Michael Malis

"UM's endowment climbed $2 billion to a market value of $21.2 billion during the past fiscal year." And yet, staff are still being laid off due to federal cuts. Many of us haven't seen measurable pay increases to match the cost of living in years When will this university invest in its employees?

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ta-Nehisi Coates not saying anything

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

what the fuck. i'm not a robot, i promise

mid-line came to me
"become un-google-able"
erase digi'tal gaze

#haiku

the cory booker speech has to go down as one of the emptiest political gestures of all time, right?

Crucial detail… two of the three who died were murdered. Insane.

Three people I’ve know for over a decade died in the last week. A fourth called me out of the blue in distress. I turned 37 on Monday. Things are not okay.

I hate that this is where I’ve landed, but it turns out that the world is just irredeemably bad, and the best you can do is toil endlessly at the sisyphean task of making it a tiny bit better

It’s insane how we live in a society where there’s more accountability for football coaches than elected government officials

Florida Board of Governors rejects Santa Ono as University of Florida president The selection of the former UM president faced backlash from GOP leaders over his handling of pro-Palestine encampments and his past support of DEI.

Ope!

"bsky is dead!"
okay great this is my diary and none of you are supposed to be reading it anyway

When you know a footnote is going to be a banger and sure enough, it’s a banger

This weekend: put my hands in the dirt, stayed out late dancing, caught a soccer game with my kiddo, grilled for my in-laws. Exhausting but fulfilling holiday weekend.

My love language is offering / being offered a gig that’s going to be a great time but pays no money

People doing anything they like to survive

relistening to tracks of a finished album that i have in the can, trying to figure out what the best next steps are, and falling in love with the music all over again.

It’s true that backpack is sick 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

The fact that the piano album is legitimately horrible isn’t helping the flute album’s legacy

my scalding hot take is that the flute album is significantly, laughably better than the piano album -- but the flute album was never really a flute album in the first place, and that misnomer is the genesis of this whole debacle

the media shitstorm that has precipitated is entirely blown out of proportion, but also matt tends to find himself in these kinds of positions

He’s 10, btw

I know I’m fried cuz I just said to my piano student “the legato isn’t legato-ing. Let’s try it again, more legato-y.”

yeah exactly, especially for breaking news!

i've got the champion's league semifinal on in the background, and CBS just broke in with a SPECIAL REPORT. i swear my heart sank cuz i'm thinking, what war just escalated or natural disaster just happened? do i get the go bag ready? instead, it's a report that a new pope has NOT been elected 😂 ok

Deleting the Pope from the group chat

9yo nephew: but do you believe [jesus rose from the dead]

me: no but i respect everyone’s belief

9yo: i believe you’re squishy slug ha ha you have to respect it

new york times article a year from now, probably

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

Basketball: not as optimal