Nowadays the voice tells you that Guys are Not Supposed to Read

Ted Cruz looking forward to being only the second creepiest US Senator from Texas.

I think websites have just generally gotten worse. It's getting impossible to pay some of my bills online because I just get trapped in circles that don't take me where I need to go.

The key advantage of Chicago is that it's so big the rest of the state can't screw with it as much.

Hunter Biden on Candace Owens. Did not see that one coming.

#RIPBarneyFrank A mixed bag, but, on the whole, positive.

Since everyone else is doing this. findmypolitics.com?e=-47&so=-59...

A big problem with Woke I was the obsession with "feeling safe" rather than "being safe."

Lots of scary things happening now, but this tops my list.

Boy the VA Dems sure went from "real Democratic fighters" to "buncha wimps who just roll over and take it" in record time.

Miscellaneous thoughts on the post-Callais environment: 1. The last week has really driven home the fact that Virginia is no longer a Southern state politically. Welcome to the Northeast, Cavaliers!

Interesting that I'm seeing used bookstores push Harry Potter books as "guilt free" (presumably since Rowling doesn't profit from used books). Can't think of a precedent for this.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and people who wish they could be out there!

I still think the Dems will win a clear popular vote victory and House control in November, but a blue tsunami in terms of seats is receding.

With Tegan on this one.

#RIPTedTurner A reminder of the days when billionaires seemed like normal people with a lot of money.

I have been to the Tune Inn many times, and nobody wants to interview me about Platner.

This bore fruit pretty immediately (kinda, it's more retroactive lol). New story! From @williameburns.bsky.social sherdenpact.neocities.org/GuestPostTra... - more on how the academic job market works in the Sanguinary Utnapishtim. I know what yinz really come to Warhammer 40k for.

With the legalization of gerrymandering and the 2030 census, we could be looking at a long, long period of Republican rule in the 30s.

Harris running as the Dem nominee would be interesting because it would be a very straightforward "Are you willing to admit you were wrong four years ago" election.

CJ Cherryh has announced retirement, everyone, raise your cups to a legend of the game. Thank you for your service www.facebook.com/groups/Balti...

Today I learned that J G A Pocock wrote an essay on Tom Bombadil: arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/intellectual...

Bluesky, the only social media site Iran fears.

15 down, 33 to go.

Has anybody talked to the people who used to write papers for undergraduates about what its like to be made obsolescent by AI?

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, and the laughter of thirsting gods.

So basically "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone"?

I'm not quite as optimistic about Hungary as a lot of people are on here because I fear that the Magyar government is going to be really unpopular, not because of anything they do but because they'll be blamed by Hungarians for the coming economic collapse.

Orban lost by such a high percentage he is now Loser Roral.

At least, when talking about the sixteenth-century Portuguese empire in my world history class, I won't have to spend much time establishing the importance of the Strait of Hormuz.

Name Four Non-Person Things that Make your Life Livable: 1. Pizza 2. History Books 3. My ability to memorize poetry 4. Long rides on public transportation when I can read

The Artemis II project was very impressive, but it feels like the opening scene in a book about the decline and fall of American science.

South Carolina Dems--all powerful in March, completely irrelevant in November.

5 books I've read and loved I sometimes feel no one else has: The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum Sheba by Walter Crane Water! by Gael Baudino Science and Polity in France: The End of the Old Regime by Gillispie Orley Farm by Trollope

The success of Iranian resistance to this point is evidence against the Israeli/American theory of decapitation. Turns out killing the top guys isn't necessarily that effective.

The liberal perception of Catholicism is interesting. Over a millennium of repression and being a handmaiden to imperialism, culminating in widespread coverups of institutional pedophilia, wiped off the board by a Pope saying a few liberal things.

Possibility that furious anti-incumbent voting caused by Iran war fuel crisis and economic collapse results in a hard right Europe (with the exception of liberal Italy) facing a liberal US.

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Friendship Heights” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

My Music? Roxy.

#RIPSamKieth. No one ever mistook his work for anyone else's.

14 down, 34 to go.

Today is the day in honor of one of Britain's greatest sons, Patrick.

I think people are really underestimating the possibility that the SAVE act passes. When what you're relying on is the power of Republican politicians to stand up to Donald Trump, you are truly building a house upon Jello.

Ruth Rendell Diana Wynne Jones CJ Cherryh Elizabeth Hand George Eliot Charlie Jane Anders Jean Stafford Andre Norton Gail Simone Naomi Kanakia Margaret Jacob

The Israelis know what they want and the Americans are dropping bombs in the hope something turns up.

The Monarchist in Spite of Himself; or, How did Things go in Russia after 1917?

Five women authors by whom I've read more than five books Ruth Rendell George Eliot Elizabeth Hand Andre Norton Diana Wynne Jones

13 down, 35 to go.

Tlaib/Shapiro

Alternate universe where people read Thucydides and conclude Sparta won the Peloponnesian war through superior coalition management and all the Sparta bros want an increase in the State Department budget.