Banditry. Piracy. That’s what you call stealing food and killing people at sea.

Look. We just don’t know. He built it so maybe at least some of these are true.

I think anyone posting 200 times in a day would be a worrying sign of a mental health crisis. And I’ve spent a lot of time chronically online.

Sorry. I know it’s not the point but what’s a West End condo?

No it didn't, that isn't true.

Hi folks. Just to be clear, a date has not yet been announced for the next No Kings. If a PAC you’ve never heard of asks for donations to “organize” it, please block and report them

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year from @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

I’m traveling around Europe with my wife (languages: English, Russian) her cousin (English, French, some German) and me (English, Arabic, Spanish) and we’ve used them all over the past week. Last night we baffled our landlord who just wanted to speak to all of us at the same time not in English.

Who has a good diaspora politics syllabus theyre willing to share (grad level preferred)

Honestly I have no idea if this is a joke.

Had another student say “mental health” for “mental health problems” the other day which is the most baffling neologism. Student “I have mental health” Me (silently to myself) “well good for you in glad one of us does”

I know we’re doing academic job discourse again. Less noted is that *we’re all just guessing* and it’s really hard to predict who will do well. It’s a crappy market shot through with terrible information asymmetries and straight up gaps.

The US. It was fun (sometimes) while it lasted.

At last we have created the Hunger Games from the classic dystopian novel Don’t Create The Hunger Games

When I lived in Egypt the gas lines that connect the countries were bombed so frequently it was a running joke.

If you have to do grading during the holiday I do recommend doing it bar side at an inn and pub you’re staying at in England.

Eric Adams is one of the oddest characters in American politics. You’ll read a normal article about Mamdani’s transition and then it’ll be like “the outgoing mayor says the house is full of ghosts”

Bust it open when you need stuff to get really really weird.

“The everyone’s has to drink pee now bill is a DISTRACTION we’re focused on healthcare for all Americans!” Schumer probably

Pretty sure I just graded an essay responding to the prompt I wrote for this class two years ago. Not the one I wrote this year. So….my old exam got passed around and they walked in and copy and pasted an old answer they got not even noticing it was a different question. Freshmen are undefeated

It’s always weird when students are cheating (near identical wrong things) but you have no idea how (not from class, not what ChatGPT says, in an in class essay).

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

I’ll believe sports have the proper place in my university when I can email a coach to get students out of a game for an important test instead of vice versa.

Our future in the US (though we’re weaker on several of those)

It’s a good reminder that if you’re brave and willing you’ll do it without a gun (this guy who tackled the Bondi shooter) and if you’re a coward you won’t no matter how many guns you have (Uvalde cops)

Still always in awe of how many apartments Canada builds compared to the US In the most recent data, the US permitted 35k multifamily housing units and Canada permitted 24k despite being only 12% of the US population! If California built 5x as many apartments, it still would trail Canada!

Jesus was persecuted by the state. This isn’t particularly controversial theologically.

He’s def gonna win isn’t he?

I can’t wait for the wokelash. WE’RE SAYING BLACK AGAIN. WE’RE SAYING TRIBAL AGAIN. THEY TRIED TO STOP US. CROOKED DON IS GONE.

We love to see it.

Their high numbers on 'the border' and low numbers on 'immigration' suggest to me that a lot of Americans think that violent anti-immigration action can be confined to some imagined, depopulated 'other' place.

I grew up pretty poor in a pretty rough place getting rougher thanks to opioids. I log on to Facebook like every 3 months and it's just absolutely packed with obituaries for people (mostly men) I went to high school with. It sucks. I want better things for people in this country.

The thing that’s funniest about this is that he’s describing the system that already exists. Hospitals opting out (or shutting down) ✅ Expensive fees ✅ GP before specialist ✅ Insurance won’t cover things ✅ Rich people get a different level of care ✅ That’s already what we’ve got!

NEW: Israeli settlers allegedly beat a young American as she defended one of the last Palestinian families left in their way of stealing more land. They then attacked a grandma & two kids, threatening to burn them alive if they didn’t leave their land. She says the US hasn’t responded to her.

If I sign my email “respectfully” I’m incandescent with rage.

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

I dunno folks I'm bad at campaigns and don't do anything with them but it FEELS like 'affordability is a hoax' isn't a great message.

I dunno what’s up with the president. Maybe he’s lying. But I was with my mother in law a lot through Alzheimer’s and I’ve been to the neurologist for my dad for cognitive damage following heart surgery. They both had fewer cognitive tests than this.

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

It doesn’t happen often because I’ve followed him on social media for a long time but I did just scroll past something really smart from @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social and have my jaw drop because I thought it was posted by that politician with the similar name.

Chile of the north.

I am opposed to mandates on universities from legislatures in general BUT we have to teach the Nevada constitution. I am the course designer. And I really do think it’s of benefit that every educated person in my state knows their rights.

It’s a good reminder that nobody does the Trump thing nearly as well as Trump. They all sound so weak doing it.

I read this quickly and I thought one of them was J Jonah Jameson. He would also get a job in this administration.

This came to me in a dream

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

trapped souls of the dead lusting for vengeance-ass trophy never seen a more clearly cursed object

This is now Example Number 1 when students get all 'more-realist-than-thou' in my class and tell me that international orgs don't matter and nobody cares about them. Lots of people care about them A LOT.

Can you imagine you want an international organization to give you a prize and the best you can do is FIFA? Like, you can't even strong arm the OAS, or get MBS to bully the Arab League? You have to get the Football Man to do it?