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teaching professor of economics, faculty unionist at the University of Oregon | pedagogy, astronomy, tabletop gaming, parodies, data visualization, maps, sundry | #TeachEcon #EconSky 📈📉 | alum UArizona & Berkeley Econ | he/him
"...is that the whole point of the Strait of Hormuz is lost--if you keep it a secret! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL THE WORLD, eh?!"
*stares at literally any map of the region*
wondering how many of us have been waiting to hear troubling news from a *different* narrow water passage to skeet:
"The straits are not OK."
"Maybe it will happen today."
The last time we had back-to-back Friday the 13ths in February and March was 2015.
Happy Friday the 13th to all the paraskevidekatriaphiles out there!
Reading Chicka Chicka Boom backwards was helpful for mixing things up during that phase.
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Don't forget the golf courses!!
"there's no way they actually said biblical right that's editorializing by the pap- holy shit" www.ft.com/content/8236...
Rolling the ball straight down the middle of the lane is a great way to get a 7-10 split.
Fuck.
After 13.5 years at UO, I'm starting to think that won't happen before my layoff becomes effective on June 18.
Still waiting for my wage to approach my marginal product of labor.
How long before Trump suggests demining the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear blasts?
It's an even more eyeroll-inducing offense when the institution that *awarded* me the title doesn't use it when they solicit donations.
It's only 3:40pm in Eugene, but the office door is closed.
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"and though not quite in your voice, I'll say:"
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Cross-cutting fractures may form barriers to the propagation of major quakes along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. (Oregon Live) www.oregonlive.com/weather/2026...
"These are not decisions we make lightly. Given the financial realities we face, we must act decisively to preserve the high-quality, accessible education our students expect and deserve, while also remaining competitive in an increasingly hippo-driven marketplace."
Déjà vu!
(sans the hippos)
Right?!
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And despite the fact that the university hired you because you had a PhD, HR couldn't possibly be expected to tell the folks in development:
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To clarify--as I speak my truth into the void!--the bio of one of my accounts on the bird site included the phrase "infamous lachrymist".
I'm *completely* comfortable with the fact that I cry easily and often.
It's just that sometimes other people can be caught off guard and become a bit unnerved.
BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge in Oregon just issued a preliminary injunction, blocking federal agents from using tear gas and other chemical crowd control devices on protesters at the ICE building in Portland. #orpol #breakingnews
*"Head Above Water" by Men Without Hats starts playing on Pandora*
Glancing from my desk toward the open door, I think to myself:
"Sure, it's 6:20pm. It'll be fine for me to sob in my office at PLC with the door wide open."
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IMPEACHMENT AND TRIBUNALS
I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well
It's extremely weird that a Cybertruck owner might do something like this.
(Hopefully with gas cans, at least!)
If the context for this quotation in the WSJ piece is that it was unthinkable that anyone would be careless or foolish enough to *launch* a large-scale attack on Iran with these very predictable consequences foremost in mind, I'd say an article with that framing is at least eight days late.
