Jeff Roberts

<at a professional services job interview>

Interviewer: so tell me about your skills.

Me: well, I have a PhD in sociology.

Interviewer: …and

Me: I excel at identifying petty status distinctions and making them central to my identity.

Interviewer: when can you start?

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Prioritizing youth mobility is prioritizing adult relaxing poster with a latte above The War on Cars & Lucy Maloney & Tom Flood on stage

Loved this simple image from @tomflood.bsky.social set behind the panel at the Life After Cars event hosted by @visionzerovancouver.ca.

Happy to join @thewaroncars.bsky.social and happy my City Councillor @lucymaloney.bsky.social was up on stage too.

White House   Maid Shrieks After Spotting    Melania  On Ceiling WASHINGTON—Expressing horror as an unidentified slimy substance dripped on her shoulder from above, White House maid Carla Ovares reportedly shrieked Tuesday after spotting first lady Melania Trump on...

White House   Maid Shrieks After Spotting    Melania  On Ceiling

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...

The British malaise is rooted in a national inability to take management seriously.

Back c. 2017, after I heard @stewartbrand.bsky.social offer his standard line that “scenarios of the future to work need to be plausible in the present,” I observed to him that the problem right now is that the present isn’t plausible in the present.

This announcement is a case in point.

If I were Bill Ackman, I really would not tweet the mayor's office and say "please tell me what I can do", because I think they will.

Image: three figures in protective suits watch from behind a screen as a child approaches a door-like mechanical structure in which stands a man. Between them is an amorphous glowing shape. Caption: Scientists at the institute of halloween studies have succeeded in creating "The treak": a quantum state that is simultaneously trick and treat. It is stable for a millionth of a second before decaying into a half-hearted prank and a mediocre candy bar.

A halloween cartoon for @newscientist.com

I fear Rose Rose may be having a stroke

The AI bubble has reached its ‘fried chicken’ phase This is fine

Shares in chicken-frying robot maker rise after three men were seen eating chicken. This is what markets news is now.

www.ft.com/content/b003...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Too young to retire, too old to shift careers. I’m in the exhausted middle.

Good morning Bluesky, lol.

Nvidia first $5tn company

A screenshot that will be showcased in an intro voice over of the bubble bursting

“What we need to elaborate is … a distinct project of probing how life and death, growth and destruction, prosperity and peril, are made routine or exceptional.”

The fine folks at Sociologica have reissued my & Rebecca Elliott’s 2021 essay collection on critical disaster studies as an e-book…

Always fascinating watching people underestimate the size of London vs other UK ciries.

On an average weekday, more journeys are made on JUST the Elizabeth line than the ENTIRE population of Liverpool.

If the Tube was a city, its average daily passengers would make it the 2nd largest in the UK.

One of America’s best-known watch brands is now from Milton Keynes Adventures in forum shopping, loophole hunting and stock preservation

It’s sorta depressing for those of working as corporate sell-outs that pretty much everything we do is broadly irrelevant in light of the chichary undertaken by the boys in legal and finance.

Just dropped a treaty of Westphalia reference on LinkedIn. World’s colliding (not sure in a good way)

Materials from the WV mine wars museum

Look what arrived today!

If you’re not familiar with the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum, check em out! wvminewars.org

They run a union organizing training event in the summer, Camp Solidarity, which is the source of my new arrived swag.

Every trip to physiotherapy is a reminder I wouldn’t hold out long under torture.

More evidence supporting this really neat paper doi.org/10.1111/ajps... (JSTOR version: www.jstor.org/stable/45295...)

I think you and I both know that’s exactly how it played out.

How do you take the minutes for a meeting at which it is agreed to loosen the suicide prevention rules? Does your boss say "make sure that's in writing, otherwise those bastards in the other division will try to wriggle out of it?" Do you report back to your team saying "good news on item 3"?

Tower Hamlets council better mobilize some street sweepers to deal with these wet leaves or prep legal to anticipate my broken hip lawsuit after I go down like a sack of potatoes.

It’s crazy that we invented the internet and then it completely tore us apart. Like imagine if we invented the mass produced assembly line automobile and then it caused 40,000 deaths per wait

It has been a, uh, difficult week but I have not laughed louder and harder at something in a very long time than at this.

The White White East Wing has a big gaping hole.

the year is 2030. the white house remains half demolished because president trump refused to pay construction workers and musk gutted government spending. two thieves sneak into the white house using a truck mounted ladder and steal the constitution