Wasn’t there a rally for billionaires going on or something? Seems like I missed the reporting on the massive surge of people that I’m sure came into the streets to heckle.

I think the impact is exaggerated. Like yes, his bargain boon, or pact with whatever entity sleeps beyond the understanding of the feeble minds of men in starless dark is *real*, but events aren’t monocausal, I think it’s likely that education polarization explains more.

New gift idea for your stressed but immortal friends!

In grad school I took a random side quest where I signed a fellow student up for “the gyroscopic poetry list serve” (which I created in response to him being kind of a jerk tangentially related to gyroscopes). I then sent him a poem about gyroscopes every day for like 2 weeks. Good times.

It is always the ones you suspect.

I'm officially "I think I prefer compression socks" years old today.

In August I had two big career developments. 1. I went 100% into admin as an Associate Dean. 2. a publisher finally expressed interest in a scholarly book project. I "had" 38k written but only 20k that was usable. I need to write a ton by Sept! Tonight I crossed the 70k mark. 50k in 5 months!

So one reason is no doubt project 2025 and the 4 years of planning for what to do to destroy the constrains on the executive. But the graph will look very different if you start the clock in 2025 rather than 2017 or Nov. 1996 (my personal date for when the GOP abandoned its commitment to democracy)

Thinking about how "local college kids being rude to speaker at event with 200 people" became a national story for years. Partly, the media just swallows rightwing propaganda whole. But maybe it just really resonated with elite journalists/pundits who make money giving speeches at colleges.

Andor WAS even better than you recall. Also, it pays musical homage to battle of Algiers which is also super relevant for this moment.

I’m in downtown Grand Forks on a Friday night. It is -17 real feel and the number of people dressed for clubbing who just casually stroll between bars without coats is kind of wild. North Dakotans are built different…in that they apparently don’t have nerve endings!

The entire 'we can't win' nonsense is such bullshit. The people who led the anti-apartheid movement, Solidarity in Poland, the People Power Movement in the Philippines, and Diretas Já in Brazil all faced far longer odds and worse oppression than us and they never gave up. Fuck doomers.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. Psycholinguistics English grammar Intro to art history Genocide in the modern era Physics

Nothing like shoveling snow to remind you that you are Middle-Aged(TM).

I think about this post a lot

During the Arab Spring, I used to say to my online friends who were being subjected to state domestic terrorism in foreign countries, “Wishing you safety if possible and courage if not.” I now wish the same for the people in Minnesota.

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward. youtu.be/9dih_bbwrNk?...

No lies detected. #Writer

Do we actually think that TWO arctic battalions being mobilized are both going to Minnesota? I’m suspicious. Expecting one going to MSP and one sent to Greenland.

Me: I love barley, why don’t I make it more often. *Makes barely* Me: right. I don’t need to do this again.

I think it is time to make a change. I'm going to become a mustache guy. Not like a full Ron Swanson soup strainer mustache. More of the patchy thin mess one gets with trichotillomania. But cool.

We don’t dance on the grave of NFTs enough. I had a year where I was repeatedly told by bozos I was going to be irrelevant and extinct for not embracing them, I should be allowed a victory lap.

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Holy fucking shit. This is grounds for impeachment and is the kind of thing that sends markets reeling and republican donors into a fit of rage. Fuck!

Holy fucking shit. Posted on the Fed’s official YouTube channel, no less.

I grew up listening to so many dudes moralize at me about how the Republican Party was the true defender of liberty and freedom in America. “Hyack says economic freedom (i.e. minimal taxes, regulation, welfare programs) is absolutely essential to curb state violence and repression.” Fuckers.

Liberals say that Iranians are protesting because they want democracy. They're wrong—Iranians are protesting because want a republic.

Super Bowl ads that are not beer and snack food related are a sign of a bubble. Every single time.

I think about this a lot. By 2125 I might not physically be able to run anymore—joint pain or something. Absolutely wild how fast time goes!

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American elites (like all elites) end up surround by syncopates (sometimes intentionally and sometimes not). That creates a major bias in their perceptions of what Americans are actually like. We do not kneel.

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

We used to have morals in this country. I remember when the Milli Vanilli lip sync story was a major scandal. Today it doesn’t even get a shrug that Huntrix is actually voiced by human women!

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

I’ve been on the road for a couple days and my cats are well fed and watered but social deprivation has left them looking like meth addicts. I’m a terrible cat dad.

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

Been saying for years we need to phase out farm subsidies and replace them with aggressive deployment of green energy across small farms. The second and third order positive effects for rural communities would be transformative.

Updated my profile picture to something that more accurately reflects my professional trajectory.

I am confined to bed with splitting headache. This is not an unusual thing for me on days when I don’t need to be up in the morning, but normally it is caused by a series of bourbon related choices I made not the flu. Much prefer the scenario where I chose this hell.

Willow update. Christmas bow is ON!

Are your kids (or someone else’s) spending Christmas Day on their phones rather than engaging in pro social activity? Time to bring back *snapdragon* the brandy, fruit, and fire based kids game! They will love it! What it lacks in safety it makes up in tradition. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap-dr...

I can relate, Murderbot. I can relate. #murderbot #slyart

I am so sick right now that I hallucinated that I was on the team led by Lt. Jimmy Carter to seal a reactor leak in Ottawa. It was comforting. The pain had a purpose and I just had to do my job. "Back down the hole Private Urlacher, Canada is counting on you to move that bolt an 8th of a turn!"

My dad was a professor at a for profit institution (forced out when Obama shut things down) He was deeply conflicted because education is the only industry where people will intentionally pay more to get less.

I haven’t had a lot of time to work on stained glass lately, but I was able to get this mirror cranked out in about 8 hours over 4 days.

Apparently we need AI because “we are out of ideas.” This is ridiculous. Plastic soup spoons are objectively terrible. Fix the shape. See how easy that was?

The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT.

The IN GOP is too cowardly to just say they reached the zenith of gerrymandering & further map meddling basically guarantees losing the like whole state to the Dems if the wind should blow in even a slightly different direction for just like a long afternoon but I'm not! I'm not cowardly at all!

This is exactly the right analysis. You can only spread your solid majority of voters out so far before small swings in the electorate start to affect things…and we are looking at a big swing!