The message shouldn't be "taxes are bad," it should be that you should get something for them, it's your money, it shouldn't be going to some rich dipshit's Dr. Claw-ass ballroom or into the pockets of J6 child molesters

I can villainize the ultra-wealthy and focus on other challenges to the US at the same time. It’s not difficult.

Hiding files in cakes is a time-honored practice in the world of subverting law enforcement

I’m not saying I’m lost but I’m

I’m not saying I’m lost but I’m

I was so busy following the blue dot on the map on my phone that I walked directly under the thing I was looking for and didn’t find it until I was up two floors on an escalator and looked down. It’s Louise Bourgeois’s Maman Spider at Moro Tower in Tokyo

Contrary to what the text on the video says, this ends very very well.

I was so busy following the blue dot on the map on my phone that I walked directly under the thing I was looking for and didn’t find it until I was up two floors on an escalator and looked down. It’s Louise Bourgeois’s Maman Spider at Moro Tower in Tokyo

We should start yelling “go back to your lair” at these douches every time they show their faces in public.

I think he and Rahm Emanuel should team up and run for President because we could all use the laugh.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

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What I’m reading this morning in Tokyo

Up up Down down Left right left right B A Select Start

My heart is with The University of Washington and our entire trans community today. Trans people deserve safety. We should be safe from violence and from this fascist government's attacks on our health care and lives. I hold this young woman in the light.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

I flew into Japan today. I’ll be here for a month doing a study abroad course and then some sightseeing with my family. But the books I brought with me to read are very much focused on the US. I’ll let y’all know how it goes.

I’m almost a third of the way through a 12 hour flight and only now remembered to turn on the active noise cancelling part of my earbuds.

I've been joking about having everything I need to write a department chair simulator game but turns out one exists, it's from 1974, and it is FASCINATING as both a snapshot of higher ed and gaming history: dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

Today’s college students have had access to the whole-ass internet their entire lives. Professors aren’t cocooning them from shit. They’ve seen stuff that would shake us to our cores and we know it.

Slightly increase a band Heck Yes

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We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

This is wild: Yomiuri News reports that due to the Iran War, Japan is facing a critical shortage in naphtha, a key material in making potato chip bags, and printing ink. As a result, the snack giant Calbee has announced that they are adopt black-and-white packaging for most key products 🫠 🫠 🫠

As a resident who honestly loves it here, I still think more poets and songwriters should make use of the Des Moines/groin rhyme.

Voting rights

So as I was saying

I like the multiple possible interpretations of the phrase “Mother’s Day Drinking.”

I’m about to need some forgiveness

I’m about to need some forgiveness

Add a letter to a band name to make it different: Stalking Heads

Best film adaptation of the Odyssey wrong answers only

Add a letter to a band name to make it different: Chick

Are Arsenal fans doing 12-d math this week trying to figure out if they can lose to West Ham to maybe help Spurs get demoted and still win the league?

sometimes I miss poetry titles from the mid-2010s

Add a letter to a band name to make it different: Chick

I definitely don’t trust that my fellow white Democrats in this scenario will be willing to do what’s necessary to restore and expand representation for Black and Brown Americans.

Best film adaptation of the Odyssey wrong answers only

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Another day, another dozen

Do I find it darkly funny that I preach to my classes the need to build resilience into their groups when doing collaborative projects only to see the system they use to submit those projects completely bork the education system in the US at once? Kinda, yeah.

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Latest update is that Instructure has the hacker message down and has replaced it with the “scheduled maintenance” page, so that’s progress I guess?

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I would like to see some Democrats start calling for reinstating the tax credits for buying/leasing new electric cars given how expensive gas has gotten. Maybe throw in a bonus if you trade in a gas-powered one, where the lower the gas mileage the higher the tax bump.

I think the best thing you can say about Ted Turner was that he was replacement level evil for a public billionaire, which ranks him ahead of the current supervillain crop of public billionaires, but way behind the average breathing human for decency.

I would like to see some Democrats start calling for reinstating the tax credits for buying/leasing new electric cars given how expensive gas has gotten. Maybe throw in a bonus if you trade in a gas-powered one, where the lower the gas mileage the higher the tax bump.