Suddenly, everyone who understands sixth grade math is an “expert.”

"Who would have predicted this?" - Black women did. - Trans people did. - The *entire* disability community did. - The anarchists did. - Post-Evangelicals did. "Well why didn't I hear them." You did. But you disregarded us as "extremists" and "alarmists". And you are still calling us that.

Signed and folks… this is BAD. Like colossally bad. Self-defeating. Cruel to students. Bad for science… please sign & share!

Huh. The canceled Louis CK playing multiple sold-out shows at the Chicago Theatre. I wonder wh(ite man)y he is still successful.

The ones who walked away from Ornelas.

Sure, Jan.

Not for nothing, but Hegseth is apparently summoning hundreds of command generals and admirals to DC for a meeting. That's weird, right?

As someone going through the college app process with a kid, it's always interesting talking to people who get it (there are a lot of good schools, you don't need to go to an "elite" school to succeed - with some exceptions) & people who think that scrolling past the top 20 ranked schools is awful.

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.

Jesus Houdini Christ, this is great.

Some colleges are apparently picking up that my email is attached to my son's applications and are sending me emails mistakenly trying to recruit me. It's like those dreams where for some weird reason, I have to go back to college, even though I'm in my 50's, have a PhD, and have three kids.

Do you like prizes for being awesome?

Oh joy. My main email account must have gotten hacked. If you got an invite from me, disregard it.

A coworker gave me this to commemorate a recent project we were on together.

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We must end the scourge of people coming to this country to...sell tamales, I guess?

No words. I believed in Ryan. We moved to Oklahoma because he promised that my awful sons Enigmus Rex and Pance would be given handguns in kindergarten and then not be given any instruction on how to use them safely. I bought a shitty gray house in Tulsa because he promised they wouldn't be woke.

At the train station, actually somewhat conscious after a night where I didn’t wake up in the middle of the night and lie there for two hours. The fall weather feels good. Now to discover what fresh hells today holds for us.

Welcome to Jurassic Pork 🦕🥟🦖 #Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings

Remember - Star Trek said FUCK ICE three years ago.

When my kid was 4 I was teaching them to ride a bike, and they fell, and got scraped up enough that there was blood involved. They told me they were okay, because they were "Brave like Buffy" (yes, the vampire slayer). My kid at age 4 that day showed more physical courage that this sad old man.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

They are literally blowing up boats on the Caribbean

They've lost the 9yos

Well, like a total dumbass, I bought 2 tickets to see the Cubs in the playoffs next week - if, that is, they play the Wild Card round games at home.

Every goddamn person on the planet was a "drain on society" as a baby and will be again at the end of their life and some of us are in the middle too, and this does not mean they're not beloved and worthy of a happy fulfilling life!

Umm..isn’t there a word for this?

Someone in law enforcement was told to write something anti-ICE on the casings, and they took it literally. Which is stunning on a number of levels.

I hate rooting for the fucking Br*w*rs, but I need them to beat the Padres today. FFS. Hey Cubs - if you'd just win some games, you wouldn't be putting me in this position.

My right bum cheek got raptured. The other is... left behind.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck

I wish I could talk about this kind of thing at work - to even bring up the question. But it would not go well.

Reading @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s newsletter, recapping Trump’s speech to the UN yesterday, it was impossible not to agree with the diplomat who said that Trump was “stark, raving mad.” He lives in a world utterly disconnected from reality. But the elected GOP has built a firewall around him.

As a writing instructor, I feel so validated by this. If you don't teach people how to write, everyone has to learn to edit.

For my family and me, today was a good day. But my heavens, is this world we’re living in ever fucked beyond words.

When you ask AI what to wear.

My first sexual thought about Lincoln ever.

call me immanuel the way i just fuckin kant

Ruin a band with a Supreme Court Justice: Antonin Sca Lee-a Greenwood (Not that you can ruin him)

Jesus fucking christ Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Goddamnit Cubs.

Why is Cade Horton coming out?

The Armstrongs

These people have the most punchable faces.

We were selected to potentially get WC tickets for the Cubs, so they'd better get that round at home.

Build more train stuff! #iykyk

lol

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