Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.
10.10.2025 17:13 β π 2615 π 543 π¬ 60 π 13@hermagoras.bsky.social
Professional underachiever. Hedgehog sometimes mistaken for fox. I read too much, write too little. Poetry, rhetoric, science/anti-science, politics, Ireland, Singapore. (Also: Associate Professor of English, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC)
Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.
10.10.2025 17:13 β π 2615 π 543 π¬ 60 π 13Scene: RFK Jr introduces the public to his glorious, neurotypical, uncut βlittle Bobbyβ as Taylor Swiftβs βWoodβ plays in the background
10.10.2025 14:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Term limited. Read the article. Agree she should stay out of this race
10.10.2025 11:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.
10.10.2025 03:15 β π 6319 π 1336 π¬ 63 π 27That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie
09.10.2025 18:38 β π 663 π 133 π¬ 19 π 7Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.
07.10.2025 01:06 β π 2001 π 604 π¬ 33 π 19In case you missed it, the call for papers is now open for the 9th Derrida Today Conference in Paris, France - from July 13-17, 2026.
Details can be found on the website here: derridatoday.com.au/conference/
All enquiries: conference@derridatoday.com
I second this emotion.
03.10.2025 23:15 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Stipulating in advance that I probably agree with everyoneβs critiques of Newson:
This is the way. Make it clear in advance that compliance has a price too.
Complaining about cancel culture in Riyadh is one of the best examples I've seen of how "free speech culture" rots the brain.
02.10.2025 23:04 β π 8379 π 1328 π¬ 247 π 44Once again, if for some reason youβre actually relying on Politico for news, you can achieve the exact same results by striking your forehead with a hammer a few dozen times.
01.10.2025 23:47 β π 1139 π 182 π¬ 33 π 3Personally, I think this practice of rescission alone demands a shutdown unless 1) it is halted completely and 2) the four corners of the budget are secured by ironclad agreement.
01.10.2025 23:35 β π 151 π 32 π¬ 2 π 2There were, if I recall, two Straussians who may have been Bloom students. One was Broyles and the other was Utley.
01.10.2025 17:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Utley?
01.10.2025 14:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hegseth: Let's fly in hundreds of flag officers from around the world to watch me drop a turd on stage
01.10.2025 14:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse
17.09.2025 00:52 β π 7188 π 2244 π¬ 21 π 73"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars
"bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
Worst meet cute ever
31.08.2025 21:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends weβve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization of state and local police functions.
28.08.2025 14:33 β π 17470 π 6812 π¬ 871 π 481College professor here.
Fuck this. Your friend's daughter's professor is a disgrace.
I'm going full Amish this term. Pen and paper. In-class discussions. No prideful buttons.
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19.08.2025 05:25 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0βGet off the internet! I need to send a fax!β My son after I explained the workings of two largely obsolete but parallel technologies β fax machines and dial-up.
19.08.2025 05:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Google search for "all you can eat buffet near me" with an "ai overview" of the results saying that you can use Google to search "all you can eat buffet near me" to find a buffet.
We are on the cusp of AGI, definitely for real
17.08.2025 20:56 β π 3686 π 781 π¬ 61 π 49Iβm gonna say armed troops from red states descending on a blue city is just a few inches β or maybe one exchange of gunfire β short of a civil warβs opening stages.
17.08.2025 00:51 β π 7495 π 2196 π¬ 316 π 129Everyone on TV not asking this question is doing it wrong
17.08.2025 01:05 β π 789 π 165 π¬ 6 π 0Big if true
13.08.2025 01:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Blue Oyster New Religious Movement
13.08.2025 00:41 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0RFK Jr. plans to fire advisory task force that determines which cancer screenings to recommend because theyβre βtoo wokeβ
Holy shit weβre legitimately at βsome cancer screenings are too woke.β
26.07.2025 22:43 β π 17446 π 4608 π¬ 846 π 417thank you, muckraking journalists of the bari weiss tribune, for exposing the awesome stuff zohran mamdani has tweeted about like abolishing medical bills and seizing the property of millionaires
25.07.2025 16:46 β π 3974 π 463 π¬ 492 π 1194Someone ask @rahmemanuel.bsky.social and @governor.pa.gov if they condemn those who call the occupied territories "Judea and Samaria" (the settler preference). What? They donβt use those words so itβs a bad question? No shit.
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