Those kids are bright and learned that the campus free speech they thought existed actually doesn't and that their universities will not have their backs

"Orion, the Moon, and the Earth. EVERYONE, in that picture" - #Artemis II Mission Control.

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

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Here's something for the Irish Times in which I try to explain what's about to happen in Welsh politics. Hope it's of interest. www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202...

oh this is gonna be such a clusterfuck. no one in this administration actually enjoys anything beyond cruelty--certainly not something like sports--and it seems like they're unaware of just how much of a Big Deal the world cup is. Stupidity, embarrassment, and cruelty will be the order of the day

You absolutely don't ever have to hand it to Tucker Carlson.

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland AfD is set to achieve its best result ever in a West German state, Rhineland-Palatinate / Rheinland-Pfalz

my tattoo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my tattoo

"Clarence Thomas just gave the green light to Trump’s post office to intentionally “lose” mail-in ballots, six months before the midterm elections."

The Trump-Patel-Team USA men's hockey lovefest personifies toxic masculinity. @edgeofsports.bsky.social & I wrote about it for @thenation.com & how the real Olympic heroes are the athletes who won’t—as the right-wing noise machine often blares—“shut up and skate” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

What am I supposed to do when the Olympics are over? my job??? ........

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

me, working on the part of my dissertation that's about the extent to which Scottish/Welsh/UK Labour are different organizations, reading the news this week

weak and puny

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who has goose fat lying around but not milk???

Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it

This entire weekend

if anyone is looking for a book rec in this realm in the meantime, I just read The Bombshell by Darrow Farr for my book club and it was good.

what if I just pivoted to only talking about F1, something I just got into this year and on which I went down a deep deep rabbit hole, on here?

and McLaren's team orders in Monza cost Oscar Piastri the title. and everyone else not driving fast enough cost them the title.

Tom Perriello....now there's a name I haven't heard in a long long time....

my condolences to Isack for the demotion.

I don't even know why I bother to check Syracuse football game scores anymore.

"essays produced by ChatGPT are soulless, boring abominations. Words, phrases and punctuation rarely used by the average college student are pervasive." www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

I often consider deleting my Facebook, which I don't use much anymore. But how else will I know that on this day 17 years ago I posted that I "thought Twilight was fun :)"? The time capsule-ish nature of the Memories function is invaluable to me.

capitulated to the weather and finally put my tommy bahama chair in storage for the season. woe...

does anyone have a pdf of the 1999 Scottish Labour manifesto? I cannot for the life of me find it online.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Zohran Mamdani wins New York City mayor’s race.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.

A seeming bit of history tonight as Ghazala Hashmi becomes the first Asian American to win statewide office in Virginia - and the first Muslim woman to win statewide office *anywhere* in the United States.

oh man. oh boy!

so happy to *officially* share that I have been awarded an APSA DDRIG this year! I'm thrilled and honored to be a part of this cohort and very excited to get started on some field work in the UK soon.

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

A little moment in my newest James Gunn interview www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

good thing I'm writing my dissertation (in part) about this

Look I made a babka

"“We all know better. You have to have consent for this,” said a Keck physician who...declined to be identified out of fear of losing their job, said the Navy facility “wasn’t designed or developed to save lives. It was just to desensitize people to the trauma.”"

Anyway I really liked Doja Cat’s VIE which came out last week

I cannot explain, I am truly incapable of explaining how much I hope you read this.

Written ten years ago by @keithkahnharris.bsky.social, and is now sadly useful. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

i was a contractor with the Dept of State during this. It sucked. I, like many others, never got backpay. Many of the people most affected are people who can't afford to lose a day, a week, a month of pay. It's not the bureaucrats. It's the contractors who clean and maintain the facilities.

struck down in her prime.

Go Red Sox.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!