Some People really did think a mild popular vote win under highly favorable conditions after eating shit in it twice in a row meant a major shift in the popular culture had occurred

one of the old union lawyers i worked for used to lament that protest and action in this country had been reduced to "walking in a circle in a fenced off designated area holding signs" and said it was a bad sign for our society and you know what

after knocking a few back last night, max and i discovered this music video and it is one of the most psychedelic things i have EVER seen, i need you all to watch it www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrEw...

Televangelist/Megachurch Masculinity. That’s the one they’re all doing - the kind that constantly talks about and asserts masculinity but doesn’t resemble it in any way. Closest thing it resembles is a bunch of weird, anal-retentive obsessions.

The option was either (a) accept that the relationship between gender and biology is complicated or (b) hand the country over to guys who say things like "our nation's teenage boys have too little sperm to develop the manly virtues" and America has MADE ITS CHOICE

honestly i think my entire adult life has built up to me being able to write this paragraph

omg i just learned that the Spanish word for Manosphere is "la machosfera," a great name for a terrible thing

I’m writing about this today so I’ll have a more considered answer for y’all, but I will note that even Lee Greenwood considers himself “not that political” lmao. It means that these conversations behind the scenes are euphemistic until the artists actually see how weird the promotion is

look at my post-liberal order, dawg

I s2g the edits, etc. in children's books are all about preventing complaints from busybody parents and absolutely not about what is best for the kids

THERE IS POWER IN A UNION

To me this is by far the top explanation for Gen Z nihilism. If you don't brand and commodify every aspect of your life, you're falling behind. If you're not getting one over on the next guy in crypto or prediction markets, you're a sucker. Beyond Marx's alienation of labor--alienation of personhood

They Reinstated the Fired Four www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

this has been one of the hardest fights of my life, but we have gotten a win, and it is exhilarating www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Not only might this happen to you, you know someone who this is happening to at any given moment, and they have a gofundme and you hear about it and you've given hundreds of dollars to people in this EXACT situation multiple times.

I mean, internal to the admin, if it becomes clear that you can lose big and still sell it to the base somehow then that would seem to be a positive to future random large scale reactions that achieve nothing. I just mostly think the US shouldn't have killed the folks in charge of Iran, that's tbh

Fractal Geometry with Michael Frame which was SO cool and fun

i get botox in my calf for dystonia and it is so funny to have these periods every 3 months or so when i am temporarily unable to move my lower leg until i go to a place where they inject me with a neurotoxin. science is cool!

Yesterday Max made a joke about The Notebook that implied he had *no* idea what the actual plot of the movie was and I didn’t have the heart to tell him that it is so much dumber than whatever he was thinking it was

Every round of discourse about this place starts from a conscious decision to ignore the fact that we are all well aware Bluesky is a retirement home for posters. That’s why we’re here in the first place. We’re here to answer prompts about movies and bands we’ve seen and wait for It to happen.

Lmao we made the game time decision to go see Belle and Sebastian *again* tonight. It’s raining so we bought Adult Ponchos

When I was 12, I got super obsessed with Belle & Sebastian and made them my whole personality, and it was seriously one of the best decisions of my whole life, I think

The phrase making me feel ancient today is “Lupe Fiasco 20th Anniversary Tour” lol

In my 20 plus years as a superfan of the Ladybug Transistor, I have never seen them live……until RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Omg the church listserv for ladies who craft discovered Iris van Herpen and they are all stunned! Amazed! We might do a field trip to the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. I wanna deliver the prayer for that

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

and if what we're talking about is economics, is the implication that sources/methods don't matter because we should just skip to ... making policy? policies in turn that shouldn't be researched/reflected on by economists with expectations of accuracy? because if so, that would explain a whole lot

i just read this out loud to my husband and we laughed so hard, this really is the ~essence~ of podcast

"Only about 12 percent of trustees at American colleges & universities have professional experience in higher education. If it seems odd to imagine 88% of the directors at, say, investment banks having no particular expertise in investment banking, that is the situation in the field of higher ed."

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

"important things will get decided for you while you are growing up" and "important things will get decided by you while you are growing up" are pretty different claims and an increasingly plutocratic era is probably the time to invest one's self in the distinction between them

They wanna be Edison, who was very much an abusive boss who stole credit for the work of his employees but whose shameless self-promotion made him a celebrity regardless

this is silly, obviously george clooney would play obama

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

I agree with the premise but Edison did actually kind of try to cultivate a heroic inventer figure cult around himself during his lifetime, it's one of the reasons Tesla thought he was such a tool

Clearly neither Musk nor Bezos understands that the “heroic inventor figure” was a self-conscious construct invented long *after* guys like Alexander Graham Bell invented revolutionary things and not something that was immediately embraced by a grateful public

Overall I feel like I’m doing good but then I’ll start getting Sunday Scaries on Saturday!! Not good

Austrian artist Valie Export, a powerfully provocative yet playful force in feminist art, died on May 14. Her performances and filmed media works reclaimed the female body through guerrilla modes of delivery that bypassed institutional restrictions.

these kids warm my heart!!! the snottiness of youth is a sacred american value

Graeberposting™

Look it’s a little femmier than I usually go for but I would absolutely wear it if I were performing at Eurovision

There is a straight up American teenager competing in Eurovision and NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT

every single year you turn on Eurovision and you think you know what you're getting yourself into and every year it is way more baffling and awkward than you could have possibly imagined

Hot Soul Singles, Billboard, September 27, 1980

Someday this will be like the insane POW-MIA flags everywhere, i.e. proof that a conspiracy theory spread far and on American soil. But unlike that one, so many people are going to be harmed in the process!

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

For all you Bloomsbury nerds, my favorite place on the planet has an incredibly opportunity on offer:

this truly is the thing that makes the united states exceptional, and right wingers hate it so much they want to destroy it

Wilmington, DE Glasgow Baton Rouge I think they all have a bit of grittiness and central illogic driving their whole deal? Weather is wildly different tho