Lots of buttons Trump might want to press are not connected to anything. If he gives an order to attack Iran or Cuba it is effective because there is a whole machinery set up to do just that.

One of my professors in grad school (late '90s) used to point to the abandoned churches that are ubiquitous in American cityscapes as a warning that we should not take the permanence of modern universities for granted. Prescient, I think.

General Francis L. Donovan AGAIN proudly announces that he has murdered defenseless civilians. Remember his face. He will eventually face court-martial.

We have just spent 10 years watching everything we hold dear get ripped up by a horde of shit-throwing baboons because we apparently forgot that even if you make the best data-driven progressive policies in human history, you still have to SELL normal people who don’t like to read on them.

when a bunch of people feel this way, even those who appear to be doing well on paper, you probably do in fact have a problem.

Oh my god they did just make it up.

MIT's social science library is closing, the entire book collection will be no longer available to browse or immediately check out, the space to become additional B-school classrooms? 🤬

it's for the npc's, npc's read right?

This entire piece is "Republicans are right and winning and I accept every criticism they have of Democrats, WHO I SUPPORT"

as ever, the classes they themselves took were evenly split between "sales-cost=profit" for four years and a couple courses where they were unsuccessfully asked to imagine that people outside their class are entire human beings and they're still pissed about how hard both of these were for them

Why do university administrators hate universities?

“The Pentagon has spent months positioning the troops and weapons needed for the U.S. to launch a military attack on Cuba — all it needs is a final go-ahead from Donald Trump.” www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

I know. I’m being an annoying reply guy. But I keep reading this and I keep being blown away by the sheer breadth and depth of this. It’s the most damning indictment of this godforsaken country put to paper. Just amazing work by @joshcaress.bsky.social and @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

conservative pundits (sneering): actually our christianity is more a set of ideological views about race and gender than anything resembling faith or observance everyone else: yes we know, it's not a secret

The internet is a popular pick for most destructive invention but I think the Electoral College is up there. None of any of this would have happened, Trump etc etc if we had popular vote. We wouldn't be at the mercy of 8 suburban Philadelphia voters to decide the future of the country every 4 years

“Goth cowgirls. Six foot five latinas. Raspy voiced subs. These aren’t just fleeting unfulfilled desires, they’re core elements of our being. Kept from us. Consumers will feel the same way about you, the Tourism Board of Israel.”

oh god i can't stop i feel like i'm shitting in their garden

okay, reading on the whole kojima / refn a.i. thing and this basically just sounds like refn just roped kojima into appearing in a fugly a.i. demo for some show.

Fuck. This likely isn't limited to Solano-Sonoma, Marin, Napa, and Yolo & probably other Bay Area counties could be affected. If you bought citrus or grape plants from Costco in the Bay that were from Burchell Nursery in Fresno County, you should contact your county Ag Commissioner & bag the plants

The State Dept has an office named for a far right European plan to kick out migrants. But they really really really don't want to talk about it!! www.wired.com/story/the-st...

living in a 24/7 d/s (damsel/snidely) relationship with a girl who keeps a pair of airpods in so she can listen to oncoming train asmr to stay in "trackspace"

Rewatching all of Poirot and a new reaction gif just dropped

I hate Musk above all others. People truly do not understand the level of his depravity. I hope history barbecues him. Excellent read, @nberlat.bsky.social

I am once again asking you why Chris Elliott is in Manhunter.

hmmm. a couple of these

When Wemby told Spurs PR to fuck off after they told him to cool it on the ICE talk: 'Yeah, PR has tried, but I'm not going to sit here and give some politically correct answer, I think it's crazy that some people might make it seem like or make it sound like the murder of civilians is acceptable'

i think the phrase "their cities" is interesting in that it expresses the republican belief that they are at war with their neighbors

I'm just a simple country doctor, but I don't understand how the editor of the Chronicle Review can write an essay on what he sees as the excessive "political enthusiasms" in higher ed over the last decade and not mention, say, anti-CRT hysteria, state legislatures' rewriting of curricula... (1/5)

Hey whats good guys it’s your boy the democrat billionaire governor that fucking sucks. Back at it again with some more of my tedious bullshit.

you know how ratemyprofessor.com used to have a chili pepper you could add to signify "I want to fuck this professor", and it was separate from the rating score? I think ballots should have a dagger column to indicate that you think a candidate should be killed, even if you're voting for them.

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

every product you order now looks beautiful in photos, but when it comes, it's made of a new, ultrabrittle plastic that fills your home with mysterious nanoparticles, and when you peel off the sticker that says Oak & Hen or something, there's a logo underneath that says SCOOB HOME

I really think Trump II is going to rock up 20th century dictator bodycount when all is said and done and all accounted for, Leopold in the Congo kinda stuff here. Just wildly evil.

2 of the best! also you can see the path of emulation (same way scorsese made the credits song so important) to how we got those marvel stingers/post credits in the first place - these two and the end of Stalker esp.

my favorite movie endings all time are 'Some Like It Hot' & 'Beau Travail' for very different reasons 📽️

I fully understand what a rat Paxton is but I am absolutely delighted to see Cornyn lose his seat. A genuine monster

BREAKING: brian o'hara has resigned as the chief of the minneapolis police department o'hara was due to face the city council next month for a confirmation hearing to reappoint him, the same process community safety commissioner toddrick barnette has now failed twice

the pandemic really showed what happens when people get a taste of what the elite think is their privilege only

They’re gonna pour so much fucking money into the next NY mayoral election. Unprecedented volumes of dark money. They want this man GONE

Again the person who hollowed out this capacity and directly caused deaths as a result is about to be rewarded by the market by becoming a trillionaire with your retirement money.

and biblical divorce

A four-term incumbent Republican just lost to a far-right figure who has faced allegations of corruption, financial malfeasance, and infidelity.

this email from Charter feels a little racist?

the only real response to OP is shut up nerd but i would like to point out that anyone that thinks bouncy houses are “bourgeois frivolity” has never been in the mission on a saturday

They played tape on the radio of RFK Jr. talking about how the esteemed Dr. Oz told him that Trump has the most testosterone of any man over 70 who has ever lived. That voice and that content... man. That was some weird shit.

This isn’t a “everybody has to be handsome” thing either, Robert Duvall was never a sex symbol but he had a normal human face that made normal human expressions presumably because he experienced human emotion

ALSO TODAY: @annaleen.bsky.social on encountering new versions of our relationships to work and the self in “Pluribus.” Like ChatGPT, Gemini, and other chatbots, the Others are relentlessly cheerful, full of decontextualized facts, and focused on efficiency.” flaminghydra.com/the-politics...