i love that people are posting their PTA rankings without numbers because i can't tell if they're going 1 to 10 or 10 to 1 but either way i'm nodding and thinking "yes that's probably correct" at each list

a cousin is sharing a story about a lawn darts mishap on FB, and I should never have to validate my normie street cred again.

it might help to figure out what Vance supporters see in Vance now, rather than after the fact four years from now. we supposedly have the empathy, do we not? my guess is that she hears the deliberately narrow-minded sneers as resolve.

really do not like the medicalization of willpower. a viral tweet is claiming it's a matter of dopamine regulation, and that's just incorrect. there are hundreds of millions of people in the US whose dopamine regulation is just fine, and are still a bunch of weak-willed windsocks.

TFW you're reading an already horny time travel book and whoops there's a passage where the oldest man in the galaxy is fingering his hot mom in Music Man-era Kansas City and the thing was written forty years before AO3

oh he left Usenet when people who knew *actual* history showed up

It’s 3 Tishrei which means it’s my birthday, Hebrew calendar edition, and something you can do to celebrate me is give money to help people in Gaza and Sudan. GAZA: donate.wck.org/give/525879/... SUDAN: sapa-usa.org/sudan-war-cr...

a generation raised on dunking strangers for lulz thinks there's something toxic about meme culture that's inspiring assassinations? yes there is but not in the way you think

I'm old enough to remember a constellation of popular science magazines. not sure how the form would be resurrected.

using his PNAS hall pass like Harlan Ellison used lawsuits

why is my feed filled with downwardly mobile trustafarians who think Imperial Japan was any sort of victim?

huh. I get Marcus Aurelius -- "first principles, Clarice" -- but I've missed the Alan Watts resurgence. I'm gonna guess this is a mirror-reverse Calvinism.

so, the Chotiner love is a desire for the teacher to show up the pretentious older student? something like that? I'm a high school dropout, someone help me out here.

It finally hit me. This woman snarkily told me that she likes advice because other people’s mistakes helps her not repeat them. And it dawned on me that yeah that is what reading does too but without the annoying navel-gazing from strangers. Then I was like ohhhhhh you don’t read a lot.

historical murder podcast having to inform itself that "teamster" meant someone who drove a team of horses, not a union member or a trucker

serious question: was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson more or less racist than Stephen Miller?

did Disney want to drop Kimmel because of the secular decline in late-night talk show ratings and seized upon a mild joke as an excuse to curry favor with a regime that views it (correctly) as an ideological competitor and had it backfire like a duck with a shotgun in a Warner Brothers cartoon?

hey what happened to all the fevered speculation about that Mormon kid who wasn't a trans Mossad assassin? did everyone finally ejaculate? you'll forget about this Charlie Mason dude with the weird face too.

sold out so that decision is taken away from me

looks like Cass Sunstein was trying to nudge you people away from your BlueSky habit

why was I reading about the movie CAROL last night? good movie btw. my night self leaves a browser history that my day self, er, I have to decode, and often I never do figure it out.

Lady Iowa's tribute to the troops who put down the slaver's rebellion. it's right there in the epigraph. imagine if they had hanged Jeff Davis.

Roman J. Israel guy on the A train wearing a Prince Hall Affiliated baseball cap sitting next to a Philip Seymour Hoffman character if PSH were a curly redhead

oh God that slave collar rumor is true isn't it

Providence and Worcester! all the poseur yuppies who claim they LOVE railroads and I don't see you sitting on this bench 10 yards from a hundred-car freight train

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

back from the Rapture. not my thing. a lot more sex than I thought tho

After 10 minutes with Trump, Putin really had to be wondering how his side lost the Cold War.

pregnant Singularity cultists taking megadoses of Tylenol so their children will be born with superpowers and frying their livers in the process

the Manafort texts aren't online any more but "pimping one's brain-damaged spouse" is considered acceptable practice among GOP political class swingers I don't care if you fuck randos in a room with a free buffet. I went to Madison. stuff that goes out of its way to break consent? burn it down.

This will make sense to about 10 people, and 5 of them are in nursing homes, but the other 5 are all here on Bluesky

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

oh there's going to be a death toll let's not fool ourselves here

This approximately 15m-long fossil tree trunk from the Angeac-Charente bonebed of Early Cretaceous France is insane. #paleontology #paleobotany #botany

durian mentioned in a commercial during a Packers game okay new Culver's flavor soon

college football ad of John Turturro ranting in my wife's old loft okay

Colonel Sanders as some sort of substitutionary atonement food deity sure why not

the Chayefsky mention on my feed reminded me of Norbert Leo Butz's excellent portrayal of him in FOSSE/VERDON, which in turn reminded me of this

Bill Brayshaw, a former policeman, found fame as the dozing art gallery attendant after Harry Rutherford's portrait of him was used as the front cover of the magazine 'John Bull' in 1947. Walter Sickert later said Rutherford was his 'intellectual heir and executor.'

A transaction cost analysis of military and diplomatic history would be epic.

TikTok Rapture is coming September 23rd the heavenly host is going to select the 144 thousand top TikTok content creators and translate them directly to the afterlife, which is not a detention center in Xinjiang, and we will never see them again on this mortal coil

oh lord. 1) the medium is the message. set aside the content: *why* are people developing their life opinions through semi-professional short video? 2) you, piece of yuppie scum on BlueSky. why do *you* get your life opinions through fortune cookie messages from mentally ill strangers?

Just saw a t-shirt that said "Harvard, UW-Platteville of the East." But I don't think Harvard has ever had a School of Mines.

It was indeed lit (video taken by the still not on bsky Eric Nehm)

Steve Harvey has more of an audience anyway

FB showing me stories about the old Italian-American neighborhood that the progressive bastion of Madison destroyed because you know those people: unassimilable and prone to crime even if they have good restaurants.

obviously i know 100% why they didn't put jar jar in disney's ANDOR but at the same time i NEED to know what jar jar is up to during the events of disney's ANDOR

I guess Matt having that torrid affair with a robot has really expanded Liz's horizons

Make sure to wish a librarian a happy Gerald Ford Trapped in The Penn Library Elevator Day.