The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

Wouldn't it be great if, by July 4th 2026, he was gone? I can't imagine celebrating such a big moment in our country in one of its darkest periods.

Anyone got a gift link to this?

“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard." -- Arundhati Roy

Every time I talk about my work as a sci-fi scholar, a dudebro pops up out of a trashcan to say he didn’t know girls like sci-fi.

Finished Handmaids Tale this week and one student made this comment: "I feel like the women's issues (which are bad obv) are not the main theme of the book, but the book is really about the rise of Christo-fascism."

I cant stop laughing at this perfect description of Jill Stein

o m f g are we really doing the "technology gives you more free time" argument here?? HAS NO ONE READ PHILIP K DICK OR ANY OTHER SCIENCE FICTION FROM THE 1950-60S??

This is not what I want my tax money going to.

Woke 2 is going to absolutely bury these people. It is true that in the time between now and Woke 2, they are going to hurt a lot of people, some very badly. There’s no way around that. But then, again, Woke 2 is going to absolutely bury these people.

One of the craziest things about Musk-era twitter is that because linking to anything is penalized by the algo, no one uses links and you have NO IDEA where any of the info you see is coming from. It's madness!

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

Peak Simpsons joke, still my fave

2026 State of the Union

Clarence Thomas is celebrating Black History Month his way: by becoming the first black judge to rule that they don’t have to deliver the mail to you if you’re Black

Masterful Troll, TCM.

Every American needs to watch this:

You know you can live for so long and there will always be a new set of shower knobs you don’t know how to operate. Like no matter how educated, how experienced there is a shower handle set up you haven’t faced yet

Oh hell yeah much better offer than a WH visit!! Yeeeaaaaahhh boooooooy!

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

Fuck no

Higher education all over country: we're getting rid of provacative political departments and courses. Me: I think I'm going to propose a new course on Religion amd Nationalism. 😁

Blue Water, St. Lawrence River Henrietta Mabel May 1940

This

Is there any time, place, or context in which a government hanging enormous banners of the Leader’s face was not a sign of a diseased and authoritarian society? Because I certainly can’t think of one.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

The best news I've heard today is that William Shatner is going to release a metal album. 🤘

Dear Hulu, it's bad enough you show the same three commercials every. ad. break. But i don't need to see the transphobic and misinformed Rick Jackson's political ad ever again. Hulu shouldn't have political ads (also you might want to check your audience demographics). Get it off your channel.

CFProposals for AAR this November, Religion and Popular Culture unit! See our themes/topics here: papers.aarweb.org/group/15632

This is going to go so poorly for graduates on the job market... I can't think of a single job that doesn't require navigating differences in upbringing, worldviews, political views, etc. Why would you ever hire people who have had zero practice at such foundational skills?

Conservatives spent years complaining about ”safe-spaces” and “liberal snowflakes” only to turn around and show they are absolutely terrified of ideas they don’t like (“racism is bad” “gender is fluid”) and willing to use state power to avoid the slightest discomfort. The snowiest of flakes.

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.” This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate." #TrumpSyndicate

That's pretty much my rule

The most important question

I'm a candy junkie, and I've noticed my favorite treats have tasted worse over the past few years. I even threw away a bag of kitkats last year I bought for Halloween, they tasted like wax. So this isn't the least bit surprising. (another reason to buy Lindt, tho tarifs have made that pricey)

Granted I haven't seen every single skating program in the Olympics yet, but I'm shocked no one has picked "Golden" as their song yet. That would be a rocking number to slate to.

Just some good, wholesome fun. Live your life in a way where people don't make effigies of you to punch and kick.

One trans/muslim/immigrant commits violence = ALL OF THEM ARE EVIL AND MUST BE STOPPED Repeated violence by white men = HE'S JUST A BAD APPLE 🙄

Ramadan Mubarak to those tho observe!

Oh man, this sucks. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.

This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

Yeah, there’s this. How much of techbros shoving “AI” down our throats is because they don’t want to give up on being able to generate custom porn?

Roses are red Violets are blue Trump is a rapist Release the Epstein files

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