Knicks just missing FTs for the love of the game.

Hey look, just in time...

We await Dreher's profound response of, "Well I was just paid to spew propaganda I would have spewed anyway."

Will he bust out the Tried and True* response, "Well I was just paid for spewing propaganda I would have spewed anyway"?

*Tried-and-True because major corporate media just accepted such bullshit and moved on...

Paul Within Paganism: Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle Restoring the Mediterranean Context to the Apostle

Here's a link to @bookshop.org's listing. bookshop.org/p/books/paul...

St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It? New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later.

Holy crap. "Paul Within Paganism," the book I co-edited w/ Paula Fredriksen & @alexichantz.bsky.social, got a long review essay in The New Yorker! Still sifting through the disparate threads Gopnik tries to tie together. Well earned shout-outs in it to @ryancollman.bsky.social @zafulotus.bsky.social

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Instant follow. Well done! This wins the internet for the night for me…

Ok, I just laughed so hard that it woke up one of my children…

Reading your unfolding thread with interest, but let me add that I’d love to jump back into the student side of school just enough to take your Race, Media, and International Affairs class!

Maybe Bezos should hire more AI-bots to do the technical programming.

“Technical Difficulties”

We missed the possession.

It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

Maybe stop the misinformation that the main Democrat messaging is anything other than focused on "liberal values, economic opportunity, and the common good." It's a Foxnews and major media 'conspiracy' that Democrats ran on 'hate and conspiracies' in 2024.

Funny. I don't recall Tuberville saying "82 million people voted not for a Republican or Democrat. They voted for Joe Biden. And he deserves to get everything in as quick as possible..." from January 2021 to 2025.

*FTR, Trump got 77 million votes in 2024, not "almost 80 million."

At the risk of stating the obvious for everyone in the back: the standard (bullshit) GOP/‘Centrist’ trope of “the Libs made us do fascism and atrocities” is also abuser logic. 🤮

Meanwhile actual qualified scholars are rarely paid much, if at all, to speak at invited events. Often it's barely enough to cover our travel and lodging, maybe a few hundred dollars on top if we're lucky. But conservative speakers routinely get massive bags to shittalk education in predictable ways

My undergrad students' annoying neologisms show more creativity and knowledge than Weiss. I'll take "analyzation" over Weiss's "scoops."

In honor of today’s discourse: consider reading God, Slavery, and Early Christianity!

Ch. 3 is esp. meaningful for showing how Paul’s language of slavery and the Holy Spirit gets read as “God the enslaver dwells within you & surveils you”

www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Looks like my book has a publication date - Misinformation and the Aging American coming from @academic.oup.com in October: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

More enshittification brought to us by senior university administrators who listen to their fellow "We are such geniuses!" on their group chats instead of (checks notes) actual educators.

Well I can’t wait for GOP operatives to lecture us on, “See, just like Canada’s healthcare: if you go universal childcare, there will be low quotas and thus long waitlists…”
As though the fucking problem isn’t conservatives under-funding everything except billionaires.

Whoa! Because I live under a rock I hadn’t thought of folks leaving ChatGPT prompts in breakup texts! Damn. Folks graduating way beyond my students leaving prompts in their answers…

Maybe I shouldn’t be laughing, but it’s hilarious to see how terrified GOPers are of him.

Wildest fourth quarter too. Intentionally fouling Wizards to get ball back asap for Bam. And then Wizards fouling others to keep ball away from him some. 😆

Yeah! And my university's Music School should definitely offer a degree where students don't practice, but instead ask AI to practice critically for them. They'll be awesome at playing music, right?

Oh FFS. "Using AI critically" isn't on the goddamned menu in my courses because this is college, not a fake professional school's program in Becoming Stupid.

I had to learn your lesson here quickly after moving to New England for grad school. Quickly realized I may not have friends if my aggression about Dunkin’s bad coffee continued. Oh and also discovered that glory of their chocolate doughnut stick … the “poo stick” 🤷‍♂️

literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

...Target won't do the thing that would change our minds: fire the executive suite with zero golden-parachutes and then donate the entirety of their corporate profits for their "anti-woke" policy period to orgs that provide housing, health, and services for trans people. Oh, and pay living wages.

Pretty much. Just my anecdotal self-evidence: My wife and I used to drive an hour and a half to the closest Target because we liked Target. It wasn't often and we'd plan the trip around other things too. But Target was a goal. We don't do that anymore and won't ever again...