I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Singing along to the Killers with the gal in the bathroom stall next to mine.

Max Švabinský In Paradise (also known as The Fruit Was Never an Apple), 1918

Chotiner: You've made the claim that no one has ever fed you in your life. My Cat: Maow. Chotiner: Yet there's food in your dish right now. My Cat: Maow. Chotiner: Let's change the subject to the ripped-open bag of sandwich bread on the floor. My Cat: Maow. Chotiner: I have read different things.

Is the body horror of cyberpunk and other sci-fi cyborgs lost on most people or am I just unusually sensitive? E.g. when I saw that the characters in this video DON'T HAVE HUMAN HEADS my gut reaction was revulsion, but I don't think that was the intended response? youtu.be/mPTCq3LiZSE?...

Happy birthday to the greatest city

How to win in November

I've been petsitting my downstairs neighbors' rabbits for the past week - just popping down twice a day to feed them and give them attention - and I've made the heartbreaking discovery that Jack will often have a spate of cry-meowing shortly after I leave my unit. She misses me so much. 😭

Everything alive in the Devonian period tried too hard. “Ooo, look at me, I’m a weird elongated pentagon” Shut up!

It's transphobic to make bad movies, actually.

I think every Spider-Man movie should have to include a new mix of Hero by Chad Kroeger

Waow

Every once in a while I stop & marvel that I'm now a Senior Student in the Guild. This shouldn't surprise me - I've been here for 6 years; I teach intro classes; I'm the goddamn treasurer. But I still will look at the other scholars and suddenly realize, oh fuck they see me as a PEER what the fuck.

me every single day

Scenes from St Paul, MN.

Turns out the key to a workout-safe binder is to just never throw your binder away even though the elastic in the back has completely blown out. Been wearing this bad boy all day and it's so damn comfy. 💪

The Oregon Trail reboot that the world needs right now. Postcard from my collection, no date/info.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

In conversation with a tattoo artist about a piece honoring Ötzi the Ice Man and this is the doodle I sent her. Art.

When I say we should unconditionally support trans people and victims/survivors of abuse, people who are trying to introduce conditions for that support are helping the oppressors and abusers whether they want to believe that or not.

Hey if you write fiction or at least certain genres of fiction take a look at this.

I will never concede to the idea that my beliefs are extreme. Reigning in the U.S. military, changing how we do policing, providing healthcare for all, and decriminalizing immigration/de-militarizing the border. These are all statistically popular beliefs. I am not a radical outlier.

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

Been in the financial compliance industry for over 10 yrs and only TODAY I learned that The Clearing House is an org that processs payments but it's not the one that processes Automated Clearing House payments (that'd be the National Automated Clearinghouse Association). Fuck this industry.

Shit, whenever I say "Jeff Park" in my head I mean Jeff Bridges, cuz fuck Thomas Jefferson.

Took a nap and this is what I woke up to. Jack loves being little spoon when I lay on the couch.

Spent all day serving as ring judge at a tournament. It's a job I greatly enjoy (and I'm quite good at it if I may say so), but fuck is it exhausting. Almost more so than COMPETING in a tournament!

Here's my summary of the Punic wars: a real shit show

"Thousands are signing petitions [to oppose the Archer project]!" The 12th Ward recently told use the opponents haven't dropped off any signatures. That's it for now, except a reminder there's a strong Trump/ICE-friendly undercurrent to the Archer protests and/or Claudia Zuno's campaign. (6/X)

2 min ago I googled the red bellied woodpecker because of a meme and I am calling for a complete and total shutdown of bird names till we can figure out what the hell is going on

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

I'm sure this has been done ago but it popped into my head over the weekend and I needed to get it out. #HEMA #Meyer

Absolutely insane for @wgntv.com to run a promo about how the US might invade Iran this weekend, complete with pornographic slo-mo shots of soldiers running around on warship decks, and then immediately follow it with a promo about Trump's "Board of Peace."

I often take Jack out for a little walk around the house after work, and it's wild because I can CLEARLY hear little mice rustling around in the garden, but Jack ignores them completely. She is only interested in sniffing the bushes that the neighborhood cats peed on.

Brightburn. That movie personally insulted me as a writer, a Midwesterner, a comic book fan, and a horror fan.

I don't know if it's in bad form to describe an acquaintance with, "I've never met a woman who needed therapy more in my life," to my therapist, but that's what came out of my mouth so here we are.

Try it yourself at home!

I've legitimately had arguments with my partner about this.

while you were studying the blade, I was also studying the blade. we have the same blade exam and I want to do well.

the only way to improve Star Trek: TNG would be if they'd give each major character an episode where they fucked a ghost trapped in a candle

A broad coalition of organizers in Minneapolis are calling for a week of action

PT, last week: Would you be able to show up at eleven instead of nine next time? Me: Yeah, of course! Me: *shows up at 9 anyway*

Hollywood is COOKED I made this $50,000,000 movie for free using AI

“Voting is choosing the conditions you and your comrades organize under, and choosing your least powerful foe” is really the predominate way any leftist should view electoral politics.

the Black Panthers were right

ST4T couples:

I kind of figured that visiting MN would feel weird and emotional but I was not expecting the opener of the comedy show I attended to literally be a friend of Renee Good who worked the emotional fallout of her murder into his set. Fucking hell, what a time and place to live in.

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them