"Does NYU lack the necessary funding for the honorarium?"

The main focus of the NYU protest letter is the complaint that the university just picked one of its own professors, who the students say they have already heard plenty from, to speak at commencement instead of bringing in somebody famous and interesting

Weird to complain about how content restrictions on advertising are inherently totalitarian and un-American in a video clip that contains a glimpse of an old cigarette commercial

🎶 He's been up all night posting through Mohammed's Ratio 🎶

Indignity Vol. 6, No. 41, THE STAIRS, Chapter 26, by @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-26/

- So it's about reputation with Achilles, though, like even if the enemy has an Olympian god fighting their side, they'd turn away to avoid directly confronting— - Telamonian Ajax.

- So this Achilles, he is indomitable, immune to fatigue— - Not like Telamonian Ajax, no. - But if you look at the thickest part of the fray, where the struggle is fiercest— - Telamonian Ajax

Indignity Vol. 6, No. 39, THE STAIRS, Chapter 25, by @tomscocca.bsky.social www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-25/

You don’t miss smoking! You miss being young! Which also wasn’t that great!

INDIGNITY @indignity.bsky.social Vol. 6, No. 38, MR WRONG: My Knicks Are Doing OK but the Owner Is a Bum: www.indignity.net/mr-wrong-hoop-de-doo/ ALSO A *NO STARS* WEATHER REVIEW

I thought of a slogan for liberated fandom that I can't stop thinking about: "I just don't work here"

Nostalgic for how awesome it was to have to price a dry-cleaning bill into your bar tab

Being too near the basket to close out on a distant jump-shooter and instead simply reaching up one's hands to completely prevent the shooter from being able to see the rim at all, as one does, in the game of basketball

Real nice meter to "The follow jam by Wembanyama! Almost took the basket down!"

In high dudgeon about having been freely able to come and go from one’s own hotel room while attending a professional conference

Not on the review schedule but considering seasonal and week context this really is one of the worst days of weather I’ve ever seen

"The only context in which this could be remotely acceptable would be [description of the exact context lopped off the screenshot]"

People are really getting mad at a screenshot of a thread with the top post cut off huh

And when there was only one half set of footprints that's when I stepped in the cat barf

Literally had to find it through Google

I Heard There Was a Good Story About This Specific Topic in This Specific Publication, but This One Traffic-Mongering Fixation Meant That None of the Headlines on Its Homepage Contained Any Concrete Nouns

Today is a perfect day for a journey down (or up) THE STAIRS, a serialized novel by @tomscocca.bsky.social found exclusively at INDIGNITY www.indignity.net/tag/the-stai...

I want to mail a letter indie, buy some mom-and-pop stamps, get the personal touch

Government what now

It doesn't seem like traffic death in the United States has been reduced to the point where the problem of unavoidable residual accidents is meaningfully worth talking about

The low-hanging fruit is the sweetest

Paired up with Alex Rodriguez in a way that made people think less of both of them

"Humans aren't blank slates" therefore wealth is genetically inherited hmm maybe go over your intermediate steps again

No knock on Pavement—a band I have more affection for than 99.99 percent of the population does—to say it's hard to see which part of their artistic development is supposed to map onto "retooled around studio innovation after the constant nightly screaming of 50,000 fans made touring impossible"

I was going with the definition of "'90s indie rock" as "rock music distributed on independent labels in the 1990s" but we didn't have the benefit of hindsight back then

Hm OK sure Pavement was one of the more influential bands in the genre of "bands that sounded like Pavement"

But the fact they didn't even try to say which Pavement album would be Sgt. Pepper's is as good a place as any

I mean—speaking as someone who had Perfect Sound Forever on vinyl before the person who wrote that Instagram caption was born—the idea that you can map even Pavement's musical development onto the Beatles' is so daffily inside-out I don't even know where to begin

I'm more or less the Liberace of guys who wear jeans and t-shirts and can't play piano

LMFAO *the Beatles of indie rock* is an incredible concept, sure, the Beatles of bands that didn't sell records, why not

This fun CNN piece on the meaning of blasphemy features the first interview with me as a culture war expert! Baby’s an authority now. www.cnn.com/2026/04/14/u...

Just couldn’t plow through it far enough to form an opinion about the underlying situation

I guess my take is I don’t think she’s a good blogger

The Surprising 1865 Death of a Politician Whose Portrait Might Be in Your Pocket Right Now

Curiosity-gapping a story that did $355 million in worldwide box office

Facebook friends, it's Indignity Vol. 6, No. 33: "Any resemblance to actual people, places, and events is entirely coincidental, with the exception of the events in Chapters One and Two, which happened more or less as written, in 1999." THE STAIRS, Chapter 22 www.indignity.net/the-stairs-chapter-22/

The value of a liberal arts education is that I know that a weird little guy who only answers questions accurately if you phrase them just right is called an Elf and that motherfucker is never to be trusted.

Secret identities work in the comics because Bruce Wayne is famous in his own right or because Clark Kent and Peter Parker are working alongside the people trying to figure out who the superheroes are

Forgot Banksy's name like an hour after reading it, oh he's some graffiti artist nobody heard of who legally changed his name to something even less memorable, sounds like you're telling me Banksy is Banksy

Oh wow once again [FAMOUS PSEUDONYM] is revealed to be [OBSCURE PERSON WHO FITS THE PROFILE]

So we talked to the author of the 25th amendment. (89 years young!) And we went through the text. It solved a real problem, but it wasn't the problem we have right now. I'd like a deus ex machina for what we're going through too, but this ain't it. From Moe Tkacik and I: prospect.org/2026/04/07/w...

Really doing "I'll attack Persia and a great empire will fall," huh

Replay review is always bad. Using replay review to stop the game in clutch time to try to get the refs to retroactively call the other team for a stray elbow is about as debased as coaching gets.

The deafening silence of the crowd. The bricks because of the lousy sight lines. The vamping during replays. This is what championship basketball is all about.