Finally!! When has flu ever mattered to the US Military?

a seal is swimming in the ocean with a smithsonian channel watermark ALT: a seal is swimming in the ocean with a smithsonian channel watermark

Waving not drowning.
Well, maybe both— but definitely waving

ME (doing stand-up, one night only): a lot of my friends and loved ones have died in the last five years
AUDIENCE (in unison): how many friends and loved ones have you lost?
ME (sobbing): too many. And another lost today 😞

[ I did not pick the best decade to start my stand-up career ]

Higher education has some challenges of its own making, to be sure. It always has, and because it is built to move slow—that is, to NOT be a business—it is an ongoing deferred maintenance project.

But none of the issues are the ones for which it is being attacked. Not. fucking. one.

Not sure I can find a picture of myself without glasses. I may sleep in them and I've been wearing them since I was 2 LOL

“Im a leftist who just happens to believe everything the fashies believe”🤔

Faculty and staff supporting Higher Ed “initiatives” (six months after the provost has left for a better job)

Nancy mood of the day

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

Yale can fuck the fuck right off. They would not recognize higher education as it exists outside their confines if it bit them on the shriveled dick

How We Brought Respectful Debate Back to The Harvard Crimson’s Editorial Board

To us, the solution is deceptively simple. Universities should create environments where students with different views must talk to one another routinely and establish ground rules that ensure they do so without distractions or prejudgment. Illiberalism on college campuses isn’t inevitable. At The Crimson, it took only a few months to radically improve.

I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

I run my small newsletter on Ghost because I’m allergic to being platformed alongside Nazis. But without Nazis & the algorithms that love ‘em, no one will find me. Not looking to make money, just to find interested readers and maybe cover some hosting fees. & not have to be associated with Nazis

How do you do it, Ed? I write a small newsletter about my corner of this waking nightmare and I have to spend days in bed after I finish every mindbendingly depressing post. I am in awe of your ability to face the firehose unflinchingly

Continued respiration is an act of will. Getting up from bed is heroic. The mind grows so dry it risks sloughing away if exposed to the news of the day.

This too shall pass. Until then surround yourself with all possible grace—& shun those who would gaslight you into accepting that this is normal

Googled my guess and I was wrong 😑

Googled my guess and I was wrong

Cape Man?

Do Vance and the other supposed converts understand that obedience to the pope is pretty much foundational to the whole Catholicism thing?

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump • April 12, 2026, 9:03 PM L Original Post Pope Leo is WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy. He talks about "fear" of the Trump Administration, but doesn't mention the FEAR that the Catholic Church, and all other Christian Organizations, had during COVID when they were arresting priests, ministers, and everybody else, for holding Church Services, even when going outside, and being ten and even twenty feet apart. I like his brother Louis much better than I like him, because Louis is all MAGA. He gets it, and Leo doesn't! I don't want a Pope who thinks it's OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. I don't want a Pope who thinks it's terrible that America attacked Venezuela, a Country that was sending massive amounts of Drugs into the United States and, even worse, emptying their prisons, including murderers, drug dealers, and killers, into our Country. And I don't want a Pope who criticizes the President of the United States because I'm doing exactly what I was elected, IN A LANDSLIDE, to do, setting Record Low Numbers in Crime, and creating the Greatest Stock Market in History. Leo should be thankful because, as everyone knows, he was a shocking surprise. He wasn't on any list to be Pope, and was only put there by the Church because he was an American, and they thought that would be the best way to deal with President Donald J. Trump. If I wasn't in the White House, Leo wouldn't be in the Vatican. Unfortunately, Leo's Weak on Crime, Weak on Nuclear Weapons, does not sit well with me, nor does the fact that he meets with Obama Sympathizers like David Axelrod, a LOSER from the Left, who is one of those who wanted churchgoers and clerics to be arrested. Leo should get his act together as Pope, use Common Sense, stop catering to the Radical Left, and focus on being a Great Pope, not a Politician. It's hurting him very badly and, more importantly, it's hurting the Catholic Church! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Pope Leo: Weak on Crime, Terrible on Foreign Policy.
-- approved by the Committee to Elect Trump Pope

Sweet sweet fashie tears

Vance went to Hungary to secure the election for his fave fash and then went to Pakistan to secure Iran’s surrender to Trump’s war… and he completely failed at both. This administration is as incompetent as it is evil

Argh! I forgot to do the #booksky tag :( Anyone reading any escape fiction (or nonfiction)? Recommendations desperately appreciated (and my therapist thanks you in advance) :)

Since 2024, I've been deep in contemporary realism—learning about assaults on education, the necropolitics of climate change, global autocracy, surveillance capitalism, the manosphere, the mainstreaming of white nationalism, & technofeudalism

But I think I need some lighter distractions for a bit 😬

Happened to me too. I have no idea, but in both cases they were mutual "follows" so maybe there is an exception when you both follow each other?

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

I believe it is a medieval tournament game involving jousting and maybe a trebuchet?

Storm Watch: April 2026 For those who might have held out hopes that the assaults on higher education from state and federal government were going to diminish in the coming year—and I count myself among their naive number—it...

At Campus Novel, a brief update on some fresh legislative storm clouds on the horizon for public higher education.

4 panel comic Panel 1: Purple Guy steps in bear trap and screams Panel 2: Purple Guy gets punched in the penis by a boxing glove Panel 3: Purple Guy gets set on fire Panel 4: Purple Guy lying on the ground, almost dead. Blue guy sticks head into shot and says: Heads up, things are about to get bad

what being alive currently feels like

Nancy mood of the day

The biggest mistake we ever made was imagining that knowing what everyone thought about everything always would be good for humanity. Ope.