I cannot deeply enough express how much I resent the fact that on top of everything else this entire sordid episode means that you do in fact have to hand it to Chuck Schumer.

who needs a corgi cuddle

"The Wizard Who Kept Himself Suspicious" is a fair-play murder mystery about a bunch of Jack Vancian wizards, i.e. messy bitches who love drama. They have a problem at one of their tredecennial beach parties and only Shiverick, a rationalist eccentric who might not even be a wizard, can fix it.

Patreon: "If we provided an AI tool to help you with your taxes would you use it?" Me: "do I look like I want to go to jail for conspiring to commit tax fraud"

hardware prices 🤝 astrology keeping an eye on chinese ram

This morning, having done a lot of printer fighting and lesson plans, I am now doing math with fractions by hand. Mostly to make sure I'm absolutely ready to answer questions and explain clearly in the class tomorrow. Sometimes I really miss math. I enjoyed it! Especially trig, which was the best.

I keep waiting there to be an E before the pluralizing S on "elasmobranchs" because of the visusl parallel to "branches" but that would be wrong for the pronunciation. Ah, the peculiarities and logic of English orthography!

On a work webinar (shudder) thing aboue "decoding sentiment" and how AI can be used to dig in to confidence/eye contact etc. Pleased to say that I am already on my bullshit about the bias in AI/eye contact being challenging for some neurodivergent folks/all that stuff. People are agreeing! Woo!

Good news! We have invented a digital homunculus by combining phrenology, polygraphs, and your school bully. Its output is 48% reliable and each time you use it three hectares of rainforest gets burned and a billionaire gets significantly richer. This is now built into everything.

*shudders in ancient medicine* “Researchers exploring the Roman-era ruins of Heraclea Sintica [Bulgaria] have unearthed an 1,800-year-old bronze lithulkos, an ancient surgical tool used to remove bladder stones with a hook.” I once taught ancient medicine & bladder stone surgery is terrifying🪨 🍴

Honestly, this is an insult to sociopaths

England‘s Jordan Henderson fell over an ad sign while celebrating the match win, injured his wrist so badly he needs surgery and his now missing the rest of the World Cup. I feel bad for the lad but this is also a lost Ted Lasso plot.

Dear software devs: a video tutorial is not technical documentation. A pile of screenshots and the caption "you have many different options" is not technical documentation. You do not have the training to write tech docs. HIRE TECH WRITERS YOU FUCK UPS

I‘m on sick leave and allowed to use my phone again so don‘t tell me to log of this is prime time for shit posting

frontiers in alternative energy

my gym workout coincides recently with the time when "Homes Under the Hammer" is on the TVs in there. Anyway I'm a radical marxist now.

Tomorrow's the first day of the not quite summer school, where this time I'm reviewing math & reading with a double handful of kids moving into sixth grade in the fall. Just had a stone cold nightmare of walking into the classroom and discovering I was teaching math only to high school instead.

I interviewed an amazing young woman for college this year, who had founded an organization to help pay for supplies & fees for poor kids for club/travel soccer, b/c she herself had to drop out of her team the year her dad lost his job. She later also faced major related surgery & abusive coaches.

If you go off your ADHD meds while living alone you get to experience the “somebody keeps moving my stuff” parts of having a roommate without the “someone else pays half the rent” parts of having a roommate

Watching an episode of Smartypants and I can't believe there are all these barnacle references in this presentation without the presenter once giving us a good rec for an introductory book on barnacles.

One of the stars of the recent exhibition about the #Etruscans in San Francisco is this gilded silver lebes (cauldron) with snake protomes. The rows of engraved figures depict a flight of geese, a royal hunting party, and military processions. 😍 🏺 1/ Praeneste, 7th c. BCE. 📸 me

Well, I didn't know Adverb was afraid of bombastic brass music until I tried to walk him down a hallway just now with the same set of such heard from multiple doors. Big game starting right now, I gather.

hey, who remembers rear-projection TVs and how they were supposed to be the shit but were, in fact, shit recently I learned that the largest consumer CRT tv was only 43 inches so Weird Al had it DOWN with Frank's magnificent groundbreaking model <3 imagine the electron gun for that one

Incredible comment in and out of context lol

Still a little puzzled by “I didn’t like that the characters thought in italics.” My friend, that ship sailed so long ago that it was owned by the East India Company.

Hang the fuck on. He's definitely not human and he only says his own name. Is Mr Blobby a British Pokémon?

I'm not Madison Square Garden I'm just Disappointedison Square Garden

I have always found James Uden’s work a pleasure to read—especially his Juvenal stuff. & I’m really enjoying his economic turn in his new, open access article on “Love in a time of bankruptcy: Catullus and the literature of debt” 💸 The ubiquity of debt in the everyday lives of Romans seems…relatable

He's right in the sense that after that phone call from the US president to get special dispensation for one home player, watching the US lose has trumped watching England lose as every football fan's No. 1 desire that isn't watching their team bring it home

One of the hardest lessons for me to learn as a reader was that my "gut" was regularly wrong about culture and plausibility. I had to look things up a lot more. See also: "Why are Fantasy names just a couple letters different from regular names?" Bud, that's not a Fantasy name. That's Polish.

Florida! If you are African or African-American and O- (or don't know your blood type), you are in need! And even if you aren't African or African-American, donate anyway, because if you aren't an antigen match they can still use your blood for someone else to save any matches for Gigi.

I particularly like a related theory for reading Homer: really odd or discordant details often point to another version of the story that needs to be reconciled or deliberately rejected. (For example: the talking horses; the funeral gifts for Patroclus; the removal of Achilles's armor mid-fight.)

The combination of wearing business casual for work and tshirts on my own time, and having most of my downtime being during the summer, has me grimly contemplating buying tshirts that aren't black. I overheat too easily to put sartorial preferences above chance of heat exhaustion, I think.

I put Lorem Ipsum text in a proposed design for a webpage, so they could see the design without being distracted by the words. Their only comment was "Take out the Latin and put in English."

"You can't have lesbian werewolves; they won't be able to establish a breeding population."

Every week of the Trump presidency feels like it deepens and enriches my understanding of Henry VIII.

this is a serious site you want jokes go to LinkedIn

Does anyone have to hand the JRA 1991 supplement on LIteracy in the Roman World? I need a few pages, and my copy has disappeared on me.

The Republicans running in Minnesota have all been running on fraud and how they will prevent it so I've been emailing people to ask if they'll support laws to ban insider trading by Congress and the President. No replies so far!

Still eager for someone to take care of fewer than 150 Hebrew words:-)

I'm trying a video game demo, and I will give 'em credit for the very first command you get after chargen being "Press A to run away from home."

The Morning Monty spent the night hiding in the master bedroom closet with Lucy, but today it’s quiet (so far)…and he lounges comfortably in his secondary catio downstairs.

Trying to shove my hubris back in a box this morning before I add /yet more complexity/ to an overdue writing project that is already /rather more complex than is wise given other demands on my energy/. (But... but... I thought of a really good use for the random number code!)

Why Did It Have To Be Snakes? 1732-37 French edition of the Kupfer-Bibel with over 600 engravings extra-illustrating the Bible with science! Bonus: SO MANY New Testament snakes. @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case oversize BS660 .S3414 1732)

Somehow I still have 26 states to go and I have no idea where they are. This is a very organized event full of very fun activities like Going Into Booths and Taking Pictures In Front Of the Temu Arch

one of my friends is an ER doctor and just worked her third July 4th in a row and y’all have gotta stop doing fireworks whilst drunk

fun fact: Cyprus' most successful football club, APOEL FC, underwent an internal purge during the civil war and expelled all left leaning players and officials, who went on to form what is now Cyprus 2nd biggest club, Omonoia & now the 2 are rivals who face off in the "Derby Of Eternal Enemies"

Coroton the spherical pig is the mascot of Maebashi City.

"Most of us get into therapy because we want to help people. What we don’t put on the brochure is the subconscious motivation: If I learn enough about other people’s feelings, surely MINE will sort themselves out, right? It’s a bold strategy. We are still workshopping it."