Esmé (5 y/o): theres a phone that can flip open! me: yeah, phones used to be like that. Esmé: I REALLY REALLY want phones to be like that again. a basketball player has one... IN. A. COMMERCIAL!

who owns the y-100 sonic sessions? they should be on, like, apple music etc. i long for those versions sometimes.

students at Jax State: brother of Bo Nix, son of Big Poppa Pump, son of Sarah Thomas (first female NFL official), person with most running yards in all of NCAA football.

One of the cool things about watching this Jax State game on ESPN has been how many different names of Jax State players I have heard. like obviously I keep hearing Cam Cook, but so many other players have are good plays too.

There are many ways to hear the voices calling to us from ravaged Gaza & WB. This is one very immediate & powerful way. These 32 poets speak to us of love,dream,fear,memory, beauty--of the sea & of beloved lost ones.Listen to them.Share their voices. Bilingual edition.Brilliant. Wherever u buy books

wild end to the Jax State/Kennesaw State first half!!! go gamecocks.

Now is the time to prepare to not set your house on fire this Thanksgiving.

Alright Caleb Nix!

they call you a ‘fearless warrior for truth’ when you defend a pedophile president for getting with 15 years olds now

Alright Jax State! We are up 14-10.

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

just used the term DPI and a *man* told me not to be so technical with him and—

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Colorado School of Mimes?

fun fact speaking "roll tide" into your comcast remote control takes you to bama football

HE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HEALTH INSURANCE IS

"don't admire the problem--solve it." -Kate on THE DIPLOMAT

Honestly have no idea what some people get out of using AI for writing. Just had all the parts of a story idea click into place and it’s such a satisfying feeling. Why the hell would anyone want to outsource creativity?

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

Jim Ryan's letter is not just surreal and troubling; it provides a series of deeply sobering lessons—about the perils facing public universities today; about what it means to "work with" this Department of Justice; & about what leadership does (and doesn't) entail at this especially fraught moment.

you forgot axolotl.

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I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD. Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

“ended up”?!?!!!?? A powerful man groomed and raped a young girl BECAUSE she was vulnerable. BECAUSE institutions protect men like him over girls like her. This is beyond shameful to post. Disgusting.

Reminder: Being poor does not make you immoral. Missing teeth, illiteracy, drug use, does not make you immoral. Nuerodivergence & mental health issues do not make you immoral. Being a sexist, racist, violent fascist does! Hope this helps with your messaging about current events!

Stop lying to people.

Journalists, researchers: I've started building a more organized corpus of the Epstein Estate Documents "Seventh Production" from November 11 for you. Multi-page docs are merged to single PDFs (OCR text merged too). iMessages extracted to transcripts. And more is coming. github.com/spdustin/eps...

This is in the category of the "make up a lie about nature and title a poem with the lie and write a poem that follows/enforces the lie" prompt I give my students sometimes.

hive mind: design theory on the concept of the page, the concept of a paragraph, the concept of a line break? on the existence of the physical relationship between text and the containers we are forced to fit the texts in?

Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”

We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟

"O if I am to have so much, let me have more!" - Walt Whitman

if there is going to be football almost every night can there just be football every night. just once baseball ends. k thanks.

god i love THE AMBASSADOR. i’m on ep five of the new season.

It's John Brown day in my American Lit 1 class!

I hate to overload this intrepid reporter but... a perfect time to tell your story.

That’s the first FG anyone ever missed against the Eagles, per Elias #FlyEaglesFly

oh thank goodness. the football gods have blessed me.

omg this is a circus.

Baby, nobody is ever sure what’s going through Nick Sirianni’s mind.

i’ve never been more mad at a team i don’t hate in my life.

i am really tired and also i have been up for…. 20+ hours and this feels like a Personal Affront.

lol of course the game comes down to a fourth and one.

buck: what’s kevin patullo gonna dial up here? me: getting… fired? spoiler alert: it was a first down, so i was wrong. this time.

can we not run it up the middle anymore. please. i beg of you.

Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

Need to run some time off and get some points here. -dads

guys, i have been up since 2am i can’t handle this can it be 3-0 again with no sign of anyone scoring ever.

I couldn’t have asked for better timing on this! l @lollardfish.bsky.social @kimannjosouth.bsky.social