I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Explain your username: It's the name of the college a cappella group I was in.

In the process of looking up various albums, I discovered Rob Thomas has worked with INXS on -top- of jamming with Cowboy Mouth, and I cannot even

My bit aside, Queen - A Kind of Magic is definitely up there.

I spend a lot of time in this MBA program imagining @johnrogers.bsky.social as the grifter on my shoulder saying "let's go steal an MBA" whenever something like ~maximizing shareholder value~ comes up in a class and I just want to roll my eyes.

AI isn’t about the accuracy of the computing. It’s about finding the minimum people will accept

Cease thou from strivinge to maken "fetch" to happen #MeanGirlsDay

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

Pretty sure I’m never getting her down from there

Parental milestone unlocked: had to google slang my kid told me about.

This probably sounds minor to many of you but closing the commissaries will....not be taken lightly by the US all-volunteer standing military. The PX is everything (literally, as it's not just groceries!)

amazing watching tradcath converts discover they are protestants.

so was the guy whose job it was to remind cabinet members to not talk about their personal friendships with jeffrey epstein a federal employee who's now on furlough or what

"Right now, you're suffering under an enormous weight. We provide...leverage."

It is Spoopy Season my dudes

this october I'm doing a challenge called october

Yeah, doing this on the day the federal government is possibly going to shut down is the fucking chef kiss of arrogance and stupidity.

These two shitshows are trying to invalidate and erase everything my sister accomplished as a Marine. My only hope is that it might open my mom's eyes a little bit. But I'm not holding my breath.

mmm, Nutella baklava (tried out a Mediterranean place near us)

The bees have discovered Brutalism

It me!

Back in my day, EA bought things and dismantled them, not the other way around

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

Ladies and gentlemen-

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

Exactly this

It's funny cuz it's true.

everybody come on fhqwgads

My semi-joke answer is "a hitter, a hacker, a grifter, a thief, and a mastermind ( @johnrogers.bsky.social )" But the actual answer is gaining the understanding that every single 'mark' on Leverage was based on real (sometimes tamed down for television) people.

Me: *plays a bit of Minesweeper Online* Typechip: ...ya winnin, dad? Me: *facepalm*

Today is the 50th anniversary of "Bohemian Rhapsody".

Sorry to lib out, but seeing a major network TV personality look straight into the camera and say "this is authoritarian bullshit and you should be disgusted and be part of making it stop" has me feelin a certain way.

A prime example of “you are not immune to propaganda”

rapture thighs around my face, girl. i'm ready to meet god

This is why I talk about the aristocracy being immortal and mutable. It's always in the human bloodstream. It wakes up every day trying to win, and we need to wake up every day trying to destroy it. There is no finish line.

I feel like a lot of you need to see this. Also OMG do I need one.

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

BILL BILL BILL

"Fifty-three percent of Democratic voters said they preferred politicians described as similar to Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani, while 33 percent favored those similar to Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi. Fourteen percent didn’t choose."

Happy 21st night of September to all who remember

Random thought: rapture theology as extension of Manifest Destiny/American exceptionalism?

It’s the aristocracy, it takes different forms depending on is social context, but it’s always the aristocracy, and you must learn to hate it as much as it hates you.

I mean, for San Diego, it probably comes in a tortilla, because breakfast burrito. With french fries in it.

Dance party!!!!

Dear gestapo trash:

Beach Boys