“To the young people of the future, we are not merely old news but moral idiots who ruined everything”- this tracks ✅

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Loved the ‘spooky’ font on the credits of Jacques Tourneur’s “Curse of the Demon”

New album from French-Haitian genius jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant !!

These AAUP “Tips for Engaging with Social Media” don’t seem to have a realistic sense of how & why people use social media. I mean I’m sorry but I’m not going to post “the faculty united will never be divided” over & over

Goebbels denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence"

I deleted my account. Some part of me will miss the spammy "Your Name is Mentioned by a Well-Known Author"/ "Are you the “Ivan Kreilkamp” mentioned in Subjectivity papers?" emails... but I am glad to be out

Remember that we (arguably) got the Trump presidency b/c Obama had roasted him so badly at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2011

Oops, our app destroyed art. Sorry about that

Omg

The young Robert Redford taking you by the arm for a nice stroll would be a good death

YouGov/Econ has Trump's net approval at -35 with Hispanics and young voters — as bad as he's doing with post-grads www.economist.com/interactive/...

a lesson for us all

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

Wow there's a 1992 Filipino adaptation of *Washington Square* (well, of Wyler's 1949 *The Heiress*-- it's pretty faithful to Wyler)! Ikaw Pa Lang Ang Minahal (You're the Only One I Have Loved)

Don't know but my guess would be the same thing that explains most of contemporary language and culture: Harry Potter

Ok why on earth does usage of “gormless” explode circa 2000??? This puzzles me

Free speech is fully underway folks www.nbcwashington.com/news/nationa...

One of the many bitter pills to swallow is that there will be not one single consequence for Jerry Seinfeld basically complimenting the KKK and equating them to the phrase Free Palestine. There will be little, if any, media pushback. It’s terrible.

“I have the right to stomp any downtown into dust, and it’s all legal. It’s not trespassing, it’s not chaos, and it’s definitely not a ‘rampage.’ It’s affirming my sovereignty in the interest of national security to protect law-abiding cities”

Great line: “‘Media organizations’ is is an accurate term for how the big leagues work, in a way that calling them ‘magazines’ and ‘newspapers’ and so on probably isn’t in many cases. The magazines are like… a little hand puppet on the tentacle of some Cthulhu-like being”

Reality is ripping the clothes off Emperor Trump: *Putin humiliating him *Failing to indict in DC *Rs warning mail-voting edict will backfire *Tariffs are blundering fiasco *Economy tanking *Deportations/occupations deeply unpopular citing @jamellebouie.net 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2000...

E. Jean Carroll, Miss Indiana University, 1963 (as well as Miss Cheerleader U.S.A.) 💪🏼 🙌🏼 📣

British Colonel F. N. Maude in 1900 on the "broad principle" that enables "great commanders" to "override all possible humanitarian fallacies": "Human suffering is not cumulative," [and it is therefore] "immaterial whether ...as a result of his actions 1 person starves or 50,000"

Love this panel idea

The NYT is ON IT: “Social media, hailed as an innovation that would knit us together, is driving us apart once more” Maureen Dowd, 2013 called and wants its column back

💔 Probably a lot of people barely remember Flipper today but they were so great and important. Growing up in Boston in the 1980s, "Sex Bomb" was like our generation's "Louie Louie"... but they were much more than that... here's REM covering "Sex Bomb": www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWZf...

I enjoyed learning this new-to-me piece of British slang (“gammon” as in ham for an angry red-faced Brexiteer)

Caroline Kennedy on her brother, our secretary of Health & Human Services 😳

Jacob Elordi is both Frankenstein's monster and Heathcliff in upcoming films?! Makes me wonder how Bela Lugosi or Boris Karloff would've been as Heathcliff

That song hits hard “I don't miss you like I should But l'd kill myself to find out if you think this song is good” Most moving reference to a Culture Club 7” ever, too

This looks good, but everyone adapts the same books over and over. Why Frankenstein yet again and not say Mary Shelley’s The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck?? 🤔

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

That RFK is "repeating Michelle Obama's mistakes" is some weird galaxy-brain framing here

I can

Labor Day rally in @citybloomington.bsky.social ! @iubaaup.bsky.social Workers Over Billionaires!

What a cursed sentence (gift link) “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Savages (as a theater prof trying to finish his book about Brecht) is convincing… IIRC there’s a good scene where he’s gossiping with a friend on the phone about someone’s possible job offer very realistically

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

Daily Wire reporter is asking this question. They are itching to lock up every trans person in the US and eradicate us.

Coincidentally I am reading one contemporary Norwegian novel (Solvej Balle's On the Calculation of Volume, bk 2) while listening to another on audiobook (Vigdis Hjorth's Will and Testament). Occasionally very confusing as the situations & characters cross-reference

I am a Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons truther

Enough of this woke nonsense, all NBA teams must return to their original logos

Is it too late to become an Enigmatic Mime as a career path

Journalists everywhere need to stand in solidarity on this killing spree and resulting news blackout. See below in this thread for some actions and stay tuned here https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-hits-gaza-hospital-killing-least-20-people-including-five-journalists-2025-08-25/

Having only read pieces of it, I finally sat down and read all of @njdames.bsky.social's THE CHAPTER. A wonderful book of rather crazy ambition and erudition: considering chaptering & "capitulation" from the 2nd century BCE (the tabula Bembina) through to Agnès Varda & Jennifer Egan

"IU is being transformed into a sad shell of the once proudly global research university...I worry for the future of the institution I have come to love & for the students, & their families, who will find themselves shortchanged as the opportunity for a genuine education is thrown by the wayside."

"The disciplining of Ben Robinson is a violation of his academic freedom that sends a chilling message to all faculty members. And it bodes ill for everyone who cares about whether or not Indiana University remains a serious and widely respected institution of higher education."

That’s head-spinning. So authentic Angostura bitters has never contained angostura bark. You can tell the imitations by the fact that they DO have angostura as an ingredient, “possibly to justify the use of the word ‘angostura’ in their names”

“The letter orders the group to provide a roster of its members, including the date they became involved”