upstairs neighbor has started vacuuming at 9:44pm

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

salute to all the brave people in Minnesota who are bringing back shame

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.

crossposting to #econsky our interdisciplinary philosophy, politics, and economics research program has four open postdoc positions

#philsky UB’s PPE group is hiring again! There are four open postdoc positions, all renewable for up to three years. First, we’re looking to hire two teaching fellows. This is only a 2-1 required teaching load and $70k salary. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/607...

I think preprint servers are a great way to share work that’s fairly polished and that you’re excited about but that hasn’t made it through peer review yet. however I do think that asking multiple prominent blogs to post responses to your new preprint probably corrupts the peer review process

One of the most awe-inspiring displays I've ever seen - the #NorthernLights just a short while ago. The colours are exactly as we witnessed - vibrant, rich and profound. I am completely overwhelmed and utterly humbled. #AuroraBorealis @stormhour.com

Brooke Rollins is doubling down on her suggestion that Americans can eat a healthy dinner for $3: "when I said a piece of broccoli, I meant like big." thehill.com/homenews/569...

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

at least the expensive pair of jeans that I ordered that had been lost in the mail since Saturday finally showed up this afternoon

ngl I suspect this is about antisemitism in exactly the way that I think

this…is an actual email that I received this morning (it had twenty documents total and spoke in disgusting detail about cannibalism)

it happened to me: I said to the cashier “I only have a few things” (for whatever stupid reason I thought it was a good idea to say that) and she asked “why?”

hearing through the grapevine that yet another talented woman has left my former program and I wish I could say that I’m surprised

“post a pic of you in 2016” for starters, I don’t have any pictures of me from 2016. Because that year sucked. My father was taking my stipend money and I was gaining weight while starving because my metabolism was shot. I still hadn’t figured out how to use makeup and I had zero actual friends

a friendly reminder that succeeding and seceding are not the same word

thrashing around crying when I have to order pizza without my AI pizza assistant

the instacart shopper really swapped uncaffeinated tea for caffeinated tea 🤦🏼‍♀️

They have quite an operation going. www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

not me thinking this was a joke when I first saw the pictures

gift link to Atlantic article: on the problematic current lack of homeschooling oversight here in the states archive.is/2026.01.14-1...

I don’t normally do this, but I feel I must give a scathing review of the under armour bandit 3 running shoe. These are no longer made but are still everywhere on poshmark. I bought a pair for $20 on there, thinking it was a good deal. I was wrong.

Asking "is [philosophical view] pseudo-philosophy?" is so lame. For like half of all views or methods in philosophy you'll find some other philosophers who think that's not real philosophy. Big whoop, grow up.

New: I got body camera footage from a case in which a cop used Flock to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman of stealing a package: "Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it" www.404media.co/cop-used-flo...

it is wild that they can find a shitty cop to care about a $25 package when I couldn’t get a single cop to care about an elderly woman who was conned out of over $10k via Facebook.

nothing like finding out that you are not in fact the oldest person in the very odd group chat you joined last week

ah yes, another teenage “rabbit influencer” online telling me that I am “spreading misinformation” by keeping show rabbits in hutches

randomly remembering that time that I went to a dinner party at the university president’s house and a (woman!) faculty member from another department told me I shouldn’t worry about the state of the phil job market because econ departments are always looking for adjuncts

your boy is (very briefly) cited in this week’s Economist to point out once again that if tariffs were so good they wouldn’t have to exempt data centers from them

I watched this last night. The top two women's skaters in the US are queer women, with pride flags waving in the audience in support. That really meant something to me in this moment.

I just ate an entire package of their pre-sliced lunch meat without developing a migraine this hasn’t happened for me in years I’m flabbergasted

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

Satellite view of a snow-covered #Europe, almost entirely cloud-free and gripped by freezing temperatures. ❄️ #Copernicus #Sentinel3 captured this spectacular scene yesterday, January 6th. #snowfall #severeweather #France #England #Netherland

keep thinking of a vocally anti-woke reporter who insisted that the term "environmental racism" was nonsense

Texas A&M actually tells a philosophy professor he may not teach Plato.

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Happy new year! If you are early career or graduate in Phil of Bio, consider European summer school below: fantastic venue, brilliant mix of junior & senior scholars, a wealth of debates, PPTs & skills training organised by @thomasreydon.bsky.social and myself. Deadline EXTENDED to 31 Jan! #philsci

18 months ago I was photographing birds in a US national park when someone jumped out of a car in front of a dozen witnesses, put a Glock to my forehead, and demanded my camera. This shot is from my first time out birding after that. Living like this is a deliberate choice.

my New Year’s resolutions are to get abs, wear more expensive clothes at fancy people conferences, and sue everyone who has ever wronged me

watching the new Jodi Hildebrandt/Ruby Franke Netflix documentary like omg this is so much like my childhood except for the YouTube and getting hogtied parts

covid is supposedly gone yet there are so many cases of “some kind of bad flu that’s going around”

I mean, Donald Trump is openly saying this is about oil. Whether the oil companies are on board with that is a separate conversation.

Every time I see a news article about ChatGPT pushing vulnerable people to harm themselves and others, I want to know how the universities who have eagerly proclaimed their partnerships with this company intend to account for the increasing evidence of the harms of this tech

Wait did something happen with the president of Venezuela

as someone who had pet chickens as a child and also lost some to predators I am utterly appalled by the number of people on Reddit who let their chickens wander around the yard or a pen without a roof on it and then post like “I can’t believe a hawk got my chicken, no one could’ve seen this coming”

had to put the rabbit in a cardboard carrier while I’m cleaning and now he’s trying to chew his way out 😑

ever google someone who was nothing but terrible to you in a past life and fail to find…anything? Like no evidence that this person is alive *or* dead

getting pregnant and then not getting a covid vaccine so as to ensure a greater likelihood of an autistic child, because it’s definitely the case that if my child were autistic it would be due to my failure to get a vaccine and not due to the fact that I am autistic and simply passing along my genes