It's all so tacky, of course, but intrepid people have sourced these doo-dads & apart from the picture frames, it seems to be all molded gold plastic that costs $13.99 from shops like Blings Я Us, which I love because a) HE can't tell the difference; and b) its only permanence is in landfills.

10/10 NO NOTES

Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)... hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

UPDATE: We have added more entries to this list of Utah restaurants and other businesses offering free meals to those in need.

I like to think it says "The Presidential Walk of Shame." It should say that, for a thousand reasons, not least of which is that he's decorating the place with hotel wedding signage.

Useful also when thinking about budgets.

At "Why major/minor in English?" event last night, 4 current majors were eloquent, charming, incisive & practical about why this study matters so much to them personally now & how they're getting incredible internships & insights about its value to their futures. The humanities matter y'all. #HeyMac

Inspector: “oh the crickets probably ate any mold that was here.” You know what, sir? I cannot deal walk this. I have workplaces to go ruin. This is too much.

At "Why major/minor in English?" event last night, 4 current majors were eloquent, charming, incisive & practical about why this study matters so much to them personally now & how they're getting incredible internships & insights about its value to their futures. The humanities matter y'all. #HeyMac

Children are starving at home (SNAP) & abroad (USAID), hub airports are being forced to cut 10% cut of traffic two weeks before Thanksgiving (aka the busiest US travel week of the year), and masked goons are kidnapping US citizens & driving off with their cars and toddlers. Are we great enough yet?

I give up. The @nytimes.com has no shame and almost no integrity.

Brilliant. Should be a model everywhere

even the FBI under Patel can't keep a lid on this

If every Democratic candidate were full of joyous energy, worked hard to listen to their constituents, could articulate the big-picture needs of their district, and focused more on coalition building around common issues rather than trying to invent a watered-down "middle," they'd be unstoppable.

If every Democratic candidate were full of joyous energy, worked hard to listen to their constituents, could articulate the big-picture needs of their district, and focused more on coalition building around common issues rather than trying to invent a watered-down "middle," they'd be unstoppable.

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

The way to ensure independent/non-oligarchic media is to really support it. Not just by posting about the latest round of layoffs and consolidation. Before and apart from that happening.

Yeah with the latest news about Teen Vogue even more relevant

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.

It's perfect porch-desk weather, except that the street sweepers are picking up fall leaves and the spiders are building webs, and every is so interesting that it's hard to concentrate on work.

If we were a Republic functioning as intended with separation of powers, checks & balances, House Oversight would be conducting an investigation into the Zhao pardon that Trump doesn’t remember, his involvement with Trump’s crypto company, & the foreign investors. But we aren’t.

petition to return to black-and-white portraits with 1930s lighting for all faculty photos from now on

Feeling glum about the world? In need of some writerly brilliance abt classic film? Read this by @noragilbert.bsky.social "This is the part of the 'gaslighting' origin story that people who haven’t watched Gaslight don’t tend to know about: the part of the story where the gaslit victim pushes back."

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

If your newspaper is giving Donald Trump softer headlines and gauzier coverage than People Magazine, that should be a bit of a wake up call.

Healthcare but only for my friends

Our dept has Weds eve programming for majors/minors & students have requested a read-aloud for Dec (think: cozy, w/ tea, cookies, &c). I have a few ideas for what I might read, but I'm hoping for suggestions. What's your fave short story, Victorian or otherwise, that would be great in this setting?

Our dept has Weds eve programming for majors/minors & students have requested a read-aloud for Dec (think: cozy, w/ tea, cookies, &c). I have a few ideas for what I might read, but I'm hoping for suggestions. What's your fave short story, Victorian or otherwise, that would be great in this setting?

If you’re ok with vouchers being used for ski trips or piano lessons but not ok with SNAP benefits being used for pizza or cupcakes, it’s not the use of public money you have a problem with. It’s that you think wealthy people deserve perks and poor people deserve to be poor.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

This whole thread is one person after another with completely untenable insurance costs. Meanwhile: gold ballroom, tax breaks for billionaires, FBI jets for personal weekends away, and a govt that's refusing to reopen because that would mean seating someone who will tip votes to try to make change.

Yeah I kind of think "they're robbing us blind while we're using hamburger helper" has legs in '26

I did it bsky.app/profile/sara...

BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.

Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving: $100 billion Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%: $100 billion One is decried as "welfare." One is not. Why?

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I just found two fully graded papers buried in the middle of the stack of to-be-graded ones. And if you don't understand why this is 100% better than the best Christmas present ever, you've never been an academic in late October. 🎉

This is really extraordinary: the Python Software Foundation was offered a $1.5MM grant from NSF -- the largest in the organization's history -- but would have required them to drop their commitment to DEI. They refused. Well done, folks.

Do not be a doomer about this. Just call your New York friends and remind them to vote, and tell them to do the same. He is more popular and will win with good turnout.

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

"Costumes optional" means that costumes are permitted. Counsel has a chance to do something legendary is what I am saying.

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“They’ve got money for ICE and golden ballrooms but not for hungry families” is so easy it’s almost funny

How it started, how it's going. It's been many weekends of intermittent work (& swearing), punctuated by the astonishing goodwill of friends who loaned tools & advice, to get to this dreamy point where my deck actually has stairs down to the patio, new landscaping, and no carpenter ants. ♥️DIY

Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."

2/3 of those on SNAP are children, the elderly, or disabled. Of the rest, 70% are employed; they just don't make enough money to eat. So, you know, if you're looking to donate, give money to your local food bank. ($ > food donations bc they buy in bulk so every $ of theirs goes further than yours)

Oh great now I have to worry about flying beach umbrellas every time I go to the beach and flying bears every time I'm in traffic.