I honestly suspect that he vacillates like this in order to push what people will accept as a norm. The news cycle has moved on from him kidnapping the president of Venezuela, or threatening to invade Greenland, or colonizing Palestine or— it’s not distraction.
It’s abuser behaviour.
I am rarely on Bluesky and missed this … yes I wrote a review of this fantastic book! Check it out.
"UM's endowment climbed $2 billion to a market value of $21.2 billion during the past fiscal year." And yet, staff are still being laid off due to federal cuts. Many of us haven't seen measurable pay increases to match the cost of living in years When will this university invest in its employees?
Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.
Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."
Ta-Nehisi Coates not saying anything
Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.
what the fuck. i'm not a robot, i promise
mid-line came to me
"become un-google-able"
erase digi'tal gaze
#haiku
the cory booker speech has to go down as one of the emptiest political gestures of all time, right?
Crucial detail… two of the three who died were murdered. Insane.
Three people I’ve know for over a decade died in the last week. A fourth called me out of the blue in distress. I turned 37 on Monday. Things are not okay.
I hate that this is where I’ve landed, but it turns out that the world is just irredeemably bad, and the best you can do is toil endlessly at the sisyphean task of making it a tiny bit better
It’s insane how we live in a society where there’s more accountability for football coaches than elected government officials
"bsky is dead!"
okay great this is my diary and none of you are supposed to be reading it anyway
When you know a footnote is going to be a banger and sure enough, it’s a banger
This weekend: put my hands in the dirt, stayed out late dancing, caught a soccer game with my kiddo, grilled for my in-laws. Exhausting but fulfilling holiday weekend.
My love language is offering / being offered a gig that’s going to be a great time but pays no money
People doing anything they like to survive
relistening to tracks of a finished album that i have in the can, trying to figure out what the best next steps are, and falling in love with the music all over again.
It’s true that backpack is sick 😮💨😮💨😮💨
The fact that the piano album is legitimately horrible isn’t helping the flute album’s legacy
my scalding hot take is that the flute album is significantly, laughably better than the piano album -- but the flute album was never really a flute album in the first place, and that misnomer is the genesis of this whole debacle
the media shitstorm that has precipitated is entirely blown out of proportion, but also matt tends to find himself in these kinds of positions
He’s 10, btw
I know I’m fried cuz I just said to my piano student “the legato isn’t legato-ing. Let’s try it again, more legato-y.”
yeah exactly, especially for breaking news!
i've got the champion's league semifinal on in the background, and CBS just broke in with a SPECIAL REPORT. i swear my heart sank cuz i'm thinking, what war just escalated or natural disaster just happened? do i get the go bag ready? instead, it's a report that a new pope has NOT been elected 😂 ok
Deleting the Pope from the group chat
9yo nephew: but do you believe [jesus rose from the dead]
me: no but i respect everyone’s belief
9yo: i believe you’re squishy slug ha ha you have to respect it
new york times article a year from now, probably
