Lewis Roberts

If Tesla made a dishwasher

Student: But Prof Roberts, what if we aren't allowed to teach these books you're showing us?

Me: Then it's even more important that you know they exist.

If you're going outside Amazon for used books, remember that Abebooks is owned by them. Alibris is not and I have been buying from them since the 1990s.

And I usually find better deals on international books via eBay.

Tesla protest, Ann Arbor Michigan.

A tiny trump figure in a chair next to a towering Zelensky captures the puny spirit of Trump's cowardice and Russian capitulation.

Clay Bennett nails it.

"... for, conscious that there was nothing in his person, conduct, character, or accomplishments, to command respect, he was greedy of power, and was, in his heart, as much a tyrant as any laureled conqueror on record."

Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

(1/X) I've done some posts about the narcissistic sociopath I work with and how dealing with him has influenced how I see Trump.

Now I'd like to do something about how it has influenced how i see the people who enable Trump.

It's what I call the "shitty people problem"....

List of CDC information that appears to have been taken down so far:
1. CDC Atlas
2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
3. HRSA Target
4. Language removed for LGBT work
5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index

If you don't know Stephanie Miller, you should. She and her crew of misfit toys got me through W, the Tea Party, MAGA, Trump, and will get me through Emperor Bone Spurs' hopefully short time in office.

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Even more true in 2025
Punch a Nazi!

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Outrageous! This needs to blow up. They want to throw out 60,000 votes and steal the state Supreme Court election in NC!

my pay scales up with views with tinyview. It's been the sole reason I interact with facebook in any way whatsoever, to drive traffic. If enough of you click through (and repost this) I can get the hell out of metaworld.

"... for, conscious that there was nothing in his person, conduct, character, or accomplishments, to command respect, he was greedy of power, and was, in his heart, as much a tyrant as any laurelled conqueror on record."

Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit

Will the American project survive the anger of white men? | Carol Anderson At key moments throughout US history, white male anger has been privileged over national security, progress or basic welfare

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Prepping to teach The Picture of Dorian Gray next week. I think for the foreseeable future, all my lessons are going to be cautionary tales.