www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nerd-f... I'm in the camp that says the only things in the quote marks are the text being quoted. My punctuation isn't part of the quote!

OK, found the (academically) scariest pumpkin carving ever!

A "random" smattering: aerobics, doobie, ego trip, flower power, group home, heliosphere, ibuprofen, lunar module, midi, omega-3, Peter Principle, RV, spaghetti western, tachyon, word processing, wet bar, yada yada, zonked-out

Name a non LOTR character who could resist the one ring.

“This has been the playbook all along — to issue things that I suspect the administration knows will be overturned by a court, but it doesn’t matter, because issuing it in the first place has the intended chilling effect,” added Gellman-Beer www.chronicle.com/article/coll...

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So the Chronicle of Higher Ed is musing about why unis are "powerless" in their fight with trump and fall back on "they are decentralized" and "they just aren't used to fights". No. It's because we have an administration that is actively *breaking* *the* *law* to try to make unis accept fascism.

We shouldn't make sure gun-carrying, citizen-killing cops aren't going to continue harming POC, but let's make sure we put consent decrees on colleges where nobody actually got hurt because the admin doesn't like protests. UGH!

For all my next gen friends: thisisindexed.com/2025/05/agai...

Just slashing science. They say this will allow more focus on science and less on administrative costs, but that's a lie. Because we'll now have to spend time and effort calculating percentages of larger costs into our proposals as direct costs. www.chronicle.com/article/trum...

Paging Mr. Orwell... www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Watching the '73 Jesus Christ: Superstar and have to admit I never realized Herod (one of the best numbers) is the son of the late, great, Zero Mostel!

Hmmmm www.smbc-comics.com/comic/wellllll

Best take so far.

Found 5 of my papers here. I suspect Elsevier will be going after them...?

What MAGA mob meant when they said they were voting on "the economy" www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ivy-le...

New genealogy result, which seems apropos these days: I'm a 7th cousin twice removed from Winston Churchill (i.e. he and my grandmother were 7th cousins. www.azquotes.com/quote/789714

I mean, it pretty much is just one time zone... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in...

In doing my genealogy hobby I have discovered that my 11G-grandfather was William Bradford, first signer of the Mayflower Compact and second governor of Plymouth Colony.