my kid made a red card for half time of the City Arsenal game

I don’t know exactly what terrible thing led to me getting $90 via a class action lawsuit, but I definitely wouldn’t mind if it were to happen again.

lmao

thanks to STEM i know this is a trick question

i think “phony who's basically a quirk chungus male with a bit of academic affectation” might be the most accurate thing anyone has ever said about me

“faculty meeting after party” is a combination of words i never thought I’d hear

it’s always 2 dumb academics telling each other "exactlyyyyy"

If I can read what he’s citing in the footnotes, then it’s completely legitimate to claim I’ve read the entire book.

I can’t actually read Spanish, but I certainly am not going to let something trivial like that stop me from citing a Spanish book.

always nice when one of the other dudes named Jonathan Fine gets the negative attention for a change

this picture my kid drew of me looks like the angel of history

I feel like a very serious scholar whenever I write recto and verso.

i certainly hope so

my wife took that photo and i even used it as a faculty profile photo at one point

it me

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open.spotify.com/episode/4Leb...

From my conversation with @devingoure.bsky.social for the Moral Minority podcast, where I talk about Habermas’s “fairy tale of Enlightenment.”

Seeing the former headquarters of the New England mafia being used as a modern Indian fusion fast casual restaurant and vape shop makes me proud to be an American.

I like to think that at one point in time I had a good chance of getting one of the zero jobs in my field.

fml

Do books count as friends?

someone on X, the everything app, has accused me of using my extroverted personality hegemony to squeeze the living space of shy and introverted people

CVS cashier told me I did a good job. This is the most significant praise I’ve received in years.

A student was surprised by the number of podcasts I’ve been on, but I have to make use of my PhD somehow since I definitely don’t do that at my job.

I too am very interested in how I connect sound with human understanding, which is something that I am always doing.

I’m worried the student reading a book before class doesn’t know about TikTok.

Kant is first and foremost an influencer

it’s getting harder and harder to justify membership dues for all the professional organizations for academics as a contingent faculty member

they did the meme