Suddenly, the complete failure of government to do anything positive for people since 2010 or so comes into clear focus with the second paragraph here

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d ago

I agree that leftists on social media can be too glib about how upsetting it is to see people suffering on the streets. That is, however, roughly 198th on my list of priorities on this issue. "we can't address this until people stop annoying me on the internet" is fucking asinine and *everywhere*

Liberal expertise-worship strikes again. If I want to prevent every cell in my body from having oxygen delivered to them, that is my GOD GIVEN RIGHT AS AN AMERICAN. SMH.

Fleet@fleetadmiralj.bsky.social · 5d ago

Impossible. All metals are bad for you. *puts finger to ear* I am being told our circulatory system depends on iron.

Ooooh, Brooke choosing violence this morning, you love to see it

brooke bikes mke@brookebikesmke.bsky.social · 5d ago

Oh look, Milwaukee’s southern suburb has their own Deep Thought. So cute.

This image gave me mid-1990s PTSD. Kids these days don't know how good they have it* *In this particular case only. iReady and New Math are garbage, but at least they don't have to fill in the scantron bubbles

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 5d ago

when i was a kid i made up a dumb song about scantron sheets and i still sing it sometime in my head. you sing it like one of those 80s gothic rock songs. SCANTRON! HERE I COME FOR YOU, HERE I COME FOR YOU... i was a weird kid.

Not me following suboptimal strategy in every 4X game I've ever played so that all of my territory is contiguous, what do you mean "slightly OCD", this is an outrage

Brad Houston, Cardboard Relocation Maestro@herodotusjr.bsky.social · 5d ago

The existence of the UP bothers me in the same way the existence of the Northwest Angle bothers me (and yes, Minnesota should give that back to Manitoba, too). THIS IS NOT NAM, SMOKEY, THIS IS POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, THERE ARE RULES

Me, drinking the tears of people on Neighborhood FB who are complaining about having to pay extra taxes for speed bumps and other traffic controls:

Die Mad About It Star Trek

Alt: Die Mad About It Star Trek

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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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"I think people are not yet paying attention to the fact that a Republican is about to be the nominee for president in AMERICA, a critical North American Swing Country"-- Chris Cillizza, 1860

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 6d ago

Remember Chris Cillizza? He’s sweating.

I, for one, welcome* our new DSA former-restauranteur overlords. *I'm still not sure Hong can overcome the ingrained racism and sexism of upstate, but who else am I going to vote for? Joel Brennan? Come on now.

Bill McKay@mckay4senate.bsky.social · 6d ago

Barnes is out of the WI-GOV race www.jsonline.com/story/news/p...

Wh-NO, how very dare you, this is a personal attack and I don't have to sit here and take it. (As a child of the late 80s-early 90s, I read *Microsoft Encarta* for fun. SO THERE.)

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

Apparently there is also a SOUTHERN paladin, who does the same thing as this card but for red??? Big if true #SkeetsFrom1995 #SomeoneGetMeTheLatestScryeListings

Shivam Bhatt@shivambhatt.bsky.social · 6d ago

7/30 #scryfallrandom says fuck your lord of the pit

Here's what I came here to post before that little 'euphemism' ruined my morning retroactively. I do love the card, though not the euphemism. "It can leap about... it's got teeth as sharp as... LOOK AT THE BONES!!"

Wow, TIL this exists, I really could have lived my entire life without knowing about this. Excuse me while I go scream at everything for a bit

Florence Ashley@floralashes.bsky.social · last wk.

“Spiritually Israeli” is a term I could really do without.

James Buchanan:

The Road To El Dorado: Both Is Good

Alt: The Road To El Dorado: Both Is Good

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Perry Areolar@perryodontal.bsky.social · last wk.

the two genders: those who want to claim presidents as queer, and those who think all presidents are bastards

This is also, incidentally, almost certainly why Emily Wilson included the "ashamed to have written this" line in her review. It was a *5000*-word review. Ain't nobody got time for a movie review of that length without some controversy

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · last wk.

it is true that matt and i wrote "rome didn't fall" and a lot of historians of antiquity didn't like it and that's fair. We did it on purpose. And the above it why.

Sing, O muse, of the rage of bsky posters not getting the joke

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · last wk.

Emily Wilson's latest translation is a prequel to The Odyssey. But since the original already covered the Trojan Horse, this one is all about a fight between two minor characters that Odysseus encountered in Hades. Embarrassing cash grab, milking that IP for all it's worth.

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LeBron James Should Just Take The Train To His New Job | Defector

LeBron James is coming to Philadelphia, a fact anyone who lives in Philly would have learned from interacting with strangers on the street, no matter their interest in basketball. This is salient beca...

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Michael@michaeljsc.bsky.social · last wk.

mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not

Rocky Horror Pictu--no, no, that's not right, only one of the two criteria are met, try again Brad #ARatherTenderSubject

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · last wk.

"There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible." Which film is this a dismissal of? Wrong answers only. I’m gonna say “Star Wars”.

I am struggling to understand the logic of destroying the main composition component of your English Teaching organization when comp is a)valued and b) going down the tubes society-wide because of AI, but I'm not an English Teacher I guess

Michael Trice, the Sturm Brightblade of Rhetoric@mikertrice.bsky.social · last wk.

More on @ncte.org’s betrayal of its membership and mission by dissolving CCCC: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

He is STILL TALKING ABOUT EXPECTED VALUE. Holy crap, let it go, my man. Talking about things that are killing society, an inability to admit other points of view may be valid has gotta be up there as a contributing factor

Stancil is right about the EV of 50% chance at $1M vs $50k guaranteed and also BRO WHY ARE YOU STILL TALKING ABOUT THIS, it's been like 3 days, who are you still trying to convince

Home again, home again, jiggity jig. Thanks for a good time Philadelphia and NAGARA! (The best cheesesteak I had was at Jim's, I await my philly followers' angry posts and emails)

I feel like i should go to the NAGARA reception tonight and be social, but i am pre-exhausted just thinking about it. Boo to introversion

New Yes/No meme images just dropped (um.... in 2015). In front of the Weitzman Museum of American Jewish History

At the preso at NAGARA in email management and it never gets easier, does it? Comments from 2022 are the same as the comments I reported in my 2021 predominantly on text retention. Sad panda.

I don't love that this presentation on AI was obviously created *with* AI. Even less do I love the miniscule text on most of the slides. But every slide emphasizes human involvement, and this was clearly not tested for legibility. Come on now. I shouldn't be complaining about this in 2026.

"I was God once!" "Yes, I saw. You were doing well until everyone died."

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2w ago

What's a Futurama line that lives forever in your head? Mine is, "Oh, a lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm My Own Grandpa."

"Nobody's paperwork is more worthy of preservation than any other's" but... that's not true, is it? We make choices about which records series to preserve, which by necessity changes whose records are maintained. This is something from Schellenberg. Come on. #BradIsCynicalAboutArchives