The incredibly underappreciated intelligence gathering tactic of using the pettiest bitches.

Luther, about to nail the theses on the door: "Take that, villain!"

*someone from the future whispers in his ear*

Luther: "Ok, so I'm not opposed per se, but is it the converts?"

As a kind of weird accident the combination of Bluesky having a vocal and sometimes psychotic anti-AI contingent but also being founded by AI enthusiasts means it’s kind of stumbled into a very useful place to learn about it, because unlike X/linkedin the pressure against hype is very strong.

Oh, so you do understand this concept, do you?

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library Scholars and political observers point to declining labor unions, on the one hand, and rising white identity politics, on the other, as profound changes in American politics. However, there has been ...

We also have good evidence of unions as one of the very very few social institutions that push white adults towards less racist attitudes

Yay, Utah! 😊

PS Nicholas, I hope you are doing well!

I'm assuming you mean Salt Lake, because Nashville Tennessee still looks like a used pinata.

Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.

That's tens of thousands of authors whose submissions can be desk-rejected from here on out, leaving some more room for the rest of us.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dissected it like a laboratory frog. Assholes.

If yall think this is bad, you should see what Republicans did in Tennessee

Frame it and hang it on the wall

Surround yourself with the kind of people who help turtles cross the road.

If Michelle Obama was all “when you go low, we go high”, Louise Lucas is more like “When you go low, we curb stomp your genitals”

yes MA'AM

Evelyn Normielib is here and she is politely voting to gerrymander your ass into irrelevance

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

Hot take: the open fuck you energy of 10-1 did better than 9-2 would have. L. Louise Lucas was right. Soft-pedaling it wouldn't have sold, "you're goddamn right we are" did.

The face of someone choking to death on his own lies.

Amen, brother.

I think of my new district as the Exit 118B District—a district so absurd that it includes both UVa and Virginia Tech, each of which are reached via exit 118B from their respective highways.

What is funny is California. The Dems preserved GOP seats in 2000 to avoid super majority and the GOP returns the favor with a non-partisan redistricting commission. Neutral redistricting wiped them out so they sued. Then the recent vote happened, further obliterating them.

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia voters approve new US House districts that could aid Democrats in midterm elections.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Hey folks I'm at UVA next Monday - in conversation about writing with Alia Habib (an incredible literary agent). Look for "Public Writing, Public Scholarship with Alia Habib and David Perry."

I'm very excited!

ihgc.as.virginia.edu/other-events...

Text exchange. From a MAGA funded shit-head PAC: "It's ok to vote 'No" today. Stop partisan redistricting & protect fair representation in Virginia. Not left, not right, Forward. Reply STOP to opt out" Text reply: "I hope you die a slow and painful death, just like our democracy"

So this is where I am mentally.

Spanish flu - Wikipedia

When they said Make America Great Again, they were referring to America's Great Influenza era.

Two-thirds of *all* of soldiers who died in the Civil War died of disease.

We are living under an administration whose primary characteristic is suicidal stupidity.

Lincoln after losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers to disease and watching this shit from 1864: "What the actual fuck"

If you are a Virginian, follow me, and have yet to vote on redistricting (unlikely, but...) put your phone down and get your ass to the courthouse to vote. Please 😘