Kevin Potter

LMAO the prize goes to the Maggie Thatcher of Venezuela. Clown show.

Trump deserves no credit for this ceasefire - even in a backhanded way. He could have stopped the war this entire past year. If you have to thank someone - and there is little to be thankful for given the ruins of Gaza - please thank the global protest movement.

Sign the Petition Academics against the Genocide in Gaza - Akademiker*innen gegen den Völkermord in Gaza

For anyone who falls outside of this category of academics in Austria (or Austrians abroad): there is also a Changedotorg petition, in which we would be delighted to have your signature/support.
www.change.org/p/academics-...

Dear academics in Austria and/or Austrian academics abroad: a group of scholars and I have composed this open letter to Austrian Members of Parliament to take immediate action with respect to Gaza. Please consider signing it and passing it on
researchers4palestine.org/initiatives-...

There is a slight satisfaction I feel when this happens

researchers4palestine.org

You’re using ChatGPT to summarize a great work of literature.

I’m using it to tell me how to call someone a miserable sack of shit in German.

We are not the same.

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

Fine, you’ve convinced me. I’ll start brushing up on my German again so that I can establish a footing here and get my permanent residence. Anything to avoid going back to live in the USA. That place has gone officially down the toilet.

How Teacher Evaluations Broke the University “We give them all A’s, and they give us all fives.”

"Evaluations are also vulnerable to just about every bias imaginable ... students score male professors higher than female ones, rate attractive teachers more highly, and reward instructors who bring in cookies."
#HigherEd #edchat #university
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Turns out he’s only guilty of being hunky

A genie appeared and told me I could have 3 wishes but warned me there are 3 rules, wishes that can never be granted:

1. No wishing for more wishes
2. No wishing harm on anyone
3. No time travel

I wished for Chuck Schumer to be useful.

Genie pauses and says: ok actually there are 4 rules.

Guy who sells doo doo (squinting wisely and doing visionary voice): We believe within 10 years the world economy will be almost completely powered by doo doo

She’s a ten but “doesn’t care that it’s Sturm season in Austria”

I don’t know why Alexander Pope needs to attack me like this:
“There, dim in clouds, the poring scholiasts mark,
Wits, who like owls, see only in the dark,
A lumberhouse of books in every head,
For ever reading, never to be read!”

update: male loneliness epidemic solved

Hi friends/comrades in Vienna, I’ll be leading a monthly Palestinian Literature reading circle, starting in November and going into next summer. All interested participants are welcome. Specific dates and location will be announced in due time.

cmon baby you know you want to hit this

[me flirting with a bus]

Much to consider

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/p...

It may be International Dog Day, but waffles never takes a day off from her royal duties

Drawing of Laika in space suit with Negro Matapacos

Happy International Dog Day from the dog international

Conservatives Liberals
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Falling for astroturfed pseudo-controversies

Um, what?

The funny thing about Trump’s crusade against mail-in ballots is that absentee ballots in Florida quite likely solidified his electoral majority there in all three elections.

Do academics normally promote their own work to others via email? I feel icky doing it.

bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein In the run-up to this week’s deadly attacks, stories linking Palestinian reporters to Hamas gained currency, says Berlin-based journalist Hanno Hauenstein

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza - my latest @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel is starving Palestinians to death.
Israel is assassinating journalists in Gaza with impunity.
Israel openly plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
Israel is openly planning concentration camps in Gaza.
Israel kidnaps and targets doctors in Gaza.

What voters love - I mean fucking *love* - are candidates who talk like a corporate Chief People Officer, dancing around direct questions and just saying words in the hope that you’ll forget what the question was. People can’t get enough of it. I am smart and my consulting fee is $250,000.

“Proudhon certainly hears the bells ringing but never knows where.”
-Marx, who can’t help being such a cantankerous grouch in The Grundrisse