I’m off my fucking game.

@profanity.accountant okay, how bad is it?

You know, I live next door to one of the biggest Afghan immigrant communities in the nation. Weirdly, they seem completely innocuous. [\sarcasm]

Admin are continually pressuring us to make the course "more accessible," by which they mean "devastatingly easy to complete," but it's not about access. Many students refuse to read or write in any capacity that isn't tech-aided, no matter how simple the assignment, no matter how process-based.

I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.

This is not a "students today" post--it's more "this is a new form of dysfunction" that doesn't look exactly like it's been in previous decades. It's more than just "first-year chaos." It's an across-the-board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and *connect* with others.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

Holidays are nice and all is well, but ALSO there are 18 people in this 1500 square foot house (six of them VERY loud children) and my nervous system hurts.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

The fact doomers have gone from "America is over" to "Dems won't hold anyone responsible when this is over" can actually be read as an optimistic signal imo.

If the adults play games, Uno, Trivial Pursuit. The kids have been playing Mafia, and Sardines, today.

We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.

We introduced spatchcocking to my in-laws this year partly to make this stop. Stuffing the bird also slows cooking time…

What time do you get in?

Happy Ritual Sacrifice!

Lots of snow on Mount Shasta this year.

Arrived on Atlantis, but the treasure we seek might be more dangerous than we ever imagined! #Venture

Played "Between the Lines"

You know what, I'm just gonna re-up this post

Post a movie where you are from

this is how you lose the dish war

My dude, at some point you’re gonna eat the food they leave. #Pluribus

While Donald Trump may have been intoxicated by Zohran Mamdani today, he will be humiliated by the general takes that Mamdani totally played and outsmarted him. Expect petty retaliation.

Broke the sleeping spell on the Kingdom's heir... with help from a beloved dog! #Venture

By the way the American Farm Bureau Federation is a lobbying group and you're gonna love the name of the guy who founded it lol

So, my university had a threat of mass violence yesterday. Basically, a terrorist message left in a bathroom on campus, threatening to murder non-white people, with dates (today through Friday).

Travelled with Nephthys as we guided a soul to the Field of Reeds! #Venture

If an author posts a political viewpoint, they do so understanding the consequence of alienating a reader. They also will gain more readers for it when the stance is the president shouldn't say QUIET PIGGY to a reporter asking a question he doesn't like.

The use of AI for things like theoretical "public art" is so interesting, because it shows that there are a lot of people that don't understand what art is for, or indeed the concept of the beautiful. AI cannot produce art because it has no consciouness, no soul, so it can't produce the beautiful.

First use of the heat this winter: November 18.

If your argument is that we shouldn't push Larry Summers out because he has repugnant ideas IDK what to tell you. First, he allegedly was sexually harassing someone. Secondly, we there are ideas that we should say are too toxic for the public sphere.

This is also the dilemma of doing research with students at a PUI. Everybody should be paid for every type of internship, but we generally just don’t have the funds. So our students either miss out on research opportunities entirely, or only a very small set of them get to have them.

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

“There’s a difference between a 5 year old and a 15 year old.” I mean yes, obviously, there is a difference. But that difference isn’t “It’s fine to have sex with one of them.”

Once again, Jurassic World: Rebirth, plot advancement dependent on biologists being careless. Also, do we really think all predators attack all potential prey by default?

Once again, if you’re reduced to using the literal definitions of words rather than the commonly accepted meanings, odds are good your argument is shit.

Survived the forest and escorted Red to her grandmother's house safely! #Venture

So, Pluribus: ye gods, do I hate this protagonist. (Which is the point.) Also, this need they have to please her causes some really bad decisions.

Ouch. But to be fair, Limp Bizkit is further in the past now than the Beatles were when I was a teenager.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Motherfuckers, I have asked the ROTC not to do drills on the breezeway downstairs because we teach classes in this buildings. I don't care if it's raining, go out on the damn lawn.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

Watching “Sliding Doors” for the first time somehow. And I keep wondering why it is this woman seems incapable of calling a man she’s hoping to talk to. Sure, he hasn’t called you for a week after seeing you talking to your ex. But you could call him…

Ran the Great Zodiac Race and was rewarded with a feast fit for an emperor! #Venture

This move is based on pseudoscientific nonsense. Just ftr.

Re: Pluribus…I will never stop being salty about how careless biologists in TV/film apparently have to be to advance the plot.

Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?

The Emperor’s New Groove is by far the funniest Disney film ever.

Survived the forest and escorted Red to her grandmother's house safely! #Venture

Do I have the only teenager who does not want to learn to drive? I am the one doing the driving of the driving , here. Because somebody who isn’t me needs to take these kids to school someday