Measles Are Here Again is one hell of à Legacy, RFKJR.

Happy New Year, BlueSky people! Thank you for providing such a nice alternative community to the one provided by The Other Site. Og godt nytt år til alle mine norske venner! Et bonne année à tous mes amis francophones !

No matter the question, the answer is rarely, if ever, "because the author wants everyone to have their own interpretation." #AcademicSky #EduSky #BookSky

There’s a reason why so many science novels and other speculative fiction feature humanity destroying itself thanks to some combination of hubris, greed, paranoia, or nihilistic selfishness. And, boy, today’s techno-fascist, bot-licking AI bros check off all the boxes.

What a disappointment Jon Stewart has been with this.

Happy night 3 of The Week outside time and of cheese to all who celebrate

Fox Sports just played The Clash during the Bengals game. That was pretty cool. Almost as cool as when SoFi Stadium played X's "Los Angeles" at the Super Bowl.

Re-reading Vonnegut’s “Galapagos.” The book’s commentary on how technology devalues & replaces human beings to benefit a techno-capitalist system that does not respect or value artists, writers, or even mathematicians feels shockingly prescient. & that’s not even the main point of the book. #BookSky

There are certain entities that should hardly ever--if ever--be closed. You know: hospitals, fire departments, media outlets, libraries, parks... But Congress? Nah, let's close that for huge stretches of time while overpaying literally every single person in it.

FLACCO is BACCO! (For a good reason).

Remember when television didn't feature ads for pharmaceuticals or sports gambling?

That’s a solid portmanteau!

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I somehow managed to avoid hearing that stupid Wham! Christmas song for close to a decade. I heard it twice when I took some students to see Rockefeller Center this week. So, the next time you hear someone say educators don’t do anything for their students, feel free to mention my sacrifice. #EduSky

LOL.

Every time I see his name spelled out in gaudy gold letters, I just think of the kids who would piss their name in the snow. They serve similar functions.

Here's a fun fact about naming something after yourself: legacy is meaningless. No matter how much crap you put your name on, no matter how big or how shiny and bright your name is, you still end up in the same muck as all the people who see your name and jut don't care. It fades away in the void.

The Devil, as is so often the case, is in the details.

The dude cannot do anything original. He just waters it down. "Make America Great Again" was a Reagan-era slogan, "Patriot Games" is both the name of an old movie & the plot of a bunch of YA books. The arch has been done before, but better. And that's not even mentioning the 1930s Germany parallels.

Jake Paul is out there making a fortune based solely on the fact that a very large segment of the population wants to see him get punched in the face since they cannot do it themselves.

The "Patriot Games" are the Hunger Games in the same way the FIFA Peace Prize is a Nobel. And Gavin Newsome is the Alma Coin to Trump's Corileanus Snow.

Erik Grayson "Hunger Games" + transphobia. "The 'Patriot Games' will call high school athletes for a four-day competition in the fall. The games will feature 'one young man and one young woman from each state and territory...But I promise there will be no men playing in women's sports.'" -Trump

The United States blaming immigrants for its problems is like a wooden house insisting the forest is its enemy.

Waiting for Godot!

T: I’m going to make things less expensive than the sleepy guy! (dozes) His followers: Yessss! T (jolting awake): As I was saying, I’m going to build an arch of triumph! Followers: Perfect!

"[I]n degree as the uselessness and harmfulness of patriotism have become manifest, so also has increased the power of the government and ruling class to excite patriotism among the people" -Leo Tolstoy, from "On Patriotism"

You know, a society that encourages hoarding money out of a fear of being able to afford care as an elderly person isn't exactly helping its economy, either. Socialized healthcare would ENCOURAGE spending because citizens would have a reasonable expectation for future health security.

The regime has utterly destroyed the popular myth of American exceptionalism. That which we could once claim "could never happen here" simply because it never had, has now happened & there's no going back. The ugly reality stares us in the face: we are exactly what we are & the whole world sees it.

The damage the current pancake makeup artist has done is immense.

Never forget that the Democrats supported far-right candidates with donor money as a way to position themselves for “more favorable” electoral conditions. That’s a gamble that, if it fails, results in disaster and it also reveals who they’re willing to sacrifice www.opensecrets.org/news/2022/07...

I don't see Burrow's comments as especially concerning. If anything, he is maintaining quiet good humor as the face of a locker room that is deflated after a terrible season.

I made the mistake of returning to Twitter for football news. I saw someone call the former Bengals player Jermaine Burton the n-word and flagged the post as containing a slur, which according to TwiX's own policy is a violation. The Muskovites there decided no policy was broken. Fucked up.

Believing in the invisible hand of the market is as reasonable as believing in the Tooth Fairy.

The most pathetic thing is that his award isn’t even a participation trophy. There is no sense in which he participated in anything resembling “peace.” It’s just a bauble for a nihilistic baby-man who likes shiny things. The whole fiasco is pathetic.

Wait ‘til RFKJR hears about this and insists uranium could feed à family of four for life.

Bengals game for Thanksgiving.

Who knew that the "F" in "R.F.K., Jr." stood for "felching" and not "Fitzgerald"? You learn something every day with this jackass.

Trump was looking at Zohran Mamdani like his name was "Bubba."

Every time I see one of those flaccid inflatable Santa Claus balloons bunched up on someone’s lawn, I hear Perry Como singing “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.”

2014: Elon Musk sees a Nissan Cube for the first time and thinks, "if they can make a car that looks like a wombat shit it out, I can make a truck that looks like a dumpster."

Somehow, people are still surprised that a man who brags about winning a golf tournament at his OWN GOLF CLUB in which he was the only participant would be as transparently desperate for attention as to make his own peace prize. The guy is a nihilist with an ego as fragile as his faux-Faberge decor.

The FIFA “peace prize” is about as trustworthy as the NASCAR Medal for Excellence in Water Purification or the World Boxing Organization’s Top Chef Award.

The #Bengals have scored 80–EIGHTY—points the past two weeks and they lost both games.

If you coach a team that scores 42 points and LOSE, you shouldn't have a job. Al Golden and Zac Taylor need to be fired. Duke Tobin should not have a job and, frankly, neither should a few of the players on the #Bengals defense. A complete failure on defense.

A few weeks ago, I would have been upset by this #Bengals loss. I'm back to expecting this now. The team has come full circle in the Zac Taylor era.

Oh, look: ANOTHER instance of Zac Taylor ripping failure from thje jaws of success.

#Bengals scores this year, so far: 17-16 win (Cleveland) 31-27 win (Jacksonville) 10-48 loss (Minnesota) 3-28 loss (Denver) 24-37 loss (Detroit) 18-27 loss (Packers) 33-31 win (Steelers) 38-39 loss (Jets) 27-31 losing (Chicago) 5 of 9 games giving up 30+ points is unacceptable.

Caleb Williams could retire and start a family, raise the kids, and send them to college in the time the #Bengals are giving him.

The #Bengals are somehow about to head into halftime with a lead after getting outplayed for the entire game.

I haven’t felt this uninspired by the #Bengals since 2019. And that’s despite some really great performances and solid play from Joe Flacco.