Craig Johnson

One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.

we don't need to do this

we could stop it if we wanted to

I would say Two Towers is the best of the three, though to be honest I love them all.

agreed

the better take, i confess

Outside meaning aisle seat

if you are on public transit and sit in the outside seat while the inside seat is open, you are engaging in uncivil behavior

the second movie in a trilogy is always the best or the worst, it is never the second best

Children are not therapy
Wives are not therapy
Marriage is not therapy

only therapy is therapy

LLMs aren't a cyberpunk thing, they're more like a straight up Brave New World or 1984 thing

if you aren't reading and supporting 3rd Voice, you should be - good writing, incredible world building, beautiful and terrifying art, believable characters in unbelievable situations, exactly what I want from sci-fi fantasy

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you said it

no no no no no

Overwhelming majority of Americans oppose military action in Venezuela, poll finds, as US prepares for next phase of operations – live Seventy percent of Americans oppose to US military action in Venezuela, CBS News/YouGov poll finds; Trump administration labels Maduro as member of foreign terrorist organization

perfect example of the limits of polling and also the limits of the electorate's understanding: big majority opposes military action in Venezuela, while slim majority SUPPORTS the military strikes on fishing boats, which is... military action.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

the right take - Trump may be declining, but Trumpism is here to stay

had a no laptops policy this this semester, students' questions and engagement were off the charts good

This is often how personalist regimes work -- dozens of guys close to the leader compete for power and influence, backstabbing and out-maneuvering each other for the leader's attention/ignorance.

image of a still from the movie Home Alone, the film within a film gangster movie, in which a character holds a tommy gun at the camera and says "merry Christmas ya filthy animal" in a festive font and colors

I pumped my fists in the air and screamed, so happy

Fearing He Would Flee, Police in Brazil Arrest Jair Bolsonaro

YES YES YEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/w...

Actually was already going to lecture on William Walker today, who did invade and conquer Nicaragua, made English the nat language, legalized enslavement, and was recognized by President Pierce!

Backlash to this is the origin of the idea of "Latin America"

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

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what a time to be alive

yes this just got put in the lecture

from today's lecture: the origins of the term "Latin America" aren't from the US invasion of Mexico, 1848 (they still mostly used "Hispanic America" then), but from the time US citizen William Walker invade Nicaragua, legalized slavery, declared himself Pre, and got recognized by the US! 1856.

what a disgusting betrayal, no wonder people are leaving the party

why do they think this will work?

US men indicted for alleged coup plot to kill and rape people on Haitian island Texans planned to utilize unhoused US people to take over Gonâve and fulfill ‘rape fantasies’, justice department says

and on the very day I'm going to lecture on William Walker and his attempted coup in Nicaragua:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I've had similar talks with folks about academia -- they know we're low paid, but when i tell them *how* low they think I'm lying

like genuinely I've had people in the Bay Area look at me and say "...but that's not a middle class salary"

to which i have to go "ok then vote for higher taxes"

yeah just nationalize it

this is known to educators everywhere -- we grade based on how clear it is that the student learned something, gained something from the experience, based on evidence of their thinking process and understanding