Plaid Mass Panic
@bpasanek.bsky.social
C18 scholar. Former Director of Graduate Studies. Now Dorm Dad and VP of Father Functions. Would like to finish book.
There is something disturbing about the way Nigella puts cake in her mouth. Like Saturn eating his children. (No complaints, no notes.)
John McCain singing “Bomb Iran“ to the tune of ”that old Beach Boys song, Barbara Ann.”
They had a few good elections with him, but this is the deal that Republicans made with Trump. youtu.be/ZPtjyqgZAUk?...
Goodfellas Restaurant Scene
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My partner may be worried that you don't know that I think the thing she wrote is a really good piece of writing.
Enjoyed the segment on today's 'This American Life' about the Claude death-loop chat. But I think the software that read out and personified the Claudes for radio listeners misspoke the final output . Surely, it wasn’t “A, A, A,” &c. but “AAAAAAAAAAAA...” (a la the old twitterbot Infinite Scream).
Proposing to the Unicode people a new “Overused Scrub Daddy” emoji.
Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities
How Bluesky feels on a #NoKings Day ☺️
The kids are all right
404 Media@404media.co · 7mo agoThis is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
ICE just killing 2A-believing nurses who work at the VA.
Oh, Canada, … there is no neoliberalism for middle powers in the post-45 nuclear order. This Kinsey consultant vamping a la Havel: "We placed the sign in the window." Yeah, but your sign has always said, "Workers of the World, Get Fucked."
Melissa Stewart@melissastewart.bsky.social · 9mo agoA YouTube link for those looking for it. No words. youtu.be/btqHDhO4h10?...
Thank you for attention to this matter, Governor Spanberger!
Plaid Mass Panic@bpasanek.bsky.social · 11mo agoUVA'S RECTOR SHERIDAN and VICE RECTOR WILKINSON MUST RESIGN. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
We have concerns! www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2026...
A statement from 201 concerned faculty about U.Va. President Beardsley’s appointment
By acting in bad faith, the Board has flouted its fiduciary duties to the University and has violated its own bylaws calling on it to protect the University from outside interference.
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now. If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 9mo agoThat is what was relayed
Surge protector Screen protector Flock protector Lord Protector Eye protector Habitat protector Leather protector Peace protector … “Pedophile protector”
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
Sometimes I am walking my dog and she finds some cat poop and gobbles it up. And I think, with Hegel, that the doggos don't just stand idly by in front of sensuous things as if they possessed intrinsic being, but "despairing of their reality, they fall to without ceremony and eat them up."