Only person on this list I have known and worked for personally is Dr. Lee and all I have to say is simultaneously “what a fucking disappointment” and “only a little surprised.” I know those sound contradictory but so is most internal reasoning so.

Keith Olberman’s Wikipedia “Personal Life” section seems like it could use some updating. Just tossing that out there.

I'm sure it's just coincidence that Marisa keeps breaking these stories and then when the major outlets cover it hours or days later they don't link to her.

I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice

In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile. It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵

This year's Giving Tuesday theme is "Pay for Things Our Government Refuses to Fund"

Ms. Thériault once again hooks me with a topic that otherwise wouldn’t cross my mind because it’s not a prior interest. But Anne is just such a *writer* that I was all in after paragraph one—and so you will be, and you’ll be entertained as well.

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

The original "Planet of the Apes" is a Christmas movie. In the first ten minutes alone it has like 2,000 Christmases.

Very confusing, in that (a) Norway is not part of the European Union and (b) it is actually one of the few oil-producing countries in Europe.

Listen, if American Darling Costco, can get political, so can you. Extreme times call for us to step outside of our comfort zones.

Sigh. So, scabies has been around since before Aristotle. It is not a “medieval” disease and this rhetoric contributes to the idea that the Middle Ages was unclean. The Roman physician Celsus is the 1 who named it—from the Latin scabere (“to itch”). Stop making the Middle Ages into a backward period

FYI: Nathan Rabin needs your love and appreciation right now. He was in a very significant car crash earlier this week and is in the hospital recovering. (His family was also in the car, they’re fine, but he got the brunt of the injuries.) Now’s a good time to support him: www.nathanrabin.com

The reason people don't like conservative students is that whenever they're inconvenienced or annoyed they throw a tantrum and call in national media to terrorize their peers.

Shut up, Bono.

ESPN app is exactly as bad as it has been since the day it debuted. They designed an app almost twenty years ago, made platform-necessary and aesthetic upgrades, and just gave up.

I shit on my PhD: The last decade has essentially falsified the dominant paradigms in my fields of study and now my degree (and those I taught) is almost worthless from a content and theoretical (if not methodological) standpoint. Someone else shits on my PhD: COME AT ME BITCH

Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback. www.reuters.com/investigates...

Happy Victory for US Arms and Down With Treasonous Slavers Day!

The idea that Biden's health wasn't being covered prior to the debate is one of the most shameless pieces of revisionist history I can remember. It had been one of the dominant topics of conversation for months. I was there, I remember it.

@sarahebond.bsky.social Really sad you deleted that parade post so I couldn’t facetiously grudge you for being at a “fancy” school with HDMI ports instead of needing an HDMI-to-DVI-to-VGA adapter. (Actual thing that I had to do at my local CC).

So glad to hear the Cash Estate is suing Meta over that ad. Zuck you fuckers. Happy Thanksgiving!

Scientists have a point!

There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8

can anyone who understands finance lingo tell me if this is a good or bad sign??

Gender-affirming care saves lives

Well, shit. I didn’t even hear about this one. Not sure how to handle this as I’m making over my dad’s house to put on the market. The nearest Lowe’s is an extra 25 minutes away and the big box stores killed all the local appliance and hardware shops.

Robinson/McLargeHuge 2028

As your President, I'll make this day a federal holiday & give Joel Hodgeson the Presidental Medal of Freedom.

Disheartened about BS posts fighting Nazi/related challenges linking to Substacks. I get Substack is easier to monetize + you need to eat, but you’re also feeding Nazis. Stop feeding the Nazis! There are other choices. They pay too. Your Stop Supporting Nazis blog has no moral import on Substack.

A reminder to leave Twitter. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/goodbye-tw...

Worst smackdown of Syracuse since Marcellus

BUS RIDES IN CITES SHOULD BE FREE.

HEY KIDS! This is a thing that I feel very uncomfortable about but: (a) I am currently unemployed, (b) I do pay for WordPress, and (c) I put a lot of time and effort into this blog and I think people enjoy what I create? So, if you agree, and if you are able, I would really appreciate the support.

Dear middle aged-men (and also some women): someone isn’t necessarily good at something just because you want them to fuck you.

An entire argument dismantled in two words.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution. In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

That’s my senator

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

Me: Arrrgh! *flexes muscles* 6yo: Dad, you barely have any aura.

What’s your sign?

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Some personal news: I wrote a picture book for kids! It’s about a quirky pup and his journey to find his forever home. If you need a great holiday gift for kids you love and want to support an independent author, this fits the bill! www.kristinhansonwrites.com/book

It’s great and you should get it for the holidays.

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...