Owning slaves in the antebellum South was like buying a house today: it was how you built wealth and it was aspirational.
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Owning slaves in the antebellum South was like buying a house today: it was how you built wealth and it was aspirational.
If you’re making this slop, reconsider your whole life. Probably if you like to watch it, too.
You work in Silicon Valley? Have you considered seppuku? No, seriously. Think about it. HARD. Think about what you’ve done to the world.
Just oy
My parents have World News Tonight on It is terrible.
Researchers are actively studying this, but there seems to be some pretty decent scientific evidence supporting "letting kids have smartphones in school isn't good for learning": phys.org/news/2024-09...
The ONE good thing about a sixteen hour drive tomorrow is that I will have no clue what’s happening online.
all American schools should ban phone use during class hours, but we CAN compromise by bringing back Internet-connected computer labs where the nerd kids can retreat to look at fanfic during lunch
I think everyone should focus less on Rudy’s obviously bullshit story and more on the fact he’s suffering.
The “thoughts” of an evangelical. Such brilliance in their world.
Harass the pigs. Demoralize the fascist fucks.
I would love to ask PR professionals: What made you so comfortable lying for a living?
Fuck Oliver
Woman after dealing with domestic violence incident: I must go flag some random person down while standing on the side of the road, maybe Rudy Giuliani will save me
I don’t believe this bullshit about helping a DV victim. Not. One. Bit.
Ok but how’s the car
Jokes aside, US Parks Police is notorious in DC for being especially brutal. They terrorize unhoused neighbors, trashing their belongings if they try to set up a tent & constantly waking up anyone trying to catch some sleep on a bench.
We’re here
Ok cracker
Ok cracker
This is consistent with what the current admin do. They get involved in something. Show up and then weeks later with little to no real action say they’ve solved the problem. Often times they make it worse. They always claim victory though.
And the NYTimes love him, too. Joe Kahn and whatever the fuck Sulzberger we’re on are just fascists.
One of the things I hate about the Dems who are going anti-trans is that it leans in to the models built by the conservatives about how to win voters, and we are fools if we play by their game.
Nope
You work in Silicon Valley? Have you considered seppuku? No, seriously. Think about it. HARD. Think about what you’ve done to the world.
Fuck ‘em
Nazi pigboy
Kettle and press pot in my office
"oh nothing matters because mr. trump won't let it matter" shut up
I wish a reporter would just say “what the fuck are you talking about, liar?”
Again, I will point out that a functioning society needs mechanisms to impose consequences on powerful people who lie and bear false witness.
There's not really any way to explain the esoteric neo-Nazi death cult the Minneapolis shooter was part of without sounding like a complete lunatic, which sucks because all the people who want to turn this into Transphobia Kristalnacht don't care about sounding like lunatics at all.
Rolling down a hill sounds delightful.
every day i see hundreds of comments of people spinning elaborate scenarios to explain how trump can control everything and all opposition is futile. a) i think a lot of you need to log off and stop following professional doomsayers. b) i think a lot of you are cowards
My commentary on the 1980s: the best things Reagan and Thatcher did were die.
Confederate lives never mattered.
They may not have enslaved anyone, but they fought so they’d be able to.
They fought for evil
My brain is broken today. Here’s hoping it works tomorrow.
Typical City
I still have a thing for Millner
An audible “get fucked Nazi” would be directed at him as I walked past.
This!
OK, Hear Me Out...A 'LORD OF THE RINGS' Remake, but with These Two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Thanks
Thanks
Thanks.
Really started crying abt mom’s cancer for the first time today. Hard when dad says this is prob the last trip where I’ll see her alive. (That’s why I made this trip)
Me too, with Boli and Stoli!
OK, Hear Me Out...A 'LORD OF THE RINGS' Remake, but with These Two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Good lord, ESPN. Shut the fuck up and show us the goddamned tennis. I don’t care what Patrick McEnroe has to say… ever.
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
I can
Dem Shakespeare: first thing let’s do, let’s kill all the strategists.
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
Make Christmas Great Again!
It will always and forever be a shame when a dictator dies of natural causes rather than getting Ceausescu’ed.
There is so much bad hair on Brentford. The team needs a new hair stylist.
I have a PhD and will never in my lifetime make the average earnings of someone with a college degree 😂😭
I want all of the centrists to explain why we should go along with this stuff? It won’t lead to victory, that’s fucking clear.
There’s no good weather on the side of a Chicago freeway.
Cracker, please
At some point in the coming months I need to reckon with the fact that I’m clearly now too old for my life. All I do is 1) sleep and 2) wish I was sleeping and 3) plan for the next time I will be able to sleep.
LOVE blowing a tire on the interstate while going through Chicago
I'm also completely making it up as I go along, and LOVING what I'm coming up with. My brain is working like it hasn't in years.
Class tonight was so FUN. I mean, one student even said "This was a really great class" before logging off. Honestly, throwing out the textbook was a great idea.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
New lyrics for Lee Greenwood: Well, I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the kids who died To keep my guns with me And I'll proudly stand up next to you Sacrificing kids today Coz there ain't no doubt I love this land! God bless the USA!
I miss the old brand #CDC
Jim O'Neill is a fascist.
All day every day with these motherfuckers.
Honestly, they often get my first name wrong. It's not JeffERy, it's JeffREy. This and the promotion letter were mistakes in my last name. One of 'em engraved.
Unexpected first comment from a student in discussion of "Invitation to Sociology": Oh, my god. Berger is funny.
AI tools make everyone worse at their jobs.
The Kinsleyan Gaffe
Am I the only one who has started to get a bit testy reading emails that start “I hope this message finds you well”? Fuck off, Sam Altman.
Dean was just in my office talking about an HR fuckup. Looking at a shelf she says “I still can’t believe we gave you a teaching award with your name spelled wrong”. “It was wrong in my promotion letter too.” “We really suck.”
God save me from entrepreneurial street philosophers.
Who cares if they "believe in that power" IT HASN'T FUCKING DONE ANYTHING. It's worthless.
The fact that man is respected by the DC chatterati tells you all you need to know about the collective intelligence of the chatterati.
The Germans a generation after the Reich consciously made sure to tell history the right way. The Japanese did the opposite. There’s no right side of history, history has got to be made.
"moderate"
Meanwhile, Gillibrand, Klobuchar, Gallegos, and Schumer's ears perk up.
Oy, motherfucker. You. Did. This. It's. Your. Fault.
Toro will let you play with his toy if it will help.
Vaccines are safe and effective. RFK Jr. isn’t.
I refuse to debate my own humanity.
Who cares if they "believe in that power" IT HASN'T FUCKING DONE ANYTHING. It's worthless.
Mighty white of you, cracker.
Up next: Colonization is good for the colonized!
Tell us you don't know shit about the academy and research, cracker.
God save me from entrepreneurial street philosophers.
Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country
RFK is a cancer
Calls for "civility" are really calls for docility
I’m so angry about this COVID vaccine thing that I can barely see straight
Kill it dead