Erin Grievances

(An emeritus prof could be a spicy alternative to a NTT author)

Just a reminder that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would absolutely love to run a mailbag on the dumbass arguments about "low enrollment majors" and other things contained in this nested thread if there's a NTT historian out there who wants to pitch it.

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

The top portion of a wall calendar for February. It is a still image from the Empire strikes back of Luke Skywalker in a bacta tank in his skivvies.

Truly unfair to assign this photo to the shortest month of the year. Goodbye February 1981.

DS9 "The Search, Part II"; Garak in the Replimat, with caption: and the only explanation I can find

DS9 "The Search, Part II"; Garak in the Replimat, leaning in, with caption: is that our leaders have simply gone insane.

The real millennial participation trophy ⬇️

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

Post See new posts Conversation Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h From US admin official background briefing recording listening to, seriously question if US negotiators understood what Iranians were proposing. One official keeps saying acronym for “IAEA” wrong. They seem astonished Iran would not agree to the US supplying them nuclear fuel Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h They took as suspicious proposals that Iran saw as concessionary. Laura Rozen @lrozen · 2h Explains why Oman FM tried to come to DC to explain what US negotiators may not have fully understood Laura Rozen @lrozen Am not saying what Iran proposed would have been enough, I dont know, but it seems US negotiators did not have the expert guidance to understand it correctly

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

A church bell down the street has been tolling for five minutes and it's getting pretty ominous.

Well I have definitely learned that voice-to-text really wants us to be bombing Ron.

Quentin Tarantino should have been run out of town for speaking ill of this man

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

So I first read that as "Blueaucracy" and was also on board with that sentiment.

frankly this would hit harder if it seemed like a person could still be held accountable

a computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a military decision

Yes, our politics has gotten much worse in this recent era, but the easiest way to explain how long some American politicians have wanted war with Iran is to start with a Beach Boys song, so we've been pretty pathetic this whole time.

My kindest read of those people in this particular moment is that their engagement with politics has been not only shallow but of a very short duration.

This particular war has been his singular dream for so long.

Genuinely glad it’s not just me

I’m 62 years old, I live in Tampa, I eat corn and beef everyday, I always have a titleist hat on, and Iran is the biggest threat to my freedom

It’s the smallest thing but I hate how happy Lindsay Graham must be.

I have a big deadline tomorrow and I should’ve known better than to think I could ever safely plan to devote any of my time to something good and useful under this administration.

theonion.com/this-war-wil...

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Hartford Police hace shot two men in the last week who needed mental health help. Everard Walker, whom they killed last week, was in his own apartment. His family called 211 and we're clear he wasn't a danger. He still ended up with 11 cops in his apartment. The shooting this morning...

Instead of the Log Lady, there are just random shots of Aunt Polly eating jam with her fingers.

We do a workshop at the museum where students have to write a new version of the opening anecdote of this book with a different setting and I actually think this one would be great.

Why Write Historical Fiction? I wanted to understand a hidden part of my own family’s history.

“Imagination is a vital tool that any writer must deploy to access aspects of the past.”

Our latest, from Ben Nadler.