The New York real estate ceasefire: analysis from @nusbacher.bsky.social

Gotta find time to read this one on local news. Thinking of the exchange yesterday between @joshshepperd.bsky.social @pastpunditry.bsky.social

Today is the 161st anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox Court House. A good day. In two months and 10 days, an even better day, Juneteenth.

Coming in late May

I’ll take it

This advice from @juliametraux.bsky.social is almost like cheating... and very sensible. On other SM, friends sometimes get mad at me when I ask about sources. But they shared an image with text on it, and it pulled on their heartstrings/outraged them!

The White House comment line is (202) 456-1111.

In the next 40 minutes, the moon could do the funniest thing.

Vegetarian chili on* the moon. * Near

Depluralize a movie: This Here Now

Change my mind: There is no rigorous research supporting the existence of the so-called Overton Window.

So what is this Ovaltine Window that everyone's talking about?

The right place to teleport in Rome, GA, wrong answers only?

To steal from @colbertlateshow.bsky.social, Artemis II is just destroying Van Life YouTube.

Throwing out a term I just coined in discussion with a friend elsewhere on SM: policy-whiskers-by-osmosis. Instant case: I'm the younger brother of @standorn.bsky.social, longtime health care policy wonk, and a friend was just laid off before his 70th birthday.

I went meta on one of the videos I recorded this afternoon for my Session B class. Little-m meta, not Meta. Hope the students appreciate it!

This poll from Feb '26 is horrifying, that there is no reported subgroup with LESS than 25% support for concentration camps.

In a country where we connect education with citizenship, and as a right thereof, of COURSE there's going to be politicization of schooling.

Adorable and sustainable in 60 seconds.

May I present: the APLU Final Four

Schools are NOT identical to what they were like 100 years. There are many areas of stability, and also areas of change.

David Gamson, our collaborators, and I could only cover a tiny slice of this, even with an entire book. 😉

Very tempted to call it a night at <checks watch> 6:47 pm MST.

Useful and usefully brief!

Today I learned that when I'm using Venmo or Zelle to send money for mutual aid (in the U.S.), I can help the coordinator avoid tax complications by writing "gift" on the memo line, to make clear that I am not expecting anything in return.

So what is this movie I hear about, "Proud Hail Mary"?

First Lady Melania Trump, on the right, walks with humanoid robot at White House event.

If they only had a good DJ in the store, they'd all be serving beatmalls.

In further good personal news: - TIAA did what I entered in their webmachine - A PhD advisee passed their proposal defense - An EdD advisee passed their final defense - My (light) migraine that appeared after the end of the proposal defense mostly disappeared by the start of the final defense.

I don't know why someone would want to extend their public pain over and over, but I'm definitely not NC Sen. Berger.

I can go home happy tonight, as I have learned about Carol Kaye.

I have a joke about Atheist Day, but you wouldn’t believe it, and I’m not so sure of it myself — your neighborhood agnostic

Best casual game ever. Also, ow. I got 74% right. Many things I thought were disallowed were reimbursable under current AZ law.

Richard Florida popped up to write about Dubai and Abu Dhabi, in perhaps the best case for his decontextualized argument style, in a story containing the seeds of its own destruction. I'd love to read a good smack-down from someone who knows the Hanseatic League. Gift link:

I Have a Little List, esp when updated

Realized this evening that I hadn't heard about the Kelley v. TIAA case, originally filed in summer 2024, about TIAA & Morningstar's advising TIAA participants with an asserted fiduciary duty, that the lawsuit said was breached on a systematic basis. Original complaint--

So… someone years ago didn’t think clearly about URLs and brand names: a friend to me just now

Opinion in WP;dr

At least this happened during an extreme heat event, but I don't know if it meets the Guiness record for largest serving of scrambled eggs.

The economy looks to be in a strait jacket

Missing AEFP this year. Like good baroque music I’ll be Bach!

Kahlenberg caught a bad case of Murc’s Law

Excited to be spending the rest of the week at AEFP 2026! Lots of exciting opportunities to connect if you want to know where to find me: 1. Running a professional development session on Friday morn to help folks target job applications to non-research organizations for "embedded" researcher roles

I have noticed this too (though not amongst my followers - you guys seem mostly cool). We need to speak out to stop this, or else Bluesky will become the same kind of racist cesspool as X, but with different politics.

Special issue honoring David Berliner in @epaa.bsky.social Continuing the conversation: “Life is Good”—David Berliner's legacy epaa.asu.edu/index.php/ep...

I haven’t been blocked yet because I kept my mouth closed. Yeah I know: si tacuisses philosophus mansisses

I love the job my state AG is doing

As a high school senior, I got invited to the Capitalism San Diego Shindig.* All-expenses to be with a few hundred other youth for a few days, and go to a Capitalism State Dinner.* * Not their real names. I forget the actual names.

OMG. Friends, this is why I take a bullet kettle with me when traveling, and NEVER use a hotel room coffee maker. Well, not this exactly, but... bullet kettles are small. Tea bags are small. Travel coffee kits aren't that small, but worth the space.

Robert wins today’s Bluesky