Can I just say to any Americans loving this thread that you should absolutely Google "Vinyl Cafe Dave Turkey."

Time for the last lecture of term, my "warfare in early modern Europe" lecture where students are like "finally a class that's not about religion" and I get to be like "surprise, guess what all these wars are about?!"

this is a metaphor for waking up and logging on

Just saw a care and feeding letter from someone whose sibling had chosen a name for their niece that would make her initials FUK and I have an out of the box solution she can propose to the parents to be: a second middle name that starts with N, and singing baby a lot of funk music.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

So I'm currently watching Ally McBeal because I've run out of new TV to stream and I just need to know, is this an Always Sunny situation where we're supposed to think the characters suck? Or is it a Rory Gilmore situation where the writers mistakenly think they're charming?

What do we figure are the odds that Olivia Nuzzi tried to but on Biden and didn't get anywhere and that's the root of her animosity toward him

My energy for making fancy desserts is greatly diminished since EG was born but I used up some of it this weekend to make this London Fog Basque Cheesecake with blueberry sauce and it was divine www.rhubarbandlavender.com/recipes/lond...

Second night in a row spending literally two hours at my daughter's bedside while she refuses to sleep and cycles through every possible human emotion at least 3 times. She is currently having a meltdown because she remembered dentists exist.

November 9th is outrageously early to have this much snow but EG was over the moon to get to make a snowman

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

One of you (@taylorschu.bsky.social?) recently recommended If the S in Moose Comes Loose by Peter Hermann and it's a hit in our house. EG cannot get enough, she makes me read it multiple times a day and loses it laughing every time.

a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen

What an avoidable disaster. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Please enjoy this cursed thought that just occurred to me: a Beastie Boys style cover of the hymn There Is A Fountain

We need to put pressure on our governments to pressure Israel to let this money go to Palestinians of Gaza. People from around the world donated millions of dollars to thousands of global organizations and none of it has made it to the people it was meant for

My sister unearthed this card that I guess I gave my dad for his birthday when I was in middle school and I am literally doubled over with laughter rn

We generally include Halloween pencils and stickers alongside our candy offerings for trick or treaters and every year I am flabbergasted all over again that they are by far the most popular items.

So after weeks if not months of "when is it Halloween? When can I go trick or treating?" EG is suddenly insisting that she can't go yet because "it's not the darkest dark"

Anyone who wants to argue needs to post an example of media in which a right winger makes a good-faith effort to listen to and understand the rest of us.

Bluey is ready for daycare drop-off

Just saw a reel by someone who is apparently a pediatric chiropractor and the full body shudder that went through me at that combination of words was something else.

Do I embrace the fact that I am a cringe millennial and keep this meme that hasn't been current since I was an undergrad myself in my lecture slides, y/n?

We wanted to understand what a Zohran Mamdani administration would mean for New York. So we talked to a Kentucky woman who once tied for 5th place in a swim race with a transgender woman and got really mad that she didn't get to hold the trophy.

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

Re: my last thread, fwiw I do think the whole "horny for Jesus" from of spiritually is pretty funny but ultimately harmless. I think it's worth distinguishing between aspects of evangelical culture that are actively harmful and ones that are just cringe.

So I've been working on a bit that really should be a TikTok, but I have zero video creation or musical instrument skills so you're getting the text based form instead. I call this the Horny for Jesus worship medley (or the Jesus is my Boyfriend Medley if you're feeling less risque)

EG has started asking me what I'm reading and then remembering. When she went to a costume party this afternoon with her dad she was like "bye bye Mama, enjoy The Cautious Traveler's Guide to the Wastelands" 😂

What's the most Eurovisiony song that wasn't actually on Eurovision and why is it What Does the Fox Say?

Absolutely losing it at the craft my giant footed girl brought home from daycare

Imo one reason parents tend to assume their kids is advanced is that you get really used to your toddler/preschooler's diction and so their speech is often much more comprehensible to you than their peers' speech.

Please enjoy this pair of earrings that I just finished making but can't share on Facebook and Instagram until after my sister's birthday

That he wasn't afraid to unselfconsciously love books that were girl-coded when we were growing up. He still isn't. He once bought a women's devotional Bible because he liked the study notes.

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

Solidarity with my fellow parents of night owls, my 3 year old daughter is currently spinning on circles chanting "nighttime is party time"

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

This is a Snacking Cakes by Yossy Arefeh stan account. It is the cookbook from my collection I use most often, bar none. Always reliable, delicious, easy to make cakes that yield a normal amount of dessert for a small household. My daughter can easily help me make them.

One thing I find incredibly disheartening is the way global antisemitism emboldens Israel's violence against Palestinians and then in turn Israel's violence against Palestinians emboldens global antisemitism. It's this horrible, deadly, vicious cycle.

Once again at the point in my course prep where I'm fascinated by Frankish names all over again and I just need to know whether @amycolleen.bsky.social is aware of the historical Bertrude (or Rotrude, or Plectrude)

In our parallel play era

"i just use it to generate ideas"

Told EG she could play with her ponies for 5 more minutes before bed and she decided they were going to have a galloping disco using her night light for mood lighting.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Before your kid learns to talk, finding out what's wrong when they're in pain is a total guessing game. Then they learn to talk and can tell you where it hurts. Then their vocabulary outpaces their medical knowledge and they say stuff like "my bones are flickering" and it's back to square one.

"My parents kidnapped my kids, is my wife overreacting?" Buddy, I would have called the police!

this exists it is called thinking

Just received a totally real, not at all fake email purporting to be from Canada Revenue Agency and the sending address was [email protected] lmao

Is there a support group for people who enthusiastically support the use of singular they but find that "themself," specifically, sets their teeth on edge?

Meanwhile @historians.org has suggested last month that one of the possible acceptable uses of gAI is to summarize "key points" of research articles, before reading.

I used to low key pray that Trump would, like Nebuchadnezzar, be cursed to live on his lawn and eat grass like a donkey for 7 years but now I'm pretty sure that if he did the NYT would just be like "President Makes Bold Landscaping Moves with White House Grounds"