Andrew Longhofer

Ann & Andy

that's just police work tho

portland city politics is a battle between woke DINKs and evil retired boomers and we’re all just caught in the middle

4-panel SMBC comic update. The first panel shows a framed text that reads : "Discovery: Book titles are way better if you add "hundred" any time the word "a" appears." The next 3 panels show classic literature books with modified titles : To Kill a Hundred Mockingbirds, A Hundred Rooms of One's Own, Death of a Hundred Salesmen.

The Perks of Being A Hundred Wallflowers is about a teenager with the superpower to turn into an army of shy people.

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Jake sisco and Nog from Star trek DS9 shaking hands

'I can't believe they turned Star Trek into a teen drama, it's gotten so far from what made it good, wah wah wah'

Meanwhile Star Trek in 1993:

NORMAL PEOPLE: The Netflix/WB merger would be an unconscionable consolidation of power, and an attack on filmmaking itself.

ME: They're gonna have The Rizzler wrestle a Stranger Thing

Brown is nice

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

penguin classics cover for the magician's nephew by CS Lewis, but the cover image is george michael bluth

countersuing for the $14k that three surgeries to remove Things You Should Not Eat from his stomach cost in the last two months, plus damages for the vacation days taken for them, plus mental anguish for chewing up two pairs of shoes and two whole meals' worth of leftovers

she's gonna end up in the arms of the angels pdq herself if she does it again 😤

what's the faculty senate doing? does dartmouth have an @aaup.org chapter?

Refrigerator doors with baby lock

It's not like there's a handle though—the catch is along the top edge of the door, between the fridge door and freezer door. It's not conceptually hard, just hard as a matter of not having thumbs and wedging his nose into exactly the right place with exactly the right pressure

had to put a baby lock on the fridge because the dog has figured out how to open it?!?!

No one could’ve predicted that putting a lot of Opus Dei weirdos on the Supreme Court would end our democracy

what’s more virgin than a computer

FJGHDHDKFJJDHS!!!! JAY! yes

spHouse

Western Sahara and Somaliland discourse after that? Essequibo?

"Rich kids are gaming disability accommodations to gain an unfair advantage" is actually very different from "America has an extra-time-on-tests problem" — and the author hasn't proved that either! Rich kids might just be more likely to be diagnosed.

I worked at a university where the five highest paid employees were the men’s basketball coach, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired, the former men’s basketball coach who was fired before that one, the former president who had been fired, and the current president. In that order.

DMV is state, not federal

some states have set it up to be pretty smooth. The Oregon DMV had me in and out for a license renewal in like 15 minutes.

Been holding onto this one for a while

When I ask them: "What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to?" Often, the answer is: nothing. Which has a direct effect on their over-use of prompts and AI, because they can't think of ideas, because they are literally not engaging with a single figurative thing.

I don't know how to teach students who hate reading/writing, when reading/writing are the foundations of what I'm supposed to teach. Yes, I engage with audio technologies, digital narratives, cinema, material culture...but it's all forms of reading. I just don't know what they want out of this.

It's like they just keep...forgetting? Or they read the instructions and completely disregard them, even knowing that they can't pass the assignment without demonstrating really clear skills (citing material, writing on a course text, etc.). They just...don't do it. And don't seem to care.

We're seeing possibly the worst attendance in history. Even in creative writing classes, where students generally want to participate and have their voice heard--they're not showing up, ignoring guidelines and feedback, and either describing expectations as "unclear" or simply refusing to comply.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

We keep adjusting our goalposts, trying to meet students where they're at--but for some, that place is a kind of non-place, where they don't complete any work or engage with the class, but still receive a high grade. Emails are ignored. They can't meet a deadline or keep an appointment.