Fallstaff’s Sorrowful Refrain

In this cultural moment, we simultaneously believe university professorships have so much cultural cachet that they should be given as rewards to people distinguished in other fields, but also that the actual professoriate can be hollowed out, underinvested, and turned into a parade of adjuncts.

Keeps happening

when someone's linkedin bio says they're a "Founder" it's the quickest way to identify them as a cold blooded sociopath who would slit your throat for your pocket change

And then there's Maude. / S05E21 The Hamptons

There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!

Me for the duration of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?

But, like, actually!

Higher Education is not just about training workers, but also about training citizen leaders and good citizenship in part means thinking that the details matter, that getting them right matters, because it impacts some of your fellow citizens. "It only matters if job" is poison to citizenship.

‘Greek finance minister encourages Germany to implement reforms’ www.ft.com/content/7a28...

Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.

Well, he tried to poison his boss. / S03E16 The Fix-Up

Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries.

Reading about Japan's first astronaut, who was a chainsmoker and spent most of his mission being violently sick. He died earlier this year, RIP to a real one.

Correction: 1930s problems require 1945 solutions

Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.

Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.

like the reason they do not speak up for Palestinian activists on campus but DO speak up for The Racism Professor is because they are not for the principle of free speech on campus. They disagree with the Palestinian activists but agree with the Racism Professor. bsky.app/profile/jand...

Moby Dick by artist Gerard DuBois

Our column the Alternative Number Ones looks at the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' smash "The Impression That I Get" and the brief late-'90s ska-punk moment

Elaine, could you just not talk for one minute? / S08E07 The Checks

Willie Upshaw 1B Debut: 1978 - Retired: 1988 CLE - TOR

Miller is confused because he was simply living out a key plank of the Republican platform: domestic abuse, a goal of right that they legislate and govern to promote and vote as a primary electorate to support. They believe men should abuse women and children. This man is a representative case.

See this gasket? I have no confidence in that gasket! / S07E21 The Bottle Deposit (Part 1)

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Losing to the baby you bathed sounds like a Greek myth

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

can't stop laughing at this Poilievre: "We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture."

Das Denkmal, Berlin, by Sibylle Bergemann, 1986 (flipped), 📸 by Carl de Souza

YOU DON’T SAY

Kelly Gruber 3B Debut: 1984 - Retired: 1993 ANA - TOR

Breaking News: Sonny Rollins, a jazz great with a forceful and imaginative approach to the tenor saxophone, has died at 95.

right-wingers have their violently stupid ideas, of course, but it’s somehow even more insulting when they want to create discourse on the humanities they are fighting every day to defund. fuck off and go vibe code a racist gambling app you absolute piece of shit

Social media really showed absolutely anybody paying attention that the rich and powerful are dumb schlubs, as dumb as anybody, and we started pointing it out and making fun of them and they went absolutely apeshit on the world and on governed society in return