Certain people who I will not name coast on into their 80s effing up every last thing, Giles dies at 72? It's not fair, man.

Wish he could have stayed

I think the lesson some people may need to learn is Dem primary voters will choose a badly, badly damaged candidate over an 80 year old. That may be unwise and unfair! Still!

What can Brown do for you?

The delightful problem with humanities fields is not that they cannot be solved, it's that they have already been solved dozens of times and they will be solved dozens of times again

What a terrible day to be literate

I attempted some joinery today. Even the lowbrow pocket screws I was trying to use were challenging! Anyway, it made me think it's a real scriptural oversight that we never learn anything about Jesus's time as a carpenter. An apocrypha about his first dovetail joint would be bitchin.

People with incredibly little appeal attempt to revive capitalism's damaged brand by shouting it

UMD fired 84 people today, largely staff. In addition to the (many more) vacancies that are being closed. Guys with 25+ years of service. Moms who gave birth last week. The amazing woman who puts in 18 hour days to make our college commencement happen. In the richest state in the union, per capita.

(20 years later) install flash emulator on starship computer (turns out holodeck content peaked at flash)

If the second Trump administration is not in actual fact using the office of US President to run a fabulously complex pump-and-dump market play, it is functionally indistinguishable from that

My hot take is that if Warhammer were good, that would ruin it

Our Pennsylvania delegation in the Senate is so deeply embarrassing. I would say most embarrassing, but let's be honest, there is a lot of cringe in the US Senate.

It makes you sad to think the United States would have turned 250 this summer

In a sense this is true. It will all work out in the end. Maybe it will happen today.

another “sometimes a bot can express something that a person might not want to claim” instance

He shouldn't have stepped down as governor I would be willing to hear him out as a presidential candidate. I think the race would better with him in it, even if he wasn't the right choice in the end.

The whole "under babied" discourse is utterly rancid crapola BUT these two same-sex co-parenting hens are actually under babied after sitting on like a dozen eggs for weeks and ending up with just this one little! Little is now attended by both moms, in a decidedly 21st century family dynamic

TFW you're trying to build something vaguely "arty" and you're just constantly second guessing yourself. Is it too extra? Too basic? Too mid? THAT'S ALL THE WAYS TO BE!

Dead culture is now immortal. Endless rent extraction from Intellectual Property. Help us all.

TIME FOR THE BIRTH OF TERROR. ME.

The problem with AI is not that it doesn't work. The problem is AI + our current incentive structures = a DDOS attack against a wide variety of human institutions for creating and vetting knowledge github.com/RsyncProject...

The new Alton Brown is lovely but he needs to bring back the yeast puppets and the guy in the okra costume

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... what's that? Oh Well, yeah I guess you'd believe it then

Lies, Damned Lies, and "I'll get caught up on that in May, when the semester wraps"

Introducing my new search engine: Gogol search. It's a little chatbot that takes your query and turns it into a story about a mid nineteenth century Russian Imperial Bureaucrat and his fear of castration. Why hallucinate half way?

It's true, you might fight and die anyway. Who gives a shit. Die fighting.

You can either join your union, go to the meeting, and get in the fight, or you can watch them kill higher education in the US. This will not pass. There will not be a natural reset. You fight or die.

We're just going to keep robbing the future to pay for the mistakes of the present until there's no future left to rob

This is 1) very stupid but also 2) why would it be illegitimate for a political party to have as it's base a demographic that is literally a majority of the population? (yes, I know why Tommy Potatohead thinks that)

Going back through your photographs 6-8 months after the fact is just wild. There is stuff here I totally passed up that now looks really good, and other stuff I was crazy about at the time that's just meh now?

“So, you want freedom with no responsibility. Son, there’s only one person on Earth who gets that deal.” “Mmm. The President.” “A baby.”

Let no one say Sterling has lost his edge in making inexplicable references

Tyrannosaurus Rooster! Captured on Medium Format #film with a salvaged #yashica D. #photography

ambassador hotel, route 42, fallsburg, new york, 1977

I see from your coat, my friend you're from the other side There's just one thing I want to ask you, can you tell me please Who won?

It's all fun and games until Gandhi starts nuking people, then it's just fun (But srsly if the code for this thing doesn't have a hard coded if statement sending any utterance by "Gandhi" about nuclear weapons back to be regenerated I will eat my hat)

Everyone knows the gluten free snails just aren't the same

Feels like the kinda night to try astrophotography again

Imagining what kind of insane material Thomas Aquinas could've cooked up if we had him on the Healing Energy Crystals beat instead bsky.app/profile/raof...

I really got to pick up one of those U-Boat sims on Steam

Stephen Miller talks like the character you get in an RPG if you take all the "ludicrously evil WTF" choices but the developer really never expected anyone to do that and totally half-assed those dialog options

It's great that the country is being run by the villain from a high school rom-com. Tremendous. Not embarrassing at all.

An organization like FIRE is going to look at this and conclude the problem is with faculty, who are insufficiently heterodox, and not with the fact that one political party has made it their goal to dismantle my profession and everything I do. Why would we vote for those who openly hate us?

That time of year when you start looking up weird pickling recipes for greens (this is Pac Choi and I think it will work in Bok Choi pickle recipes, which there are lots of!)

Ok this one I thought was real for a good 20 seconds. Disturbingly plausible.

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