get on with it then

lily found a copy of myst on the sidewalk while walking home from work today original box, manuals, and even the registration card

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Hey. I am really sorry I have to tell you this. But... If Austin Powers was made today, it would be about a spy frozen in the 90s. His jeans would be so fucking huge, you guys. He'd have a beeper, and roller blades, and the opening credits would be a cover of Spin Doctors. I'm so, SO sorry.

Finding it hard to give a shit about the lives of strangers? try this

Instagram only, but quickly becoming my favorite social media account: instagram.com/peanutsleague go follow!

Is the NIH 'text analysis tool' publicly accessible? If not, why not, given that criteria for public funding ought to be transparent?

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.

You tell Alexa what to do. Claude tells you what to do.

Yeah, as a lawyer I don't know what to tell you about "SCOTUS rewrote a 43-year-old voting rights statute to restore the exact holding the law abrogated, which makes the situation worse now than then because SCOTUS's other decisions obliterated the rest of the VRA." No clever lawyering around that.

Me going into May like:

ME, A HARPER AUTHOR FROM ANOTHER IMPRINT, ON READING THIS: well, i guess i can just go fuck myself i guess BLINK: you can’t do that either garbage face

Today, the father of a little girl who was 6 and murdered at Sandy Hook said that the courts keep enabling an abuser and my heart actually hurts. That could be Jet. That could’ve been my little girl.

What a sad, sausage party of losers, con men and dupes. Bye bye!

Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

"You hear theyre using chickens as camera gimbals now?" "What?" "Chickens. Strap a camera onto their head. No shake. Chicken camera gimbals"

ikea has this new storage chest for kid's rooms that looks like a mimic, and I applaud this kind of thinking. it's good to teach children about the dangers of mimics early, so they don't fall prey to one the first time they go adventuring

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

The way the outfits here create flashes of blue and white is very mesmerizing.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

this chart is gonna haunt me. (via: americaninequality.substack.com/p/philanthro...)

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“Please,” cried Frog, “please go away!” But no one went away.

While there is much we can do to improve higher ed, I’ve similarly grown weary (& distrustful) of the “restoring trust” framing. If there’s trust to be restored, it can begin with those who earnestly and regularly engage with higher ed—faculty, staff, administrators, & students.

It’s also yet another body blow to the many institutions which depend on international tuition rates. But make no mistake: this isn’t fumbling or misunderstanding on the part of the Trump administration. It’s all part of a quite deliberate and intentional strategy to dismantle the entire sector.

hold up

I don’t really experience reminders as friendly

Pete Hegseth STILL has not released any findings from the Pentagon’s “investigation” of the girls school bombing, and since he only calls on right-wing hacks at his “press conferences” since he’s afraid of real journalists, he never gets asked about it.

big if true!! (I had the beginnings of preeclampsia that lead to my kid being born early, & it's not the ideal way to embark on parenthood)

When the kids say six seven that's short for eighty-six forty-seven

You don’t need to kill every darling. Some of them are there for a reason. But also: Be really comfortable being ruthless when revising. That part is right.

I just had pickled French fries in Flagstaff and this is one of those inventions that is truly revolutionary. The potatoes are pickled. Then fried. What will humans think of next?

Being asked to do more with less is one of those internet era maxims that seems to imply ingenuity, but is actually just the managerial slogan for squeezing uncompensated labor out of workers unwilling or unable to leave their current employment.

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

Just a remarkable public space, the New York Public Library main reading room #hatm

They spotted you across the shadowy Gothic cathedral and like your vibe

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

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my book is still on sale on most audiobook platforms, including Libro.fm!

they used to be good at exactly one thing which was reading their own room and theyre now so far up one dude's arsehole they think thats the room

there's something really wild about watching Republicans be so bad at reading the room that they think invoking "they were mean to our president" causes half the nation to be like HOW DARE as though its still 2017 instead of 70% of them being like "not mean enough"

This whole presidency is just bouncing back and forth between murder and money laundering with occasional unholy mashups of the two

this is real

‘Let’s see what happens if I make a substantial part of the local economy & square footage of the city vanish overnight, because I am a very clever person and think that media studies isn't a real degree!’

This is the condition the majority of academic spaces are in.

Annnnnd this goes well beyond what was written down in Project 2025!