one thing I don't care for about Season 4 of Slow Horses: no Sophie Okonedo (who just elevates everything she is in)

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new season of Slow Horses is amazing. Christopher Chung doesn't get enough credit for his turn as the jacked, 4chan-pilled manosphere moron Roddy Ho; the background political stakes are so real it hurts (London mayoral election with a xenophobic nationalist wackjob on the ballot)

forecast for Tuesday: low of 23 degrees / high of 34 degrees! gonna nuke what's left in the garden (the brave calendulas)

A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect maps.nls.uk/view/218516888

roasting this bad boy today

Claire Saffitz fennel lemon blueberry cake. Basically it’s an olive oil cake but you infuse the olive oil with chopped up fennel seeds first. It is very good.

i think we actually should force everyone who owns an island to make us a movie and if we dont like it the island is forfeit

If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....

me: "it was mostly just drifts of rabbit fur, there was only a tiny bit of viscera" my friend Bailey: "I kind of feel like even a tiny bit of viscera is too much viscera"

blaring this while doing garden work open.spotify.com/track/07q0QV...

Came home from farmers market, back door had drifted open bc I forgot to latch it this morning when I was digging dahlias. And discovered Ruby had finally caught, killed, and completely eaten the fat rabbit that has been in the backyard....in the living room.

Anything can be an unidentified flying object if you’re stupid enough

nytimes logging on to do some bike commentary

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

a friend is staying with me and my dog has been choosing to snuggle with him at night, only returning to snuggle with me when he leaves for work at 5 AM. I feel like the less-preferred sister wife!!!!

Pleased to see my alma mater rejecting this compact (which now seems dead). To recap: feds tried cancelling science grants to force unis to change non-science areas. Ruled illegal. Feds then tried new strategy, which was getting unis to voluntarily *agree* to allow blackmail. Also didn’t work.

Utterly charming

I’m kind of beyond shockable when it comes to Trump’s obvious dementia but this is a doozy

I am obsessed with Thomas Wenski, Archbishop of Miami (famously very vocal gay marriage opponent!) who has been increasingly more outspoken against parts of the Trump coalition and its immigration policy thecatholicherald.com/article/chri...

ARCHBISHOP WATCH! (non-immigration edition). Archbishop Coyne directs $500k from Catholic emergency funds into food banks to help plug the SNAP hole left by the shutdown. I award Archbishop Coyne 9 (out of 10) Dorothy Day Points (TM) for this action (highest score ever) www.wfsb.com/2025/11/03/a...

very interested to hear people's opinions about this. I am 100% a "yes"

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I'm supposed to be flying to ASTR this weekend, which is meeting in Denver (home of the nation's third busiest airport, almost certainly going to be impacted). Not great.

“Still Rock ‘n’ Roll Steve!” I say as I pull on my medical compression socks and special sim-racing slippers.

fully 50% of the most recent People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive (TM) were humanities majors (and the others didn't go to college). Which points to an ongoing crisis in higher education: why are STEM programs taking our tax dollars yet failing to give our young men critical Sexiness skills?!

(watching Bridget Jones, a movie about a lady who has her own apartment in London zone 1) lol fucking loser

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

thinking abt how the right wing assault on higher ed has two wings w/ different goals: tech sector wants unis to primarily be job training and opposes the humanities as frivolous minutiae + cultural conservatives who value the humanities but are mad about their intertwining with leftist politics

I alas cannot apply for this conference because I will have already blown all my travel money on RSA, but this looks so good. Talking about John Donne at the Biosphere 2 site!!!! In the Arizona desert!

Mamdani's win interesting for lots of reasons but one thing that's not been commented on much (because contradicts the narrative of hard left swing): a real sign of how much even progressive Dems have come to understand that "defund the police" is radioactively unpopular

Says here everyone in New York City will now be assigned an aloof wife

Congratulations to Governor Cuomo on a decisive victory and the first step in the Make New York Great Again (MNYGA) (say: Many Gahhh) Movement. We must come together as one in this great city and place every humanities student in it on a terror watch list.

Mamdani must give the Wu-Tang Clan the fiefdom of Staten Island and the resources necessary to bring it to heel.

i don’t like him, but, man, turning down $10M in favor of haterdom is an all-time, world-class, heavyweight champion hater move

I just feel like, because this is America, we are all collectively going to have to endure some kind of horrible Andrew Cuomo third act. A cable news show? Onlyfans? Also dating Katy Perry? Weed lobbying?

sorry but mamdani and cuomo should have worn blue and yellow hats, respectively

For fellow professors that require “interview a professor“ assignments, just know I will find you and I will have my revenge.

I'm doing a partial rewatch of Succession and I think Tern Haven (the one where they go have dinner with the Pierce family, headed by Cherry Jones's Nan) is legitimately the best episode of TV made in the last decade. The long dinner party sequence with the roving, jumpy camera....

does anyone have an eye on the Etsy witches

This made me laugh so, so hard. (For those not 18th century nerds, I am the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society, which is in honor of a writer who has been dead for centuries & thus uninterested in book club scams)

unsure about this messaging from a local church

this critical review of a Greenblatt book behind a paywall has me behaving like a Dickensian orphan at a sweet shop window

One of my favorite local menu items. The Senator’s Special, which is inexplicably a cold meatloaf sandwich. Which senator?!?

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

this whole story is pretty maddening. I note that student who harassed and ultimately got the instructor fired is given the courtesy of remaining anonymous. Interesting choice, Chronicle. www.chronicle.com/article/new-...

Claire Saffitz roasted lemon tart

reflecting on that gooning article and all I have to say is that Roman Roy would have loved it