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College of Arts & Sciences pauses admission to 20 majors amid portfolio review Syracuse University paused admission into 20 majors in the College of Arts & Sciences without faculty input amid its portfolio review.

@fivefourpod.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social @aywarhiannon.bsky.social uh, and Michael, whose @ I don’t know.

I live by SU & I love you clowning on the podcasting program, but you missed something important: 2 weeks earlier, they paused African American Studies.

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Fun fact! The reason these pirates were working on Labor Day is because “Labor Day” is a distinctly US/Canadian phenomenon, born, at least in part, of Grover Cleveland’s desire to legitimize a “let’s have a parade!” holiday and obscure a “never forget the Haymarket martyrs; keep fighting” holiday.

Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate, and a miserable Labor Day to those who don't, because people who hate labor don't deserve nice things.

Happy Dickfuck Day!!!

And also happy No One Remembers That Jim Speaks Spanish Even Though We Found Out In A Shocking Way 4 Hours Ago Day to those who celebrate!

“That's 40 *cents*. Cents are a form of currency one hundred times smaller than the reál. I'm not even going to take this. Come back when you have 130 reál.”

Isn't it... evil? The order of magnitude between what is asked of a person -- and what they have?

I love modern poetry.

I love NPR, and I especially love 1A, but good grief… I need @ifbookspod.bsky.social to do a deep dive on this. Just in the last week I’ve heard 3 episodes that made me yell - including right now, the Aspen panel on optimism. I want to shake the panelists and scream, “PESSIMISM IS ACTIONABLE!!!”

Headline reads: News Spotlight Stunning research IDs a "third state" between life and death

On hold with Verizon

TIL that Bret Stephens has a complex bedbug humiliation kink.

Those automatic cuffs really do need to be stopped. I regularly get bruises.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

I doubt that’s what this author means though.

We know these Nazi scum have been conducting deliberate online psy-ops to normalize their beliefs, and I’m worried that kids have come up during that time have unwittingly absorbed and adopted the strategies they use to dehumanize their enemies and sneak heinous ideas into mainstream society.

I think these people mean well, and want to make fandom spaces safer and more inclusive. That’s good! I am concerned though that they’re using the same rhetorical strategies, and thinking about their “opponents” in the same way, as the alt-right.

It’s true that microaggressions contribute to an environment where hate crimes happen, but it’s bananas to put the weight of systemic violence on some random person whose only actual offense was in vocabulary.

… every offense is blown up to the most severe version in its category, even if that makes no sense. If someone uses an outdated word, there will be gremlins popping out of trash cans blaming them for hate crimes.

They don’t seem to have any actual principles beyond “if it makes me FEEL bad, then the person who did it IS bad,” and constantly move the goalposts on what solution they want. There are also over-generalization and moral flattening problems, where…

If you’ve ever had an argument with one of these fan cops, you’ve probably noticed that they will contort their position to *whatever it has to be* in order for you to be wrong. They’re so slippery.

I feel hypocritical saying it, but I am inclined to throw accusations of fascism right back at the 14 year olds who think drawing weird porn is genocidal. Not because I think they’re *trying* to be fascists, but because I am concerned about how the Internet has rotted their brains on how to argue.

I’m trying so hard to parse what that phrase could possibly mean in this context, and just can’t do it. I should probably just read the original thread; sounds wild.

I get the sense that this isn’t what she’s getting at, but there is one (1) angle that I think could be correct:

Is she arguing that they will be right? Is that why we’re clowning on her? Because tbh I think I’ve already read that piece! There are an awful lot of 14 year olds on the internet who think that being the Bad Kind Of Horny is the same as being a Nazi.

THE PRESIDENT AND THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA BOTH APPEAR AND NEITHER ONE IS HIM!!?!?!?!!!!!!?!?

I.iii. I cuddl???? Ples!?

I am absolutely furious that @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social, depicter of Bud Cubby and Robert Moses, set @dimension20.bsky.social Never Stop Blowing Up in the *80s* but didn’t include Ronald Reagan. Why are you giving us these vague action movie villains rather than the Biggest Bad of All Time???

A tumblr post from user gorgoroth that says, “Yeah I’ll incorporate into my belief system”. This isn’t included in the photo, but I want you to know that gorgoroth was replying to a post about how semen used to be more “powerful,” and the reason that Michelango and all those artists at that time were so talented because they were swallowing so much of it.

a little cat curled up into someone's chest with it's head tucked in and big eyes

ed nuzzling/leaning into stede's hand on the edge of the tub

it's the same picture

Just get a cat to sit in the gap and it’ll be fine.

😂

For a moment I thought you were calling Michael Hobbes “no one’s favorite writer” and I was ready to throw hands