SHITPOST GAME: scroll bluesky until you get mad. instead of responding, roll a d6 and do the corresponding action: 1-2: X # of pushups 3-4: 5X # of squats 5-6: 2X # of mountain climbers X is the number of times you have gotten mad repeat until you are sick of bluesky

Me on January 1st 2025 vs. me on December 31st 2025. It’s been a long year.

They killed half a million kids in a year. I just can’t really stomach it. And they both mostly are getting a pass on it.

It's also worth noting here that the *minimum* salary for these ICE positions is $52,205. While the *median* salaries for childcare workers and home health aides are less than $35,000 per year.

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Gonna assume it was “Allow it to be taken over by a Private Equity firm.”

In the upside-down world we live in, a critic of genocide is sanctioned by a university for speaking the truth about universities when in fact it should be the university that faces sanction for such a heinous form of complicity.

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

Man, I left Harvard during my contract because of their anti-Palestinian racism and no one gave me big ups like this from the establishment.

“PhD-level intelligence” they said

Pass it on! Tenured, associate professor position in Black and Latinx Studies--reopened until Jan 5. Includes research budget, summer salary, great program, colleagues, students in NYC. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

I like this because the implication that there wouldn't be 4000 daycares in an area with a population of roughly 2 million people

Imposing sanctions on states like we do enemy countries.

Did you know? Last year, Minnesota eliminated prison gerrymandering. The law, signed by Tim Walz in the spring, ended the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state.

The thing that remains confusing to me about this MTG discourse is that SHE HERSELF IS NOT FUCKING ASKING FOR INCLUSION IN YOUR IMAGINARY TENT WHICH ACTUALLY DOESN'T EVEN EXIST FOR MOST PEOPLE ON HERE BEYOND VOTING. 😂 sorry for the caps.

We are ALL going to have to learn how to talk through *tactical* disagreements without assuming the other person is an asshole or a fascist or incompetent

The unstated thing that’s in the air on here today is that 2026 is an election year and everyone’s anxiety about that is going to be on full display complete with people saying and doing things to folks that probably don’t quite deserve it because of tactical disagreements

The Daily Caller called me "demonic" today for sending out this holiday card. 💅 😈 bsky.app/profile/jess...

In which Rogers Brubaker, Marion Fourcade & @kjhealy.co comment and Greta Krippner and I reply. Read if you like getting into the theoretical and technical weeds of the relationship between categorization, quantification, and different imaginaries of the relationship between variables and persons.

An exchange in TSI on Greta Krippner and @asociologist.bsky.social’s paper “The Person and the Category”, about insurance scores and classes, with a comment from Rogers Brubaker, one from Marion Fourcade & myself, and a reply. (Bonus tech thumbnail of guy being horrifically blinded by his screen.)

jobs at SFU 2 postings, Geography - Assistant Prof (Landscape Ecology // Urban Geography/Climate Crisis) Applications will be reviewed as they are received until the position is filled, with priority given to completed applications received prior to February 2, 2026. csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

Yeah this is a good point - it's very small numbers of people as a portion of the country which is great, except for some reason our media and political class have decided that they are objectively the most important segment of the electorate and must be appeased at all costs.

Somehow I am skeptical that this plan is going to work: nationalpost.com/opinion/new-...

Imagine being a higher ed PR department and instead of just paying for AI marketing slop, you hire a third party to make AI marketing slop for you. You’re imagining all universities right now.

Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.

The “fun” thing about the kennedy center freakout is that conservatives have been carving out “creative” exceptions to anti discrimination laws so they can be bigots to ordinary people just trying to make a purchase, but if actual artists don’t want to perform for the god king they must be punished

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I thought about retiring my Constitutional Interpretation class for undergrads because it was irritating for me to teach in this current environment. But I've decided to continue to teach the historic/political context from which originalism arises as Serwer indicates. The students need to know.

There was a liberal court for a few years in the mid 20th century and the right wing response was to delegitimize for DECADES right up to the point they had a supermajority, at which point it became Wrong to do so. These people think you are stupid bsky.app/profile/chri...

We are, as @radleybalko.bsky.social reports here, “in the throes of an administration that believes it can kill on demand, regardless of domestic or international law, and feels no obligation to justify its decision to do so to Congress, the courts, or the public.” newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Most "catching a student using AI" comes down to student confessions. So, in essence, we're just catching the (more) honest and hapless. bsky.app/profile/5h09...

It’s a win. A frustrating one, but definitely a win. Pushing back matters. They can’t just doing anything they want.

Lost science: “I can’t imagine something more related to the E.P.A.’s mission than understanding wildfires and protecting people in their homes…This is the kind of research that can have direct and immediate impact — not 10 or 20 years in the future, but this year, when the next wildfire hits.”

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

I grew up with d&d so the idea of different types of evil fighting against each other while still being evil is pretty intuitive.

Our pop stars continue to be both more accountable and more responsive to feedback than the editorial board of the New York Times

Energy transition: facing a massive electrician shortage Data centre industry: look how many electricians we're employing we are doing this all wrong.... www.bloomberg.com/news/article... www.today.com/video/how-th...

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I appreciate the forthright acknowledgement of the mistake from the author, and look forward to decisive action by @princetonupress.bsky.social to correct this error, and any others, that made it past their robust editorial process.

-Eternal life guy announces he is only consuming AI generated food. -Supreme Court reverses birthright citizenship, but later pretends it didn’t, and functionally reverses itself on the shadow docket. -He has a major health event of some kind. -MTG and Newsom both announce presidential runs.

What are your 2026 predictions?

This is slavery.

Mamdani will be sworn in in the station that inspired the Turtles lair in TMNT 2: The Secret Of The Ooze

“Good jobs” are a matter of political economy not an inherent feature of tasks. Factory work was miserable (“Satanic mills”!) before unions, OSHA, and the like (temporarily) turned it into a safer, middle class form of employment in the US. Home health aide is no more or less inherently a bad job.

US citizens don't want home healthcare jobs. Not because they don't care about the elderly. But because the jobs are underpaid, overworked, and exploitative. Take Sylvia, a mom I interviewed who took a home healthcare job because it was her only option, then left it as soon as she could. 1/🧵

Ok all sarcasm aside, what these white supremacists are really talking about is when they are asked to apologize for doing racist things. Which happens. Because racism is something to apologize for. What they are saying is that no one should have to apologize for racist actions or statements.

“Rather than dismantling the excesses of the woke era, the new Trump-friendly programs and policies simply repurposed them to serve a different ideological agenda. The result is a new orthodoxy even more stifling than the last.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

Congrats to Rian Johnson on what has to be the most elaborate Rickroll ever.

Along with the racist fake grievance of "apologizing for being white," there's also the fact that a bunch of white folks seem to believe (and/or are willing to suggest) that even acknowledging systemic advantages they get for being white is the equivalent of being "forced to apologize."