James "Pigeon" Fielder

A lesson for econ—don’t get too obsessed with efficiency

In Hamburg, Germany for the German Wargaming Symposium. 😁

The destruction of the East Wing really bums me out in a way that I wasn't expecting.

I guess some of it is about the destruction of history. But I think it's mostly about the feeling of helplessness. There's nothing we can do to stop him.

Nobody is coming to save us. And it's going to get worse.

#PigeonsOfBsky

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

#PigeonsOfBsky

These moments will be in our history books

The Onion needs an article on ICE getting lost inside Powell's Books

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Smiting and vengeance is so much easier than forgiveness and charity

ALPS Now on LinkedIn, and Looking for Classroom Photos I’m 97 percent certain that I have our shiny new LinkedIn page up and running! Blame any errors on the feeble technical skills of this filthy pigeon. :-) Active Learning in Political Science …

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The famous photo of the soldiers raising the flag at IWO JIMA with the words ANTIFA.

#PigeonsOfBsky

I fret that any general who pushes back will simply be relieved of their position and replaced with someone pliable

Personalist dictatorship

Mix this message with Pete's.

We are lowering the standards with which we behave including rules of engagement

With

Our enemies are American Democrats.

Congress should be demanding his immediate removal for stating these intentions. He’s just outright saying we’re a pro-war crimes country.

If someone from another country explained that their president could violate their constitution's plain text but that it was completely legitimate because lifetime judges who belong to political parties said he could on the "shadow docket," you would laugh at them because their country is primitive.

At Alleycat Coffee House :-)

I run my class as an extended simulation with student teams playing states. Part of their work is verbally articulating their research and decisions, and students learn very quickly that they must understand everything they're briefing me, both content and source.

We are producing a generation unable and (somewhat) unwilling to think, read and write without relying on tech controlled by some of the most evil people on the planet to tell them what to think, read and write and they don’t seem to see the dangers of this dependency even if we point it out

I expect my shop coffee will be just as tasty tomorrow after the Rapture, but my wait in line should be slightly shorter.

YouTube video by that's nice Creating 1970s/1980s synth and electronic soundtracks.

Weekend brain cleanse from politics by making 1970s/1980s synth sounds.

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if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

Short clip from a patch I'm setting up for a performance. My intent is to modulate most of the sound manually via MIDI controllers, but for this, I ran a trigger to automate randomizing the bass.

Watch: Police reunite stowaway pet pigeon with owner in Texas - UPI.com Police in Texas reunited a man with his blind and flightless pigeon after the pet bird hitched a ride in the bed of a pickup truck at the owner's business.

One of my students sent this to me, knowing I have a special needs pet pigeon:

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This is a Tale about Rubber Chickens in the Classroom I always end my big POLS 131: Current World Problems course with a multiday global crisis exercise. Based on course feedback, students overwhelmingly love it. Heck, it’s partially why I was b…

Gods, I keep forgetting to add alt text! *punches self in face*

As for the limit, I need to protect my supply against a run on rubber chickens. Here's the story behind them!

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Pritzker succeeding while media failing at this:

"We have a bit of a natural experiment here.
Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago.
May be revealing."

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This may be lost in the news cycle.

I keep these in my office in case a visitor has a sudden and dire need for a rubber chicken.