh

People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind Actual academics:

bluesky v1.113 is now live 🎉 we’re launching fax family, a feature that will automatically send a fax of everything you post to any family members you haven’t spoken to in over a year.

“The institutions Savage discusses in his piece employ approximately 0% of the US population, but their transformations plus DEI rhetoric plus an internet community aimed at negatively messaging about it all can generate the impression of something much bigger going on.”

I showed these to my husband last night and he made me laugh with this one: "He looks like he's in a lover's spat with the lamp and the lamp is winning." bsky.app/profile/astr...

“IT COSTS AS MUCH AS A FUCKING FLIGHT TO SYDNEY” It’s here, everyone

It’s that time of year! The time in which 100% of my procrastinating activity involves trying to find out how to be more moisturized

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

this is like a capsule summary of the problems with a singular focus on quantifiable data

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Every site/app on the internet is doing a 2025 Wrapped now. No thank you! I am trying to forget!

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

Last month I had the really lovely opportunity to talk to the folks at the Hagley Museum (it’s in Delaware. It houses a whole bunch of corporate records) about a very nascent project of mine on the town I’m from. Here’s my FACE: www.hagley.org/research/his...

I just realized today that in Ottawa the 6 bus line and the 7 bus line run in parallel for much of their routes and those bus stops must be SO annoying at like 8am and 3:30pm every weekday

I think it is this, PLUS: we actually know, deep down, that global warming is about to wreck everything. Parts of the earth will be uninhabitable in some of our lifetimes. So it's making everyone mean and stingy -- they're subconsciously already in "preparing for the apocalypse" mode.

this is quite the detail

pretty sure that one of these days is gonna be the 100th anniversary of the parking lot, and no one will care, but imagine how that conversation went the first time “well, Grover, it’s like a horse post but for cars” “Chester, you honestly expect people to be able to drive these things backwards”

This, niece of same age, but “I AM A GODZILLA HUMAN”

This essay by Sarah Mesle is, finally, the one essay that gets everything right re: why the discourse around “public humanities” is so embarrassing, even as the activity itself is worth holding on to. archive.is/BIR5M

the Appalachian mountains are so ancient they predate the evolution of bones.

The energy of IVE protests by city: LA: large protests (normal, parade style) Portland: protests (improv theater style) Chicago: whistle system DC: throwing sandwiches Baltimore: wheee I’m chasing YOU now

[Cookie Monster] : "No, no, no, boss, it ok, you sit down, me write headline!"

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms s 33 (the notwithstanding clause) is one of the most maliciously stupid pieces of legislation I've seen in any English speaking country (and I only specify those because I'm monolingual and can't check anywhere else)

I would say that Canada appears to be barreling towards a real constitutional crisis type situation with all of this, but of course it isn’t, it’s just going to flop over into not actually having a meaningful charter at all lmao

Aaaaaaaahahaha I grew up in the valley and was a hopeless anime dork in high school I am losing my mind rn

The world is bad; make babka buns.

Ottawa you lucky bastards, go!!

When I say I am PUMPED about this !!!!

I low-key think that executive counter-knowledge is one of the biggest scourges on and threats to a functioning American society

Of course humanities fields “progress.” We‘ve discarded and superseded any number of ways of doing things. But I’d argue that’s not the GOAL of the field, which (a) people do not want to admit and/because it (b) makes things difficult, existentially!

Virgo: Sometimes you are your own worst enemy. Not today though. Today it is Jeff.