He's done this in concert a number of times
17.10.2025 00:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@jerbaron.bsky.social
Rhetoric PhD + digital marketing agency owner. Teaching @ UMD and JHU. Also board game design. https://www.social-intellect.com/ πDC
He's done this in concert a number of times
17.10.2025 00:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."
16.10.2025 23:29 β π 2199 π 897 π¬ 22 π 8You are such a careful thinker about so many things. I would suggest extending that to this topic.
17.10.2025 00:26 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Using ChatGPT
23.08.2025 07:01 β π 11848 π 4615 π¬ 34 π 17I believe that's supposed to be the Potomac, with the arc on the Arlington cemetery side. Which would also mean the Lincoln was rendered backwards.
13.10.2025 02:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents βthought policeβ more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. Youβre not a free thinker, youβre the boot licker.
12.10.2025 21:29 β π 3978 π 586 π¬ 47 π 11You do know that you don't have direct monetization on bluesky, right?
12.10.2025 16:58 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I don't think they should be allowed to do that
09.10.2025 13:16 β π 4185 π 1414 π¬ 60 π 8I will vote for anyone who vows to make cops wear the funny little hats the Brits have to wear, and drive funny little cop cars. I think this would work, honestly.
09.10.2025 03:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world
27.01.2025 03:40 β π 14040 π 1440 π¬ 276 π 74Happy October
01.10.2025 12:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Gonna be honest, I don't think Jimmy Fallon has the intellect to do it anyway
01.10.2025 11:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Seems impossible and yet!
30.09.2025 17:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Everyone was worried about AI videos that might trick meemaw and forgot to worry about the possibility that they could also trick the president of the united states
30.09.2025 17:45 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Vacant units come up a lot in discussions around the housing crisis
This is a good opportunity to go over what the data actually shows π§΅
An abortive attempt at a Kavanaugh Stop.
29.09.2025 11:06 β π 1195 π 186 π¬ 46 π 8They've never needed a real excuse to do literally anything they want this term
28.09.2025 15:49 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It is hard to accept the "mistake" framing when NTT faculty and staff have been imploring TT faculty to more seriously organize with them for some time under this exact premise.
27.09.2025 13:15 β π 21 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0Guess which one will be reprimanded
25.09.2025 20:08 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A progress dashboard for the board game Cirque, which is in development. It describes game balance elements as well as progress on art completion.
New and improved dashboard. We're almost 75% done with the card art, and about to turn to board and box art next! πͺπͺπͺ
25.09.2025 19:21 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0On this front, there is less daylight between Trump and the average person than a lot of people want to admit -- the primary metric here being "who I want to see on TV"
24.09.2025 14:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cindy certainly didn't think so. I know invitational rhetoric has a weird hater sect in the field, but my perception has always been that those people are yelling at their own shadows.
24.09.2025 13:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A class on the rhetoric of civility taught by Cindy Griffin was a fairly radicalizing moment in my undergrad time. One thing I appreciate about this moment is that, at a general level, many seem to be rejecting the idea that whispered bigotries amount to civility at all.
24.09.2025 13:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Gee whiz, this isn't good! Luckily, introducing the exact same technology into the classroom will end in a completely different result.
23.09.2025 16:57 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1Maybe everyone already knows this but the main reason they like Kirk is because the dismantling of his enemies through speech is a sublimation of the violence they would like to inflict on theirs, and the fact that his speech was also itself violent is not necessary, so it's easily ignored.
22.09.2025 01:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.
18.09.2025 15:36 β π 3276 π 663 π¬ 45 π 35What does it take to get folks who have the option of driving to shift away from car trips? When driving takes longer than other modes. Until that calculation shifts, mode shift wonβt.
18.09.2025 05:08 β π 68 π 16 π¬ 1 π 1Shaddap
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