H. Austin Whitver

Finally answering the question of what would happen if you built a whole government out of the classic Grand Vizier trope.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

This! The fact that it might be a less familiar Nazi symbols to the public is irrelevant. He knew what it was and believed in what it stood for enough to etch it on his body. (And, in the very unlikely event he did not know, not finding out still shows a disqualifying level of poor judgement).

Penny, looking intently at something as she shoots a laser from her awesome computer book.

Nearly 40 years now of thinking Penny’s computer book from Inspector Gadget is the pinnacle of tech and desperately wanting one.

The same smug dinks in your comments going “America doesn’t even HAVE a king” all day today spent the third quarter of 2024 saying “he doesn’t even KNOW ABOUT Project 2025” with exactly the same stupid-faced energy

Twice, once on each end, counting that safety. UT coach has his work cut out convincing the team to come back out the tunnel.

I was going to ask if you were wearing him (it was always how we got O to sleep) because I think even my heart rate would have woken up a kid.

Jason McCall knows ball, but he REALLY knows Miami football.

Has he seen the original “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three”? It has an astonishing love/hate relationship with the city that shows it warts and all in a way only a New Yorker could write.

I hope the "women don't like the vehicle" guy has some idea of how fast his comment has spread to all corners of the internet, how it will be his sole legacy, how it will outlive him and his children of doubtful provenance and then outlive his gilded monument with that line as his epitaph.

So true. If anything I am seeing more of a student pushback against AI this year (with some notable outliers who cannot understand why other students shun their incuriosity).

A student compared my teaching writing skills to training them to use carrier pigeons if you want to know how my day is going.

Holy shit.

I have never heard this story and yet now an oral history of this event is all I want in life.

If you survive the first one you are in?

Not to sincere-post, but I honestly think “we are the Full-Sized Candy Bar People because we can be, and if you can, why wouldn't you” is the ethos missing from so many right now.

Finding out it was a misquote (or more accurately an improperly truncated quote) was such a lightbulb moment.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

Thought that was a negative for a second so I was more worried by SMU.

If you all would have included truthful Black History as part of American History, you wouldn't be so "shocked" by what is happening right now. In fact, what is happening now likely wouldn't be happening because you would have been able to see it coming with knowledge of history.

Conservative politics is packed full of fools and short sighted grifters, but those trying to cripple our education system (worse even than it has been) know EXACTLY what they are doing. Knowledge of our real history would make our current direction impossible/ unthinkable.

Oh this is exactly it. When you pack things in boxes, 95% fits and 5% has to go somewhere else. When the movers come, they pick up 95% of what is in your house and leave 5%. And yet, somehow, both 5s feel exactly the same size as both 95s.

I am so stoked about our new place, but actually moving to a new house is the absolute pits.

Why is it always the water company? Everywhere I have lived, all the utilities update their policies / procedures other than the Water Company which stays resolutely in the 50s. Hell, even the DMV in Tuscaloosa finally entered this century (stopped requiring cash / checks) in the past couple years

Dolly Parton Shares Video Confirming Sister A Shit-Stirring Bitch

Dolly Parton Shares Video Confirming Sister A Shit-Stirring Bitch https://theonion.com/dolly-parton-shares-video-confirming-sister-a-shit-stirring-bitch/

I honestly do not care about the Chiefs, but this game is very unbecoming of a team of their stature.

Poster for Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.

Bama won and now watching this with the fam. A good day.

One of the main questions I ask my students every time I teach it is "what does she see in him." Usually they end up deciding it is an "I can fix him" situation.

This site needs a CEO who represents the values of its users. That's why the next CEO needs to be a 40 year old trans black woman whose favorite show is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Had a live roach crawl out into my office and onto my desk while I was interviewing a student for a letter of rec. How is your day going.

[[Should note, seen other bugs, but never a roach here before. I keep my office very clean of food. Also, she reacted a LOT less dramatically than I did.]]