Seriously, Get Ducks Quackin’

we hold our auction over the 4th of July because patriotism is complicated in this country (as it always has been) but I truly, in my heart, do love the best parts of it. I love how vast and chaotic we are, how we have every biome, every culture, every climate, every dream. we are a daily discovery

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

Eichner's anecdote about watching My Beautiful Launderette with his dad really got to me. youtu.be/9GRs6AfiH-E?...

Trapped within The Bear's four very uneven seasons is a basically perfect movie about the salvation of Richie Jerimovich.

The details in this obit for David Clayton Thomas are WILD. Nixon! Satie! Judy Collins! Abby Hoffman!

Oh boy. This one took me back. And there are lessons here that remain important for my students, even in this very different world.

Grant Brisbee, on point. www.nytimes.com/athletic/735...

seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something

Happy Pride. I’m glad you’re you. I’m glad you’re here for it. I hope you’re here for the next one too. You’re worth sticking around for.

you gave up 4 runs in 4 innings to take the loss, maybe you should be less focused on quoting Genesis and more focused on Job and Numbers

owned

A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide

People who want to outsource the “boring” parts of research or academic work to genAI need to think about how much their life and thinking is enriched — even changed! — by stuff that wouldn’t have ever come up if they had managed to avoid that so-called “mindless” work. 1/

Preach it!

Every year my wife teaches a film appreciation class that doubles as a “wider vision of the world” class. She nearly always begins with PERSEPOLIS, which encapsulates so much of what she wants to get across to those central Arkansas college sophomores. Such a storyteller, such a loss.

One of my strongest takeaways from the Bee this week is that it was a showcase for why critical thinking matters more than ever. So much of what the kids do up there isn’t rote memorization—it’s using their insane prep to solve words like puzzles (using etymology, patterns) in real time.

That’s not what “immutable” means

Pastor, starting today’s children’s sermon: A tree in my backyard got struck by lightning, so we had to take it out. Kid: I think you’ve told us this story before. Pastor: Maybe I have, that happens! But I promise there‘s a new part you haven’t heard. Kid: We’ll see.

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They should put a buncha rings in Lord of the Flies and a shitload of flies in Lord of the Rings just to blow people's minds and whatnot.

They always proudly include the part of the chat where the bot tells them how amazing and unique they are. A normal person has the self-awareness (or sense of shame) to edit those parts out. The only explanation is that, in their thinking, the flattery is part of what proves the bot’s insight.

There are objectively worse people in the world (Hitler, Pol Pot, maybe others) but nothing activates a Pavlovian anger response in me more than adult men stealing home run balls from children

UPDATE: Here’s what I look like a few hours later.

Have you heard the tale of King Solomon? The wise ruler was confronted with two parents, each of which claimed sole custody over their child. Solomon stroked his chin and then said "ok so if you open and then quickly cancel the trade window you can do the dupe exploit and get two babies"

Dave Mason had a long and distinguished career, and yet in our household the mere mention of his name will prompt my wife to say, "A little Dave Mason..." and then start singing this early '80s beer commercial that she heard on the radio repeatedly as a teen. youtu.be/1x7TLm4iKzY?...

Right into my veins, please.

Same exact experience for me.

"particularly" is a funny way to spell "exclusively"

“Read the book, not the summary. Write the piece, not the prompt. Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.”

I feel like people focus a little too much on Bruce Springsteen having a slightly cringey stage persona singing boomer music and not enough on that boomer music being pretty fuckin good and him genuinely caring about stuff

not sure what is more odd: that it apparently didn't crack the top three, or that it is being advertised on the DC metro

Donald Trump does not understand believing in something. He does not believe in a God above and beyond him. His being is the sum of his own libidinal urges, nothing but feelings and lusts and hates.

If you're not in the habit of contacting your congresscritters, the easiest way to start is 5calls.org! Put in your location. They'll look up your congresscritters and their phone numbers and give you a script. You can do it!

Re: my last repost … Mohsen Makmalbaf’s A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE is available in full on YouTube. 75 minutes to change your life. youtu.be/l-WZ2sqlOkM?...

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

We absolutely don’t talk enough about how hilarious W. C. Fields was.

I have built load-bearing portions of my personal philosophy and theology on ideas that were in the footnotes of the books I read. You can't assume that the "important stuff" is clearly identifiable, because the meaning of "important" is "important to me, a unique human reader."

this one made me log off for a whole 2 days fam

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

Loved this episode. Vote Berube!

I'm compiling a list of "don't use AI, here's why" reasons for my incoming students. Any one of them could be (and has been) expanded into essay form). Kudos to @coltranethedog.bsky.social for saying a perfect truth, perfectly.

Break out the hosannas, friends.

My college senior is genuinely upset that Hegel is so relevant to their life.

One of the first gifts that @donnadb.bsky.social gave me not long after we started dating was The Soul Of A New Machine, one of her favorite books. It kicked off a love of non-fiction for me that still burns strong. Kidder's brand of reportage was one-of-a-kind. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

"The pink-hat-wearing liberal women who have marched consistently against Trump...are regularly discarded as “wine moms.' But this is wrong. Those marches mattered." Agree very much with @aselrod.bsky.social here: Wine mom politics is good.

INVENTOR: i have just created the push button MARKETING GUY: should i do a press release INVENTOR: that’s how it works, yes

They canceled his citizenship interview and he drove in the winning run to beat the US. Eugenio Suarez is a gem.