Chief of War is a great show. Hope they make more of it.

Man I hope they make more Poker Face

I don’t think the penalty should prevent that last play from going on Goff’s highlight reel

I prefer to read this comma as a comma splice: “Please tax the rich, and also please like me”.

I did not know that rule about backward passes

I think a losing season the year after a super bowl appearance is as good a time as any for a name change

I really enjoy reading Ss’ end-of-semester reflections, even the ones that are written by AI and mention things we definitely didn’t do

Between November 2025 and November 2025, I released 3 albums after 20 or so years of playing covers and being extremely self-conscious and embarrassed at the thought of anyone listening to my original songs. Now that the dam has finally burst, I’m grateful for every listen.

AI in academia at this point reminds me of social media: people sign on for the legitimate uses and then misuse it 99% of the time

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud. Just unspeakable assholery.

Bummed that English Teacher was cancelled

If your instructor asks you to read an article and respond to it, you will definitely fail if you give no evidence that you actually read that article, even if what you read instead was what you consider much more important

Album 3 is out! epistemicsilence.bandcamp.com/album/pathom...

New album being uploaded rn

It’s not widely known, but NFL referees actually do call fumble recoveries based on vigorousness of finger wagging

How many spellings exist of Davante/DeVonta?

I don’t know what exactly to call this type of ambiguity, but I enjoy it

Anyone else read the incoming New Jersey governor’s name as みきえ

I really don’t envy people who teach statistics on the regular. It seems like a field especially prone to losing students early on and never getting them back on board

Change one letter, ruin a candy Katjes Minder

I need a cultural anthropologist to explain this tattered flag design that’s been on clothes, trucks, etc. for the past decade or so

Is there a term similar to subtractive bilingualism but for culture? Like how study abroad leaves you less able to take the norms of your first culture for granted, which makes you less functional in that culture

The Panthers still have the much better team colors

Small world, met someone who was teaching in a program that my wife was in when she was an international student the year that we met

Led a group of assembled teachers on a Green Day singalong today

Did a really old-fashioned thing in class today and it was actually refreshing

どちらの方ですか とずっと聞かれていません

Doesn’t it seem like Halligan was just looking for a friend

Today at uni reminded me of the time the wifi went out in my dorm and we all explored the world of in-person communication

I don’t know much about the phonology of Palestinian Arabic, but I know that if you pronounce it /hɑmæs/ in an American English sentence, you’re respectable, and if you pronounce it /həmɑs/ you’re barely literate

Turnout in small town Utah was pretty good - maybe 3% of the town’s total population showed up.

I agree that frogs have been right-coded for too long

Planning a meeting of one’s academic department is desperately trying to avoid anyone having the thought “this could have been an email”

The demand that we see the new Tron movie on “the largest screen possible” seems like a challenge for @xkcd.com

Cam Skattebo finally found his vocation after years of rigging podracing for the Hutts

Helloween and now Nelson? James Gunn is evidently a metal fan with some idiosyncratic tastes

What is going on in the nfl this week

What’s with Park City and all the high-quality hummus

I wonder how many respected periodicals from the 70s-90s are now reduced to publishing lists of their best Prime Day deals

Typesetters need ɵ and ð way more than they need an interrobang #punctuation

Reading this “Shady Characters” book and I also can’t get behind the interrobang #punctuation

Idk who needs to hear this but don’t buy Hi-chew as treats for students (esp in ESL) - they contain gelatin

教授、講師、外国語指導助手

I feel like Patrick Mahomes should have been more specific when he asked to be the best rusher on his team

The Patriots and the Jaguars wow

Of all the nonsense that animates the right-wing debatosphere, the idea that Democrats are importing pliant D voters is among the most transparently nonsensical

Quoth Kate Manne: “The effect is then what I am calling fascist cringe: a performance that teeters over the cliff of masculinity and does a spectacular, ignominious face-plant into the fascist escarpment of camp, kitsch, and similar.”

If I were GRRM I’d wait until at least 2029 to publish Winds of Winter. No way it’d make the news before then

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Melodeath Green Day cover