Trump’s passive, like his quotation marks, merits study by linguists.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h agoYeah we’re definitely out of missiles
Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
Teacher, Latinist. Neither the son of true believers nor of good reputation. Once translated Marcus Aurelius, but I don't speak for him. (Neither of us speaks for UVA.) Minor outlying island. Can serve briefly as a boat. He/him.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h ago
Here's a question for the literary-minded among you for a project I'm working on: what is the worst novel written by a great author? I'm thinking of examples of where everyone - particularly at the time - went, "ooh, swing and a miss there." Juvenilia not included; reputation has to be established.
I think this, on the Tapper interview, is a correct read.
maybe *don't* assault your private chef@billsallak.bsky.social · yesterdayHe's enough of a Republican-helper to understand that this guy needs to get shoved out of electoral politics ASAP before he does more damage to the party. Perhaps he's more of a Republicans-helper than an every-Republican-helper.
I don't know what to tell you, some people just love the boot.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoCornyn: "As to the idea it could be revived in the future, I think it's highly unlikely that could happen without the cooperation of the DOJ. And I think Mr Blanche gave us the assurances that it was dead and would not be revived and in this case we have no alternative but to take his word" 🙃
nice of the karsh institute to further our understanding of democracy by rolling out the red carpet for someone who is actively destroying it
I'm confused by all the people posting that every Flock camera contains 2–3 lbs of copper and 1–2 grams of gold, when in fact Flock cameras contain between three and four grams of gold. Are they teaching nothing in the schools these days?
My first-approximation measure for how things are going at UVA is whether I can name the current Rector.
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d agoThe CEO of Bluesky trying to make me know who the CEO of Bluesky is and my long standing opinion is that I demand to not know who it is
Four university presidents, "Andrew Martin at Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Crow at Arizona State University, Douglas Girod at the University of Kansas, & Ronald Daniels at the Johns Hopkins University" collaborated in the latest attack on higher ed. www.chronicle.com/liveblog/her...
Trump Has Released a New ‘Call to Action’ for Universities. 4 College Presidents Helped Draft It.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter Monday imploring colleges to adopt a series of familiar-sounding reforms — this time, in partnership with leaders in the Association of American Univers...
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Tonight's 🍸 is a white negroni (equal parts gin, Salers, and dry vermouth).
RFK Jr’s voice sounds like someone feeding rocks to a kitchen sink garbage disposal, like the CIA is waterboarding a toad.
I'm not sure that introducing the word "kompromat" really improved political discourse in this country.
In most presidencies I’d assume the word was parameters, but
Editing the Blue-Gray Lady@nytdiff.bsky.social · 4d agoChange in Abstract
this is a position endorsed by everyone who works with Fetterman and, I’d bet, at least half of his own family
Leon English@leonenglish.bsky.social · 4d agoHe ain’t wrong
We were talking wistfully/hopefully at dinner about a Designated Survivor scenario and trying to figure out who would be the least horrific cabinet member to take over. @balmatlaw.bsky.social said "whoever we hear the least about," and I think that's probably Scott Turner.
Okay, but I think we're entitled to a picture of the senior staffer wearing his hotdog suit.
E.J. Fagan@ejfagan.com · 5d agoSenior Republican congressional staffer on trying to recruit new policy experts: “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”
Last night's movie 🎬: This apparently lost about 30 minutes of its run-time thanks to studio meddling, and it feels like load-bearing stuff got jettisoned. I didn't find it especially scary, though there's plenty of gore. Hard now not to read it as an accidental AI allegory.
Which are most obnoxious: paywall scolds, Substack scolds, or Alt-text scolds? (I realize there's probably a lot of overlap.)
the ship has sailed, the pier has been burned, the entire harbor has been landfilled and is now a gated complex of luxury townhouses called Mariner Pointe
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d agocan we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed