Michael Bench-Reindeer

I use all three of those words in speech all the time

There is only one kind of bad dessert and that is the kind with coconut flakes on it.

I always first read “ftw” as “fuck the world”…not sure what that says about me necessarily 😅

i disagree with quentin tarantino's opinion of paul dano but i cant lie i absolutely love that he is just out here talking shit for no reason and i would never want to discourage other famous people from doing the same

sometimes I wish I were a better, more prolific poster, but then I see where the better, more prolific posters are these days and I wish it even harder

Do you know, is there a way to disable Gemini ads in Google Docs, or is waiting out only hope? I already tried to let it "show me" how to "use it", hoping that it would trigger some sequence completion boolean check, but it keeps popping up. Is it blockable in any way?

I've been craving chicken McNuggets off and on for the past two months so for the first time since undergrad I caved.

They aren't good

It's the same issue with most US fried food chains - the oil is bad.

trying to explain to my children that the people they see on TV ads used to be serious actors who made good movies

I was asked to referee a paper for a major journal that seems to engage with my work in substantive fashion. (That's a flutter of excitement.) All the citations to my 'work' are hallucinatory in character.; and quite a few other invented citations.
Meh. meh. meh.
#upsideidonthavetowriteareport

if you don't know what to say in grad seminar, just say whatever you're talking about is 'dialectical'. then if anyone argues with you they're just proving your point

Ah

Is Unger number like Erdős number but for Peter Unger

Hmm bit annoyed to see two uses of "productive" slipping in there; no wonder people think analytics can't write

My sense is that he's not someone that historians of the period will be obliged to cover but he was a productive and readable generalist who wrote a lot of papers that could be the basis of productive class discussions on various topics

Searching the SEP for the string "Colin McGinn" threw up 12 SEP articles, for stuff to do with truth, reference, Wittgenstein and evil as well as the mysterianism thing

If you search for "because this is bluesky" you'll see some examples of people trying to forestall the kind of reply I'm talking about bsky.app/search?q=%22...

Lmao what have they done this time #LeaveAcademiaDotEdu

I sometimes vote Green and sometimes vote Labour but this is the kind of thing that makes me wonder if I should just never vote Labour again at any level; it'd be good to see people like Tracy Brabin and Andy Burnham go hard on condemning it

Thanks; I'm surprised Mike Bloomberg allows it

Locations of unlicensed beavers in England

smdh the uk stops at nothing when it comes to persecuting trans women

I’ve just learned that the Rothko I hung for 28 years was upside down.

Humiliating. I read from my autobiography in front of that painting. I named my second child, No. 2, after that painting. I don’t even like it now.

No disagreement here; the only problem is that some of it is actually by K🗲SS

Not sure I've had this happen to me; is it illegal in the UK or something

I'm not a fan but I expect a couple of ZZ Top songs I like are actually by Kiss

This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

Appeasing fascists doesn't work part 94

So they gave him the FIFA Peace Prize in the hopes he'd give the proper trophy back and now he just has both? wtf

The other day a parent asked me why I wasn't one and I said it was because it was so much work and she was immediately like oh OK fair enough I totally get that

Just write the alt text you'd want to read if you couldn't see the picture

I expect some people are just being scrupulous about editorializing but imo if you could see what a chart showed just from a description of the data it displayed then we wouldn't need the chart; if you don't want to impose your own interpretation on the reader then just flag it up as such