"Senator from South Carolina" is not, historically speaking, a good Sort Of Person to be

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

As a straight man it is my inalienable right to wear shorts so long they might as well be pants

Pick a Bond villain from pictures you have on your phone

Dr. M.A. Davis@mikedavis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pick a Bond villain from pictures you have on your phone

How dare you attempt to educate me

Bob and Carol and Ted and Kermit

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Full Muppet Jacket

What a bunch of nerds

Opinion | It’s Time for America to Admit That It Has a Marijuana Problem

nytimes.com

One of my favorite writers!

Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Remembering John O'Hara on his birthday 🎂 📷 Carl Mydans, 1962 "If you want to read a book by a man who knows exactly what he is writing about & writes marvelously well, read Appointment in Samarra." - Ernest Hemingway

I am supposed to be a 'words' guy, yet I find that I lack the words to fully express the sense of rage and betrayal that I feel, having been raised to believe in the beauty of the United States as an - imperfect - pluralistic republic, to see these quislings try to turn it into a boring ethnostate.

you there boy, what bullshit is this

very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight

“I don’t need this course” motherfucker you take your laundry home for your mom to do it. Shut the fuck up.

wish i could be cool and mysterious but unfortunately i can't shut the fuck up

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

I am never more in my element than when talking about something absolutely nobody cares about.

You never heard of this fucking guy six weeks ago. Six weeks! Just get another Guy!! Look around. There's a Guy. Over there, another Guy. Now turn around...Guys. What do you think is around that corner? You guessed it: More Guys.

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

we are in the Age of Enlightenment but for absolute dimwits

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

i would prefer to not live in uppercase H History

It's simple: we monetize crying

Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people’s medicine for fuel.

making college free as a means to harness educational polarization

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Latinas might snap back to the Democrats. Particularly as more Latinas go to college. But working-class men without degrees are a staple of the modern right-wing coalition across the globe. Latino men are one of the groups least likely to have a college degree.

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

What a burden to be old enough to know who Dean Cain is