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Jake Wright

@bcnjake.bsky.social

Philosopher, husband, dad, teacher, "leftist," potty-mouth, and pedagogical chaos agent. Aspiring to be the C.M. Punk of higher education. Distinguished, or so I'm told. he/him

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a woman says i love mess while talking to another woman Alt: Marie Kondo saying "I love mess"

Piastri out, Max starting in P20 because he crashed in Q1, Aston with two cars that seem unlikely to even make it halfway through the race, Toto with an absolutely shit eating grin…

08.03.2026 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. 

https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - for that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning. https://spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-syllabi/

In case anyone needs it for their syllabi, my statement in gen-Ai from the minicomic I made as a syllabus for class last semester. All online and printable here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

06.01.2026 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 438    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 15

I'll know it happened because a bunch of Ewoks will be dancing outside my living room window.

08.03.2026 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yes they do

07.03.2026 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 6121    πŸ” 2082    πŸ’¬ 193    πŸ“Œ 71
A black Staunton chess knight

A black Staunton chess knight

Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing

08.03.2026 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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pepperidge farm remembers is written on the screen of a tv Alt: A cartoon of an old-timey guy in a horse-drawn carriage saying PEPPERIDGE FARM REMEMBERS.

Remember when a bunch of dipshit middle managers did this at a fucking chicken processing plant and it was a national scandal for weeks?

07.03.2026 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œMAGA is a bunch of 12 year olds” continues to be an excellent meta-explanation for everything they do.

07.03.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Is my Excel spreadsheet sentient? I am a serious person.

07.03.2026 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But is the joke conscious?

07.03.2026 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I want to make a panpsychism joke, but I just can’t.

07.03.2026 15:41 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is like 1995-in-music good.

07.03.2026 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Why… why would you stop at one?

07.03.2026 04:23 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Last time, the South Korean pep band played the boss music from Mega Man 2 in between innings. It was spectacularly gonzo.

07.03.2026 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What if baseball, but we let the players have fun?

07.03.2026 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

LAD get: Colton Parayko

BLUES get: Freddie Freeman

06.03.2026 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This line from my annual review letter just tickles me:

β€œAs is the case with most of Dr. Wright’s work, the project is fused with his usual intellectual intensity and unapologetic wit, equal parts irreverent and academically challenging.”

06.03.2026 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
& Reposted by Josh Eyler
Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan....β€’ 31m
SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26
NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%
49
$ 459
Β© 1.7K
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Star Trek Minus Context @nocontex... β€’ 2m
Maybe a little soft jazz.
ALT
$ 13
57
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfi... β€’ 38m
Not gonna quote someone who's drowning in angry replies, but

& Reposted by Josh Eyler Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan....β€’ 31m SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21% 49 $ 459 Β© 1.7K ... Star Trek Minus Context @nocontex... β€’ 2m Maybe a little soft jazz. ALT $ 13 57 ... Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfi... β€’ 38m Not gonna quote someone who's drowning in angry replies, but

Bluesky remains undefeated.

06.03.2026 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My high school girlfriend and I frequently babysat her Very Evangelical Cousins, and we watched a lot of VeggieTales. It was, if I may say this about a series of direct to video cartoons about CGI Christian produce, Real Shit. Much better than 90% of contemporary cartoons.

06.03.2026 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The VeggieTales’ successful reimagining of Madam Bovary, a work originally attacked by censors as lewd and obscene, by turning it into a children’s cartoon about a blueberry is a seminal triumph of imaginative adaptation. In this essay…

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β€œThe business that makes certain content freely available for purchase in a capitalist system is oppressing me because customers are freely choosing not to purchase it” is certainly a take.

06.03.2026 18:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The best VeggieTales song is the Water Buffalo Song and it mentions Jesus exactly zero times. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

06.03.2026 18:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What else was I supposed to use as a cheap candleholder?!

06.03.2026 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Does… does Groundskeeper Willie work at the cemetery?

06.03.2026 02:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Makes me proud to be Irish.

05.03.2026 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The simple truth that a lot of people don't want to hear is that the actual solution to college sports was figured out by the University of Chicago and Washington University in St. Louis decades ago when they withdrew from the Big 10 and (future) Big 8.

It's pro or D-III. Those are the choices.

05.03.2026 22:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

(With a h/t to @sharonk.bsky.social)

05.03.2026 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m running for president with a four point plan to Restore America’s Promise:

1) Abolish ICE
2) Prosecute MAGA crimes
3) Trans Rights are Human Rights
4) If you hear someone using speakers to listen to music or watch videos in public, you are legally permitted to yeet that phone as far as you can

05.03.2026 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Forget the epistemic allies. It’s the epistemic axis I’m really worried about.

05.03.2026 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Uh huh.

05.03.2026 18:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0