The circle of death is: Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

We should have never doubted this man

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

this is why the reddit BuyItForLife community exists, and also, it’s really annoying that I now have to do a ton of involved research to avoid buying crap whenever I need new boots or an appliance.

I’d rather have nice safe emotions about shows on the entertainment media; having them about things real-life humans said and did just led to stupid decisions.

For the final time. Do it for Paddy and the Mighty Commercial Club 😇 #LastLap

Consider also the 50% capital gains tax break for assets held for more than a year. The money earned by already having money can be taxed less than money earned through actual labour. This is perverse.

breakfast is dinner, dinner is breakfast, eat what thou will shall be the whole of the law

Had this conversation a few times this past week or so. Also just let me be HAPPY about SPACE it’s so COOL!!

Just a reminder that we can fund science, and save the earth, and feed everyone, and have health care and housing too. All those things are within our reach, together.

so happy for my emotional support astronauts

Whenever I see talk about the NDIS I go back to the original Productivity Commission report and I note a pretty obvious issue in the entire construction of the scheme

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

cis women transphobes are as embarassing as they are revolting because they will declare with their whole chest “I am less capable than a man and I demand you treat me accordingly by lowering your expectations!” girl shut the fuck up there’s no gender advantage in CHESS

New #anime entry for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction, published after a large amount of work: "Akira slide". Best we have is only 2009, despite the fact that there are visual homages from very soon after the 1988 movie; we'd welcome any antedatings! sfdictionary.com/view/2900/ak...

editor: you need to rewrite me: why editor: because we need plausible characters me: whats the problem editor: You're claiming its actually possible to turn the Iranian govt and the Catholic Church into sympathetic figures within 12 months???

Yesterday, the crew of the ISS called the crew of #Artemis2 and had a short conversation in between their busy schedules of research and documentation (I promise, to a scientist, that's more fun than it sounds!) This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA

EARTHSHINE

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Me, a fool: wow the moon is really far away and they're not even there yet *existential crisis ensues*

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

Incredible

Today is a good day for a Television Without Pity nostalgia hole...because I was just watching The Pitt and thinking "I WOULD BLOODY LOVE A TWOP RECAP OF THIS".

there was a time the old heads remember when the internet existed and capitalism didn't realize what it could do to the place yet the problem is capitalism the internet used to be beautiful and can be again

Catching up on @realmsunknown.bsky.social and just coming here to wholeheartedly agree with @alicefraser.bsky.social re The Dark Tower series, I loved reading it but wish I’d never read the ending.

Already booked for the 11th, always a good time!

Taylor Swift’s fan base has only one demographic.

*adds mayo to the shopping list*

Orange vegetables are pointless and the things they are used for already have better vegetables doing them

Means-testing also makes programs cost more than they would under a universal model, because so much money gets wasted on verification, surveillance, and compliance.

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

A quick update: This is from @ksmathandmore on Instagram www.instagram.com/ksmathandmore/

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

“you know how you always wanted to be the guy who saves the day when the astronauts call houston with a problem?” “yeah?” “and you know how you hate being the guy everyone comes to when outlook is malfunctioning?” “… yeah?” “I got some good news and some bad news”

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

It was spring of 2026, the year World War 3 broke out. People began injecting themselves with the fat of corpses in order to achieve the requisite sculpted physique. Thinking was largely offset to machines, powered by the final dregs of the planet's water. Vogue pronounced it Year of the Cabbage.

Two sides of the same coin: humans are the most something (aggressive / social / naval genius / interesting to Time Lords) species in the galaxy OR humans are average / unskilled / dumb enough to destroy our own planet … particularly like plots where we’re underestimated but Save The Day

Some advice, hopefully helpful, for dealing with the end of the world.

You can't afford any properties unless you're in an IRL relationship with another player

This is so bleak - pharma economics limiting who can access a drug that could end HIV.

Pierre Riolett (French, b.1963) "Stamp Shop Dog," Oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

in 2024 cricket held its World Cup in the USA and i thought "oh cool they're trying to grow cricket in the USA" and when I covered it I realized they weren't really trying to do that, the main point was to milk as much cash as possible from wealthy Indian-Americans who already loved cricket anyway