Another point about JKR and the Harry Potter series that sticks with me - everyone already knows the story! It's not new! It's another iteration of the same thing! You're actively supporting real-world pain just because you want someone to retell you a children's story one more time!

What does a bubble sound like as it's about to pop

If there's a moral victory in indoor soccer, it's when your team of plucky U12 kids takes what's probably a club team all the way to penalty kicks, utterly freaking them out. No underdog heroic ending, but our kids had other teams rooting them on and can feel confident going into the spring

Back from "Project Hail Mary". "The Martian" was a love letter to STEM in both the book and the movie. "Hail Mary" is an extreme love letter to STEM in the book, and the movie is far from that. Still solid but a very different experience.

I don't know what based means but I assume it's something like the opposite of acidic

Found an Irish song this week that's perfectly solid, and then came across this animated video that elevates the song on a bunch of levels, and anyway this is what I've been playing on repeat all week www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwrM...

Looks like the rabbits killed two of our trees by stripping the bark all the way around. A lot of snow and long-lasting cold led them to kill the trees right as they started giving honeycrisp. Arrgh

Jesus, I paid $500 to our artist for the cover of our ChemE comic and I'm just a non-tenure-track professor, Marvel and DC should absolutely be doing better than that

Northeastern's commencement speaker this year will be Hillary Duff? After a run of business CEOs of this and that, I'm looking forward to this one, but I'd also love to know what the decision process was. A selection so far out of left field, it's several ballparks over.

I decided not to care about NCAA basketball this year because I was so sick of sports betting ads on everything, but if Duke is eliminated by a 16th seed in the first round, I will be so 100% back in for 10 glorious minutes

If you're going to provide someone with feedback on something and the feedback is pretty clearly generated by AI, what you're really saying is that your own insight is worthless and we shouldn't bother viewing your perspective with any respect.

If you're going to provide someone with feedback on something and the feedback is pretty clearly generated by AI, what you're really saying is that your own insight is worthless and we shouldn't bother viewing your perspective with any respect.

Venezuela showing it's almost like joy is a better tactic than bitter anger

ME: Wait, where's the green you wore today, kiddo? TEN-YEAR-OLD: I have toe fungus that's green.

Convert the strait into an underwater Mario level, then you just have to worry about those dang squids

Another year in which I didn't win an Oscar but I won a Felix

(opens up Dungeon Crawler Carl #1 e-book) "Well, I guess I'll see if I can see what so many people are into about this." (7 hours later, finishing the book and immediately putting in a library hold for book #2) "Yeah, well, hmmm, not sure"

From a professor's perspective, Northeastern's expansion has made it a very different institution than it was 30 years ago. Once a commuter school, now campuses everywhere, and you may not meet those new students on the Boston campus for a semester or a year because they start elsewhere.

I love comics, I love people that love comics, I love that I can talk to @cathygjohn.bsky.social for an hour and we both want to do research with comics, the world is simply better with comics and people who love comics

There are 8 op-ed articles on the NYT's homepage right now. 7 were published either today or yesterday, and the 8th is Jesse Singal's discredited piece from SIXTEEN DAYS AGO. The NYT has an anti-trans agenda and they want to make sure you know it, too.

Today was March 11th, I hope the color of your energy was amber today

Iran's sports minister: “If any other country were to host the World Cup and did even one-thousandth of what they did, the international community would definitely take action and take the hosting rights away from that country.” He's absolutely correct! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

Cannonball's solo got first place in her dance competition, and Torpedo played very well in her soccer game, so I'm just one proud dad tonight

True Art

Took me way too long to realize the numbers are page numbers, and not the age you are at that stage of life

Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Priorities, priorities

The world is bad and a certain government in particular is awful, but Cannonball placed third today in her first ever competitive dance solo, and Torpedo's team won their first indoor soccer game this season, so everything is bad but there were some nice moments today, for us, at least

I remain ever thankful that I switched into Mr. Curry's "America Since 1941" elective a month late in my last semester in high school

Well...

If anyone in a position of power actually ever stood up to these monsters. Anyone.

New thing will not be new STW but will certainly have elements of it. Students are helping me and they seem very excited about it as well!

I love when people's favorite examples of creative work are ones that the creator appreciates but would never have come up with themselves as their top works. It speaks to something about the human connection on both sides of creative work, something that soulless AI-generation can never understand.

Cleared out the space in front of it for the first time in 8 years. We're gonna do a thing.

Persist against all odds

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

So many people whining about a giant snowstorm. Hey, the planet is being heated up by humans at a rate that snow will soon feel like a distant memory, so I'm sorry if you just want spring already, but give me something now to balance out the 90-100 degree months around the corner

Honestly don't think it's even a competition, there's nothing like hockey

Sudden death overtime, whichever team wins gets Maine

I love baseball, I love soccer... but every time I watch a game, I'm re-convinced that hockey is unquestionably the best sport

Juggling the puck down the ice to score the first goal is remarkably impressive

basically how many inches long I used to need to eat back in high school per meal of grinder sandwiches

I should really clear out the space in the basement in front of the chalkboard to be ready to teach Monday's classes remotely

... I just realized this reviewer's feedback on my paper is likely entirely AI-generated, and that's why some of it makes no sense. What a good use of my time.

"There's nothing in the rulebooks that says a flying squirrel can't ski jump!"

(I am likely the only professor who believes this, but advising students is service and mentoring research students is research, neither of them are teaching)

Have some STW valentines

I asked a couple students today if they knew what "Solyent Green" was and they had never heard the term before

The AI bubble cannot burst fast enough. The number of dumb emails I receive and the number of useless university meetings I have to attend would both drop by 50%