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I'm impressed by [YOUR NAME]. Despite having spent her life being called [YOUR NAME], she has the confidence to contact absolute strangers with completely generic sales cons. My advice to [YOUR NAME] would be to call herself "Kristen" instead. Of course, that's probably not her name.

How cool is this?

#languages #linguistics #Ireland #timelinecleanse

The offer was too hard to pass up...

Former student: "Just a thought after starting... I’m already so tired of hearing agencies say "authentic" "😂 Me: "Ha ha ha. Now you understand my battle."

A former student just started working at a major social media platform, which entails dealing with #marketing agencies. Her first report vindicated my war on "authenticity."

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

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Shot pool today for the first time since before the pandemic. Loved seeing the House of Billiards (in the Valley) packed with young people + hearing songs from the jukebox at least twice as old as they were. Must shoot again soon. (Note: video below not me.)

All hail the Cap'n!!!
(with Crunch Berries, of course)

Ah hail the Cap'n!!!
(with Crunch Berries, of course)

I confess, I hadn't heard of #solarpunk until this terrific @clivethompson.bsky.social article. Now I have to figure out how I can join up...

#books #BookSky

I did that on the app a while ago, but on the web version I can't find any settings.

UCLA School Of Law admissions notice, with the user comment "What? UCLA is giving out scholars hips too?"

I use Google Translate for the Chinese platform Xiaohongshu, and sometimes the translations are a bit off. In this case, it's the word break in the user comment (last line).

Or maybe that's accurate, and UCLA is giving away parts of scholars to entice new students.

#AcademicChatter

Consecutive posts in my Instagram feed:
Bernie Sanders promoting the billionaire tax, and an "ultra-exclusive" yacht club. Note that I don't follow either, and couldn't afford the latter.

I think I broke the algorithm.

P.S. Go, Bernie!

Attention all #horror writers seeking a premise:

US Military Reviving 40,000-Year-Old Microbes

quote from Overheard L.A.: "There should be a name for that weird place in your life where you're just waiting for your moment to hit, you know?" "There is. It's called Los Angeles."

True.

Source: www.instagram.com/p/DU_GX4vkta... #LosAngeles

I love this quote: "Most founders are too afraid to be disliked. They want to be neutral. That is a recipe for obscurity."

RFK Jr.’s iconic nevernude style

Should I be working on an article? Yes. Am I making RFK Jr. memes instead? Maybe.

New Research Absolves the Woman Blamed for a Dynasty’s Ruin

Some people claim that there's a woman to blame, but now they think it's a tectonic fault…
(Volcano, to be exact)

Fascinating bit of #China #archaeology and #history.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Isn't there a theory that crime rates are correlated with the population of young men? Given the relatively low number of 20-somethings today, do you think that could be one of many factors?

There's an ancillary path: "Is it more appropriate for Facebook or Instagram? Post it anyway."

Poetic. I love "The Lights Of L.A. County."

OMG, I was just thinking about Lyle Lovett yesterday. I used to do marketing for his albums.

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On this day we commemorate a time when the United States actually had leaders who were presidential.

#PresidentsDay

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19.

I second that emotion.

Resistance infrastructure.

Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.

Scathing indictment of American #capitalism by a conservative economist. Explains why everything from jobs to shopping is getting shittier. We can evict the goons from DC (the sooner the better), but unless we rein back "financialization," the decline will continue.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

For a Valentine's Day Caturday...

I'll have to check them out!

I recall listening to a thriller in my car, and just sitting in a parking lot waiting for the killer ending.

On the flipside, I've found myself in the middle of long tedious printed books, and lamenting, "I've got 200 more pages of this?!"