What? Who thinks that having military stationed outside the country makes someone in charge? Having a porous blockade does it?

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Time to get one of those Hilton Rewards cards I guess!

Also Hilton might finally make this headline obsolete.

finally, we're living through precedented times

Been thinking a fair amount lately about how, for some people, being spoken to as an equal by someone they didn't think of as a peer permanently broke their minds.

bleeding heart conservative

Yep.

Who will stop the Piano Man's reign of terror?!

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Can’t wait! This will be great!

You all, after YEARS of archival research and writing, my book is out in exactly ONE month and it’s my job to promote it. Please help me spread the word!! 😀📚#booksky

This is so bananapants it’s not even funny. It’s just…wtaf

Fellas is it gay to have a dog bsky.app/profile/disa...

Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...

Wow. I feel called out on behalf of my academic friends

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

“JD Vance is an antisemite.” Fixed it for ya.

The news that AI was being trained on stolen works? It was broken first about the BooksCorpus, on May 11 of 2021, and it was discussed in major news media thereafter. Romance authors talked about it. A lot. The first archive they stole was largely romance. arxiv.org/abs/2105.05241

absolute fucking asshole

She looks like she gets on stage every night to sing a 45 minute medley that’s mostly the n-word

Did I miss something? I remember lots of yelling but no charts. Numbers do not equal charts. Frankly, I would have loved to see the chart explaining the 600% drop in drug prices.

my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)

All the pieces of the puzzle in place:

It’s funny, I think lots of MAGA people would argue for another event as the biggest “tyrannical expropriation” of wealth. You know, the thing that happened between 1861-65. Started in South Carolina. Fine people on one side had important property taken from them.

Never forget the time in 2020 Charlie Kirk (dead now) pretended to be a black guy on Twitter but forgot to switch accounts when giving himself a nice compliment.

Orange juice that tastes good after you brush your teeth, an app that picks a watermelon for you, carbonated gum, escalators that go 30mph, sparkly mud, cats but friendly. I HAVE RESTARTED THE IDEA MACHINE

as of this week it has officially been 18 years since an anonymous user uploaded this bizarre image of an opossum cornered in a baby grand piano to Wikimedia Commons

And here's @sarahjeong.bsky.social's story about the actual motivations behind the ban. www.theverge.com/features/761...

Look what I found when I went digging in some digital archives for Dr. Seuss political cartoons! I love archives so much. 🥰

this is a stupid idea on its own but the idea of giving any new power to this administration at all, for any reason, is unconscionable do better

Men will question everything a woman with degrees and expertise has but accept what ChatGPT says with no question

The Right: preferred pronouns? I don’t have to respect that bullshit, I’m free to act as I like Also the Right: I demand you conform to my elaborate rituals designed to guard against me fucking you

Administrators are inking deals with OpenAI and inviting Palantir onto campus, ignoring faculty expertise and rolling out unproven data-thieving surveillance snake oil tech on our studens, staff and us. Enough.

The biggest problem with Roman Polanski trooferism is that Polanski has fully admitted to having nonconsenual sex with a 13-year-old; he just doesn’t think that was wrong, and apparently the defenders of his conduct don’t either

The Democratic Party needs to be less Gavin Newsom.

"He thinks of the many signals flying in the air around him the syllables fluttering, saying please love me, from continent to continent over the curve of the earth." -Joseph Millar, "Telephone Repairman"

In fact, UCLA went to court to try to stop faculty members from even SEEING the Feds’ extortion letter — first refusing a request, then denying a public records solicitation, and then fighting their own faculty in court. Shameful.

You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

TPUSA have been at this long enough that the default assumption of their involvement in literally anything that has to do with college campuses should be an assumption of bad faith based on a long and well-documented history of bad faith actions

The fact that the Oklahoma student wrote an objectively terrible essay (no citations, failure to meet minimum university-level standards) is almost beside the point. She wrote it in response to a trans instructor, and now her mother is demanding that all trans people be banned from teaching.