“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’.

What is to Facebook what BlueSky is to Twitter? When Twitter/X turned toxic, this emerged as the preferred platform for broadcasting posts in a public setting. Now that FB is in decline, what, if anything, will emerge as the preferred platform for socializing with known friends/family/acquaintances?

Dr. Mario is the most relatable video game, because who among us hasn’t taken a bunch of different-colored pills that a plumber gave them?

Worth noting that lebensraum was largely modeled after manifest destiny. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

You will be visited by three spirits

Question for academic Bluesky: What workshops/trainings/resources are out there for learning about digital accessibility, particularly in the context of libraries and education?

This is just a suggestion but, in an economy where many job descriptions are being rewritten due to rapid social and technological changes…

My mood this week #EndOfSemester

Those in the Connecticut area who are interested in #DigitalHumanities should join us for the CTDH Conference at Central Connecticut State University February 21-22! Check out the conference schedule here: ctdh.io/schedule/

The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.

The rise of artificial intelligence should motivate font designers to finally fix the lowercase L problem.

What the communist revolution will look like when it comes to the US:

Time in between the premiere of the original Star Trek series and the Star Trek Generations movie: 28 years Time in between the release of Star Trek Generations and today: 30 years

A quick update to say that i’ll be posting all my content to Milf Messenger which is crucially not an echo chamber and is *actually* the place where free speech, spirited debate, and the marketplace of ideas thrives