Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
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Michelle Obama: kids should have healthier school lunches RFK Jr: maybe if we let the plague run wild we can build a master race Media: wow these are the same thing
Yo, there’s a guy on the Baylor team whose last name is Knobloch, which is an anglicized version of Knoblauch, which is German for “Garlic.” Bro’s just walking around with the name “Drake Garlic.”
Death, Taxes, and an Auburn O-Line Who Can’t Start At the Snap
I know I’m not playing, but…
Will never forget being at that game almost by accident. Just went to tailgate, lucked into some tickets, and ended up bearing witness to something incredible.
Just watched the Auburn Game 1 preview, and God, Hugh Freeze is just a sentient bag of wet donuts.
Snakes are my only like legit phobia. And when my fight or flight instinct comes, my amygdala just straight SMASHES that fight button.
There’s a grey ratsnake that keeps roaming around my back porch. I know that they’re “good snakes” or whatever, so I’m going to leave it be, but man the urge to kill it with fire and then scatter its ashes to the four winds is STRONG.
The whole “I want to lead a family with a Christian wife” thing is 100% “I want a servant who will do everything for me while I play Call of Duty uninterrupted”
Makes it worse. After all, more stars means your burning EVEN MORE flag!
So who wants to be the one to test this? Because there’s about a snowball’s chance in Hell that this is actually enforceable.
Giving a talk in a bit, so I’m of course sitting in a parking lot eating some lunch before. And yall, it’s like Mad Max out here. Lines don’t exist, burnouts are fine, drive as fast as you want, pretty sure I saw a granny with a motorcycle chariot. Shit’s crazy!
This is a bad idea for all the usual reasons, but also because the people of Chicago DON’T PLAY. This will go VERY poorly!
The left is going to take back Twitter about as effectively as a bunch of toddlers are going to take back this hill I’m standing on. It’s not going to happen, and if it does, it’s because I want it to. And everyone understands that I can push those toddlers off again at any time if I want.
Sounds about right, tbh.
Really emphasize the rhotic R.
Reminds me of Capitol Hill Books in DC.
I am now the proud owner of my very own CPAP machine! Entering my cyborg era!
Mmm, nice and sloppy and will sting any orifice. I like it.
In an attempt to lighten the mood a bit… what would be the best sub that one can throw? Must be an actual sandwich, not a brick in between two slices of bread.
Walked through this neighborhood a million times. Absolutely never felt unsafe. What the fuck are they doing there in the first place?
My theory on this is that many on the right (fueled by RW media) invested a lot in the idea that the gov was finally enacting the oppression they’d been predicting. When it turned out that it was going to end peacefully and not in a war, they had to believe the solution was also somehow oppression.
Half a crown is a paltry price to pay for my peculiar porcine plot!
Old.
I accidentally used the company card to rent “How to Train Your Dragon” on Amazon Prime. How’s YOUR work week going?
I know a lot of people have gotten completely off FB, but it’s becoming unusable. Just did a quick count, and ~80% of the things on my home page are from people I don’t know, pages I don’t follow, or targeted advertisements.
It is quite possible that I am the smartest I’ll ever be right now. And yet I still sometimes blow on my cereal before eating it.
LOVE this!
“Aerials” by System of a Down
Not to brag, but I just got asked to give a free talk to my town’s local historical society in a few weeks. I’m unironically excited.
Woof. Yea, that was a very bad time for a whole lot of people.
Looking through a trial that happened in early 2003, right in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, and HOO BOY, is there a crazy creeping dread of irony there!
For a group so concerned with calling people NPCs, the right sure is invested in creating a bunch of NPCs.
The “Taste of Maryland” Reese’s was filled with scrapple and Old Bay.
Jeez! That’s literal torture!
Eek! Yea, that would suck.
Huh. Weird. I was told no caffeine, alcohol, or naps on the day of. Low-key thinking it might be the best sleep I’ve gotten in weeks since I don’t have the kids to worry about, lol.
Oof. Yea, that sucks.
🤷♂️ I trust that they know what they’re doing. But getting a solid in-adulterated baseline is not a terrible idea.
I have a sleep study scheduled for tonight, which means I can’t have any caffeine today. And, honestly, I’m not sure that’s worth not dying in my sleep from sleep apnea.
Honestly, we are all Leclerc just saying, “Leave me alone, please!” to the constant stream of information. #F1
As someone who just transitioned from academia to full-time podcast researcher, there are definitely PLENTY of humanities researchers who would fit the bill nicely!
I’m not a librarian myself (though I depend heavily on libraries and archives for my work). I just want to make sure they get the tools so that they can do all the badass stuff they want to in order to help our community! I’m not cool enough to be a librarian, tbh!
If anyone else is interested in donating, here is the donation link! If you’re wanting to donate at one of the higher sponsorship tiers and want the benefits that come with it, please contact me first so we can arrange everything! givebutter.com/Spooktacular5k
So far, thanks to @hollyanderson.bsky.social, we’ve raised $1755 in the last two days to help build a new library! I’m so happy!
Yes. Sorry for being imprecise.
Yep. This is after we have already raised about 75% of the total project cost through grants, business partnerships, and local municipal funding. As I said, I know I sound like I don’t know what I’m talking about, but consider that you are seeing one post about one aspect of a much larger campaign.
(to build a library)
Yep! It’s all a part of my dastardly plan!
Not quite! I’ve been reticent to say exactly where because I don’t want to dox myself, lol, but it’s the Cullman County Library!
So, this was a good way to get on the community’s radar to help seed interest. I honestly didn’t expect anything to come of my original post(s) here, which is perhaps why they may seem kind of flippant. Sorry for the long response, lol.
Part of the reason we chose to do a race rather than some other kind of fundraiser is exposure within the community. We’re at the beginning stages of our overall capital campaign, and there are a ton of people here who have no idea the library needs to be replaced or that we’re raising money for it.
No worries! I know my post sounds like I’m kinda flying by the seat of my pants, but we actually have done a lot of prep for this. We have calculated expenses, we have sourced volunteers, we have already gotten several base sponsors to help cover expenses, and we’ve got a minimum fund goal in mind.
Thanks!
Just noting that it does have to be somewhat family friendly… but otherwise, hit me!
Hey! I can give more info via DM if you’d like. Don’t necessarily want to blast my location right now, lol.
Will do! I think you have it set to only allow DMs from people you follow, though.
Hey, it’s in Northern Alabama! I can get more specific via DM if you’d like. Don’t necessarily want to blast my exact location right at this moment, lol.
I’m happy to provide more info if anyone is interested! Just let me know!
Bumping this again! We’re in North Alabama if that makes a difference. Can give a lot more info if you’re interested!
With all that’s been happening in higher ed, am I happy I left academia? Maybe. Part of me is glad to not have to worry about all that volatility, but another part is just spoiling for a fight!
Messaged!
So, I got put in charge of planning a 5K to help raise money for a new library building. So if anyone’s interested in getting their name or logo on the back of a race shirt for a tiny 5K in rural Alabama (and, you know, also helping build a library), let me know!! It will only cost you $300-$1000!
Watching an episode of 20/20 from 2016 (for my job, because my job is crazy), and Nancy Grace keeps popping up. It’s like a jump scare every time!
(Obviously there’s more to the mentoring than just the critique, but you get what I mean.)
This is partly what happens when students (and parents and admin and a whole host of others) don’t realize what the role of instructor as mentor is. They don’t want people to critique their work, they want a youth pastor / cheerleader. They don’t get that, as you say, the critique IS the mentoring.
The catch is it’s all right by the police station, which… ya know… but even that does a lot to alleviate parent/adult concerns, thus allowing them to do so with little interference.
One thing my town has done…. Ok…. Is giving teens a few acceptable places to hang. For example, there’s a city skate park right next to a larger park that has public restrooms open and lights when it gets dark. I always see teens there in warmer months.
I get that.
C’mon man. We’ve got enough problems.
First night with Baby No. 1 in the toddler bed. Pray for us…
Thinking about that time I was teaching at a private school, and when I mentioned the Greek god Hermes, one of the students tried to correct my pronunciation, saying, “I think it’s pronounced ‘er-MEZ!’”
Thinking there’s a reason he mostly let others talk when they screened portions of this at the AHA conference back in January.
If we were a proper country, we would have two things: high speed rail and ham trucks.
I would suggest you look at the guidance from the MLA-CCCC joint task force on writing and AI, which proposes a tiered policy approach. It is what we were working on implementing at my institution (before I left for unrelated reasons). aiandwriting.hcommons.org/working-pape...
Definitely not a perfect solution and was tweaking that, but basically trying to make the questions actually fit the modern goals rather than going back to rote.
I feel this so hard. I don’t think there’s a good answer. I went back to written exams, but did a lot with AP style DBQs and open notes. One question was, “given these sources, write three potential research questions and discuss what other types of sources could help answer those questions.”
There’s a local primary election in my district tomorrow, and I cannot stress to you just how much EVERY candidate SUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS.
As exciting as it is to get the fruits of a FOIA request, it’s equally frustrating to get back a response that they don’t have any records related to that case. 🙄
Pat Naruto-running to try to stop feather-wand-Bingo on Bluey sends me every time. (This was a tweet just for the parents out there.)
Believe it when I see it. The reason no one is ever surprised when Trump doesn’t do what he threatens is that this is how rich people always act.
I remember going to the beach with a handwritten list of directions that were like, “Go until you see the big tree that was struck by lightning and take the fifth left. Then follow that until the boulder [no other description] and take a right. If you hit the Waffle House, you’ve gone too far.”
He’s been doing great shit for a good while, but this one is just 🔥🔥🔥
I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Been on the job two days and already secured $1000 in sponsorships, so it can’t be too bad!
I got tapped to help plan a 5k for my local Friends of the Libraries to raise money for a new library building! I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’m gonna do it the best I possibly can!
Just texted my wife, “Have you been following the whole MechaHitler thing,” which is just such a wild sentence to say.
It feels like maybe some people should learn an important lesson from the fact that when you feed an AI with supposedly pure ideas from their political POV, it INSTANTLY goes full Nazi and declares itself “MechaHitler.” Will they? Of course not.
Not sure that’s quite right. We had a major tornado outbreak several years ago that killed some people and destroyed a huge chunk of the town. They’re thinking ideologically, not rationally.
Except I’m the one who lives here, grew up here, knows them, talks to them, etc. Honestly, to simply dismiss them as some sort of Snidely Whiplash caricature is WAY more naive.
It’s misguided and based on ideological beliefs and not rational thought, but it’s not out of hatred for their kids.
I honestly don’t think this is true, at least not for most. They want their kids to learn so they can have a better life, and you can’t learn if you aren’t in school. They also worry that shutting schools down at the slightest provocation will prime them to give up when things are at all dangerous.
People in my hometown are like this and it drives me nuts. They get so mad when they dismiss school because of a threat of tornado if no tornado comes. Like, wouldn’t you rather err on the side of caution than err on the side of dead kids?
Yep, been noodling it for a while. If nothing else, it could be a useful source for future historians (if I can nail the archiving/accession).
Anyone with practical experience running such a project on a shoestring budget?
I’ve been working on possibly starting a small oral history project focused on collecting stories (a la Story Corps) from a cross-section of people living in my community. It would be a lot of work for probably very little payoff (at least in the short term), but I think it could be interesting.
Haha, Granny had one of those. Thankfully we plug ours in now! Otherwise, made just the same. War Eagle!
The peach ice cream was a rousing success, especially paired with the mother-in-law’s chess bars!
America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Lovely! Yea, Dad is cooking ribs on the grill tonight. I’m excited!