people truly lose their minds with rage at the mere thought of teenagers and children participating in public life as members of society in any way

I just started reading the Martian to a 7 year old who is interested in space exploration and it reads exactly like diary of a wimpy kid, like I would not have guessed they weren’t written by the same person.

It’s a safe bet that any set of business needs is way more complex than anyone who’s not in it every day would guess, above all the people approving budget lines. Who will throw you SaaS that can’t remotely accommodate the complexities of what you do every day, which looks simple from the outside

Maybe Len Gutkin can write a shitty take on how Michael Kotlikoff is being silenced or something

"According to the notice... the ban comes after he “restricted a motor vehicle’s ability to maneuver while it was in motion as the reverse lights of the vehicle were illuminated … Your intentional act created a hazardous condition.” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

debut EP from New Haven sapphic ethereal heavy trad folk duo Windfucker windfucker.bandcamp.com/album/cathe-...

apparently there's a mod to remove gay marriage in skyrim like bro you're literally the only person who gets married at all in the game and if you need a mod to prevent yourself from getting gay married that says something about you

Basically the con of being a Borrower (4" tall person with normal intelligence but proportionally smaller strength) is the cats eating you. The pro is when you steal pills you can get seriously fucked up for a long time.

I am once again genuinely considering getting a bumper sticker that says I brake for pedestrians and school buses, not even to be sassy but to warn other drivers. Like, if I’m not turning right on red there’s probably a pedestrian

It is possible that Mr. E, the eponymous mysterious book from Yoshi and the Mysterious Book, is inspired at least partially by the Voynich Manuscript, a famous medieval book that seems to describe unindentifiable wondrous flora in a completely incomprehensible language.

I wish it were a thing to say “behind” when you pass behind someone in public spaces, in any situation where people are forced to be in closer proximity than the standard personal space bubble, I think it would help with the undercurrent of fear and aggression at grocery stores etc

(Explaining a Rodney Dangerfield joke to a nine year old) “it’s funny because his wife wants him to die”

I never stop being in awe of the walnut whales version of peach plum pear. When she sings “and my valentine’s gray” and I’ve never heard anything more forlorn. I’m so glad this recording exists

Going back to grad school to read Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing and Are You There God, It's Me Margaret

Decided to look this person up because I’m damaged and her top post is calling for the public execution of Francesca Albanese

Sometimes when you scratch the surface of an Instagram-poet-aesthetic tenderqueer with asinine takes on pedagogy you find someone who says “there are no Palestinian civilians [including schoolchildren],” mad props to the commenters brave enough to go to threads to check receipts

That’s the thing that always got me about Roman Polanski’s defenders, they would say “you have to understand everyone was SAing kids so it’s really unfair to single him out,” I’m barely paraphrasing here

Everyone in the Epstein emails is making a pubic statement like, “You have to understand: at the time, nobody CARED that he was raping girls!”

“One student said she responded, ‘You can’t equate sexual violence to intimacy. It’s about power,’ to which she recalled Botstein exclaiming, ‘Oh, she’s already a philosopher!’” This is how he talks to students, I’ve witnessed it. www.huffpost.com/entry/bard-c...

Jfc. “…Botstein wrote two letters to the courts in support of [Bard alum Render Stetson-Shanahan, who stabbed his roommate to death], calling him ‘a very appealing, well-mannered, well-groomed, and thoughtful person, with a very distinctive artistic talent.’”

It really is like this at Bard, the level of Botstein’s personal involvement in hiring and firing is nuts

In retrospect I’m relieved I couldn’t get a first round interview there

Just goddamn that guy loved men who are bad at thinking

My new favorite game is going through my list of public intellectuals I hate and checking for an Epstein connecting and on that note, Malcolm Gladwell is in the flight logs and he would have it that he was very confused about whose jet he was on and why

Bard College president Leon Botstein pleads ignorance in a letter to the community—by his own admission he’s playing a dirty game even leaving aside Epstein but it is a game that when played with competence involves basic prospect research and reputational risk protocols www.wamc.org/news/2026-02...

Bless the Yale Daily News for finding the most sad sack photo of David Gelernter as he is suspended from interacting with students yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

The director of the most pretentious after-school special in history is putting out AI slop because of course he is www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

David Gelernter is such a piece of shit but I really think things will go less well for him than he thinks. Hopefully he goes out like John Searle, alone and helpless (per his secretary the last years of his life were “hell”) yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

I will never forget the day I got an e-mail from someone who worked with the Boy Scouts. He listened to a podcast episode I recorded on Adventures in Odyssey and wrote to me that Mr. Whitaker checked a bunch of the red flags for a serial child predator. And I couldn't stop thinking about that.

TLDR: Jeffrey Epstein possibly sent one of the young girls he groomed and abused an article written by James Dobson. Why? Because Dobson was telling women who were abused by their dads to forgive them, of course.

I will never not share this one when it comes up

He put his hand upon the sleeper’s rear, as though feeling if it was soft enough; and then, without more ado, sat quietly down there.

sorry i’m busy

I will reskeet this as many times as it is skeeted

almost squared by the enormous superincumbent mass of the junk and sperm

white winter hymnal lap dance is such a beautiful concept…sorry but it’s true

no more posting about any of those “writing routines of famous writers” unless it’s Edmund White’s

Obscene horror ⬇️ᵇᵃᶜᵏ ᶜᵒᵛᵉʳ ⬇️

This is the energy I want to see in my discover feed

I try to be a nice person but it’s very annoying to see people in my discover feed reposting the Charlie Kirk jamming in heaven picture taking it at face value and congratulating themselves on being Very Smart and like “who’s going to tell them that Freddie Mercury was lgbtq and would hate him”

There’s a lot I dislike about the particular airport where I’m stranded but it is a legitimately excellent place to day drink. In terms of the quality of the cocktails themselves anyway

Aw the short story dispenser is out of order. It’s a nice idea though

I don’t think I’ve ever liked the way a game handles better than I like the way Mario 3 handles. Every bit as good as I remembered

Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever!

This is my favorite chapter fr

Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be 10 years old was very heaven

The blarggs especially really felt like they didn’t match anything else but it felt appropriate somehow, idk. I loved blargg levels