The safety of Boston is nowhere clearer than in BPD having to do photo shoots with seized guns you can only get from robbing graves or magnet fishing.

The AHR should create a new section where historians can breathlessly share their scientific discoveries: "Early Modern Europeanist uses Her Archival Prowess to reveal Objects Dropped from Height in Vacuum Fall at Constant Rate of Acceleration."

Wikipedia has higher standards than what university admins want their professors to enforce. WIKIPEDIA.

Average car brain

Repulsive vibes on the r/PhD as a shocking number of people rise to the defense of grad students trying to date undergrads at their institution.

Inside this line, if you've never had a burrito from a taco shop whose name ends in "-berto's", ideally with at least 3-4 typos on the menu board: don't. You'll have tasted a piece of Eden. It will haunt you every day for the rest of your life.

On the line with the DEA rn to classify Nostalgia as a schedule I substance

Every time I watch THE THING (1982) it gets better and it was perfect the first time

Re: Rowling there's a super important, non-metaphorical word in "death of the author" and it's not "author."

Many people are saying.

Sounds like everything in the city with a siren has arrived in Roslindale in the last 45 minutes.

On the one hand, heavy-handed university bureaucracy trying to derail your graduation over inadequate box-checking feels abysmal. On the other hand, there's nothing like seeing your advisor and department leadership swing into war mode over some real bullshit.

On the one hand, it would be another sign of the profound moral rot of the US. On the other hand, what if he splits the CHUD vote and that's how we get woke Nixon?

the collapse of mainline WASPs and the rise of the religious right has basically convinced like a fair amount of people the only type of Christian in existence is evangelical

Permanently buy out all advertising in the entire MBTA and MTA subway systems to give myself an effective veto over subway ads in the Northeast that are stupid/annoying/confusing to me personally.

Sublime-Santeria (San Diego's unofficial municipal anthem).

The fundamental problem with Heathrow is that if you arrive as early as they tell you to, your reward is having to sit around inside Heathrow.

Dune 1: Go White Boy, Go Dune 2: Oh Dune 3: Oh White Boy, No

*ARIZONA CHARGES KALSHI WITH OPERATING ILLEGAL GAMBLING BUSINESS

A really depressing feature of modern society: the number of organisations run by people who fundamentally have no affinity to them, or actively dislike them.

guys like this despise reading but love to pretend they like it and one of the funniest parts of doing an mba was meeting dudes like this nonstop through the program, watching their faces as they realise in horror that someone has actually read the books was incredible entertainment

I think one thing we as a society need to improve upon is helping each other understand making financial choices based on a need to feel like you be more well-respected is just... bad. Respect *yourself* enough to know what a good deal actually is and what actually needs to matter to you! (8/10)

Shorter Andreessen

Many Americans not exactly covering themselves in glory on the occasion of Charles Windsor driving by.

Slough'hulud

FLASH FLASH PEAK NEWT REACHED ORDERS TO FOLLOW

In a universe of pure logic consisting purely of spherical chickens on a whiteboard, I'm sure there's much to discuss and debate in terms of gender. But practically speaking, the actual debate boils down to "Do you believe in society as a concept, yes or no?"

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

“Faculty members have discrete areas of expertise, and those rarely include higher education as an enterprise.” name me one institution that has for real shared governance, and then you can tell me all the enterprise-level shit faculty don’t know.

This is an incredibly stupid idea that will principally function to defund the welfare state and public schools.

STOP LETTING RO KHANNA BE RIGHT ABOUT THINGS

"so Kennedy worship is like Trotskyism <for liberals>' - my wife, absolutely cooking

"government can't deliver so you might as well not pay into it" is nothing more than a suicide note for left and liberal governance

RIP the era of the relaxed diss. defense. Every Zoomer academic is going to have to live through being the defendant in a Law and Order episode.

This is so tragic it's actually incredibly funny

No Democrat should be talking about tax cuts. They should be talking about executing Elon Musk for treason and seizing every dollar he has.

VIEWING AI ART 2 THE BRAIN IS WAT EATING PLASTIC IS 2 THE TONGUE

This must hit so hard if you're dumber than shit

“wanting to be a shitty person and hanging out with other shitty people and then being surprised pikachu when they are shitty to you” really is the perfect summary of the modern right

If anyone ever trains an AI to pretend to be me, I will [redacted], [redacted], [redacted], [several seconds of loud beeping to block out curse words], and then when I'm done, I'll [redacted].

Not to mention how LLMs are producing legions of Narcissi so consumed by their own reflections in the tech they are fading away/dying

Home security systems are safety theater. They make us feel like we’re in control, but they don’t actually reduce the risk of violence. If anything, they’re a part of a broader, predatory industry that exploits our fears and *increases* the risk of violence to keep us spending money.

Haggis: incredible. Give me all the sheep bits you've got.

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

If the Dems who win in the 2026 midterms get squeamish about prosecuting this administration, we'll need to elect a bunch of new people running on Nuremberg shit for 2028. This isn't a joke. It's the law. It's justice. Biden let Trump back in the WH and this happened because Joe didn't do his job