just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down

I was called a blasphemer in my student evals for stating basic facts about Christianity in a Western Religion class…

I want to do a brief 🧵 on my experience teaching a lot of conservative students at the university level.
I am thinking about this issue as I am planning out the rest of the semester (ours runs well into June)
My Main Point: It takes so much more work/delicacy to teach to conservative students.
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I’m having Paytm flashbacks just thinking about this.

About 30 people clicked on this and for that I thank you so much.

Exactly

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Personally, I’ll be singing youtu.be/zWas7fEBL2g?...

Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead - The Wizard of Oz YouTube video by Man of Reason

This is a good one but I’d like to save it for women. youtu.be/r6cnryxwH6A?...

What is your song when it happens?

Cancel the 2026 White House Correspondents' Dinner (Bill Scher/Washington Monthly)

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“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”

My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

Someone recently asked me if I would recommend doing a PhD in the UK. I couldn’t say no fast enough. It’s hard to meet people who want to become academics these days.

Today I turn 89. I’ve seen this country at its best and its worst, and I know how much community matters. For my birthday, I’m asking you to stand with PFLAG and support the work that’s helped so many in the LGBTQ+ community, including me. give.pflag.org/page/95493/d...

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.

Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)

Distributed physical copies matter.

They’re wired but have you tried the Sony MDR-7506s? The band is super flexible and they get huge. Also, last forever!

Tornado siren type loud ass alert for every gallon of water wasted on AI.

This new thing where the phone company sends me a text every time I don’t answer an unknown number is a weird choice.

Expat is a racist as hell term!!(📍London) @M@Misanspeaks#subwaytakes #tubetakes #interview #london YouTube video by SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma

"people of no color" youtube.com/shorts/iAxqI...

Cannabis in Traditional Indian Alchemy Buried within the Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893-1894, is a brief report in which G. A. Grierson explores references to hemp in Sanskrit and Hindi literature, specifically the terms ...

Happy 420. Here’s an article I wrote on cannabis in Sanskrit medical literature, with a little sidebar on jazz terms for the gañj. www.academia.edu/119332545/Ca...

A closeup image of the budding leaves of a weed plant.

Syriac word of the day
ܝܘܪܩܐ
/yurråqå/
"green (≈ green-yellow), greenery"

as in Bar Bahlul (col. 844)

ܝܘܪܩܐ خضرة واقول اخضر اورق

A Family Feud at an Oregon Winery Turns to Vinegar Over A.I. Slop

AI slop in legal filings. Good times.

What is that chicken so scoldy about?

A grid photo of 16 different characters all played by the legend Tim Curry.

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others…But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray…Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. Matt 6:5-6

I really wish more people had paid attention when several observers tried to warn about the technofascist and eugenicist tendencies of thiel and karp and that group, for rolling up on two decades, now.

And i *Really* wish the media & political actors would take the threat of them seriously, today 😕

The good news is that cults really fall into disrepair when the leader does.

“Frustration with modern dating” feels like an awfully charitable phrasing for what’s motivating these guys

700-year-old mummy from Bolivia contains earliest confirmed evidence of strep throat bacteria in the Americas A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat was present in the Americas prior to European colonization.

Scientists have confirmed that group A strep can be identified in ancient remains. They found pathogen DNA in a prehispanic mummy from Bolivia — raising the question: Where did strep (and diseases like scarlet fever) originate? 🧪🏺

As neither a wild party or sports girlie, this is definitely not my scene.