don't really get the Colbert Report mourning from people today. that show ended years ago. the writers moved on. you're supposed to be mourning the really crummy, unfunny night show Colbert was fired from, the one written by dullards.

GUY WHO MAKES 100,00 DOLLARS A YEAR: [reading about people with problems] Have you tried making a hundred thousand dollars, yearly?

lesser evilism

phenomenally speaking, the fact that a House race in Kentucky is the most expensive in the history of the USA seems interesting as a matter of political science. but basically none of the lib poli sci people I know IRL are interested in talking about it.

introduce yourself with five business establishments in radford, virginia that you have not yet the opportunity to visit 1. nobby's kitchen 2. la quinta inn by wyndham radford 3. sharkey's wing & rib joint 4. radford orthopedic center 5. elliott's military surplus and fishing tackle

the only cheevo for social media is adding lies to archive dot is before someone deletes it.

that MBTA escalator footage. gotta get out of this country faster

from "umm *everybody* was citing it" to "why would you trust anybody's work ever?" in a heartbeat. Really, computer science, you don't say

Taking a picture of the front and back of my credit card and posting to facebook

yawn

I don't know how much it broke through to people who weren't on the ground in the Twin Cities during Metro Surge, but ICE agents were so horned up for violence that they did shit like shoot through closed doors and into childrens' bedrooms. It was all a power fantasy come to life for them.

yawn

Credit card debt is nearly 30% more expensive to carry in 2026 than in 2019. The share of credit card debt 90+ days delinquent has increased 58% since 2019. www.stephensemler.com/p/falling-wa...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

it's a beautiful day so the least athletic people i have ever seen brought their barely-historic automobiles to the park to blast the loudest music they could and make all the normal people unhappy

everybody else at the game also died in the intervening years... suspicious.

I've been watching so much sports lately that I accidentally googled "weather score" to see what the weather is today

PAIN THRESHOLD - Something repressed and painful. Too late. The moment has passed.

It must feel so good to go up against Democrats as a Republican. Glass jaw and they often apologize for even getting in the ring, let alone acknowledge that one exists.

Kinda stopped keeping track of how much stuff costs now. Switch 2 costs fifty bucks more because the president is a dumbass? Yeah that makes sense. Hope they sort that out soon.

Happy and honored to see Manga: A New History included in this illustrious list of nominees, but also very happy to see the history of comics/manga taken seriously enough to be considered for a book history prize.

why is every american in this milieu so doughy

i love doing free labor for bsky's SEO that benefits the zero assistive reader users who follow me. that's why i write alt text.

Definitive Millennial song has to be in the Billboard Top 10 between 1996 (when the first Millennials turned 16) to 2013 (when the first Zoomers turned 16). Literally none of this qualifies, this is just a Pitchfork playlist for late Millennials / old Zoomers

i recommend SMART goals

cis gender affirming treatments are never being banned by politicians

The Onion ass headline

The total absence of any ideas beyond “over-regulation” and “over-taxation” among Europe’s corporate elite is quite remarkable.

lol

yikes at the NYC-DOE

"During uncertain times, one of the best investments you can make is in your home. shop at [online window store] today." this was an ad I heard in the middle of the pre-modern Iran episode, lol. nobody can escape Iran

the EHRC report on Corbyn was so fun, every example of anti-semitism was just using the word "zionism" or criticizing israel for apartheid. excited to see the domain here.

i feel like there's more interesting things for T.I. to cover

May 4, 1926: Farming on the Alberta prairie. A farmer identified only as Whitlow sets out for the fields with his horses, and a homestead near Carstairs.

look let's not kid ourselves here.

bsky is more and more academic heavy so its kinda fun to look at which progressives are aghast at ICE kidnappings and then take a look at how they felt about the columbia protests. build that block list.

the new fed chair during the most economically turbulent year of our lives is a campus free speech anti DEI lawyer

one of the embarrassing things about yglesias bringing his laptop into the starbucks bathroom and having sock puppets and such, is that a lot of grad students and job-holding academics in the 2010/20s kept trying to get his RTs.

I would like to thank Sam Altman for screwing up the supply chain and every idiot using these things to run OpenClaw instead of something actually productive.

Great piece - derisking yet again a Trojan horse for privatisation

magness has to be the dumbest affirmative action beneficiary (econ) in the american academy

17 pro was subsidized to between $0 and $400 out of pocket for most unlimited data consumers in the USA; macbook neo is about to lodge itself in every school; everyone is annoyed by windows; lenovo bad now... is apple about to just win the market until BYD starts making phones

this really helped me understand the theme song for the Sopranos. thanks genius dot com.

A friend tipped me off to the VFLEX: an affordable USB-C power adapter with modular connectors. It replaces wall adapters and you can program it from your phone. I'm in awe of how convenient and smart it is for not much more than the Aliexpress alternatives. aftermath.site/vflex-usb-c-...

i wonder how that guy is doing. [searches brain for aspiring professional i've read every few days for 8 years but because i never actually spoke to them or wrote their name down i only remembered the profile pic] that one dude. with the dog.

Woke universities radicalizing the sons of status-anxious, downwardly mobile protestant elites.* * Early 17th century edition

chatgpt makes my job way easier in that everyone else is using it and i'm just holding it down normal style. getting crazy compliments like "you send great emails" yeah, i because someone actually wrote it!

it's just politically engaged libs who feel this way generally, not something special about this forum. as an aside, it's a little funny to spend most of your life in grad school (and maybe a little too much time during your employment as an academic) on twitter, then on bsky, and resenting both.