Which means it’s almost time for…. [you know what I’m talking about]
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Which means it’s almost time for…. [you know what I’m talking about]
It’s basically Halloween
School buses? Didn’t we used to have school buses?
As Alexander pope said, whatever is, is right
Why is everyone making me update the software. I think the current software is just fine.
Ok this earns a follow
"chatGPT 5 is like having a bunch of phds in your pocket" here's ten trillion dollars "bluesky is having an *actual* bunch of phds in your pocket" dying platform. it disgusts me
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If your laptop is having weird problems you should turn him off for 12 hours so he gets a good night’s sleep.
Mary Shelley wrote an entire book trying to warn us about extremely arrogant nerds who create things irresponsibly and take no accountability for them for when they wreck society, by the way.
Overhead at the Pozzi household: "Any taco is a breakfast taco if you eat it for breakfast." Sage advice.
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The doctor IS the monster. Don’t @me
Many such cases!
A fun game to play with your kids this weekend is to count all the moving trucks in Boston
I don’t know who this person is but please don’t politicize bread. I’m a nice lefty homosexual and I also hate sourdough and prefer squishy sliced bread.
So today I was plumber Dan and replaced a sink faucet and a kitchen disposal for my mom, and you'll never guess what happened: I found her college ring that she lost over a decade ago. She burst into tears when I showed it to her.
Today for the kids we all watched KPOP Demon Hunters and now they are in bed we are watching Terminator 2.
Thank goodness for the Internet Archive. I'm so glad it exists—it's such an important tool for truth and for memory, especially at this moment. (This particular rant brought to you by finding that a report was deleted from the CDC website but is, thankfully, preserved in the Internet Archive.)
Thank god for other countries still doing medical trials
All this is so f’d up!
The problem is we actually do need an educated electorate.
Wow, it’s so weird how no one talks about this anymore. It’s almost as if inflation wasn’t THE issue, it was just useful…aw but that couldn’t be, in this nation of liberal media and bias!
When I was applying to Oxford, there’s a section for ‘languages’ and you mark your degree of fluency in each skill, so for Old English I put ‘conversant’ under ‘spoken’ and the interviewer asked “really?” and I said “géa”
Not me over-identifying with Beowulf because I am also a strong swimmer
The University of Southern Maine, just down the street from me, is hiring a medievalist. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37871743....
Need people to understand that literally the only lever here is public opinion
My guess is it’s between OMF and BH. I’m waiting until I have dinner with a true OMF partisan next week before I make a final decision
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I served on Twitter, I knew Twitter, Twitter was a friend of mine. Bluesky, you are not Twitter.
We need that energy!
Girl Twitter would not have gone all crazy over nothing. Like we would have roasted all of you fr
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Ben Franklin was also a good swimmer. In this essay, I will…
Not me over-identifying with Beowulf because I am also a strong swimmer
Christian righteousness & eugenics makes them think that the strong will survive and mass death is OK because they will either go to a better place or to hell where they belong.
It’s important they know it’s Trump’s fault when they get sick.
But don’t they also benefit from the CDC and vaccines?
This is sort of a real question!
Are there no republicans who want disease controlled???
Why are they doing this to us
Lol
We’re staring right away!
Los Angeles. 2029. Fuck.
He’s a millennial. We’re going to have a fabulous weekend watching them
I have been married to a man for 11 years without understanding that he has never seen the Terminator movies
We’re in it together!
I have made little speeches condemning this kind of false metric in front of Deans.
Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.
It’s been happening so long now that they just lie and lie and the cameras, and the phones, they just broadcast the lies. And even if the lies somewhere are countered the lie is out there in little clips and posts making the lie more and more real.
Good job little book just sitting there for two years!
I was looking for a course book I last used in Sept 2023 and I found it right on my desk where it has been sitting since then.
Materials for the first day of classes!!
Nothing portentous about doing that. Nothing at all
Don’t mind us we’re just uniting above the Mason-Dixon Line.
Hammer it home to the American people! They’re recklessly f-g everything up!
It’s the GOP death count. This is not one person. The whole party did this, and they continue to do it, every day. Every day they prop up their death cult administration.
someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
All happy families are alike etc etc
Anyway I’m finishing a thing where I write very explicitly about how, as an editor, it’s clear to me that scholars and publishers continue to invest—intellectually and financially—in the very fields from which unis are eagerly disinvesting. The work doesn’t stop—at least it hasn’t yet.
Every day I get to come home to these kids and they r so cute.
“Disaster money is just sitting,” one FEMA employee tells WIRED. “Every single day applicants are asking their FEMA contact ‘where’s my money?’ And we are ordered to just say nothing and redirect.” Trump wants to use the FEMA budget to build concentration camps around the world.
When you begin a chapter in Dickens and you can tell he’s going to kill an orphan, is that the same pleasure for Victorians as when u are watching the latest Jurassic Park movie and you know the T-Rex will eat somebody? Like it’s the pleasure of the familiar motions of a beloved genre? lol
It’s complex! Hero is a big liar!!
I’d love to read!!!
One time Dickens had the opportunity to do something wicked cool
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Jo the Crossing-Sweeper would like a word
Elizabeth Gaskell the orphan-killing GOAT. The Jordan to Dickens Magic.
Here we go again!
When you begin a chapter in Dickens and you can tell he’s going to kill an orphan, is that the same pleasure for Victorians as when u are watching the latest Jurassic Park movie and you know the T-Rex will eat somebody? Like it’s the pleasure of the familiar motions of a beloved genre? lol
Ok guys explain to me why Our Mutual Friend is D’s best novel. Have one of you written an essay explaining that. Like it is definitely a masterpiece but idk if it is better than Bleak House.
Without the internet, people like Loomer wouldn’t be able to publish their evil thoughts. Maybe we should abolish the internet.
Why even have congressional hearings for cabinet appointments. All of it was lies
Ditto!
If we are stuck with AI for now can they at least please fix the pro-death part
There u go!
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Took me long enough! I am very busy
When your friends tell you to read a novel, you read it, and you are grateful for your friends
Hi Friends, Just a reminder that you're always welcome to wander around a bookstore & browse without buying anything. If you need to slow down for a little bit, idly picking books off a shelf & reading a little bit of them for awhile is really nice way to do so.
He looks like my ice cream
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You know what novel it is. It’s all your fault!
I’m gonna curl up with a bag of skittles and finish this fucking novel I’m reading.
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
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Also works for an academic
Real
And to my children I leave my collection of grocery bags that I store inside of a grocery bag.
It’s the guns period.
Give us a break. The only action you guys have taken is to weaken gun laws, allowing scores of criminals to get guns; shut down funding for anti-violence programs in our cities; close the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. You've taken action - and it's gotten people killed.
Pretty convinced it’s making everyone worse, actually—and academics in particular more paranoid
Delighted to be informed that deskilling is a very old term and that it’s been happening all over the place forever! Awesome.
Here is the article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
There are no shortcuts in this life. Destroy all the robots. Now we have a name for an increasingly common phenomenon for people who rely on AI: “deskilling”
