i will concede that if you want to influence other people addicted to X, X is worth using. but if you want to influence the actual public, text-based social media is a fool's errand.

Simply, we won't have the best colleges in the world anymore. When I still had international colleagues in my department- before the last of them left this past year year- I took them as a sign of my own qualification for my position. I knew I was hired from a competitive international pool.

politics is when one side is rabid raccoon is shredding the rule book and shitting all over the chamber, while the other side is like, "this is not normal," but doing nothing to stop the raccoon.

Fun fact: Bolsonaro will not be able to play anything announced on the Nintendo Direct.

My extreme preference is that the supreme court be replaced with a well-trained AI model.

The GOP's education playbook. Step 1: Make public schooling as shitty and stressful as possible for kids and parents and teachers. Step 2: Sell private schooling as the antidote to the stress and shittiness. Step 3: Funnel public education money into private hands.

Oh man, Bluesky allows posting your own gifs now. Fucking. Gamechanger.

The most depressing thing about White suburban living, is the quality of your relationships with your neighbors is directly dependent on the how much effort you put into your yard. This supersedes all other criteria for "neighborliness" by like a mile.

Pleased to announce I'm on track to get all of my RnR's back out before the release of Ghost of Yōtei.

lol. I love when the unscrupulous turn on each other.

“That ain’t normal baby hair! It’s animal hair! You can tell if you touch it.”

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

What was your summer 2025 vocal stim? Was it “Oh! Banana!” or “Yellow diamonds look like pee pee”?

this reminds me of the period in american politics when pundits would demand that any black politician of note — really, any black person in politics with a national audience — “condemn farrakhan”

That fact that hindsight is now clearly telling us Harris should have campaigned solely on the Epstein files, kinda makes me wanna puke.

Our political media is simply not equipped to handle a situation where the voters were unambiguously wrong in a way which morally implicates the electorate.

Because every #bluesky timeline needs a cute sleepy red panda... 😊

Cigarette….. Wiener dog….

stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏

nothing makes me feel prouder about being from the 757 than the thornton brothers

The important thing about Trump’s pondering revoking somebody’s citizenship is that he can’t do this and it is yet another sign of his dictatorial instincts, not that it is “reigniting [a] decades-long feud.” www.cnn.com/2025/07/12/p...

Sometimes I think the anti-vax movement is driven by a highly advanced, cordyceps like, human virus.

Really strains credulity that the guy who famously did a text book Sieg Heil salute on national TV AND created a Hitler praising LLM, isn’t a Nazi.

they tried to "un-woke a robot and it went full nazi" is something out of a 30 Rock TV show

Well when you try to remove some supposed liberal bias from AI, this is what you get. It might tell us something if we bother to think about it.

It’s only antisemitism if it’s from the left of Rahm Emanuel, otherwise it’s sparkling free speech.

I feel like the really politically dumb thing about a president taking a hatchet to both NWS and FEMA, is now every weather catastrophe can be plausible spun as “your Katerina.”

internalizing american notions of race and ethnic division as timeless truths about the world is a shortcut to smoothing out your brain

The New York Times’ editorial decisions make more sense when you remember their publisher is a fifth-generation owner who was handed the paper as a birthright while the managing editor was a Harvard legacy whose father founded Staples. They’re very firm believers in the meritocracy, you see.

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

I'd like to see the literature on how humor about genocide has historically been used as a means of engaging in dehumanization and genocidal ideation, while maintaining plausible deniability about making calls for genocide. Because it's pretty obviously a thing.

Democratic gerontocracy: “We remain concerned by this outpouring of enthusiasm from young voters and will be working diligently with our donors and consultants to snuff it out.”

The Young Fathers soundtrack in 28 Year Later. Pitch perfect.

We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent. Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.

In the socio-political context of 2025, only Billy Woods and @el-p.bsky.social could produce the true song of the summer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfpH...

I don't know who's fixing Halli's Achille's tendon, but I hope it's the exact same person who fixed KD's.

If "dorkiest guy at the punk show" energy is ascending, now is my time to make a difference in this world.

I've never seen a US president rage quit on diplomacy, like a co-op Halo match that wasn't going his way. But. Here we are.

Scottie Pippen making an AI image of himself with six rings when he has six rings and is Scottie Pippen is so Scottie Pippen

Tukey xkcd.com/3104/

We are about to see just how fast the consent manufacturing machine can spin up to full speed.

I thought this must be from 2016. No. From today.

That new Donkey Kong game looks incredibly like my kinda shit. Sandbox creativity of Zelda combined with wanton destruction, is a very specific sweet spot I'll appreciate to its fullest.

Elon Musk getting dunked on with empiricism by his own LLM is my favorite thing in 2025.

Was consumed all day at work by the fact that trump tweeted "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!" at Iran, which from any normal president would be hugely consequential and it wasn't even a story because the media has just sort of deformed itself into nihilistic acceptance of the fact that he's insane