discount on quarter zips at costco. it’s a big day for me.

perhaps i would feel worse about just ridiculing something instead of engaging substantively if my decision to just ridicule weren’t repeatedly vindicated

you can’t show people on BlueSky the sort of things i post on twitter. it’s a secret.

i stopped writing in cursive as soon as my teachers stopped making me write in cursive, but i very much appreciate my students who still do so

7: I want to watch you fail

I’m at the Neapolitan pizzeria. I’m at the ramen joint. I’m at the combination Neapolitan pizzeria ramen joint.

in retrospect a missed opportunity to ask butler what they thought about my application for the german/comp lit job at cal a decade ago

Humanities vs. STEM

invited to my kid’s class to talk about my job, and if these first graders don’t work on their ironic trolling there’s no way they’re going to make it as shitposters

This is the second time I listed to this episode and it is freaking me out even more (thank you very much). There are many Schmittheads in charge of our government and it is disturbing. Remember Joh Eastman? I can't help but hear some nasty Schmitt in the things he wrote in 2000 as well as 2020.

TODAY ON TGS: the man, the myth, the legend @jonathanbfine.bsky.social in our first ever unlocked episode, talking about your least favorite politician’s favorite philosopher - Carl Schmitt.

talking about my favorite nazi with @ceaubin.bsky.social for @thisguysucked.com spotify.link/hOrxQTSgTXb

THIS THURSDAY ON TGS: In honor of @jonathanbfine.bsky.social 17th anniversary we are unlocking a remastered version of his 'wtf is up with Carl Schmitt' deep dive for non-Patreon listeners. The world has gotten unfathomably worse in the months since its release, for reasons discussed in the episode.

6: someone has to win, and that has to be the little kid

yes

i would never join a group chat that would accept me as a member

@jonathanbfine.bsky.social a couple of german customers came through the shop them the one german phrase i know (oh nein ein horizontal rotierendes Pferd) and they asked me if i knew prof fine

my kid told my mom i’m the best teacher in the world

I wouldn’t say that I bought something at the Theory outlet just so I could get a Theory tote bag to carry books of theory, but I also wouldn’t not say that I did exactly that.

Discovered today that Maia Mindel has unblocked me. I wish I could have advised her against making such a terrible decision.

eww gross

Germans: Wouldn’t your tweet be better if it weren’t funny?

select all that apply

leaving a gap in the literature is real loser behavior and something i would just never do

when your career never advances, you’re always early career faculty, which is neat

I’d never tell people to join the Lessing Society just because I designed the new website, but I also would never discourage people from joining purely on that basis.

Wife: The kids told me the house ate you and you were talking to me from in the walls

6: you look like a little kid in this

foreign languages are irrelevant gobbledeygoop. got it. thanks.

Jonathan Fine stuns in new academic journal article

I have not earned this title, but I never complain when I’m mistakenly granted it

i’m too shallow of a reader to tell if this tweet is about me

fascinating things are happening on twitter dot com

Overheard at the coffee shop this morning: Who needs a philosophical thing about Goethe? The research we do is important.

might go as hamlet for halloween

Dad: You didn’t get asked to do that because they think you’re an idiot. Wife: That’s because they’re not on twitter.

if i ever click follow back it’s a sign i’ve lost all self respect

some basic grammar (gender ideology)

this sentence is so precious to me

My wife thinks I should beg for forgiveness for my mustache on Yom Kippur.

i reject this

I have a new best friend

News about America is far too important to trust anything actual Americans might say. That’s why I exclusively trust people who cosplay as Americans on social media.

they’re so close

Wife: Why don’t you ever tweet about Schleiermacher?

I made this for my classes

Posted @derlampenputzer.bsky.social’s handiwork on Twitter and some people think it’s real

ChatGPT house style is so beautiful

my teenager just called grad students an invasive species