Thank you so much.

Yes! Please! More grappling!

This is just crushing to think about in regards to teaching undergrad and grad students...

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Forgot to link the author, blarg: @dsilver432.bsky.social.

"...The constructivist lesson is that the social world is a gigantic machine that produces social facts. If you do not trace the inner workings of that machine, you will constantly confuse outputs for inputs and explanations for excuses. In other words, you’d be a sucker."

The social construction of crime Or, how to avoid becoming a sucker

I've been enjoying Dan Silver's substack, but this post on avoiding a "sucker sociology" really speaks to me: open.substack.com/pub/thesilve...

Sociology in the papes! Read @jenniferreich.bsky.social in action.

I think I fared well on this test? Zero; zero; zero; zero; unknown; just hosted a 5-child sleepover wkd; dog dad to Dale and Leeloo; I think we talked about Pittsburgh?; trained first responder.

There's no #Oscars for "Best Film Based on a Board Game" because there's no improvement on Clue.

these eichmenn in washington make it easy to see how easily fascism takes hold

They fired forest rangers making $50k

They're just originalists, Bill, following through with exactly George Lucas' original intent in A New Hope.

$3.7 Billion: Estimated Cost of Epic Fury’s First 100 Hours Operation Epic Fury costs nearly $900 million per day, driven by the large expenditure of munitions. Because most of this is not in the budget, the Pentagon will soon need to ask for more money.

Never forget that the U.S. can always find money for war, but not for education, health care, or to help those in need. This is 100% a choice. And it is 100% the wrong one. www.csis.org/analysis/37-...

"What I hear you saying..." is part of an active listening strategy that's designed to check in with the listener, and I also hate it.

How’d they take it? Curious.

Confirmation she was the worst.

Chapters deleted, sections added: Florida's new sociology textbook is 'stop-gap,' says professor The controversial new Introduction to Sociology textbook, created by the state of Florida to meet its new academic restrictions, is missing entire chapters like Race and Ethnicity, Global Inequality a...

“The new textbook — edited by staff of the Board of Governors alongside a work group of sociologists — was created in large part by deleting sections of the former textbook…The resulting state-created book is less than half the length of the original text.”

There is nothing I like more than finding an error in a book I’m reading. It is a reminder that we’re all human, that nothing in this plane of existence is perfect.

It is equally shocking and yet wholly expected to see this kind of talk.

They learned from the best

*a fun intro into* [Too high on reading Bad Bunny discourse this AM]

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible shrieks and death grunts **IN ENGLISH** since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

The iron cage of authenticity Why there can be no more traditionalists, only Trads

Soc Theory Nerds should check out @dsilver432.bsky.social's always illuminating Substack. The most recent missive, on "The Iron Cage of Authenticity" is fun into Tay Tay's philosophy (Charles Taylor, of course. Did you think Taylor Swift?). thesilverlining3.substack.com/p/the-iron-c...

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

(You replied to the wrong comment, but I did enjoy learning a little! 😉)

You need to only have a whisper of strength to arm me to buy thin mints.