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where my nerds at

One useful thing that graduate school in the social sciences does is they force you to read a bunch of Marx, which is handy later on when people out in the world are trying to tell you about Marx and Marxism because you will be able to tell that they actually haven't read any

i mean whiskey is prob the only way i’ll tango or foxtrot tbh.

Thank you @elliottkalan.bsky.social @flophousepodcast.com

Of great interest, as I am no relation to David Harbour or Tim O’Brien.

This is the best one.

How doth Ea-nāṣir saye goodbye?

Cu later!

Genuinely it rocks that a bunch of dudes whose sole media diet is action thrillers and who have never read an academic nonfiction book have convinced the investor class to bet the entire U.S. economy on a gamble that relies on an untested technology raising productivity more than electricity did

This is terrific. Eager to see what my students think of the term “affection-shaped word foam” after break.

I *love* the torn one that just has "you don't have to accept this future" written in regular handwriting. That's what I keep repeating to anyone who will listen to me at my institution. We don't have to participate in reinforcing this one possible future; there are others we can imagine and make.

Every regional public university should be blasting this message in every possible medium.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Nathaniel Hawthorne added the “w” to his family name because he was ashamed of his great-great-grandfather, a judge in the Salem witch trials.

Wow.

Hear hear!

1992–Asked for The Pixies; My Aunt gave me this:

“Adversarial poetry.”

Love this. Obvs.

Atlanta and Buckhead.

they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory

Treatment for trans kids cannot wait for adulthood. Adolescent changes in the body are permanent and irreversible. The pain of dysmorphia kills. No medical professional treats kids casually, no family seeks treatment casually. Treatment is safe, effective and is a conservative course of action.

New insult to life itself just dropped

"save your anger for 2026" wait you think I'll run out in a year this is why I hate amateurs

Tweet from Matthew Kassel Intel from Somos: Andrew Cuomo is now exploring a campaign for retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler’s Manhattan House seat, according to two people familiar with the matter.

(Rod Serling) Submitted for your ranked choice the case of one Andrew M. Cuomo, smarting scion of suburbia dethroned over workplace boundaries, unwilling to relax his wandering grip on power, and doomed to repeat humiliating attempts at return upon that most brittle boundary of all—the twilight zone

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

The greatest political and cultural change over my lifetime is that there used to be this word "sellout" and people actually gave a damn if you called them one. Bring back the stigma of selling the fuck out.

No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:

1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail

jekyll island club, jekyll island, georgia, 1990

jekyll island club, jekyll island, georgia, 1990