One of kids forgot the words “bodega cat” and said “professional kitty”

Oh, well, in that case—WAIT A MINUTE.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

one of the single most important bursts of legislative activity in the nation's history happened because the governing party did not hesitate to remove their opponents from congress itself when they had the opportunity. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Social media and group chats have microwaved the brains of the ruling and media class. They set that shit to POPCORN and let it go until it smelled like burning.

You thought you heard a roll of thunder, but it was actually thousands of medical historians cracking their knuckles and rolling up their sleeves to revisit centuries of “dirty immigrant” canards.

Now is when alt text will really shine.

Ben Franklin left his wife in charge of his kids and his business affairs when he peaced out to England. Didn’t come back when she was sick.
The women left behind enabled these men to be these men

Reminds me of the time I photographed a lizard basking on a wall in Malta, and then when I got back to where I was staying and had internet to pull up ID reference materials found out it was... a Maltese wall lizard

They're just little guys. You can look at them for free and you can look at them up close if you pay for Bird Premium (binoculars or camera). They're just doing behaviors. They will never email you.

Once is circumstance
Twice is coincidence
Three times is conspiracy
Four times is holy shit how many data points do you need

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Why is my feed always the place where normies find out that most professors don’t have health insurance and that disorganised prof you hated freshman year had no teaching experience and no one told them where the copy machine was?

What I’m saying is I’m available to do comms for your faculty union

I propose professors start talking about other societal institutions with as little respect or regard for accuracy as other folks talk about universities.

Personally I think "You have one shot at an academic career and too bad if that happens during a world-historical collapse in research funding" is maybe not a great long-term professional incentive structure

It is no coincidence that the people promoting AI in education:

a) are not in classrooms

while also

b) underestimate the talent and needs of students

and

c) think that students are incapable of doing complex and creative work

I think it’s bad that the president casually refers to a leader of the opposition as a “traitor.”

Everyone I know is on forums trying to figure out how to take Copilot off of their computers so…lol good luck babe

"Your job is so fun," yes, but did you know I have to single handedly fight no fewer than sixth algorithms every day for the privilege of telling people to not set their beds on fire.

"We lost 13 men"

At least three of these fatalities were women:
♦️Capt. Ariana Savino
♦️Technical Sergeant Ashley Pruitt
♦️Sergeant First Class Nicole Amor

I found this out with about 30 seconds of Googling.
The Commander-in-Chief still doesn't know.

He has zero idea what a currency swap is. Bet me

Two Mourning Doves at a bird feeder with a built-in camera. One dove is in profile, very close to the camera, and appears to be looking at it, and the other dove is further back, but also looks like it’s staring straight into the lens.

These two Mourning Doves at my feeder cam look like they just rang my doorbell because Tony Soprano sent them to collect a debt I owe.

Many people don’t know this trick, but the world is not a relentless conspiracy to screw you and you can navigate a surprising number of difficult situations by being friendly and simply explaining the problem

The biggest betrayal of my life is what these assholes did with the internet.

Ok the grandma is a volunteer historian at the “ladies of liberty historical society,” she died before she could present the research—a revolution era love story—that would prove the society is dedicated to scholarly work that would save their nonprofit status. This movie is a rich text.

We need to start distinguishing between higher education pre- and post-ChatGPT the way we distinguish between higher education pre- and post-pandemic.

I don't think the logic is anything more than 'the women resign and the men don't.'

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