Broken Historian

“While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law…” is the absolute most important lesson for anyone trying to make it through this current era.

The most subtle cue that South Park gave us last night was the best… calling it “Eye See Eee” instead of “Ice” takes the piss right outta them. Destroys any cool factor in their name.

And it’s something we can all easily do - thanks Matt and Trey!

AI fabrication of false photographic evidence is acceptable?

“Image should be clearly marked as AI generated and with explicit discussion as to how the image was created. Images should not be shared beyond the classroom.”

What possible benefit would this offer in an historical research paper!?

Seriously, fuck off.
I say that with all due gravity.

It should piss you off a lot that someone is willing to warp your reality to make themselves look good. You should actually be LIVID.

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RFK Jr to millions of people: "I'm gonna Sirhan Sirhan the shit out of you motherfuckers."

how is this real life

Among the things we are going to look back on and realize we needed to do to help stave off authoritarianism was DC statehood. Lots of regrets when you lose a democracy, but this will be one of the big ones for us.

it's so funny that all it took was calling a chatbot "artificial intelligence" for people to believe that's really what it is. most humans are such fucking marks, man. lethally credulous species.

We invented the Be Right Back zombie from the Black Mirror episode Be Right Back (unofficial subtitle: don’t invent the Be Right Back zombie)

A be-oven-mitten hand holds a nearly empty bottle of Pizza John’s Hot Sauce in front of a homemade pizza. The oven mitt has cats on it as all good oven mitts should, obviously.

It’s pizza night, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social… it’s pizza night.

That’s fine. I think the argument is spurious, but if a fair trial is held and they are found guilty by a jury of their peers - on one count or even 34 counts - then yes.

We don’t worship the Clintons. Nor anyone. We believe in justice. For all. No one is above the law.

I have also heard that lemon juice and salt water are the best way to clean your Cybertruck. Is it true that you should be using lemon juice and salt water to clean a Cybertruck as this is the best way to preserve the finish?

Readers, if you don't know, course evals are often a nightmare for women & faculty of color. I've had friends & colleagues report students commenting on their appearance, using racial slurs, & making all sorts of misogynistic comments.
white male = genius, non-white/female = pushing an agenda.

Want to get back at that prof who gave you an A- on an exam? Or maybe you don't think people of color or women should be professors?

Make up a story about antisemitism, plop it into an anonymous student evaluation, and watch as your prof's life is upturned faster than you can spell "fascism."

Gus Meme with text referred to in prior tweet

No AI required…

I rarely see your videos. Like I see every 10th one… Sometimes I do see your initial joke post without the video below, which just looks like a shitpost tweet and unless I realize it’s from you, I don’t go digging for the video.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

If your reaction is “let’s focus group some messaging,” please understand that you aren’t reacting as a savvy political operative.

That’s a trauma response. You’re retreating from the horrors by pretending we still inhabit the same familiar institutions.

We do not. Those times have passed.

Live coverage from Japan:

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I’m not trying to dunk on this person or anyone in particular, but I want to be clear about how I think about this: Yes, I expect more of Democrats than Republicans, because I expect more of politicians who promise to defend what I stand for than I do of politicians who promise to destroy it.

Wesley LePatner, a 44-year-old Blackstone executive who oversaw its $53 billion real-estate investment fund, was killed in Manhattan's mass shooting "We cannot properly express the grief we feel upon the sudden and tragic loss of Wesley," the LePatner family told Fortune, adding she was a "driven and extraordinarily talented professional and colle...

if you use AI to write my obit, I'm going to haunt your ass. you will never get a good night's sleep again. fortune.com/2025/07/29/w...

Graphic in the style of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles except it says Substack is a Nazi Website

Hey, so, if you have a Substack, this is what you are associating yourself with.

ah i sure would like to see an intelligent conversation with a supreme court justice by an informed and perceptive journalist. now to take a big sip of water and open the internet.

A framed lithograph portrait for that BAMF Thaddeus Stevens…

Now you need one on the wall!

We have never needed Mark Fisher more and he’s not here.

Something poetic about being haunted by the ghost of a Mark Fisher that should have been but never was…

Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...

absolutely nails it. the work of language in the age of mechanical reproduction I guess