A Pulitzer for whoever chose the photo on this one

i stand by this statement every year

I was going to go to bed early but then I, uh, didn’t.

According to my YouTube yearly summary I’m a top 5% viewer of the channel that does “study with me in Skyrim” videos. That tracks.

15 years ago when my grandpa gave me a CD with zip files full of hundreds of pages of bread recipes from the internet I thought he was wild to save things from the internet that way. He’s been gone for years now, but I found the CD today and honestly grandpa Carlson was so right to do that.

Made it to Room 46. Blue Prince was a great game for the long holiday weekend!

Between a random Portland barista saying he wants to hurt Charlie Kirk and the President of the United States calling for the execution of Democrats, both sides clearly have a violence problem

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

AAUP: IU is not MAGA University! Faculty and students speak against the Trump Compact and abuses by the IU upper administration. Meet us on November 7 at 11 by the Herman B Wells statue to show your support. Learn more: iubaaup.org/2025/11/05/p...

One of the things they don’t tell you about transitioning is you get on T and you do start sneezing Like That

So much of "cancel culture" discourse is a re-description of the normal functioning of a democracy and public discourse by people who didn't like the results of one, or both, or how it made them feel.

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater

say what you will about leonardo dicaprio but it's crazy that he painted sixteen chapels

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

Going to see Mumford and Sons tonight. Also saw them October 2019. Forever chasing the feeling of removing the plastic on the newly released Babel deluxe edition CD and listening to it in my dorm room

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Didn’t have to make any adjustments lining up with the track at the car wash. I’ll be riding that high for days.

Heartbroken Man Realizes He Only Loved Idea Of Fried Egg On Burger https://theonion.com/heartbroken-man-realizes-he-only-loved-idea-of-fried-egg-on-burger/

Ok Taylor Swift has a new album today but so does Cheap Perfume so…

We are now also the most official looking Taco Bell account on here and I would just like to let everyone know that eating Taco Bell makes you trans

I wondered why I was still barely into Saving Time after the better part of a year but I picked it up and tried again and it’s because of The Horrors. Having to confront The Horrors in print sends me into a spiral every 5 pages or so.

Got my D&D party trying to piece together the events of a haunted keep from different fragments of text. They started to figure out today that they might be talking about two separate events. A good time had by all.

I said “where is the recent protest music?” So I went looking for it and I’m pleased to report there’s been a real boom of explicitly political music in 2025. I wonder if there’s been anything going on this year to inspire a bunch of new music?

Friendship is referring to each other’s therapist by first name

Fellow rhetoric grad students in the Midwest: I hope to see you here in Indiana for the Midwest Winter Workshop! For the low price of free (thanks to the amazing organizers and their grant writing efforts) come workshop some works in progress with grad students and faculty from around the Midwest!

The LinkedIn design and interface are just so unpleasant to use. I don’t know how people are on there every day.

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Anyway, in the same meeting we had a mock debate about different bison mascot costumes as a team building activity. The spirit of debate took over my body and I’m not sure I’ll ever live down saying our assigned mascot was “objectively hot” in front of all my colleagues.

In a meeting yesterday we were asked to consider how we can “shape AI’s ethical, innovative use.” It might’ve just been me, but I felt a real tension being drawn between “ethical” and “innovative” in the room.

legit think the two best texts for understanding modern conservatism are folding ideas' in search of a flat earth and elephant graveyard's comedy jonestown

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Remember literally three years ago, when centrist pundits claimed that the trans backlash was really just a wonky debate over the correct medical standards for children? Fast-forward to today and you have members of Congress calling for ALL trans people to be seized and held incommunicado

Despite what Klein says, he’s not trying to understand the American right. Understanding them requires being honest about their beliefs, policies and (far!) higher propensity toward violence. Pretending this is all a polite philosophical disagreement is the opposite of fostering understanding.

The way that the press has turned from mildly disapproving of fascism to actively working for it is so deeply disturbing

We got our vaccines over the weekend. It’s my WFH day anyway, but my mom is staying home too. Oh to have a home office in these situations.

and I'll add, it doesn't matter what you're wearing when you say gay people should be stoned to death, it doesn't matter what tone you use, it doesn't matter whether you smile politely, it is not "civil" in any meaningful sense to express that idea.

This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”

I feel like the last 48 hours have just been the entire world going full NYT Pitchbot. "Whether it's the people on the right saying we should shoot everyone on the left as terrorists, or the people on the left saying we should give everyone on the right health care, both sides are---"

I’ve made the mistake of ironically referring to “chat” in conversation like a Twitch streamer and now I’m worried I can’t stop

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

Unfortunately cat Geoff doesn’t understand needing to take some dissertation time on a Friday night to make up for a week largely dominated by the day job. This could only possibly be a slight against him.

The movies don't really get into it, but it's worth remembering that Denethor went crazy because he spent too much time doomscrolling on the Palantír and it cooked his brain

1997: the president was born in 1946 2007: the president was born in 1946 2017: the president was born in 1946 2027: we’ll see

Unfortunately I committed to being a guy who used a motorless/rotor lawn mower this year. Tonight all the neighbors saw that I caved and got a weed whacker. May never recover.

My friend shared something they’d heard. I said “that sounds like a please touch grass take to me,” and she said she had to look up what I meant by “touch grass” because she had never heard it before. It turns out, dear reader, that it was me who needed to touch grass all along.