Higher ed only has a bad approval rating if you donβt compare it to any other institution in America
07.10.2025 14:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@robinm-b.bsky.social
Teacher, scholar, family guy, owned by really cute dog, lover of classical music and classical literature, rider of mass transit, relentlessly moderate in most things in life, spending more time in nature as I get older
Higher ed only has a bad approval rating if you donβt compare it to any other institution in America
07.10.2025 14:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thereβs nothing quite like starting your morning with overreacting to almost being run over by a speeding e-scooter on the sidewalk
07.10.2025 11:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 02) Drowning out the wind choirs at the transition to the 2nd theme a cardinal sin in my book. Lim is currently better suited for the Bartok 1, but Philadelphia doesnβt have the guts to program that piece. Iβve almost given up on ever hearing it live. As Abbado graffitied Rome in WWII, Viva Bartok!
06.10.2025 13:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 01) Yesterday Yunchan Lim soloed in the Bartok 3rd in Philadelphia. While he is certainly a virtuoso pianist, he also sounded too young to be playing that piece; with his loud, relatively aggressive playing, I wasnβt sure he really understood it.
06.10.2025 13:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0We traded in our Honda PHEV for a slightly used electric VW (made in the USA) Used ev prices are insanely low.
04.10.2025 22:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
01.10.2025 14:38 β π 24592 π 8208 π¬ 648 π 2183Phillies have decided to get a head start on their postseason hitting slump
27.09.2025 23:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0One more time to Hurts-haters: shut up π
21.09.2025 19:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think Redfordβs last appearance was in a cameo in the first episode of the last season of Dark Winds
16.09.2025 14:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Or at some point the prize for the victorious poet was a goat
15.09.2025 16:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well, after solving the SEPTA crisis,why not? oh, wait β¦.
15.09.2025 16:22 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Your column has a mistake. Berkeley not Stanford
14.09.2025 18:48 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Satire of academic life, especially English professors, involving British and American professors crossing the Atlantic (among other things)
12.09.2025 09:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0How does she feel about Space Balls 2?
12.09.2025 09:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Have you read David Lodgeβs novels ?
12.09.2025 00:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The people left behind typically express, in disbelief, that The Other People would be deported
10.09.2025 11:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thatβs whatβs happening in the US.
10.09.2025 09:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0SEPTA has to raid its capital budget to keep operating . But so many buses are missing from my bus 23 that itβs barely operational.
09.09.2025 17:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Returning to this after the death of conductor Christoph von Dohnanyi, who seemingly never forgot the lessons of the Nazisβ murder of his parents and uncle (Dietrich Bonhoeffer). After Trump Iβs travel ban against Muslims, he published an extended denunciation of the immortality of such actions.
09.09.2025 12:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Donβt forget Henri LeConte
07.09.2025 21:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The US Open has an official who sole job is to decide which celebrities get free courtside tickets. Thatβs right, the Anna Wintours of the world get free seats. And I thought Josh Harris bringing Robert Kraft courtside to a 76ers game was nauseating (albeit for an additional reason).
07.09.2025 14:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And how about the Metβs gay music director saying nothing about Saudi homophobia?
04.09.2025 23:04 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Peter Gelb is selling the soul of the Met Opera to Saudi Arabia to try to recover financially. Has anyone told his gay MD yet? Or has the latterβs relentlessly positive attitude simply surfed over that moral quagmire? As long as his own checks clear?
03.09.2025 19:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I canβt remember such a large number of straight set matches at the us open
02.09.2025 00:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I wasnβt saying he was in office then. My point is that he has done nothing visible to get Pennsylvania its more modern, less destructive economy
01.09.2025 16:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Do the ESPN Sunday night baseball announcers ever stop babbling?
01.09.2025 00:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yup and that is unproductive
29.08.2025 11:56 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0But the Chicago fiasco goes way beyond classics in shifting focus to modern America, away from the past and the rest of the world
29.08.2025 11:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Other states get battery plants and chip factories. Even Ohio. We get fossil fuels and a governor who has spent much of the last 2 years running for president
28.08.2025 17:06 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Weβve had those invasive flies in Philadelphia for a few years, but the damage inflicted by them has been far less than forecast here.
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