famed industrial metal pioneers Ministry are advocating for better academic pay on here = this app has the juice

The Faculty Are the Problem, Apparently | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson Those who want to diminish the faculty’s decision-making authority, or who think universities should be run more like companies, should be careful what they wish for.

Pls read this editorial by @kirstenweld.bsky.social
about how our Provost's plan for "viewpoint diversity" hires further erodes faculty governance at my university. (And never mind "veritas"!)
8 hires--but humanities hiring generally has been frozen since 3/25.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

Skepticism and Unhappy Consciousness 😈😈😈

I'm so old I can remember when the right had a full blown meltdown over CENSORSHIP and CANCELLATION when the Dr. Seuss estate pulled a couple of his obscure titles from publication for being real racist

Sir Thomas More: Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one. Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it? Sir Thomas More: You; your pupils; your friends; God. Not a bad public, that. From Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

This should be the scene of teaching: a very limited audience that does not include influencers

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A book I’ve been obsessed with, in one way or another, since 1988

Back on my bullshit

Hipsters are only *provisionally* the worst

student protesters adopted the language of harm, trauma, offense, and identity in part because it was a discourse the university bureaucracy understood and was required to address. it was effective. after that adults never stopped punishing young people for speaking that way.

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They are actually awful [too gross for the timeline]

Don’t get started on koalas 🫣

Oof

I can't understand mainstream literary fiction because every time I want something for a long time and then finally get it it's at least as good as I imagined it. Ppl shld just get better at knowing what stuff to want

“The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all—it is very tiresome…”

Catherine Morland’s thoughts on historiography hitting more true than usual these days. #Austen #Northanger

Oh oh that pun 😄😵

This is my Roman Empire

Srniki: whatever they are they look tasty

Other desserts on display at the Tashkent supermarket on 6th Ave and Waverly Pl in Greenwich Village

The NYC Tashkent supermarket in Greenwich Village

oops! all emoluments

Before my pen has gleaned this teeming brain 😵💀😰

The Pitt is cool because everyone is good looking but nobody has Instagram face

The fact of the matter is that your racist uncle who hates Woke Studies ever since he heard about it on the drive back from the supermarket and the governing board that oversees your research institution are converging, and the results are exactly as monstrous and as stupid as you would have guessed

Baggy clothes as a cross between anxiety cocoon and dgaf rebellion was a 2020s development I did not see coming

I’m going deep: I expect to be wearing these long after the trends swing back to micro-minis. “You’re such a zoomer,” they’ll say

Harvard’s Most, and Least, Popular Majors - Ivy Scholars Discover the most and least popular majors at Harvard in 2024. Learn how concentration choice can impact your application and admissions strategy.

An obvious way to build true “intellectual diversity” would be to promote the less popular majors, such as Comp Lit (15 majors), Near Eastern Studies (12), Gender Studies (12), Slavic and Romance languages (12 each), and African & Af Am Studies (9).
www.ivyscholars.com/harvards-mos...

Cover of Mother Jones with an image of fingers pointing at John Roberts and the coverline "Blame John Roberts for Everything"

The NYT big expose on SCOTUS today pairs well with @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's cover story on how ~everything wrong with this country today can be laid at the feet of John Roberts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Hits even harder if you know the avant-garde prestige of “ars gratia artis” around 1900

This was always the coolest movie opening, “this movie is so good that a lion has endorsed it” you’d think

Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."

OOP

New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Thinking:
Evolutionary biology: the vestigial organ
Organized religion: liberatory texts but oh wow
Democracy: best system exc for whoops people want stupid things
Socialism: amazing exc for that one loose screw
Deconstruction: that’s a fun one to wrangle 😮‍💨