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Raver, I stayed wif him.

Playing best to you in your establishment should be illegal. You can't be making millenials dance-cry on cue like that.

Why I Left Academia Writing personal essays is easier than teaching, grant-writing, or getting research articles published. But nobody told me that in grad school my latest for the Chronicle

A true crime ew.com/white-house-...

Evergreen post for anyone telling you "personal responsibility" is the best or sole fix to a structural issue

Noticing a lot of bees that have fallen asleep on the job this summer. Look at this guy and his little leg twitch!

Everyone on the mconnell deathwatch as lindsey graham keels over in the background

the extent to which ""leftist"" thought leaders are adopting far-right language about hr ladies tells you a lot about what noosphere they're stewing in

I don’t want to make an account just to buy something. I don’t want to download an app either. I just want to pay for the thing and leave. I don’t want to join the rewards program. I don’t want to get the inevitable email that my information has been compromised.

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

Also worth noting that The Great Gatsby was only a modest success when it was published, it only became the cultural behemoth it is today during WWII, when the novel was licensed for a "books for soldiers" scheme via the US government. F. Scott Fitzgerald was long gone by that time.

[reading the illiad] what the fuck do you mean zeus was there. zeus is fake.

Here's an important read for today: policymakers are encouraging students to learn trades that are costly to teach, but community colleges and apprenticeships don't have the capacity to meet demand. This sends students to the more expensive for-profit sector, where they take on debt.

How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas

In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways

🎵You I gonna girl my are be said?🎵

Chadwick boseman's death was caused by a cia deadhand operation triggered by the success of black panther

Rich people have gotta go man

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

An underrated Miyazaki classic #LGM

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

Yharnamites be like

Y'all we got COVID after we made that mummy talk. Nothing good can come of this.

I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable

While this is kind of cute, the reality is that if you buy into the idea that being surveilled while protesting places you at grave risk, they have already won. Stop trying to defeat their surveillance - you can't. Realize that the goal of surveillance is to scare you, so you obey in advance!

The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session: —protect abortion rights —repeal the same-sex marriage ban —allow mid-decade redistricting —greatly expand voting rights restoration. These will all go to 2026 referendums.

the union taking Richmond from the rebs again is a nice outcome

It is, but an obsession with opsec is a real hindrance for activists. If you're out there confronting ICE, I assure you they can figure out who you are if they really wanted. The key is to not do anything illegal (taking or sharing video is not) and to understand there's safety in numbers.

One point that deserves more emphasis: fascism isn’t only immoral and unjust -- it’s *operationally worse* It degrades how societies think, learn, and coordinate. 🧵

Am I perturbed by the increasingly common Christmas tradition of everyone binging holiday-themed gas leak cinema from stresmers? Yes. Am I gleefully watching Love Actually again? You betcha.

youtu.be/WsY_1aRZUPA Well okay now I'm interested

Scratch a Campus Free Speecher, find a state censor

Living in 2026? Like, the future? What a silly idea. Leave me out of such nonsense.

"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."