Rob Gordon
@ndcanuck72.bsky.social
Psych professor and political junkie. Counting the days until the next JoCo Cruise.
This is such a great story.
Paul and Storm@paulandstorm.bsky.social · 3w ago[P] Went to see @alyankovic.bsky.social this past weekend; he was wonderful, as always. Using this as an excuse to repost a thread I originally uploaded to the Bad Place. It's just one more of a zillion anecdotes that illustrate what a truly good and great person he is... bsky.app/profile/paul...
I’d been looking forward to this episode, and it was as great as I thought it would be.
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn@bullseye.maximumfun.org · 3w agoAlex Horne and Greg Davies, the hosts of the British competition show Taskmaster, join us to chat about some of their favorite past tasks, why most of the contestants are comedians, and so much more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpKO...
Did you hear about the DC July 4 fireworks show? It promises 850,000 fireworks in 40 minutes. That's 354 per second. You'll miss up to 142 of them every time you blink. For your edutainment, I proudly present the nerdiest thing you will read about this dangerously absurd / absurdly dangerous event.
Three Hundred Fifty-Four Fireworks per Second — Chad M. Topaz
Organizers promise 850,000 fireworks in roughly 40 minutes over the National Mall this Saturday. I did what a mathematician does with a big number: I divided. It did not make the show look better.
chadtopaz.com
Colombian fans respectfully stood in silence as one supporter sang the Congo national anthem alone at the World Cup. Only after he finished, they erupted into cheers and joined the celebration. Original post
Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.
Kate Riga@kateriga.bsky.social · last mo.Kavanaugh says that Constitution is an "enduring document" and that new exceptions to birthright citizenship can be added for "modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers"
How do you sell Paella to Minnesotans? “The hotdish of Spain” 😂
Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.
Mamdani's speech at the Knicks parade was easily the best I've ever heard at an event of that sort. I posted the whole thing on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Highly recommended.
Mamdani Remembers Some Knicks Guys during phenomenal parade speech
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names
JFK Terminal 8 last night when Knicks took the lead. (via Renny Gong) #NYC 🏀
Congrats to JoCo Cruise alum @amalelmohtar.com for winning the Nebula for Best Novella! Other JoCo alum Nebula award nominees are @annaleen.bsky.social & @nnedi.bsky.social. @nkjemisin.bsky.social won the Grand Master Award! Pics from JoCo Cruise by Corry Haines, Steve Petrucelli & Mark Barrington
This is the inflection point for the political momentum shift in the US
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
State offices in Alabama are closed today in observance of Confederate president Jefferson Davis's birthday. I have some thoughts. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
Alabama Closes Its Offices For Jefferson Davis
In the year we celebrate 250 years of freedom, Alabama is still honoring the man who fought to end it.
open.substack.com
One of my strongest takeaways from the Bee this week is that it was a showcase for why critical thinking matters more than ever. So much of what the kids do up there isn’t rote memorization—it’s using their insane prep to solve words like puzzles (using etymology, patterns) in real time.
Goodpapajama@goodpapajamma.bsky.social · 2mo agoGreat feat and congratulations but as a skill it is less necessary in the age of AI and automatic spell check. Kinda like the multiplication tables.
A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
a swarm of spring bugs@facefullabugs.bsky.social · 5mo agoLove the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
The music of Seinfeld, divorced from the show itself, is nothing short of disgusting. Imagine if the show didn’t exist but the music somehow did. Hearing it, your face would twist in angry revulsion
In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.
like a butterfly dropping into its grave, of course. a phrase we’ve all used and a very normal, relatable kind of image that conveys clear meaning. i’m always saying this. so beautiful, like a delicate butterfly croaking mid-air and gently floating into a tiny open bug grave at the insect cemetery.
