I like when a character asks another something like “can you read ancient Sumerian?” and they go “a little. These markings tell the tale of an ancient warrior who found a cursed sword giving him immense power but killing everyone around him. Not sure about that last part maybe they were just hurt”

If the South American countries unite can they call themselves the United States of America? Like is the name copyrighted or…?

This Center is a spinoff of the right-wing Civitas Institute www.statesman.com/news/educati...

UT quietly opens Center for Humanities but won't say how it was created

UT is adding 14 professors through a new humanities center, though the university has not explained how the initiative was formed.

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Ok this is one of my worst opinions that is also accurate: Disney should make new versions of Star Wars that fix some of the dumbest additions to the OG trilogy (see below for example) and release it in theaters for a limited time advertising it would stream 6 months after. Take my money, please. 

Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD@lluaces.bsky.social · yesterday

I love how when the Ewoks meet Leia they’re like “she’s cool” but they meet the boys and R2 and it’s like “does not pass vibe check, must eat, start by burning alive”

I love how when the Ewoks meet Leia they’re like “she’s cool” but they meet the boys and R2 and it’s like “does not pass vibe check, must eat, start by burning alive”

Where are the op-eds exclaiming this is yet another example of white cishetero men failing at rigorous research? Where are the think pieces calling for an end to the affirmative initiatives that have heaved these men into prestigious positions ahead of everyone else, who is much more qualified? 🤔

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)@katjathieme.bsky.social · 2d ago

And why does William O’Reilly—who is not Black—still hold a professorship, also at Cambridge, despite his proven record of plagiarism? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

CPS teaching me things 10 years into my career

Love to do a Uno reverse on people saying my name is super complicated: Her: “what was it again, something really hard” Me: “Lorenzo, like Lawrence but Latino. Your was hard too, was it Jean?” Her: “Joyce” Me: “good to see you Jean”

evil Nightcrawler is kicking everyone’s asses

1st: I teach a class, Psychotherapy Theory & Practice, to Berkeley clinical grad students that starts with Freud/Breuer and ends with a bried nod to "3rd Wave". And the central thesis is that there are a finite number of true mechanisms that exist in an infinite expanse of 'theory' and terminology.

Chill duo

“It’s always some animals of this species are harmless, here’s how they look” 🥰 Followed by: “some will kill you in 2 seconds but luckily you can identify them because they are identical to the harmless ones except for this difference that is imperceptible as it lunges at you to end your existence”

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Come to think of it the professor could address some of the concern here by reporting the correlations of his midterms and finals over the years…

Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor@chadtopaz.bsky.social · last wk.

🧵🚨: Remember the recent #genAI cheating scandal at Brown? Everyone talks about the average score drop from take-home midterm to proctored final: 95.7 → 48.8. That number alone can't settle anything. But the released data can, and almost nobody has looked at it. So we did! Read on. #AcademicSky

Also my hot take is that NONE of those guys actually believe Dr. Fauci did anything wrong. They are doing this to drive bad press away from Trump. They do NOT believe he did anything wrong they just know he’s convenient. (Maybe the guy that sounds like foghorn leghorn believes it but just him.)

Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD@lluaces.bsky.social · last wk.

Can we start a Dr. Fauci appreciation thread and if any of you is famous enough to know him, send it his way lol I just think it’s shameful what he is going through today,

Can we start a Dr. Fauci appreciation thread and if any of you is famous enough to know him, send it his way lol I just think it’s shameful what he is going through today,

I beat Skyrim a couple of years ago and gotta say: did not care for it. It insists upon itself.

If you think your financial situation would be a lot better if you consolidated your streaming accounts and any potential duplicates you have, don’t even check. Live the lie. After years of thinking this I checked and it turns out I had absolutely 0 redundancies and now I have nobody to blame

I'm reading the "environmentalists are wrong about data centers" piece from the NYT and ohmygoditssofuckingbad. Apparently, so long as you're punching left, they'll just let you say any goddamn thing you please... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o...

Opinion | The Environmental Case Against Data Centers Is Misguided

Our animosity toward data centers is really more about our anxieties about A.I.

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I’d be primarily proud of the work and secondarily of posting through it because 😱

Jules Sherred (he/him)@geekyjules.julessherred.com · 3w ago

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

Shoutout to the people who engineer stoplights because those things almost never fall and it’s not for the wind’s lack of trying

I wish you had the personality of John Ralphio and also someone else had the personality of Mona Lisa Saperstein and then the three of us could hang out and, sure, I’d be the lame one but we’d have fun

Me: “Do you like any of the Taylor Swift songs I’ve played off evermore and folklore?” My husband, dead serious: “I only know the one with the goat”

Ok not to brag but throughout my life I’ve called out four affairs before knowing they were happening. I feel like after the third one it’s not a coincidence and this is a thing I’m good at

“Sir it’s just a minor parking tickets, $20, you can pay online” Me:

So it’s the character that is “Bazooka Joe,” the gum is just “Bazooka”???

There’s losing arguments with your spouse then there’s when Tom Spiderman beat Zendaya with the Umbrella lip sync. I’d be bringing that up every day like “oh you want to know where we should eat? You know what REALLY ate…”

All that was required was Milla Jovovich and psychology and I was hooked