Hail ants.

And yet somehow we’re one hot dog down the windpipe away from President Hall Monitor Vance.

I hear Tirana is the New York of Albania.

At the library here at VT they put the covers of recent books by faculty up on the wall. They told me they put mine in the corner of the room because “thats where a rat would be.”

Why do I watch this stupid sport every year.

I liked OBAA a lot but agree. A film that combines mass market spectacle, artistic vision and commentary like Sinners did should win the award. I just saw The Secret Agent a couple nights ago but it was incredible too. It’s sticking with me.

You’re probably still hitting a lot of rush hour traffic then. My rule of thumb driving south from Santa Barbara was “2 hours to get to LA, up to 2 more hours to get wherever you’re going in LA.”

Very cool data visualization, but man does that LA driving map look optimistic.

Which jobs make a meaningful contribution to the world? Together maybe we can suss out the bullshit. Your vote counts.

A simple survey rates the meaningfulness of the 200 most common American jobs. Inspired by @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @ @notalawyer.bsky.social's discussion. Results and voting available at the link.

New paper! I use text and image data from UNESCO’s official website to analyze global asymmetries in the ways animals contribute to the “universal value” of Natural Heritage Sites.

“When you measure this on a completely absurd and arbitrary basis that I just came up with, actually we’re doing great.”

It’s worth the periodic reminder that Musk’s family moved to South Africa because they were big fans of apartheid.

If you need a good example of “sampling on the dependent variable” for your stats class, look no further.

Structures of feeling in climate fiction - American Journal of Cultural Sociology With a steady onslaught of extreme weather events and quickly surpassed temperature records, the climate crisis is increasingly moving from the realm of hypotheticals to that of lived experience. In t...

I have a new paper out in American Journal of Cultural Sociology. It reports on a mixed-methods content analysis of climate fiction stories and proposes Raymond Williams’s notion of “structures of feeling” for examining the social experience of climate change.

Do these guys ever get tired of giving up their lunch money

He gave himself the perfect cover by intentionally making himself look like he has jaundice for years. 3D chess.

Gonna retrain the head of ICE? Anything besides abolish is support for the Gestapo. It isn't a gray area.

Beltran and Kent in the same class is probably the funniest way for the HoF to pass on Bonds again.

Also, A+ profile picture, Grant.

Thank you!

I’m old enough to remember what the “injuries” to another state-sanctioned murderer looked like.

A screenshot of an email notifying me that my paper "Structures of Feeling in Climate Fiction" was accepted at American Journal of Cultural Sociology.

After a long day of international travel, I was greeted upon landing in Dulles with an article acceptance! Coming soon to American Journal of Sociology, an analysis of climate fiction literature using Raymond Williams's concept of "structures of feeling."

Ticked a box on the bucket list.

The “Trump is using Venezuela to distract from his scandals” takes are a real grim insight into what qualifies as a scandal.

So strange that the guy who came up with Bush’s “axis of evil” bit has a bad take on this.

Not putting Bush and the goons in his admin in The Hague in 2009 was the first step towards letting this happen again.

Ninja turtle jokes aside, this is an interesting rhetorical choice that suggests an alternative political use of nostalgia to MAGA’s reactionary, fascist one.

Yeah, there definitely aren’t any incidents from American history that contradict this.

I need to catch up on these too, but just dropping by to say that Cloud is fantastic.

If I thought Bari was a little brighter, I’d suspect this was an elaborate viral marketing campaign for this story.

A “toilet rat” features prominently in an anecdote from BAD NATURE’s introduction.

This is good book promotion right?