Hard to get another booking as a mentalist after not seeing this coming I imagine

New England's getting a new wide receiver named Jimmy Kibble, which sounds like the name of the late night show host in a cartoon about a world where everyone is a dog.

We could be listening to Neil Hannon’s masterpiece, Regeneration, but no, instead we get to vote on these soggy boys.

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someday I am going to find the person who thinks plain Pringles are "bursting with flavor" and introduce them to parsley. it will blow their fucking mind.

Fuck all that, that photographer's parents were having a DAY

We have recently processed and made available the papers of BC math professor, pedagogue, gardener, and Basset hound lover Stanley Bezuszka ("Father B"). His collection includes drafts and work on "new math" textbook, essays about making math interesting and relevant to elementary school kids...1/2

I think instead of requesting that Zoom participants mute themselves, we should say STIFLE YOURSELF, EDITH

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How TF is this not on the front page of every US paper, not even in the higher ed press? The Texas Tech system has banned virtually all course content focused on gender identity or LGBTQ issues, banned hiring future faculty who research this, banned even student theses & dissertations on it. 🧵

fuuuuuuck

not to brag but not everyone gets an invite to meet the water rat

I have a coworker who was a social worker before she became a librarian. Today she had a webinar on resilience paused while I talked to her about something else, which I learned when she absent-mindedly said "Form emotional connections!" (the text on her screen) instead of "Bye!" when I left.

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act to allow Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants to purchase hot rotisserie chicken with their benefits.

I have collected a bunch of ex-libris (or bookplates), let me show you some of them. They flourish in the 15th century with the rise of the printing press, to mark ownership of books. Here's one of my fav, you can see that early on they are really personal objects, sometime mysterious or funny.

I have been laughing about this for five minutes.

The most Republican photo you'll see this week. 😄

Lucian is in rare form today: "Let’s stop right there. The President of the United States called into a talk show on a television channel that ordinarily covers the world of business to discuss his strategy to get us out of the war with Iran. Out loud. In public."

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

we all know I have no life, so:

Jellied eels and desserts with poppyseeds. Someday someone will garnish eel with poppyseeds and I'll have to eat it in hell. Also the Welsh meatballs (not going to use the traditional name for obvious reasons) and peas dish. So bad.

THE HELL I CANT

I love this cover so much.

I don't think I've ever read a sentence as unappealing as "Jim Caviezel is Jair Bolsonaro."

I can already ask my glasses anything, we're very open and honest with each other

much diverse

cheers, Dot

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A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

TIL you can rent beer donkeys for events My PhD defence is gonna be lit

As important as Beckett to my philosophical upbringing.

Yeah I remember in the Bible where the Pharisees were blinded to the brilliance of American warriors

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Homo Sap, Neanderthal, hippos, wooly mammoth. This cave has it all. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I know lithographers who use consistent typefaces, and they're all cowards.

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Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

The sickest burn I was ever subject to was when I was trying to buy an overcoat at some shop in The Hague. I put one on, thinking it looked pretty nice. My wife looked me up and down and said “you look like a magician.” Seeing my offended look without missing a beat she said “sorry, illusionist.”

It will be extremely funny if Vance manages to get himself excommunicated before his book on becoming a Catholic releases.

I still can't believe that really happened

I’m absolutely heartbroken to learn that my alma mater is shutting down after nearly six decades. Hampshire College was one of the most innovative institutions in higher education.😢

B601.6 Marriage to lemur.

WELL THEN, AI, WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST THE ODDS ARE THAT THAT WAS THE RESULT I WAS LOOKING FOR

I feel ‘serving kings’ is a rather charitable description of the activities of the best-known Thane of Cawdor.

So much to process

when you're trying to leave at the end of the day and another email emerges in your inbox