A lot of education discourse is also an inability to recognize how shitty our own educations were.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!! www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...

Day one of collective bargaining with a university is making sure the union team understands "we don't allow management to call themselves 'the university.' They are 'management.'"

been awhile since I felt a literal chill down my spine but this honestly scared the shit out of me

The Vatican returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada, a historic restitution that is part of the Catholic Church's reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture. n.pr/43T2xmD

In honor of the 2025 WPBL Draft, the SABR Women in Baseball Committee is mixing things up! What: Send your 4 women’s teams Draft choices Where: email [email protected] When: Before the draft on 11/20 at 8pm EST Why: To be entered into a drawing for some women’s baseball cards. 📸@wpbl.bsky.social

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

We have to ban this. It's just not okay, and it's gonna kill sports if we let it. I hate people so much. If a ballgame isn't exciting enough to you on its own terms, you've fucked up.

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

I really need to see a pic of some earnest Chicagoan giving this to the Pope at a meeting in the Vatican. (Like the Peruvians who showed up with squash.)

I am once again asking that we

I got so many trading cards.

Well shit now my Depeche Mode jokes about AI aren't even funny anymore.

[me] hey can you make some coffee [coffeemaker] sure [me] hey can you wash the dishes [dishwasher] sure [me] hey can you print this page [printer] lmao who do you think you are

Recently visited the Glass Flowers at Harvard, a collection of 4,300 extraordinarily realistic glass models of plants crafted by the Blaschkas, a father and son team of sculptors That’s right, these are all made primarily of GLASS — a fact difficult to accept given how accurate & lifelike they are

if u don't know SWITCHED-ON BACH is insane because the Moog synth is monophonic. meaning every single note of every single chord in every song had to be overdubbed separately. she had to be extremely precise & meticulous to make that album work

Five years after I sat down to write the first draft of ¡VIVA VALENZUELA!, I got to hold the book! Had a great time signing the first batch of copies with illustrator John Parra. The book releases on March 24, 2026 and is now available for preorder wherever you buy your books!

I've been on the internet long enough for my brain to immediately jump to "PUNCH THE NAIL FOR GOD'S SAKE!"

I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha

Now playing: some old-timey music from thirty years ago.

They’re calling her Megyn R. Kelly on TikTok

Embarrassing my 16-year-old by enthusiastically attending his events.

(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?

Anyone who’s ever used emergency contraception or gains peace of mind by even having it on hand owes Dr Camp a debt of gratitude. What a force. (Also, I just learned one reason the FDA rejected it at first was that they said the name Plan B was too glib!) Great obit—no paywall.

Thread. And I hate to admit that I'm enjoying the irony that the gambling industry needs non-corrupt sports more than anyone yet its existence is the single biggest thing corrupting sports.

"Scientists at the University of Nottingham have developed a new protein-based gel that can restore tooth enamel by mimicking the body’s natural growth processes."

Gonna need to start speaking Blue Sky Tamarian in order to avoid the ban hammer here.

Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.

patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors

I’m back. substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

The Mütter’s unveiling its first deanonymizing project, as illustrated in the @inquirer.com (gift link) share.inquirer.com/jsXjJ0

This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????

Holy shit Susie Dent

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

Also if we're talking about Bunnicula, go read this lovely @sarahgailey.bsky.social essay about its origins that might make you cry

Yo dawg I heard you like Oreos!

I know both these words very well and somehow never made this connection till now. TIL

Quietly one of the best films of the year.

crazy IG em_clarkson

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

Paramount, Netflix, and Comcast are putting in bids for Warner Bros. Discovery. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences. www.wsj.com/business/med...

players to win MVP in 3+ consecutive seasons: 2023-25 Shohei Ohtani 2001-04 Barry Bonds

*supervillain with a heart of gold voice* Well well well

Best yet, we got video of Luis Rubiales getting hit with eggs by his uncle, Luis Rubiales 📹 by 3cat www.3cat.cat/esport3/ataq...

holy shit you guys look at the zamboni at my local hockey rink; the arena manager reached out to Pearl Jam for a sponsorship and got it and now we have a JAMBONI ZAMBONI

It really hits you in the face how badly they dropped the ball that this isn’t starting in July of 2026. IT WAS RIGHT THERE

Everything about this is art. Please find and watch the video.