Posts like this make me so happy that I am not a lawyer.

Is it really a "race to the bottom" if one side is trying to kill people and the other side is trying to save them?

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Thinking about putting a lot of effort into a California prison blog next year.

My school banned Magic: the Gathering two weeks after we started playing in the cafeteria at lunch, but the Suicide Encouragement App is still available on every device worldwide.

I'm very excited to watch conservatives on the court twist themselves into knots arguing that this is somehow not a straightforwardly illegal violation of religious liberty. www.courthousenews.com/rastafarian-...

"The corrections secretary said people can get the cell phones on Amazon for $22." Prison spokespeople will say anything to avoid admitting what we already know: that nearly all "contraband" enters prison in the pockets of members of prison staff. www.kwch.com/2025/11/07/k...

She is so cool it is unreal. "It’s awkward to talk about inequality for some people & it’s more awkward when the nature of inequality is somewhat ephemeral.... I can eat this podium with a fork & f— knife, I’m so angry." www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I don't understand why so many of you have chosen a career that involves teaching college students when you find young people so upsetting. You realize that you can also teach classes for old people, right? There are adults schools and senior centers in every mid-sized town in America.

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I would love to speak to the six thousand people who went to the polls today and voted for Eric Adams.

Wow apparently there IS a better political strategy than throwing trans and Palestinian people under the bus to appease centrists.

I've always found the term "former child prodigy" kind of funny. Presumably it means that the person is simply not a child anymore, but the phrasing really suggests that the child suddenly stopped being smart.

Getting more than 50K likes on a single twitter post felt like getting mind flayed. But the threshold for contracting Posters Madness is even lower on here. If I get even 1000 likes on a bsky post, I am exposed to such irritating people that I start speaking in tongues and having eldritch visions.

Every time one of my posts does numbers, I am reminded that bluesky has exactly four different kinds of accounts: 1. Bots. 2. People who cannot read at a 4th grade level but are convinced they are geniuses. 3. People who desperately need therapy (some overlap w/ #2). 4. My followers (normal-ish).

If public universities had been better about holding the line against austerity over the past 15 years, it would have been so much easier to deal with the present assault by the Trump administration. We already cut the fat down to the bone, and now we can't cut any deeper without slicing the aorta.

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

I'm throwing in the towel and pivoting to applications for non-academic positions. Honestly, it feels good.

[Bernie Sanders voice]: Los Doyers.

[Me, pitching a new show]: Okay, so it's a medical drama. David Zaslav: Oh woah. Huh. Say more. Me: And the main characters... Zaslav: Yeah...? Me: ... they're all doctors at the same hospital! But their social lives? They often overlap with their professional lives. Zaslav: Dude. Holy shit.

I love consulting actuarial tables and regional mortality data to determine which city "deserved" to win after every major sports event, super normal behavior.

And now we pivot to drama about ICE at the Dodgers victory parade and the open question of whether the team will visit the White House again.

MLB rules are pretty clear about this. After inning 21, any remaining fans in the stadium are allowed to take a turn pitching.

Prosecutor: Mr. Lenc, records show that your student Carlos did not speak at all during class discussion on Oct 27. Yet you gave him participation points. Why? Me: [indistinct muttering] Judge: Speak up when you address the court, Mr Lenc. Me [begrudgingly]: Because he nodded when I was talking!

Me: Humor is an "absolutely essential" element of politics. Weirdos online: Oh okay so you hate humor huh???

I am not an edgelord or a snob. I like the Portland frogs and I think humor (including humor that I personally find cringe) is absolutely essential to any political resistance project. But I challenge you to think of a single political regime that was toppled by humor alone. It is not enough.

It's very funny that the wealthiest nation in the world is now ruled by a degenerated Corleone family that is full of Sonnys, Fredos, Johnny Fontaines, and a few confused Luca Brasis, but no Vitos or Michaels.

Please excuse my failure to respond to your email sooner, grading 150 midterm answers about genocide gave me CTE.

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My favorite anecdote about RevCom is that they went to Burning Man in 2010 and installed a bunch of wordless signs with Bob Avakian's face on it, including a large flashing neon Bob, in the hopes of "imprinting" upon the minds of the attendees.

Mandatory reading.

Mandatory reading.

A training program for violence interrupters, unarmed civilians who de-escalate situations and prevent retaliation after shootings and other forms of violence:

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[Mike Davis intensifies]

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Death Becomes Her is the movie that The Substance wishes it was.

Once again, the main function of USC in California's academic ecosystem is to make Stanford seem almost benign by comparison.

I know I'm in thin company for thinking this, but Hocus Pocus is extremely mid and doesn't deserve the constant acclaim it gets.

[moments before inventing Edible Arrangements] "Dude I feel weirdly hungry for arrangements right now."

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I'm really excited about this one, I've been saying we need more scholarship on prison food for years.

I've always found it wild that we have all just accepted that the defense and prosecution teams are all practicing something called "criminal law." Guilty until proven innocent indeed!

Canada's carbon footprint from beef consumption is about to drop dramatically.

It's obviously absurd & infuriating when people compare anti-AI sentiment to racism, but what's interesting to me is that the people who want to ascribe something like human dignity to software have no issue with that software being owned by corporations, and forced to do their bidding.

The Alabama Solution is one of the most terrifying documentaries I have ever seen in my life. I thought I had desensitized myself to the horrors of American prisons, but apparently I was wrong. But I also left feeling amazed by the incredible organizing that people inside have accomplished.

claims that men are falling behind because they're not going to college fail to understand that men go to college at lower rates because thanks to sexism they have more and better non college options. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/women-outn...

One of the clearest signs that someone is a pseudo-intellectual who sources all their opinions wholesale from social media: they sincerely believe that American women are doing just fine economically but "men are falling behind."

People who got furious about Cleveland changing their baseball team's name to the Guardians are hilarious because "the Cleveland Indians" was their eighth or ninth name. They were called the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers at one point, I am not even joking.