We were looking at our trees and Marike said the scraggly mulberry "doesn't have a thesis."

Maybe the real pox are the friends you made along the way.

Checking in on Mamdani panic outside NYC: apparently it's not really socialism but communism, which is a totalitarian government that represses the people by (consulting notes) releasing them from jail to start a crime wave. Also, mandatory atheism is going to usher in Islamic Sharia law.

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Note to all executives and politicians who are watching the #TrumpEraFires (you're welcome, future historians) with alarm: this is your reminder that collective bargaining and labor rights are the settlement. The civil option.

The view on campus was stunning, but I was driving and didn't get it

A thick layer of clouds arranged in a sharp line across the dusk sky

Where I live, fronts are not only on maps

Yes, absolutely

This is your brain on drogues

I can't stop thinking about how LLMs are defining writing as the production of the most probabilistic sequence of words, not long after Amazon figured out that the way to uniquely identify a book is by "statistically improbable phrases."

Thank Dogs for TACO Tuesday. Now take away the keys.

Tell Chancellor Gooch to Bargain a Fair Contract with UIS Staff and Faculty! For 10 months, UIS staff and faculty chapters of UPI Local #4100 have been in negotiations for new labor contracts with the university administration. Due to administrative foot-dragging, there has be...

U. illinois- Springfield is on the verge of a strike. Tell their admin to meet the obligation to come to the table. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

A postcard depicting the skyline of a university campus in blue silhouette, contrasted with a yellow sky, a button mirroring the same design, both marked with text identifying United Academics of the University of Kansas, UAKU-AFT-AAUP.

We have a union. Ratification vote was 92% YES

Academic lingo: "I realize this is a tough time of the semester." Translation: "This is a time of the semester."

Thanks, friends!

A vase of daffodils and a plate of pastries on a sunny table

Birthday breakfast, lucky me

If you think NPCs are real, you are probably already a fascist.

A man in a wool cap and sunglasses faces the cameras, in the background the Volksbühne of Berlin and its signature sculpture of a wheel on feet

KU leaders bully faculty instead of listening to them. That must change | Opinion Leadership chose a strategy commonly used to deflect responsibility. That’s the reason behind the no-confidence vote. | Opinion

The current chair of the AAU and chancellor of the University of Kansas is bullying and gaslighting faculty leaders. www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...

That was also the day the skeletons came to life

Fruth street off of 30th

Fox in Berlin city center YouTube video by VikStep

Berlin urban fox. I saw one of these guys at 10 pm jogging past the Wasserpilz into a construction site in Wilmersdorf. youtu.be/sN9chtOdHJ0?...

A red and yellow passenger train crosses an overpass over car and foot traffic in front of a building with a "1UP" graffiti tag.

Read the walls to see when you are in a particular kind of place.

Right? I was looking for "I'm not just ___, I'm ____."

You bet, Bogi! There is always much more to do

See what happens when you cross into a city?

The horrors described in the Epstein files are settler/slaver nostalgia.

"and if you have further questions, I will refer you to the Secretary of the Department of Not being at War."

I mean there is some signal loss in Wi-Fi