Conor P. Williams

Fall still the greatest season, no question, no debate, no serious pushback

And then maybe advance treatments to stem, resolve, and reverse middle-aged neck pain?

"[A]s the administration grows increasingly brazen, children are no longer merely victims of immigration policies — they are direct targets." www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/...

It’s a t-shirt Gatling gun

About four miles of the Marine Corps Marathon course (tens of thousands ran it yesterday) are along the perimeter of the course there…and are reportedly going to be lost if the admin gets its way.

Cc @13rrk13.bsky.social plz explain

Totally. And it’s kind of crazy-making but also fun. Like, this weekend, I was at a playground with some parents concerned about screens in schools, we were eating donuts and exchanging leaflets and petitions to hand out. I was like—ah yes I’ve read this paragraph before ha.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RIn...

🎶 Cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Hey @grok could you sing my kid a bedtime tune Plan his birthday party and invite his friends I bet he'll have a good time then, yeah I hope he'll have a good time then 🎶

Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:

Goals

"When my Chinese colleagues sent me a full-size 3D print of this skull, I couldn’t believe it. I’ve seen hundreds of fossil human skulls, and this was the biggest I had ever set eyes on." 🧪🏺

As I've dug into this story, I've realized Alpha is just part of a larger terminally online ecosystem that has abandoned public schooling as something worth preserving. That in my view is the big story here, Alpha may live or die, but the Silicon Valley intellectual ecosystem will endure.

Shoutout to the Blues Brothers for the vocab lesson all those years ago

Good reminder for anyone who ever logs onto Bluesky to fight in the progressive messaging wars. These are the folks you're trying to reach with your "Everything Must Be Affordability" or "Be a Left Patriot" or etc rhetoric.

"But she and I both know that her family has been trying to play by the rules since arriving in this country even though the rules keep changing, and they’re [still] being threatened with deportation." hechingerreport.org/teacher-voic...

nancy, like most works of science fiction, assumes the existence of a universal translator to facilitate contact. As someone whose dissertation was on a closely related topic, this elides the actual labor of intercultural communication and the people who did it… 1/69

I admit that asking Gemini "Does [movie] have a post-credits scene?" generates a simple yes or no answer whereas in the past googling that question would deliver links to articles that bury the answer after 8 paragraphs. So I'm pro-AI in the realm of whether or not I should sit through the credits.

urban street projections across the globe in Wellington, NZ including solidarity with Toronto. 🔥🔥 @axleryde.bsky.social

the average voter may be a moron but the average elite is a psycho

I go back and forth on it a lot, but I think that the peak Lebowski line for our current moment is "They're nihilists, Donny, nothing to be afraid of...these men are cowards."

It features a liar calling Acton a liar for telling the truth about the deprivations and sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Thats the sort of audacity a real human scorns as moral depravity, you pathetic excuse for a man.

A reminder: 🚗: I hope I find parking. 🚴🏽‍♂️: I hope I don’t die. Our priorities are not the same.

Wealth tax, yes, but don't sleep on the inheritance tax also. Crucial for long-term health of a democracy!

If you aren't connecting Cornell, Acton's mother, the Shane Gillis monologue, and the household vote movement, the rage you encounter when discussing any of these might knock you down

🚨🚨🚨 Consortium on the American Political Economy (CAPE) is hiring a postdoc. It can be based at postdoc's choice of UC Berkeley, Columbia, MIT, or Yale. ~25% organizing work for CAPE, 75% postdoc's research. App deadline 1/10/2027 www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org/pages/were-h...

(As a 23-year Barça fan) I don't know that I've ever enjoyed a Barça loss as much as yesterday's game against PSG. Exhilarating.

"Outside school grounds, politicians are playing recess games and monkeying with the rules, tossing our children around like political footballs." hechingerreport.org/teacher-voic...

They’re so bad that the only good thing you can say about them is that they’re better than “smart“ phones

I'm a big supporter of accountability & I really want Dems to pursue it, but I just want everyone -- pols & ordinary Dem voters -- to be prepared for the scale of the pushback against it. It's going to be immense. It will take intense focus & commitment to really follow through on it.

from your post to God's ears, but I fear they're still fundamentally bad.

tfw it’s NBA opening day

"We make them learn and explore a wide range of academic subjects — and undertake a variety of assignments within those topics — for indirect reasons." www.the74million.org/article/ai-b...

RIP Richard Riehle, the midwest's most characteristic character actor, came to Notre Dame from Wisconsin, did his MFA at Minnesota, got his start in Rochester Michigan.

evergreen post around these parts, tbh

Didja ever see a fake-it king/ Cruising towards a reckoning/ Down by the bay?

if only there was as much hysteria and panic around our kids' total loss of mobility freedom and youthful independence at the hands of our car first at all cost cities that there is for them on e-scooters. Our kids want freedom, we just keep saying no.

"A party that believes its own policies work does not smash the thermometer." citizen.substack.com/p/the-scoreb...

“[P]art of the problem is getting researchers’ answers out through the bureaucracy and experts’ jockeying so that they ultimately reach the public education system.” www.the74million.org/article/sold...

Current* conditions near Isle Royale NP, MI:

“What registers as managerial acumen turns out to be wealth transfer — value moved away from workers and toward profits, shareholders and executives.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...