Grocery stores should give you the ability to steal from charity to round down, I agree.

Since most former US presidents are ... non-responsive for the foreseeable future ... this is technically correct

There is never going to be a deal with Iran as long as Trump is in office. Iran already interfered in previous elections in order to try and hurt Trump's candidacy. The war gives them a more effect and (sorry) straitforward way to weaken Trump electorally

who called it a territorial dispute and not ground beef

the dr. gets killed once every 3 minutes and regenerates each time. A single season is just them try to do a single task but tripping on a rake and having to slowly regenerate before tripping on another rake. This ensemble character is played by all the employees of the World Health Organization.

me with the old copy of Ocarina of Time where the Fire Temple and Mirror Shield are uncensored when nintendo tries to sell me the remake

you got me I used zotero for secondary sources I wish I could have used it for the hundreds upon hundreds of archival documents but its absolute shit for that

So the forces of liberalism that stormed the beach were also a dangerous ideology. cool.

Grateful to have this out in @intsecurity.bsky.social. @jessicacweiss.bsky.social and I show how Cold War analogies obscure more than they reveal about US-China relations. 1/6

im shocked, shocked that the nazi tattoo guy has a problem with women

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

Weaponising the Far Right: Foreign Influence in Europe Today: shekhovtsov.substack.com/p/weaponisin...

The Carter & Carter (2023) book is impressive but I really don't think "the way Fox News covers Republicans" is a good metric for the non-absurd propaganda.

a speck (>20ppm) of good news

My EoE is a good pal I like to get endoscopies just to catch up every now and then

universal bereavement an inspiring achievement

The Dems really fucked up by not nominating "Big" Throb Hardman instead. Opened themselves up to all kinds of attacks.

Buying Steam games and playing Steam games really are 2 different hobbies

I write to figure out how to say what I want to say, and sometimes to figure out what *exactly* i want to say. Sometimes it's supremely frustrating, but there's also real satisfaction when you nail it, and the words start pouring, and then settling like a good Guinness.

we need a sound byte from dems about how this bills are intended for gas, groceries, and healthcare

wake up babe the white house is a six flags

I think that if allowing Nazis into the conversation was necessary to fostering a free and open society, it would have created a free and open society by now.

My they/them pronouns are actually really great at throwing some people off balance and making them apologetic so idk you should try weaponizing pronouns against Iran instead of crippling alcoholism and incompetence

I'll have something coming out about this eventually but to say this killer was motivated by just "nihilism" is wrong: The killers glorified neo-Nazis They promoted Siege and ideas like "accelerationism" Their influences were ripped out of a "Terrorgram" documentary. www.cbsnews.com/news/san-die...

me watching the takeout vs. cooking debate

do they make a duck duck mail?

A 1970s MAGA-style cult around Jimmy Carter -Malaise speech? he just says what we're all thinking -Operation Eagle Claw failed because DEI! -Men forgiving him when he looks at their wives with lust in his heart -the rabbit was a deep state plant drain the swamp

standing desk recommendations for someone who is now back pain years old

Amazed that Trump remembered Gilpin's point about "transgender for everybody" being a key marker of prestige

lmfao who explained the thucydides trap to him

Accounts you need to have to publish an academic article: -ScholarOne -ORCID -CambridgeCore (for copyright) -Email -Phone (for 2fa for your email) -Word/Overleaf Accounts you don’t need to have since you won’t get paid: -Bank

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Fortunately, hantavirus is unlikely to go supernova in such a way that requires COVID-style government interventions. Unfortunately, this means we won't get to hear anti-vaxxers decry the shadowy, Anthony Fauci "hanta junta" and WHO "hanta hansa"

fuck you too then

If we play our cards right, soon we’ll be able to send handguns through the postal service but not birth control or ballots

Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization Right-wing radicalization ≠ polarization

summer plans

Seeing the vote for Reform in the UK

1. I have built redundancies in my workflow such that I do not need to rely on canvas 2. we also don't use canvas, but still

Orwell only applies when Obama or Biden do something, sorry those are the rules

To fight the far right, we need to learn the right lessons. Do not make them look stronger than they are, but also don’t write them off because one of them loses an election. My new op-Ed in the Guardian makes a couple of points 🧵

transitioning to become happier: no speedrunning skincancer: yes

Still standing despite all of the madness.

Going to start slipping Stalin's great "Lenin founded our state and we've fucked it up" quote at everything when I'm mad about politics when google adds a gemini button to sheets when the cat throws up on the sofa

get sick and die probably

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Those found guilty at Nuremberg 2 should be imprisoned in Lady Liberty's crown

i know several people who consistently argue that the issue of misinformation is overblown. But this paper reveals the devastating harm to society in terms of health, mortality and economic costs linked to widespread misinformation:

Ending my propaganda course with a quick activity to design counter-propaganda policies.