I’m probably bitter because my school was known for grade deflation
I’m probably bitter because my school was known for grade deflation
Grade inflation
I left MO a while ago for somewhere demonstrating more of the values you’re standing up for, and I want to thank you for your efforts to make life better for those in the state today.
Age verification laws for social media go far beyond just impacting people under 18 or restricting adult content — they make it harder for all of us to access information and speak freely online.
I have said this before and will keep saying it but scholarly/expert communities—and I very much include musicology in this—need to be establishing ways to continue knowledge preservation and transmission without the academy for the next while
Conservatives now control federal research funding. The next step: actually manipulating research. A conservative law firm is demanding Brown retract research showing connections between anti-wind groups and the fossil fuel industry. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Exactly.
Why doesn’t Occam’s Razor get applied to the Immaculate Conception?
This is delightful
Ahh, this feels better than ig. Too cheery over there
when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”
A judge has thrown out the Trump admin’s bid to force Illinois and Chicago to aid its mass deportation agenda, saying it would encroach on autonomy guaranteed to states under the Constitution.
As seen in NYC www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/s...
Ah, to daydream again about things outside of day to day survival
Last year, a majority of voters in Missouri passed a ballot initiative enacting paid sick leave. Yesterday, Missouri's Republican governor signed legislation repealing it. Do Republicans ever listen to the will of their voters? https://www.commondreams.org/news/missouri-paid-sick-leave
Someone pass the meclizine
Thank you for your awareness
How lovely! Dopamine spike by proxy
How dreamy!
BREAKING: the NYPD is issuing criminal summonses to cyclists, as opposed to traffic tickets received by drivers. With this crackdown, the Adams administration is putting New Yorkers at risk of arrest, jail, and deportation for riding a bike. Statement:
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
Is there a reason the lighting wasn’t adjusted at all for this guest?
Whoa. Food for thought
Utility monopoly in nyc and prices up to cover their business expenses, too
What horrific stances. Effectively defending the right to harm pedestrians, including whole families, in exchange for get-out-of-jail-free cards for “everyday drivers.”
The departure from intellectualism as a collective value is stunning; my brain is never going to comply.
Wow
Didn’t have money but left anyway. New York isn’t perfect but it became home the moment I got here
As a cyclist in the city I always assume their blind spots are wretched