I really wish the Canadiens were still playing hockey. I enjoyed that playoff run.

The House Armed Services Committee just voted to merge our military with Israel's. The fact this is not being covered more widely is shocking. Section 224 would functionally circumvent existing US laws that prohibit supplying military hardware to forces engaged in war crimes.

All the screenshots and bookmarks I’ll never look at again

Social Distortion, "Don't Drag Me Down" (Live) #punk #PunkSky

The Damned, “Plan 9 Channel 7” #punk #punksky

Yes, get us faculty folks together can be a bit like herding cats.

While I fully expect both series to end in disappointment, this is the first time in my entire life that both my favorite basketball team (the Cleveland Cavaliers) and hockey team (the Canadiens) have made the conference finals in the same year. Wow.

Alex Newhook! Haaaaaaabs!!!!!!!!!!! #GoHabsGo

BlueSky crashed just as I was hoping to make a quip about how much Doug Allen's singing of the Canadian and American national anthems before the Sabres-Canadiens game reminded me of a muppet musical.

Cavs!!!!!!!!!!

Yes!

In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

Habs and Cavs. Two Gave Sevens. Two wins. Nice!

Haaaaaaaaaaaabs! #GoHabsGo

Go Habs Go.

Both the Canadiens and Cavs lose in overtime today. A really shitty sports night for me...

Habs and Cavs both win. Nice!

The only thing more ironic than a casino owner bankrupting a business whose entire function is to take money from people is a U.S. president turning the King of England into a better guiding voice for the nation whose entire identity is built on having rejected the monarchy than its own leader.

I just overheard students refer to a physical book as an “in-person textbook” as opposed to an ebook. #AcademicSky

Tongue twisters are so stupid. I mean, are you telling me that Sally couldn’t find a better place than the seashore for selling her sea shells?!? And woodchucks, by definition, chuck wood. Asking if the COULD chuck wood is like asking if a woodpecker COULD peck wood. C’mon.

Ah, yes. There couldn't possibly be a more earth-friendly way to celebrate Earth Day than using a technology that depletes natural resources at alarmingly high rates, could there?

Go Habs Go!

You ever see the episode of South Park when Cartman keeps trying to start a fight with Kyle and then bursts into tears the second Kyle hits him? This is a post about the Strait of Hormuz.

I loved my 96 Corolla.

Holy shit. The Bengals are trading the 10th pick for Dexter Lawrence!

"An Open Letter to Students Who Use Generative AI to Write, From an English Professor" #academicsky #EduSky

There are so many people wearing Red Cross doctor necklaces.

So…does that mean that what you’re doing is amoral or immoral, oh Elegist of Hillbillies?

“Mr, Gorbachev, tear down this wall or I’m going to build my own wall!”

There’s little more pathetic than a tinpot wannabe dictator who makes some of history’s most evil people look competent by comparison.

When a nihilistic sociopath with delusions of grandeur and enough malignant narcissism make Caligula look humble by comparison sees his end is fast approaching, expect him to lash out. Such people hate the fact that life will carry on without them, so they try to go out in a blaze of destruction.

Correct. (Cue: Democrats blaming 3rd party voters for GOP victories).

i've said it before and i'll say it again the majority of elected politicians are absolute cowards who bow to fascism and will never take any action to upset the status quo, regardless of how many people have died and will die get off your asses and actually DO SOMETHING you spineless wimps

Reality: getting rid of the goblin won’t change the fact that the entire world sees just how flimsy the American promise really is. Just electing him (let alone RE-electing him) was enough to show that we cannot be trusted or counted on, which is what the entire American brand had been built on.

Can’t wait for the pundits to neoliberalsplain realpolitik to everyone asking why they have not, are not, and will not do a damn thing to change things.

He’s not insane. Don’t give him or his followers that excuse. He knows exactly what he’s saying and how it will affect people.

The Bengals are bringing back Joe Flacco!

One of my favorites covering another one of my favorites.

The past few days are making those idiotic Joe-Biden-Pointing-at-Prices-and-Saying-I-Did-That stickers that MAGA fanboys put on gas pumps look even more stupid than they already look.

To be honest, it felt like Trey Hendrickson left last year.

Re-signing Dalton Risner was one of the biggest no-brainer moves for the Bengals. I'm glad the deal is done.

Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.’s awful legacy continues to ripple through history.

Iggy Pop's "The Passenger."

My cat seems unaware of how spoons work. She’s, like, “I’m the little spoon!” for a minute, then decides, abruptly, “I’m the big spoon now,” which would be fine, but she will suddenly be “I’m the dishwasher!” & start licking me. Then, without warning, she will decide to be The Inventor of the Spork.

Attacking the justices you appointed is certainly a choice, man. Pump the brakes, dude, because you’re looking even more unhinged and now even your most callow friends are backing away.

Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s global tariffs. Good.

I've found MFA to be frustrating for a while, but this afternoon it crossed the line from nuisance to evil: my cat was sitting on my lap while I was working & the buzz of the Authenticator app scared her & she ran away. How dare you prioritize negligible amounts of cybersecurity over my cat's purrs?

Any cat lovers out there able and willing to help my friend's sweet cat get some medical care? Please consider sharing, if you can. gofund.me/0b39dd801

49 years ago today The Ramones played a legendary, sold-out concert at the Whiskey a Go Go in West Hollywood, California, on February 16, 1977, with Blondie as the opening act. The performance is considered a milestone of the punk era on the Strip. 📸 Jenny Lens #punkrock #ramones #punkrockhistory

The waitress gave me a slice of pie that is at least 150% the size of a normal slice of pie and I think I am just going to go home and declare today a good day already.