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this is a fun football game to watch

wow what an electric play

observation re: my own students, wondering if others are seeing this:

they’re quite comfortable sharing potentially controversial ideas / opinions with me via written homework, but they are super hesitant to discuss their ideas with each other.

are they worried sincerity will be read as Cringe?

okay!

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if you haven’t watched “Famous Last Words” yet with Jane Goodall on Netflix, take an hour to do that.

it is time well spent.

I am continually shocked at the number of bog-standard grocery items in various categories are just…not available at the store. Supply chain is borked, tariffs are screwing with packaging. It’s a hot mess.

wow that touchdown catch

I had two (2) weak drinks over the course of three hours last night and I feel like I have been run over by a truck.

Aging is wild.

Honestly, it kinda feels like we're out of takes at this point. Like everyone's already said everything they had to say and we're done here.

The Freed Unit's crowning glory.

this Spanish language skit is hilarious

I remember that! I need to dig up the blog post I wrote that went through the variety of possible meanings behind “bless your heart” — that was one of my better public service essays.

living the dream!

this old lady is still awake. save all your almond joys for me!

1993 photo of Betty White and Carol Channing. Betty is in the drivers seat. She looks perplexed. She is wearing large framed glasses popular at the time. My mom had a pair. Carol is in the back seat. She is wearing sunglasses and is looking very Carol Channing

Blessing your timeline with this photo of Betty White and Carol Channing ✨

An Episcopal Priest Defends a Founding American Principle


Randall Balmer, an Episcopal priest and renowned religious historian, argues that the separation of church and state is “America’s best idea.”
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California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’ Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech Any California universities that sign the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” will “instantly” lose their state funding, California governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. The Trump administration on Wednesday offered nine prominent universities, including the University of Southern California, the chance to sign a “compact” that asks the universities to close academic departments that “purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas”, limit the proportion of international undergraduate students to 15% , accept the administration’s definition of gender and ban the consideration of race or sex in hiring and admissions, in exchange for “substantial and meaningful federal grants”. Continue reading...

California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’

lmao

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

100% serious question: what will become of the professoriate at public colleges and universities in Texas? and how fast will it happen?

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

What elite academic institution is going to be the first to pull a Frankfurt School and actually just leave America over this stuff?

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this was a lot. every day is a lot.

October 1, 2025 Last night, as the government barreled toward a shutdown, President Donald J.

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People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

Becoming an ancient crone who tells mystical tales to the English majors in my classes about the halcyon days when the college library was wall-to-wall stacks of wonderful books rather than 80% coldly sanitized monochrome “flex spaces”

“Mr Pope”

Bring back websites

I know we're all adults, but, on occasion, everyone needs scooping off the floor by their irl friends & family. Reins taken for a few days; told that you're loved despite everything; given cake? Basically, what you'd do with a sad child.

Adults get weary, and the nuclear family is waning.