casey (train musical flop queen)

lets fuckin GO

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities.

As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

Holy shit.

This is in South Jersey?!

abolishing is the moderate answer

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

“has a monopoly” is such a funny (disgusting) way to say “is the only existing outlet”

It's corny as hell but the solution to fascism is loving thy neighbor

half of this is unlistenable, half of it sounds like a kurt weill deep cut (affectionate, to be clear)

phils are going all the way this year, i don't make the rules the rib does

yes haha yes sickos dot gif

(its me i’m sickos GO CATS)

Holy hoops! Villanova and Notre Dame finalizing plans to tip 2026-27 college basketball season in Rome, Italy Pope Leo XIV is a Villanova alum and proud longtime sports fan. His attachment in the historic event is still to-be-determined

BREAKING: Villanova and Notre Dame's men's and women's basketball teams are set to open the next college basketball season in none other than Rome, sources told CBS Sports.

The reason? Take a big papal guess.

Details on a huge deal in college hoops: www.cbssports.com/college-bask...

The truth is especially important for leftists now more than ever. Material conditions & reality are what shape actual politics, not idealism & wishcasting.

As conservatives continue to sink into conspiracy, this contradiction will heighten as will the temptation to practice a politics of delusion.

yes, a crucial part of the 'performative' is that it produces or materializes real effects + affects

@ zohran if you're listening i'd love to be the hallie flannigan of your administration. this would be my to-do list

they’re the same picture

the whole bar in bk sang along and then BOOED. crypto is well and fully dead, may we say the same of ai next year

the whole bar just booed that crypto reveal

went to a yankee game once because they were doing a collab with my school and that hat did not go anywhere near my head

i legitimately respect that cooper refuses to wear non-eagles gear, he’s just like me fr

go birds 🫡

this absolute mid-off of a game, idc what happens the eagles will still be the champs after this

n=1 but this tracks with my memory! i remember it as:

-there was a mask shortage of some type
-dems/libs were pushing *not* masking outside of a medical context while supply caught up (all my iatse costume friends were sewing fabric masks)
-rw-ers were trying to mask individually/save themselves

in my experience:

at home, no (unless there are leftover olives from something else sitting around)

restaurant white people tacos (i.e. nachos at an irish pub), yes

maybe in the long run!! this semester, most of my theatre majors are on board with it because i've tied 'reading and writing on paper' to expected workforce skills (ugh, but whatever works). i teach a few gen eds, and those students aren't quite as willing to try out more analog methods.

ime, a shocking number of comp instructors are integrating ai into their assignments. i do feel for students who are getting mixed messages, with an eng101 instructor like her expecting them to use chatgpt on outlines and me telling them to disable grammarly and turn in hand-annotated readings

marshawn lynch
barkley
miley cyrus but from like 5 years ago
nathan lane
keke palmer
gaga, of course

Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Post from r/crochet that says "mods are gone. All hail Mr. Nipples" and its a picture of the most disgusting crocheted doll/creature thats pink and has a creepy smile and horns and big pink nipples. It's truly horrifying

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

got real teary reading this. i didn't know dan personally, but i'll miss his writing so much and can't even fathom how his friends and family are feeling. this is a beautiful tribute