TFW three days in a row are all holidays

Men in Black was released closer to the first moon landing than to today.

“Why isn’t there a movie where Iron Man fights Godzilla?” “What would you do if a ghost abducted me?” “When can I have a VR and my own Minecraft server?” I don’t know, kiddo, are you sure you don’t want to talk about Neil Patrick Harris’s husband?

“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.” Works for me.

Gonna send this to my students with the comment, “If she can provide documentation confirming the reason for the extension, then so can you.”

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Look, I’m not some amateur when it comes to crastinating.

This is a really superb if somewhat gruesome story about academia.

I just thought everyone should see this

After Natalie Portman, Kiera Knightley, Sofia Coppola, and Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rose Byrne is now the fifth member of the Naboo royal court to be nominated for an Oscar.

How about a nationwide solidarity strike?

For fun I made a collage of modern riffs on the Universal Monsters.

Renee Nicole Good

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“I hate this trend where young people are just saying some random, meaningless number.” — People in 1908 talking about “23 Skidoo”, probably

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I know there's a lot of controversy about the Cracker Barrel logo, so I worked up a new option that should be good with everyone... The barrel is back, but it's now guarded by Scubble, The Cracker Goblin. I also worked up a new slogan for the company!

The shape of milk jugs recently changed slightly and I’m still a little thrown off every time I grab the milk, which I guess means that milk has gone woke?

I hate the word “grooming.” I hate it when the right uses it & when the left uses it, like I’ve come to hate “woke” & “trigger warning” & so many other thought-killing cliches that are dropped in sentence-fragment comments on social media posts. I’m exhausted by the parataxis of internet discourse.

“If you have a problem with management you can talk to HR.” Management and HR:

Stephen Colbert should join up with Conan O-Brien to create an unstoppable multimedia variety show hosting/podcasting empire. Team ColCo? Team Coco-Colbert (but in like the Coca-Cola font)?

Wild that "conscious uncoupling" is no longer the funniest piece of relationship drama that Chris Martin has been a part of.

"Our research shows that students find running difficult and frequently avoid doing it, so we are offering wheelchairs that can easily be integrated into your curriculum." "But I'm a gym teacher and this is a track & field class." This is what talking to EdTech vendors about A.I. is like.

Question for Academic Bluesky: Sorting Things Out is 25 years old--what is a more recent work that examines categories and classification, building on Bowker and Star?

A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.

A lot of D'Onofrio characters would probably endorse Cuomo. Gomer Pyle, Carl Rudolph Stargher, Vic Hoskins, Wilson Fisk.... Something tells me Abbie Hoffman would go a different way though.

Not only an issue with programming--building, maintaining, & fixing systems are 3 mutually reinforcing processes, & when you outsource any 1 of those you undermine your ability to do the other 2, which is a fundamental danger that gen AI poses to some (not all! but probably many) kinds of work.

I've officially been granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Librarian.

Do me a favor and vote for Spike Lee here so my favorite movies podcast will cover his films.

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

I’m celebrating my 41st birthday today and Trayvon Martin should be celebrating his 30th birthday today.

God bless

If this were France we'd be on general strike and flooding the streets by now.

It is definitely worth everyone's time to make a few quick phone calls. This is horrifying and must be loudly opposed.

See also: Roseanne’s recent rap song, “Daddy’s Home”. The world is burning because of the unresolved trauma of septuagenarian child abuse survivors.

Tom Morello was right. And now, we are living in the bonafide Rage Against the Machine era. It is time to organize. Our government is not failing us, it is actively trying to destroy us. #ResistForRealThisTIme

Very cool.

Tip from @snowjob.bsky.social If you have a whitehouse.gov link you want to access and it is down, try replacing "www.whitehouse.gov" with "bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov" The national archives is still doing its job for now.

The man spent the month prior to the inauguration supporting the AfD in Germany. It’s laughable to claim that it wasn’t a Nazi salute.

In 2024 (two years post-Dobbs), there were at least five horror movies with graphic body horror sequences involving forced birth: The First Omen The Substance Immaculate Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Alien: Romulus

I just know a bunch of weird stuff is going to happen today, because all the times people said “it’ll be a cold day in hell when ______” they were referring to America today.

Attempting something similar (not no internet, but less internet). Not because I think it’ll accomplish anything or make a statement, but because I expect a frantic onslaught of badness and I want to preserve my mental wellbeing for the marathon rather than treating it like a sprint.

Useful list!

Deactivated Facebook for the first time in a few years. Didn’t delete and will probably be back eventually (I have relationships there that can’t easily be replicated elsewhere as well as an archive of past interactions that I don’t want to lose). Still, feels liberating!

I have “digital” in my job title, and at least 20 times a day I fantasize about a massive solar flare permanently destroying all digital technology.

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.