🎶 That's when I reach for my revolver🎵 So, you were saying, about who is protecting whom from what?

I'm fairly certain that chickens aren't supposed to sleep like this, but Romana II does things her own way apparently. Also it's all totally situation normal here at Normal Acres because everyone has chicken snuggle time every night.

It's the most wonderful time of the yeaarrrr! Hung my flag last night!

Scrutinizing these maps to figure out if they put Pittsburgh in Greater Appalachia or Midlands (in either case it's wrong lol but I definitely think of Pittsburgh in terms of being the Paris of Appalachia)

Why does Trey Gowdy now look like Alan Cumming after getting sucked through a vacuum tube?

I guess everybody needs a hobby

Plein air oil painting of Zuckerberg's megayacht in flames on Lake Union in Seattle. 9"×12" oil on panel

Dying over the guy who stood next to Zuck's yacht and painted it in flames.

Looks like it's time in the American political calendar to make sure everyone is aware of this concept from psychology. When people are vice-signalling, this is why they do it and why other people seem to love it. It's social cohesion for lazy, amoral cowards.

Hey #spider loves and #invertebrate enjoyers, I made a silly video of all the jumping spiders I could find in my (urban Pennsylvania) yard over about 15 minutes.

For the past few decades, salespeople and psychologists have shown us all the power of storytelling to manipulate, er, convince Now in 2026 I am sick to death of every widget being on a hero's journey and every sociopath founder pitching their money-incinerator as humanity's inevitable next chapter

For the past few decades, salespeople and psychologists have shown us all the power of storytelling to manipulate, er, convince Now in 2026 I am sick to death of every widget being on a hero's journey and every sociopath founder pitching their money-incinerator as humanity's inevitable next chapter

This is true to a hilarious degree. Like, I was just On Here complaining about how my employer's strategic plan does not include the word "teaching" anywhere, but we have more lab equipment in our surplus warehouse than most non-US unis have in service. Say bye-bye to all that I guess.

Hey #spider loves and #invertebrate enjoyers, I made a silly video of all the jumping spiders I could find in my (urban Pennsylvania) yard over about 15 minutes.

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

I attend family therapy once a week with my child to help them figure out their gender dysphoria and I do not think about trans people as much as these absolute weirdos.

Probably not too many people in my feed who don't already understand this but: This will destroy American higher ed and research. It's already bad, but this will be the death knell. Hey Canadian #AcademicSky, need an ed tech administrator who actually cares about teaching? I'm a dual citizen!

PSA for residents of the North American midwest and southeast: This is the first instar (metamorphosis phase) of the Spotted Lantern Fly. If you see one of these guys for the first time in your area, good idea to go online and see if your state ag agency wants a report. Also: squish.

the columbine shooters were neonazis and nobody was allowed to tell anyone that for like thirty years, and as a result instead of a public backlash to and government crackdown on neonazi internet groups, we have neonazi interns running the government

What's that you say? You want some dope stickers that let everyone know that you don't argue with anyone John Brown would have shot? Well, you are in business because I just put some up in my store: magaro.net/tles/product... Only $3.00/each w/ free shipping in the US, or $7.00 for a three-pack.

Ha ha good question. You should ask that dude you published who trashed Teaching Centers a few weeks ago. Anyway, my university's strategic plan does not mention the word "teaching" (or "instruction" or any such synonyms that exclude research when referring to scholarly activities) anywhere. 🙃

I don't know about anyone else, and pardon me for libbing out for a sec, but when I make noises a la "I wish government was boring again" and "I'd really rather be at brunch", I don't mean "When D elected, ignore injustice" I mean this video. I want a FEMA I don't have to worry if it can do the job.

Every time I see this image (which for some reason has been constantly today even though I've barely been online) for a sec I think it's the space-folding-doohicky from Contact. And then I get sad because it's literally the opposite of that.

This is a long thread but yinz need to just get one thing: Republican "masculinity" is not about what your hobbies are, where you live, what you eat or how you dress. No, to be masculine for GOP purposes you just need to be a horrendous, pathological bully. That's the only coding that matters.

I gave a lecture today about Silicon Valley's weird little guys today and had a Venn diagram positioning various tech personages in a few different ideological buckets but Elon was in all of them and I said "imagine Elon hovering over this entire chart in a cloud of ketamine" So this checks out

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

What's up ladies, mens and nonbinary friends? I've started to post my Critical AI Literacy course materials on my blog for those who are interested in learning more about why AI sucks on a deeper level: magaro.net/tles/2026/05...

I've got this set of Scientific American paperbacks from 1955 that I grabbed off a retiring CMU prof's give-away table years ago. Flipping through the one entitled "Automatic Control" today and turned to an essay entitled The Automatic Office by Lawrence P. Lessing (no, not Lessig) which concludes:

I am pretty sure that my Farscape opinions are my most radical, scorching, potentially friendship-ending takes.

i was just saying to folks on my stream that the true measure of a writer who doesn’t actually know anything is that everything they write is about online discourse

Hey Pittsburgh, go support yinz local arts! This production slaps and tickets are cheaper than a dinner out

Tough luck, Cassanova

I thought this was common knowledge? The tax prep companies are just taking advantage of the fact that the system was purposely built to be so painful that people who can afford to pay to avoid it will

I really need the weather to warm up and stay warm so I can get these adorable little loudmouths tf out of my bedroom

I had to sit through an ed tech product pitch today so for all my #academicsky followers and comrades, here's what Turnitin is currently selling (stick around for what's on their product roadmap) so you can prepare yourselves to strenuously reject it. 🧵

As an employee of a public institution of higher ed that is having to deal with massive, existential budget cuts due to the withdrawl of federal grant funding... Fuck all of these people, fuck them forever, I will never forgive them, I will never forgive anyone who enabled any this.

Had an epiphany while shamefully consuming true crime content under the cover of night: The way cops talk to a suspect they are interrogating to get them to keep revealing information ("dude, I get it, you had to hit her, it happens, so what happened next?") is the same as how chatbots talk to you.

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Am I in the wrong line of work? Is there a job retraining program available?

All of Bezo's money and testosterone should be redistributed to those with the most need: scrawny transmasc baristas

Wow so glad we are up-ending our entire society and destroying the environment to provide this invaluable service.' Also what's the worst Microsoft app and why is it Power Automate?

New original art for sale on my web page! This did not sell at Art All Night so it gets added to the pile. magaro.net/tles/product...

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Re-reading Weizenbaum in preparation for teaching on Tuesday and can you imagine what kind of world we'd be living in if our tech bros had this kind of humility and curiosity? (From Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum, sadly currently out of print)

Man, can't figure out why kids are reacting negatively to what sounds for all the world like a series of threats.

Of Pittsburgh’s 90 neighborhoods, Polish Hill is one of the smallest, with only .255 square miles. As a result, the Polish Hill Monument serves as an informal “village square” while also honoring neighborhood residents who served in the armed forces. 🧵

My husband, describing what Hannibal (the TV show) is about to our kid: "It's about a serial killer. And the... people he... touched along the way." Me: "It's about cannibalism as a metaphor for queer awakening."

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

Colorado wants people to report river otter sightings to track the population. One problem: People don't know what river otters look like. Hope this helps👇