Evening conversations in our house have moved onto Bluesky and I am HERE for it. @ohtheprofanity.com with a 🔥🔥🧵

Just like when Dick Cheney shoots a guy because he thought he was a bird.

For the evening crowd. I made this and I like how it turned out.

My husband made a kickass infographic related to this week's @tpforyourearholes.com topic, where we talk about why the early episodes suck. Turns out, IMDb user ratings agree with us. #BeavisandButtHead

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

The Oatmeal, ladies and gents. Really thoughtful illustrated essay on the use and misuse of AI art and why it often feels…bad

Sora stuff has filled a big chunk of my social feeds. I’m discerning enough to notice (most times). I fear for how its misuse will outpace, by orders of magnitude, society’s ability for its output to be debunked.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

Part 1 of 2 discussing the early days of Beavis and Butt-head… with @ohtheprofanity.com dishing out maybe her hottest of hot takes so far.

Final version out… soon (?)… but the draft copy feels good in my hands. #pokepioneers

This is not actually how copyright law works. I don't need to opt out, copyright is automatic and you can't just use* my stuff without asking But it *is* how the UK government is proposing to change the law, to benefit AI firms instead of creatives *For a given, currently debated, meaning of "use"

My horsie feels attacked

… and why a character I hate is one of my favorites! Another @tpforyourearholes.com that crushes it. (Yes, I’m biased.) Follow along now so you can say you were one of the OGs who started when the episode count was still in the single digits, since this is the last week you can do that.

I wish we could stop seeing this framing in media. It’s not “social media,” it’s social media USERS. It’s US. When we blame “social media,” we absolve ourselves of any personal responsibility for our roles in it. Comforting, maybe, but disingenuous and ultimately harmful to societies.

The Chinese social credit system is constantly invoked as some unspeakable red line that must never be crossed, yet here is Larry Ellison, perhaps soon to be one of the most influential people in charge of TikTok—which, like other social-media apps, could be used as a digital-surveillance tool

Any self-respecting journalist must tell the Pentagon to go fuck itself. (If they don't, they're not journalists - they're stenographers.)

Not the only reason I left Wyoming, but certainly one of them

"Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed." They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never

None of this is normal. Also, now we know for sure, none of this is unique.

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

New episode today! We're diving deep into Cornholio, Beavis' alter ego and one of the show's most interesting developments. We explore why this manic dude who's only in a small handful of episodes is often what people think of first when they think of Beavis and Butt-head.

This explains it better than I can

What a gross misrepresentation.

Reminders for following a breaking news story like the shooting of Charlie Kirk in Utah ⤵️ ⚠️ Bad actors & opportunists often use such moments when information is being gathered & fact-checked to recklessly push unverified claims & conspiracy theories. 🔗 Download the poster: bit.ly/BreakingNews...

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

This a thousand times ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Education is for liberation, not control.

Another @tpforyourearholes.com banger

happy labor day

all you need to know to understand America’s weird blend of libertarian authoritarianism is that the most important instruction of the Gadsden flag motto isn’t “don’t tread” but “on ~ME~”

Another Texas colleague texted this quote to me earlier this week. Hell of a time to be teaching law.

In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on

also c) alcoholic beverages have a clear and legal definition but “adult content” can include anything from hardcore pornography to fine art to sex ed content to fan fiction to romance novels

I’ve never wanted to be someone less in my life than this exact moment and this exact dude.

I got a new printer. It’s a model MFP. If you don’t know what MFP stands for, here is some help that I’ve taped on.

What can we learn about Beavis, Butt-head and Mike Judge through the music video reactions in the show? And how did they give rise to a whole genre of YouTube videos years later? Episode 4, T.P. For Your Earholes, out now! Full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

Every Wyoming parent now has the right to sue any website, big or small, that contains a single, sexual, NSFW picture, passage, audio file, or video and doesn't use age verification. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I'm pretty proud of how this episode turned out. I didn't know a lot about the roots of this controversy until I did some research... and I even surprised myself with what I found. If you're not following @tpforyourearholes.com already, now's the time.

Awful. And it won’t be the last, sadly.

Fire in the hole! @pschmiedt.bsky.social and I are launching our #BeavisAndButthead podcast today with THREE episodes, talking about everything from how we entered the fandom to a deep dive on the 1993 controversy that catapulted the show into mainstream culture.

When @ohtheprofanity.com and I commit to something, we don’t mess around. THREE episodes on debut day for @tpforyourearholes.com. Don’t be a buttknocker and take a listen.

Slightly diminish a band: Loosely Structured Scheme of a Down

One of the problems with this kind of work is that it presumes someone will see it and know it’s obviously problematic. Lots of people don’t, and won’t; people who aren’t regular Kirk followers will see this and be even more likely to move in the direction of fascism.

Here's how a small Wyoming high school changed the course of football, forever. (Video by me... all it took was going back to my hometown for the first time in more than a decade.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTSN...

To date, at least 186 journalists have been killed in the war, the vast majority (178 of them), Palestinian, CPJ research shows. To follow our full coverage, including video messages from journalists under siege in #Gaza, please visit: cpj.org/full-coverag...

Exclusive: The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from UCLA cnn.it/3UPtS3V

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.