Gonna try to keep to my "once the Maine primary is over, keep my mouth shut and just hope for as little nat'l attention on the race as possible" ...but since it's not *technically* over, would still really like Platner to drop out, and I still imagine we're only seeing tip of the iceberg so far.

They're gonna text them (unsecured, of course) a treasure map with an X to guide through the possible mines, with an added note saying "we're pretty sure." (except not actually on that last part, because they won't bother to let anyone know they don't know for sure).

"My [relative] taught me this" and "I learned this from a [some profession or person from another country]" should be bannable language on TikTok and all reels-style formats from now on.

When you scroll down too far on a local news article:

On the one hand, I'm embarrassed at this new Doordash feature (at least, new for me?) telling me how many times I've ordered wonton soup. No regrets though. On the other hand, I'd like to apologize for the deaths of thousands of Jedi I caused right after taking this screenshot.

Okay, class, for the second part of today's activity, review the text the AI generator produced, and look for at least five places where it doesn't stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God's creation. *refuses to elaborate* *plays lofi worktime music*

I don't wanna do Robert Jordan dirty with a comparison like this, but man, Lil Baby Hegseth's Operation "Southern Spear" really is the "North Harbor" of nationalistic military operations meant to distract from the reveal of documents suggesting Donald Trump to be a pedophilic sex trafficker.

I don't think I can ever forgive society for reaching such a state where I had to learn about the election system of freaking Utah.

Playing Fire Emblem Three Houses for the first time, and having gotten to the post-time-skip where some of the prior students show up older and fighting for the enemy, with their one-liners explaining their choice, just gonna say I want there to be a Super Troopers DLC.

Basically this meme, but with Hegseth doing angry pullups and asking if a man with severe emotional inadequacies would do this.

Old enough to remember this EO from days ago that called law enforcement a foundational principle, and claimed an indication of leftist extremist terrorist sympathies was being anti-law enforcement. How strange that of four prominent shootings recently, only the QAnon guy killed law enforcers.

I feel like there has to be some good wordplay on this new housewares tariff and IKEA. Currently going with: n at IKEA: the TÄRÜFF. Available in SHTOOPÏD and TÄKKS styles.

Sequel to "it's inappropriate to call his statement a 'lie' unless we get sworn testimony from him that he knows it to be untrue and he didn't mean it as hyperbole, irony, satire, or a postulated bizarro-world he was workshopping for a short story" that we got from places like NYT in the first term.

tods travels back in time: "Hey, you guys consider support for law enforcement a foundational principle, right?" Random colonial: "SORRY, can't right hear ya over the screams of this here fella we're pouring hot tar onto for enforcing unjust laws."

So I know very little about photojournalism, but I feel like you take this picture, complete with the sign in the corner vowing not to let ICE get away with what they're doing (that the thumbnail cropped for some reason), you *gotta* be like "that's a Pulitzer, baby." Anyway, 😭😭😭

I will happily accept Merana being faster than 13 of the people running from the grizzly, and Androl not even being top 20.

Okay so was using memes as a way for my students to practice analyzing genre, and *I* thought this was clever. And it *totally* landed. 100%. Everyone loved it. Yessir. ... 😭😭😭

I miss #WotSkies. And the general sense of being at a slightly higher ring of hell than we currently occupy.

So, maybe this guy's on the left, maybe not, but it's weird to me that there's so much insistence that he is from family, and yet, even with a supposedly cooperating lover, they have yet to identify a single ideological stance. Especially when so few understood the gamer memes or Kirk/Fuentes feud.

Worse than when a parent asks about some sex/kink thing. That poor soul.

Sounds like some very bad people made a (surely entirely innocent) little whoopsy doopsy. I foresee a particularly dramatic instance of the "ah, well, nevertheless" reaction ahead.

As I've now seen multiple statements walked back, and after firing everyone competent, the FBI is now this meme, except instead of it showing guilt (well...maybe instead of *just*), it's now that the investigators are all clowns with no ability to investigate anything.

This is probably a combination of anti-hype tendencies, being a contrarian ass, and pervasive cynicism, but I finally watched Alien Earth and am not feeling the buzz. It's fine. Good even. Just doesn't feel particularly special. The bottle episode in particular didn't live up to the hype (to me).

Gonna have students write sales pitches for products that have good value other than one major flaw, and one of the products is going to be university merch, but themed around our business writing class with a prominent seal of approval from me on every item. Including a visual to help them out.

A friend's tarot reading told me I'd be finding opponents in unexpected places, would constantly be seeking a fulfillment that never arrives, and that I'd build my life off of the quest, so I've decided to resign my teaching position and become a political news/debate content creator.

Finally decided to try a fidget device to help with ADHD and anxiousness, and it's nice! Of course I forgot it on the first workday since I acquired it, but these things happen 😣

LMAO, so, #TwitterOfTime, my partner is watching (on her own, probably for the best to avoid hurt feelings if she doesn't like it), and accidentally watched s3e1, because Prime Video is stupid. And she commented on the first few minutes with basically "okay women kick ass and stolen relics, got it."

I know it's unlikely, but since Trump's claimed we have too many holidays giving us worker-ants days off, if a resignation/25th WERE to occur so soon to Labor Day, could we get Gavin Newsom on stage with an old PA system and a microphone, giving a modified version of the Independence Day speech?

Meanwhile, one person who's been seen even less than Trump during this mysterious stretch has been Jake Tapper, who's been reported as not discussing Trump's health because he's "too busy ignoring it." (plunged into Twitter to check, and no posts/rtwts about it. Maybe he's brought it up elsewhere)

On the one hand, asshole street preachers who heckle students on campus can piss off. On the other hand, as you piss in an offward direction, thanks for the impromptu opportunity for a class discussion about effective vs ethical public rhetoric.

Sad world where every day my mental state is slightly improved if a particular person's health continues to visibly deteriorate.

I enjoy that the Bloomin' Onion guy has drawn social media's ire again.

Pour one out for the Pitchbot with this one.

Why is early season 1 Chandler's stunt double time traveling from the 90s to the present day just to appear in a Facebook ad cluttering up my feed?

I greatly appreciate a moderate Dem being able to articulate this simple and entirely reasonable position so well, BUT, I wish that we had a media that didn't encourage fear of such a frank answer by interpreting every "well we don't fully agree, but" as "DEM THROWS DEM UNDER BUS."

You laugh, but if Trump had alerted the mighty sandworm to his presence, the water of many could have been lost.

The infinite, endless void into which I scream is not large enough. A society-wide, cold turkey detox of social media for like 10 years (while somehow also surviving the Trump era) is like the only hope for humanity. Bring on the solar flares, I beg.

I'm a reasonably frugal person, but a notebook with good thick paper, a card stock cover, and either strong rings or string binding instead of glue is QOL absolutely worth the 500% markup. I will not be accepting dissenting opinions at this time.

A journey for the terms 1963-1961. Lynhard B. Johnson is 100% a porn name.

Chris Cuomo shares deepfake of AOC, calling her out. AOC responds, and Cuomo doubles down, then triples down on air, without even apologizing for the deep violation. Anyway, feels existentially timed as I sit here thinking about my syllabus for this semester's comp/rhet, starting in a couple weeks.

One of those moments that just further convinces me that the internet has been one of the most corrosive things to basic humanity. So easy for some to dismiss evil that speaks to their priors. And for each like this person, imagine how many are too far gone by the time they face reality to realize.

I went from wild speculation about what he was including as "wars" and "solved" to get to six, like if he was including Afghanistan and shit, then the "war per month" clicked and I realized he somehow means just in this term.

I guess the stupid place that cancelled WoT has this new browse option that seems to be like a tailored recommendations page or something, not quite sure, but uh, this item raises some questions for me. I can't imagine it ever being quicker to move off keyboard for that when I could ctrl-c/ctrl-v...

Was playing MTG Arena against a player with a cheesy and tedious infinite combo deck, and my deck steals cards at random from the opponent's deck until I have all the pieces to do this infinite combo, but because I am not a shitbag, I do not do the combo. This deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, right?

"If my opponents would just waste their time praising me, things would be so much better" is the line you give Michael Scott before the Office opening theme plays.

Remember when the Biden *campaign* *asking* Twitter to review content for TOS violations was considered valid basis for a major expose? (only loosely relevant here, but remember also how the same expose showed the Trump campaign making similar or worse requests, but...just...no one cared? fml)

One of the reasons he's such a great character, but also one of the ways *my* Vivi isn't like her namesake. Unless we adjust it a little...

Totally taking this opportunity to say that Tarna's fate is one of Brando's crimes against WoTmanity.

Next up, new Benghazi hearings, Trump's big reveal of his private investigation's findings re: Obama's birth cert., and Bill Clinton Impeachment II: Electric Boogaloo. (alt-text: a headline that the DOJ is providing the Senate Judiciary with info regarding the Hillary Clinton email investigation)

I only regret that I had but one vote to cast against Androl.