If Chicago band The Smoking Popes aren’t involved in this game somehow they should immediately fire their representation.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 1h agoIt’s Pope Hat Night at the White Sox game
M. Ryan
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Former tracker/kerner. Second career as recently minted JD. We’ll see.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 1h ago
BREAKING: The Eleventh Circuit, en banc, upholds Florida's anti-drag law, holding that it is neither unconstitutionally vague nor unconstitutionally overbroad. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
Good morning. For some reason I have the Super Mario Bros. theme stuck in my head. And now you do, too.
Wait until you hear about public schools and people without kids.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · last wk.Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction. Reckoning, Fables, Lifes Rich Pageant. Fables, Pageant, Document. Pageant, Document, Green. Green, Out of Time, Automatic for the People. OOT, Automatic, Monster. Automatic, Monster, New Adventures.
Mia Murphy 🏳️⚧️@miamurphy.com · last wk.What's the best three album run from a band? (the correct answer is Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure by Rush, but I'm excited to learn second place)
In the spirit of today's @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social match, what are four albums from 1988 that you'll defend to the death.
M. Ryan@merpwashere.bsky.social · last wk.in the spirit of today’s @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social match, what are four albums from 1988 that you’ll defend to the death?
in the spirit of today’s @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social match, what are four albums from 1988 that you’ll defend to the death?
nanette@nanette.bsky.social · 2w agoin the spirit of today’s @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social match, what are four albums from 1988 that you’ll defend to the death?
Costco elite pro tip: If you use your annual rewards certificate but don't buy the full amount they will give you change in cash which you can then use to pay for your health care.
man I will just never get over the fact that the collective response to the pandemic, and an absolutely miraculous vaccine development, was to destroy public health in this country and smear everyone involved I generally take a positive view of humanity overall but it's so depressing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoMoreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"
that's right, it's time for a critical re-evaluation of _The Ice Pirates_ (1984)
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2w agoIt is right and good for people to have divergent critical opinions and perspectives concerning art and media.
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
Conservatives in 2016: TRIGGERED LIB???? Conservatives in 2026: We are installing trigger warnings in the Smithsonian
"fascism is a movement in semiotic overdrive" (Barbara Spackman) I whisper every time I login.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w agoThe use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
Not sure why more people don’t regard “based off of” with the horror they claim to feel for “irregardless.”
“Oh like you don’t have crap in your neck”
Achilles Micawber@achillesthe2nd.bsky.social · 3w ago"My only regret is that I have bonitis."
20 years teaching the Odyssey to college freshmen who didn't do the reading have emotionally prepared me for Twitter this week.
Dear Peacock, As someone who generally loves your app’s programming, let me say that you didn’t need to disappear both my Poker Face avatar AND my Continue Watching queue at the same time
Fordham Law Professor Courtney Cox (@coxlaw.bsky.social) joined Kevin Frazier (@kevintfrazier.bsky.social), a senior editor at Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org), on Scaling Laws (@scalinglaws.bsky.social) to discuss her forthcoming article, Hardwiring Hercules?.
Scaling Laws: Courtney Cox on AI in Adjudication
Live from the Institute of Law & AI's Workshop on Law-Following AI
lawfaremedia.org
“Lazarus wasn’t grateful for his second wind, for another chance to see his chances fade like the dawn”
Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 3w ago
And we’ll twist the light so that it always shines down on us, and wait together for a touch of something more
M. Ryan@merpwashere.bsky.social · 3w agoNow all I have to offer you is archaeology and Christmas, and we’ll turn our backs on what the world has in store
Now all I have to offer you is archaeology and Christmas, and we’ll turn our backs on what the world has in store
M. Ryan@merpwashere.bsky.social · 3w agoThe war of the class clown is never won
My body’s made of sawdust and my heart just split
Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 3w ago