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Gregory Hays

@aristofontes.bsky.social

Teacher, Latinist. Neither the son of true believers nor of good reputation. Once translated Marcus Aurelius, but I don't speak for him. (Neither of us speaks for UVA.) Minor outlying island. Can serve briefly as a boat. He/him.

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So which of the Mt. Rushmore quartet do we think would be easiest to recarve as DJT?

05.03.2026 21:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I assume the book will also be written by AI.

05.03.2026 21:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As someone said of 69/nice, it's not the funniest joke in the world, but somehow it never becomes less funny.

05.03.2026 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also to new Harvard Kennedy School close associate of the new senior fellow Corey Lewandowski

05.03.2026 19:08 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations to new Harvard Kennedy School senior fellow Kristi Noem

05.03.2026 19:05 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 3

Congrats to Trump on finding someone even dumber and less competent than Kristi Noem

05.03.2026 19:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

My "Ben Jonson is not Doctor Johnson" teeshirt is prompting questions already answ

05.03.2026 18:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The real winner of the Iran war? Florida governor Ron DeSantis.

05.03.2026 17:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

EDITOR: Hey did you get those JD Vance pics

PHOTOGRAPHER: Sure did boss, playing up his uncanny resemblance to one of those deep-ocean luminescent fish just like you wanted

05.03.2026 16:29 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

It motivated the other student in my HS first-year Greek class to email me out of the blue a few years ago and now we catch up with each other annually on that day, so I don't have a problem with it.

05.03.2026 16:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So, uh, how's the free IVF coming along

05.03.2026 16:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can someone ask him if God has any picks for powerball

05.03.2026 15:40 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Day one. Push the button at the end of the inaugural address.

05.03.2026 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Winter's Tale

05.03.2026 14:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Condoleezza Rice walked so Donald Trump could shamble.

05.03.2026 13:39 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Jay Gould would be absolutely salivating over AI. Now they can kill the *entire* working class without having to hire *anybody*!

05.03.2026 12:18 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have no idea how it will play
out in the real world, mostly because there doesn't seem to
be one anymore.

05.03.2026 06:23 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

booksmaxxing

05.03.2026 00:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

At what point do Labour and Reform just merge?

05.03.2026 00:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah, Landsman does better than a lot of Chotiner victims, but I would not say he does *well*.

04.03.2026 21:58 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Would definitely read this new Chabon novel.

04.03.2026 21:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So I had an outgoing check stolen out of my mailbox recently and had to close my bank account and open a new one, also file a police report. No one who works at a university will be surprised that the most frustrating part of this process was updating my direct deposit information in Workday.

04.03.2026 19:58 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not sure that "for informational purposes only" is gonna do all the work they want it to do tbh

04.03.2026 16:38 — 👍 33    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"I like the numbers where they are."

04.03.2026 15:49 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

no plan just boom

02.03.2026 14:30 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 1

Waking up tomorrow to find we're also at war with [spins wheel] Indonesia

04.03.2026 12:49 — 👍 14    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

My family on both sides is from Oklahoma and I have to say that Markwayne Mullin is not exactly disproving any stereotypes.

04.03.2026 00:26 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
03.03.2026 21:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

But at this meeting of the Senate Democratic Caucus the number feels much lower

03.03.2026 21:09 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Obvious ones, but Crash's "I believe" speech in Bull Durham; the "Das war ein Befehl!" scene from Downfall. A lot of good examples in Wings of Desire.

03.03.2026 21:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0