Grinchin ain’t easy

Ok who waited to sell this until Stranger Things dropped

This is literally a holiday-themed missile strike. It is as insane as it sounds and should be front-page news.

gift of the MAGA guy

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Mark Cuban just sitting around in a mansion or on a private jet and thinking “hmm, methinks I should bestow the poor with my knowledge” and getting yelled until his feelings are hurt is really funny

a very merry christmas from the most spoiled boy in the world

Uhm it’s ableist to expect people to recognize jokes as jokes so check your privilege and do better *clap emojis*

million dollar idea: rage room with only vtech brand toys

Asking questions is not hate, although I can see how you might interpret it that way. No one challenges you on X. Here we do. That must be so hard for someone who has never really been questioned.

Happy December 25th Amendment

A Lagrange point, the stablest relative equilibrium in the three-squirrel problem

It really is about the notes you don’t play

Hope all you wokes are ready to do your war on Christmas today!

This is the most Woodbury thing imaginable

[my house, 20 years from now, listening to "baby, it's cold outside"] my son: man, this song is real weird me: it used to get cold outside

And that’s why they say he rode into Jerusalem on an ass

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The set of all shapes that can’t contain themselves.

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

3. I wish there was something like snow in summer, a phenomenon that makes everyone calm down and relax and hibernate so they're not out being annoying. Maybe we could duplicate it with fire suppression foam.

The Kate Bush Doctrine

I love that this product exists but I can’t help feeling like it’s a slur against the #OnionHate community

I would have passed math if it was taught like this.

Me the evening before my organic chemistry final exam in '99:

🎶 If you choose not to comment "No comment" is a choice 🎶

Pole Vault Pole xkcd.com/3183/

Great video by @anamariecox.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?si=gYx...

my holiday vibes this year are these

keeping this around for the next time i'm asked what Bluesky is

Happy Christmas (Eve)²⁺³⁶⁵ᵏ, k ∈ ℤ

"this could have been slop, but it's not" is rapidly becoming a surefire signifier of premium-ness

As i wrote back when this story first broke www.readtpa.com/p/same-scrip...

Even at research intensive (R1) universities in the US, "tenure density" is already below 50%.

Ok, I don't usually do this, but the Molly Worthen piece on Christian Nationalism in the NYT? Apologetics. I'm on Xmas break and I don't feel like wasting my time breaking this down but let me just say this: WHO IS WE? Because some of us get Christian Nationalism, the NAR, and Dominionism.

This is true of every intervention aimed at supporting academically vulnerable students. The selection effect will eat your lunch if you make anything "optional"!

A lot of people need a refresher on evil’s banality

FWIW, I think that piece on Christian Nationalism is at best, naive. It's very frustrating as someone who grew up in Evangelical MAGA-land and is personally acquainted with Dominionist politics, to see people parachute into those communities and miss the story.

Princeton at last can breathe a sigh of relief.

If you're not seeing this same scheme employed at your own institution, don't get too comfortable...you will! Your school is not too big/small/private/conservative/progressive for this to happen there. Start planning to keep your college community safe from conservative attacks and spineless admin!

congrats everyone who took the time to nitpick the grading while a trans woman had her career ruined, your continued existence is useful

If you got a problem, yo, I'll solvent, check out the gunk, isopropyl dissolves it

🎶I’ve been to Lageles, Phoenix, Aldquaque, Pieerenix, Sacramento, Fraserisco, Jose, Bakesatoe, Reeno, Reno, Freeso, Freso, Oakland, Tusoo, Aurora, and Oakland I’ve been everywhere man, I’ve been everywhere!🎶

My kid appears to have passed a class purely on the strength of everybody getting 100% on the final exam due to finals being cancelled by a mass shooting. Which I'm not saying establishes motive