doctor of softboyology

Sun’s coming up. Choose something good.

A broad coalition of conservative to liberal legal scholars: "Using federal funding to dictate who colleges admit and what faculty can say crosses a dangerous line."

5-2 is way better than 5-1 psychologically.

#Mariners

Something I learned from baseball is that if you *choose* to care about something and put a tiny bit of effort in, it can become a source of joy and camaraderie in hard times. Literally all you have to do sometimes is choose.

Warning: Mariners posting ahead 🔱

But if you’re getting tired of these you can add to your mute words or something

Update from Interim President Kim October 16, 2025 Dear Trojan Family, Earlier today, I sent this letter to the U.S. Department of Education regarding the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. I appreciate the various p...

USC is also rejecting Trump's compact

Between this and major media orgs rejecting the new rules for covering the Pentagon, we are finally seeing resistance and more importantly COLLECTIVE RESISTANCE from elite organizations. Should have happened January-June, but better later than never.

A six pack of handheld size flags is like $8 on Amazon. Use one, and hand the rest out.

Might just keep this as my emergency writing spot. Lots of light, plenty of workspace, wifi, a little cafe downstairs.

A grid of blue-framed diamond-shaped windows going up the soaring wall of a library. Outside a skyscraper looms. In the lower part of the frame, the tops of two lit rows of bookshelves.

I went to Seattle’s @spl.org Central Library to write yesterday.

It’s hitting me that I wrote this sentence yesterday:

“Authoritarianism is not unique to the United States.”

Just wrote it like it was nothing. Just another sentence.

It’s a rally superstition thing. Weird caps and shoes on the head.

If there’s a team that deserves a World Series opportunity it’s still the mariners #GoMs

“10 points with this swing Julio.” -The guy behind me.

Am I at the mariners game again? Yes.

Does it hurt? Yes.

your opinion is not welcome here

The seafaring boys from Seattle need your energy tonight #Mariners 🔱

Hands are starting to sweat
#Mariners
#GoMs 🔱

It’s a real pull a rabbit out of a hat day over here

I’m so sorry Peter

a close up of a woman 's face wearing a jacket and earrings Alt: Diane Lockhart sizing up someone

Examining the dodger and the brewer for no specific reason

#Mariners 🔱

An orange tabby kitten, 8 weeks old, green blue eyes, pointy ears. Slight hair loss on face is from food and will grow back

#TabbyTuesday close up 🐱🧡 #cats #FosterKittens

Did something happen?

The Mariners are God’s team it seems

I’m just saying:

If the Mariners can beat the Jays twice in Toronto, I think we can beat ANYONE

#GoMs 🔱

The Mariners can go all the way #GoMs 🔱

Keeping an eye on the mariners at my desk 👀👀👀

We have those bird brains spooked

#GoMs 🔱

Want to just acknowledge how hard this is, and how lonely it can feel.

Join me in microdosing nature on campus

This @stanfordaaup.bsky.social is so necessary in this moment of attack on higher ed: "This compact is better understood as an attempt to subordinate some of the country’s most important civil society institutions to the executive branch of the federal government." stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...