credit to Larz Anderson in the Cow Tools Sophisticationposting group

one of the prime objections to the trump crew goes away if you can't hold the line on this. susan collins isn't great, but i'd rather have collins in the senate than someone like platner who is at best too stupid and shameless to slink away, and at worst an actual crypto-nazi

it seems like this is a pretty common thing among american evangelicals, specifically, in that bad behavior can ultimately be excused when the bad actor can perform a certain kind of inner turmoil, so long as others believe they're 'wrestling with their demons' and 'a good man, deep down' or w/e

Yvette Guibert singing

It’s maybe a bad look, but strictly from a police work perspective, this is the absolute best thing Kash Patel could be doing if we want the case solved

The whole point of homework is that students need to practice skills and concepts on their own, but don’t typically do that unless they are told to and given incentives. If they are trying to get out of that, we make things worse by looking ‘post-homework’

It’s so difficult to maintain what I really do think is the epistemologically correct stance of “it’s a big deal but there’s a lot of bullshit”, because like, there is a *lot* of bullshit

My Darling Clementine is my obvious answer Ride in the Whirlwind is my less obvious one

this is basically what every single bit of critical infrastructure looks like: someone you'll never meet in an office exactly like this ensuring that the shit pumps continue to move the shit away from your house.

i don't think this will happen

standing on stage giving my TED talk and this is on the screen behind me in huge letters

i mean - their football team hasn't been *great* historically, but cmon this is a bit much. it's hard to find a good quarterback

i often get asked what the biggest challenge of being a writing teacher is, and my answer is that good writing comes from reading a lot, and students just don't read enough. my job often feels like trying to plant a garden in crappy soil. we're all in a fight with phone and losing

this is so real

Ngl a MAGA take on “Eddington” would potentially be very interesting, even if it’s also terrible to watch

mark carney is building a terracotta army

how many examples do we need to see of people coincidentally doing hard right turns shortly after personal turmoil, brain trauma, substance abuse, etc it's not true of every case, but movement conservatism pretty strongly seems like a way that some people express that they're in crisis

at a certain point, we as teachers can't really stop people who are so thoroughly uninterested in education. it seems like it's probably damaging their souls in a deep way, but i guess i'll take the tuition money if they want to give it to me

sometimes something bad happens where there are no malicious actors, no one is happy, and everyone gets the worst possible outcome they don't deserve. social media exists to strip such events of context so we can have clear winners and losers

'favorite trump 2 guy' is not a great title, of course, but he's still my favorite

I’ll probably get started a couple weeks before - no need to rush, the weather sucks right now and I used to run a lot so I’ll probably be fine if I knock the rust off

“Power should be arbitrary and lawless, but in a good way and not a bad way” is a silly idea that a lot of people like to toss out as if it were a serious insight.

casual nominative determinism win

anyone who would click on an article in The Point called "Listless Liberalism" already knows exactly what's in it, which you would think ought to be a great reason not to publish something

i wish i loved anything as much as boston review loves this picture of chuck schumer

sanders' reliance on people like gray and david sirota is one reason his presidential campaigns didn't work

if only there was some evidence showing that donald trump routinely lies and welches on agreements and obligations whenever he feels like it

2 day suspension free him

It’s a pretty good impression at first but it slips a little

I went to the Tannhäuser Gate and nobody there knew you

What’s so crazy is that despite a literal century of modernism/postmodernism, people just abruptly decided to do naive romanticism again: art is the authentic expression of an artist’s inner life - powerful feelings drawn from the vatic well of the self - and that’s why AI art bad

Every once in a great while I buy a box of strawberry pop tarts and eat basically the whole thing in a day

if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission

Boy I really hope they don’t get in a war with Iran

Bill Kristol’s paper writing this is crazy

Animorphs is white supremacist, Donkey Kong is white supremacist Black Bloc dreck, Japanese fantasies are white supremacist, high fantasy is generally white supremacist, sexual preference is white supremacist. Masscult under Gnosticism is inherently white supremacist. Sorry to spoil your 'fun'.

Finally someone willing to say what we’re all thinking

Save us @horsedisc.bsky.social

i'm making chicken parm - how else am i suppose to flatten the cutlets

The next president should just immediately seize Trump's assets to the dollar value of all of these corrupt emoluments on the grounds that because emoluments are unconstitutional, the money was never Trump's in the first place. Let him try to get them back in the civil asset forfeiture process.

Matt Booty

(documentary talking heads) MARC MARON: you gotta understand, he put out FULL BLAST positivity CONSTANTLY — so naturally i could never stand him ha ha — but it blinded a lot of industry people KEVIN JAMES: his positivity was magnetic SILHOUETTE (clearly Baby Bop): Barney was.. a master manipulator

the 'sissy graydon carter' tweet is legitimately one of the funniest things any american has ever written

when i was visiting my grandfather in a nursing home, he asked me if i knew where jan was. i said 'no', and he told me to tell her - if i see her - that she needs to clean her room because it's a mess i then went home and told my own mother that i heard she had a dirty bedroom