If you have to have a painful medical test or procedure I highly recommend having a nervous resident in the room who chokes whenever the doctor asks for an opinion or answer. Turns out the human brain can only focus on one kind of discomfort at a time.

I think he needs to stay in the catering truck for the next 2.5 years. It’s a dangerous world.

There is no reason at all that I would ever find myself being grilled by Jon Ossoff and yet I think I have an actual, clinical phobia of that scenario after watching him in action.

Philly is NYC for beginners

WWJD — What Would Jimothy Do

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

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Hello from academia

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social · last mo.

Drafts are fucked up. Imagine not being able to choose your employer, even where you live, for the first decade of your career.

I really hope voters in Clacton ignore the antics of that preposterous character and vote for Count Binface instead.

“I just need you to find me 4 points…”

Politicians really think they’re going to get donations from people who can’t or won’t pay for YouTube premium

Ok neither of them are cinematic masterpieces but Supergirl is far more entertaining than James Gunn’s Superman.

Do US movie theaters really not sell coffee? I’m having culture shock in my own homeland. Or maybe just undercaffeinated.

The semiquincentennial happens to find me in the US. Let me tell you, the vibes here are off. Much more like a funeral than a birthday.

Arrived in NYC for the first time in six months or so, just to find that I have to walk twice as far bc if Taylor Swift’s wedding. How could Mamdani let this happen?

Meta's dumbass AI decided something I did on WhatsApp was botlike so I now don't have access to my WhatsApp when I really need it. Great

Ketanji Brown Jackson really is too good for this SCOTUS

The phrase "like nobody's ever seen before" is going to be unusable for at least a generation. Like "I'll be back" or "who you gonna call"

🎶 Wait for the sign to flick the switch of death It's the beginning of the end Sweat, chilling cold, as I watch death unfold Consciousness, my only friend My fingers grip with fear What am I doing here? 🎶

Bryan Waterman@waterman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🎶 Stagger Lee went to the barroom And he stood across the barroom door He said, nobody move and he pulled his Forty-four, Ooh 🎶

Can't wait for the conservatives on the SCOTUS to suddenly change their view of executive power around three years from now, for reasons

I order to learn why these changes were made, the students will have to go to a better college than the schools will prepare them to get into. It’s a perfect system.

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

With no explanation, Republicans on the State Board of Education have cut lessons that taught about racial segregation and slave revolts; that acknowledged slavery was because of skin color; and that said southern states seceded from the Union in part to preserve the practice of slavery.

Because the Tea Party was opposing a qualified and reasonable Black Man, while Dem Socialists are challenging centrism--the dominant political ideology of the well-educated and well-compensated.

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

The friction between US Boomers' and US GenZs' visceral reactions to the name "Kennedy" can power a large city.

I dunno, a new head of state every year or so doesn't really sound that bad right about now

If I were the British prime minister I would try to do one thing that isn't extremely unpopular

Algae vandalism is definitely a real thing that really happened

If a Democratic president had led the US to this level of strategic defeat, the US media would be asking whether he should resign or be impeached, and whether the Democratic party should ever be allowed to field a candidate for president ever again

Brb I’m just going to pop into the expo centre to catch some exhibits at the exhibition expo

We all already know the next time NYC will erupt in joy like this. We don't know the exact date, though actuarial tables and mounting evidence say it won't be too long now.

In which John Oliver derives joy from Ghanaian pop art youtu.be/RJ2_ragq3zw?...

Ghanaian Movie Posters: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (Bonus Segments)

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