People say that but if you send it to them in an email they don’t read it

Planning a meeting of one’s academic department is desperately trying to avoid anyone having the thought “this could have been an email”

Unfortunately living up to several stereotypes about HS English teachers

The demand that we see the new Tron movie on “the largest screen possible” seems like a challenge for @xkcd.com

Who’ll be alive?

Cam Skattebo finally found his vocation after years of rigging podracing for the Hutts

Helloween and now Nelson? James Gunn is evidently a metal fan with some idiosyncratic tastes

What is going on in the nfl this week

This site helps detect AI writing, and for students, helps their writing avoid AI detection

The statistical mean comment is “What do you expect with all the Commiefornian’s moving here they better not try that in my neighborhood 2A 🙏”

Like inducing people in the general public or specifically the people taking the surveys?

What’s with Park City and all the high-quality hummus

I wonder how many respected periodicals from the 70s-90s are now reduced to publishing lists of their best Prime Day deals

Typesetters need ɵ and ð way more than they need an interrobang #punctuation

Reading this “Shady Characters” book and I also can’t get behind the interrobang #punctuation

Idk who needs to hear this but don’t buy Hi-chew as treats for students (esp in ESL) - they contain gelatin

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Stories like this remind me of Michael Moore’s prayer for hardship to befall Republicans or their loved ones because being directly affected is the only way they’re ever on the right side of a social justice issue

Assuming a mischievous genie must have been involved

I feel like Patrick Mahomes should have been more specific when he asked to be the best rusher on his team

The Patriots and the Jaguars wow

Of all the nonsense that animates the right-wing debatosphere, the idea that Democrats are importing pliant D voters is among the most transparently nonsensical

Fascist Cringe: A Theory Why Pete Hegseth’s performance of shamelessly toxic masculinity rings so hollow

“Fascist cringe is the particular legacy of the Trump era: their perception of what they look like to their specific audience, and what they actually look like, are radically divergent.”

open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

Quoth Kate Manne:

“The effect is then what I am calling fascist cringe: a performance that teeters over the cliff of masculinity and does a spectacular, ignominious face-plant into the fascist escarpment of camp, kitsch, and similar.”

Where? Tiktok?

You’re also an experienced practitioner of <i>hayakuchi</i>

Looks like someone studied スライドデザイン: The Ancient Japanese Art of Slide Design

If I were GRRM I’d wait until at least 2029 to publish Winds of Winter. No way it’d make the news before then

*knocks on wood* I haven’t had a respiratory virus or flu since I started masking in 2020

Apparently they were big fans of the Three Stooges