I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

25 years ago yesterday ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONGING TO US www.jwz.org/blog/2026/02...

Smells like Nirvana

“If a bilLIONaire could speak we could not understand them” — Wittgenstein

in other news, please post about something else than dem primary discourse. we cannot do 2028 dem primary discourse this early. dear lord.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

All-timer wikipedia article

i don't think ted needed to say all this but it's very cool he did!

One of the best tweets of all time

unfortunately evergreen

i once confronted one of these people at a public event with direct evidence that "gender surgery for minors" isn't a thing that happens and it made no impact.

this is rage bait

proceed accordingly www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

I got all my grading done before leaving town for the central APA! Very excited to not bring my laptop with me to the conference!

passing out the handout and sitting quietly while everyone reads it for the full 20 minutes and then standing up and going 'any questions?'

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

Hey, DC, is there anything distinctive about your Lanterns that is maybe easy to visually depict? No? OK then, if you say so.

Dinosaurs are a cover story for ancient giant beings (dinosaurs)

it's 2026 and bleeding edge coding AI still randomly decides whether or not to follow your orders, and we're supposed to feel like we're missing out. if i want someone to misunderstand me on purpose i can just post on bluesky for free

If looks could ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86, I’d never look at you again

⚠️ PSA - don’t take health advice from people who snort cocaine off toilet seats. We are truly living in Idiocracy, and you can thank RFK Jr. for this outbreak.

Protip: don’t seek out the context for this post; there is not enough bleach in the world to cleanse your eyes or brain after

From Kay's perspective the Godfather is the story of a New Hampshire wasp learning that every negative Italian stereotype is true

[panera] ME: *eats bread bowl* DATE: pretty sure you’re supposed to eat the soup first

Starting a cursed discourse just to feel something

listening to audiobooks counts as reading. in some instances like historical nonfiction where the author will spend hours demonstrating how year-over-year falling grain yields caused a revolution to happen, it actually counts as reading with a 1.2x multiplier

People seem upset that this list of influential chicagoans includes a Fuentes, even though there is pretty clear anti-Fuentes tone to the summary. I do think he is influential (it’s bad but it is also true)

Flintstones truthers abound

What do we think about the assertion in this meme? I know, we think it's asinine, but I'm looking for specific arguments as to why it's asinine.

Remember to water your kobo daily

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

The Republican Party presents a greater threat to America's stability and prosperity than Al-Qaeda. As such, we need a similar reorganization of our federal government to the one we undertook after 9/11.

Neither (they are paying for my dinner, I don’t really care how they do it). If we were splitting the bill and their contribution was a 50% off coupon, that would be wacky though

Never underestimate marbles

Originality is adapting a book instead of remaking a movie

Nancy 2/11/26 🩷

Well his name isn't Thomas Readerton

Physically incapable of analyzing politics outside of this insipid frame. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 15,1950

scott joplin my goat

🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities. As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

In honor of Liz bruenig being back in the discourse, let me just say the most difficult discourse characters to navigate are the people who do in fact suck that a substantial number of people online are genuinely weird about. Stay safe out there

liz bruenig? the fiction writer?

Take a wild guess on who congratulated Olivia Nuzzi on Instagram when she was made Vanity Fair West Coast editor.

So much for better angels

if there’s one thing I know about the Scots & Irish it’s that they love it when outsiders identify them with the English