The first step to recovery from a black eye is to admit that you were being a wise ass and that you should’ve shared your lunch money with the bully

What is left wing orthodoxy in this context? Is this one of those instances where the word orthodoxy stands in for scholarly consensus/best practices? I am so sick of this shit.

What we actually call inmates are “temporarily embarrassed kings.” Every advocate for criminal justice reform knows this

I get what you’re saying, but the media environment and the character of polarization just really isn’t comparable.

If he tried to sell it he’d get accused of condescension or sticking his nose where it didn’t belong.

The perfect response would be “too rich for my blood “

endowed chair for mama's very special boy

the atlantic senior professor of phrenology

fellowship for dogwhistles in the arts and sciences

That people saw what happened to Pretti (a guy with a gun) and thought “yeah, a gun would have prevented that” is mind boggling

for sale: data center, never used

Pianos with ivory keys. Cough syrup with opium.

I’ve noticed that every PhD I meet has passed their dissertation defense. Seems suspicious

New York Times Headline: “Lauren Sanchez Bezos Won’t Apologize for Her Happiness” accompanied by photo of said happy person

New argument for utilitarianism just dropped!

I haven’t a clue but the answer certainly involves economies of scale and specific geography. But in a lot of places burning wood produces decidedly unhealthy levels of air pollution

Sure is! Just last week I chopped up the bookshelf in my apartment and burned it for heat in my neighbor’s garage can

But have you considered drilling for your own oil, and constructing a filter factory?

“It’s toasted!”

"It's unlikely that he would've been able to, given Waffle House's sealing jutsu," said Hiruzen Sarutobi, who holds the Sandaime Chair of Ninjutsu Studies at Leaf University. "But some Sharingan users have been able to use unconventional space-time techniques, so we can't rule it out."

Blonde Attrition

Marc Andreessen’s “great men of history don’t think they act” shit would be a lot more compelling if his legacy was anything more than having co-authered a primitive web browser 33 years ago that quickly became obsolete

I hypothesize that the unironic use of the word “gallantry” is itself a strong predictor of hostility towards women

Someone sent me this.

Say what you will, he has an aesthetic

I worry that people can’t help but to overestimate the intellectual and emotional maturity of the average Trump voter. It’s quite likely that they’re just blaming an imaginary student or their mom for all this

Timing and tone matter, even when the goal is description. This is particularly the case for topics that have immediate and disproportionately felt consequences. That doesn’t excuse bad faith readings or harassment, but it does explain why people who can read are reacting badly to

A) people are shooting the messenger here
B) his phrasing makes misinterpretation possible
C) people describing this as a unique Bluesky experience or "Twitter is better" are delusional

For what it’s worth, I didn’t pile on because I was confused about the descriptive character of MJS’s posts, but because the timing and tone struck me as inappropriate to the moment.

Is there any profession less inclined to read the room than Supreme Court reporters?

I’m going to send your explanation to all of my trans friends and family. I’m sure they’ll take great comfort in it

Candice Jenkins “speculative pessimism” www.kenyon.edu/events/think...

Things can only be as they are, and they can always be different