Kyle James Matthews

“67” is legitimately the dumbest Gen Alpha slang – it is almost always completely devoid of any meaning –, but don’t grown adults seem disproportionately angry about it?

If this poster causes you to have illegal ideas while you just happen to be crossing the border is it technically entrapment?

There are many fun things about learning Hebrew, like gendered numbers and verbs that bear only passing resemblance to their infinitive, but saying “Tel Aviv meets with my approval” instead of “I like Tel Aviv” is the current winner.

Registering my 9-year-old for softball legit requires more proofs of residency than the DMV.

Speaking of Amazon and Kindles, you can download any ebooks you’ve purchased from Amazon, but only until February 27th. After that, you’re at the mercy of Amazon’s ability to revoke your access to the books you thought you owned.

Bought three books at a local bookshop and bought a not-Kindle to replace a broken Kindle. It’s a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of Amazon’s profit, but it’s something.

I love that a white guy was flying the plane, a white guy was flying the helicopter, and a white guy gutted the FAA last week but somehow the blame is too much diversity.

Teachers be like, “Have a good night” at 2:45pm.

Not surprising, but I’m seeing that the increasingly spineless @washingtonpost.com is also rolling back DEI initiatives. Apparently democracy dies in the hands of cowardly oligarchs.

I want to support the Target boycott and stop buying from Amazon. Since Walmart doesn’t pay workers a living wage and is also rolling back DEI initiatives, @lor662.bsky.social raises the valid question: where to buy the random things we need?

Just finished @robinsloan.com’s ‘Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore’. What a delight of a book, and a delightful throwback to when Twitter was Twitter and Google’s motto was still “Don’t Be Evil.”

What alternative platforms exist to challenge Facebook Groups as a space for communities to organize?

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

Looks good to me. Post whatever you want and don’t be a dick; I think those are the rules of Bluesky.

My new favorite epithet, “fetid moppet,” is surprisingly difficult to work into conversation.

“Glad” some people are comfortable posting swastikas. Even satirical swastikas are still swastikas. Don’t be that person.

They prepped us for questions like this when I was doing the Ph.D. I never got any but, you know, male.

It is illegal to ask about family/family status in an interview. “I understand that you are concerned about my ability to commit to this position. I assure you that I am capable of performing all of the duties that this position entails” or “that childcare is not a concern” or something like that.

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Examples of entries from a satirical index.

Learning about 18th-century authors pillorying each other in book indexes from Dennis Duncan’s “Index, a History of the.” This is a practice we must resurrect forthwith.

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

I mean, as headlines go, this one is a winner.

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Not intended as a political position, but I wonder how this government, which only recognizes two sexes, will expect intersex individuals (e.g., people with ambiguous genitalia and people with chromosomal anomalies) to define themselves. The executive order does not address this.

Even looking only at the rescissions of previous executive orders is just,
what?

*withdraws application*

In ‘The Dawn of Everything,’ the authors write, “A properly historical event has, perhaps, two qualities: it could not have been predicted beforehand, but it only happens once.” This feels like a momentous statement that I’m not sure I agree with.

43 years old here, still haven’t encountered any quicksand. My whole childhood was a lie.

#Teachersky beware! The whining and umbrage re: having to do work reaches heights unseen as vacation approaches!

🪐📚 Just beginning my Cosmere journey. I read the Mistborn trilogy (Era 1) and am part way through Elantris. I suspect this will be my reading project for the next 6 months (minimum).