Waiting for the posthumous award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee.

Discussing Lynn Hunt's How Writing Leads to Thinking essay with my class tonight. This semester the sentence that jumps out at me. ⬇️ Brilliant. Gorgeous. Be clear!

"He wasn't political. He was just an asshole." 🙄

What's truly remarkable about J.D. Vance is that he makes Mike Pence look like Theodore Roosevelt.

Make A Porn Wholesome An examination finds a polyp deep in a woman's throat. It gets removed and, after some tense waiting, the results come back negative. It's benign! Champagne and laughs all around.

Nobody ever said he was smart. *puts finger to ear* Are you FUCKING kidding me?

Good points here. It's especially important to shatter the presumed link between economic growth and reduced poverty. We have growing poverty because SOMEONE profits from it. This can be (and was as noted in the thread) directly alleviated by policy. Economic growth is something else.

This is a "man" who thinks he acts with impunity. Does he?

All GOOD history is revisionist history. But not all revisionist history is good history.

Man, if I were a Civil War/Reconstruction historian, I'd want nothing more than for my work to be just a touch less relevant. Even for a little while.

This strikes me as a smart way to look at it. The only problem is that we have to mobilize EVERY TIME, and in cases where the target is FAR less prominent, for it to matter in the end. It's not fair, but all they have to do is wait for us to let up just a little and we lose ground.

"you are the ones with the most to lose. My colleagues & I may have to leave this cherished institution & that would be a great loss for us. But we have already lived lives of consequence and can find other pursuits. You, however, would lose the education you deserve." 🔥 thebatt.com/news/anonymo...

This by Becky Chambers isn't exactly new, but it is new to me. The story of ordinary people doing human things in extraordinary, inhuman places, is breathtaking. An ode to doing the work, and an eloquent argument for crewed space exploration. Absolutely fucking amazing.

Does it start with "Highway to Hell" and end with "Stairway to Heaven" or vice versa?

"Did I say Cambodia? I meant Kampuchea." Trump tomorrow, probably.

Solid advice. We have to LIVE, not just SURVIVE.

Sometimes, I'm almost glad I tanked my PhD. I can't imagine the uncertainty most of y'all who made it are facing. Not that there's not uncertainty and precarity all around, but academia seems particularly fraught amd I wish all y'all the best.

I've never been nostalgic for the past, only for the futures that might have been, and never more so than at this moment.

Sending put the @rauchway.bsky.social signal.

Every damn time I await the looting opportunities and every damn time I get skunked.

How can we make EVERY corporation complicit in this fascism feel enough pain that they not only back down, but don't pull that bullshit again? It needs to happen EVERY TIME, not just when it's someone famous.

So much is wrong at every level right now. But today I got to ride bikes to school with my daughter and I'm waiting right now to ride home with her. It's easy to forget that there can be pure joy in the world, and I am obscenely lucky. I wish everyone could do this.

I don't cuss nearly as much.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which to my knowledge is the only five-book trilogy in exsitence.

Pope Leo, it's time to come for ya boy.

I've heard worse pitches.

Those first three are probably pretty accurate. You should read it anyway because it's really fucking good. Not sure what makes it "woke" (as if that's necessarily a bad thing). Too much Mexican content?

Smash two movies: Robocopland

Reposting this because I ran across a post that seems to have plagiarized (maybe it's an homage?) the post that spawned this little essay of mine. Do they have talking points they circulate or do they ALL just use the plagiarism machine? www.linkedin.com/posts/maryhl...

This whole thread. I've been saying for years: civility is for the civil. It's (literally) for citizens interacting with citizens. They don't want citizens; they want subjects. They don't want civility; they want SERVILITY.

He did it personally, with a gun. Not with lawyers, spreadsheets and, I guess, "AI."

G. Final answer. Had to choose between Thai food and tacos, barbecue and boolgoki. Wasn't that hard. Would miss sushi, tho.

Great article.

Shut the Fuck Up Friday remains in effect until further notice.

I don't use the word "hero" often, but... (The raccoon, obviously...you thought I was talking about the cop?)

Yet another externality we're expected to absorb. A different kind of pollution that government refuses to make polluters responsible for.

To Kill a Mockingbird Bye Bye, Birdie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

I'm enjoying this way too much.

Near as I can tell, around a third of Korean American voters picked Trump, What do you bet the numbers were higher in Georgia?

MAGA (in unison): Joe Biden did it!

Now that Brian Kilmeade has apologized, we can go back to the true problem in media: people who say true things about Charlie Kirk.

Oh. Your. G-d. This is a thing you can have for $49.95. Shut it ALL down. Oh, and THANKS, OBAMA! FFS

An interesting corollary: When I call my beagle a "fucking dumbass," I do so in a singsong voice and he wags the whole time. (note: look...he's a fucking dumbass...also adorable and sweet)

Oh. Your. G-d. This is a thing you can have for $49.95. Shut it ALL down. Oh, and THANKS, OBAMA! FFS

Wrote this some years ago. Still relevant. The Radicalization of Anakin Skywalker | Auston Habershaw share.google/W28J6i3A8zQd...

Make a band singluar: Pennyback