Life, man, I don’t know. You’re born. You assemble countless pieces of inexpensive Swedish designed furniture. You die.

[A huge BUT THE BROWNFACE caveat, but] Touch of Evil is an incredible movie.

It changed!

Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · yesterday

I'm in Halberstadt where I have been sent by the lovely folk over at Orbital Studies to witness and write about the 17th chord change of John Cage's "As Slow as possible" which has been playing on an organ here since 2001 and is projected to keep playing until the 2600s.

The humanoid robots are going to be constructed by other robots in low Earth orbit out of the detritus of defunct satellites.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 10h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

I’m really confounding this animal by showing him the video.

John Halloran@profhalloran.bsky.social · 10h ago

Ozzie—a lover of all men and beasts—is totally out of sorts about the dog who lives in the electronics cabinet.

This … is correct.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 20h ago

Abolish primaries.

Ozzie—a lover of all men and beasts—is totally out of sorts about the dog who lives in the electronics cabinet.

I wish that the lesson that was learned from Haley Stevens was that running on overt bigotry is anathema to the electorate. Of course I also wish that overt bigotry was, you know, anathema to the electorate.

I hear a pileated woodpecker. I cannot see the pileated woodpecker that I can hear.

My wife and I started dating after the advent of Gmail, but before the advent of unlimited free texting; and, therefore, used to email each other short quippy things under one daily subject line—dozens and dozens of times per day. We’d frequently hit the Gmail threading limit of 100 messages where

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · yesterday

I have a confession. Once Gmail collapses more than three emails in an exchange? I stop reading the emails.

I mean, I cannot stress how horrific this contact is: It looks like every attorney at this firm is white except for one Hispanic paralegal. They don’t even list immigration law as an expertise: burkegroup.law/our-team/. Josh Wright worked for the Federal Trade Commission.

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

burkegroup.law

In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/

Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC

Our Team

burkegroup.law

Politico@politico.com · yesterday

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

Kirk didn't beat the Kobayashi Maru.

Buttadeus@thewanderingjew.bsky.social · yesterday

Everybody needs to stop fighting the goddamn hypo; the point is to conceptualize the uncomplicated idea that "choices have tradeoffs"

It’s the sixth grader’s birthday today, so I’m headed to Sephora and then to Ulta. Pray for me.

Sitting on my couch updating my syllabi and I see a flutter outside of my window of a bird landing on a wire. At first my brain says, "Mourning Dove" which is cool and all, but... Nope it's an American Kestrel. Which, sorry, doves, are a heck of a lot cooler.

Now I kinda wish that we'd named the dog Corncake.

Josef O'Shea@josefoshea.bsky.social · yesterday

Would like some Actual Good News about the environment ?

Where wast thou, little salt girl, when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

another day guarding the river you can't go into twice. everyone keeps asking me if they can go into the river again. buddy, you aren't the same man.

So. This "underlying health conditions" / "pre-existing health conditions" framing is understandably upsetting b/c amid the COVID public health emergency, it became a way of discounting the morbidity or mortality of chronically ill & disabled people. The people behind MAHA leveraged this framing.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Wow, it’s like we were talking about how people with “preexisting conditions” solidified as a disposable category earlier today… I understand that what’s intended to be signaled here is risk assessment information, but, man, this is an incredibly dehumanizing way to do it.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

If you live in Philadelphia, I'm teaching a free class (with free stickers!!) on how to score a baseball game at Val's Lesbian bar next tuesday! Please come!

Well, this has launched me, unsuspecting, on a journey through the eBay condiment aisle where this is selling for a cool $5,000 (free shipping tho).

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tabasco Diamond Reserve (2018-2018): A special edition, incredibly small-batch hot sauce, released to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Tabasco brand. It came in a champagne-style bottle with gold foil and a fancy gold box, retailing for $35 for a 6oz bottle. What made this sauce so unique? A 🧵

Okay, it’s August now, so I can’t keep having days where I do two and a half hours of work and think, “Gee, that’s gotta be enough for the day.”

This was a great moral injury perpetrated on all of us. And there has been very little wide-scale work to recover from that (in addition to everything else that we need to recover from with COVID).

Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2d ago

Holy shit, this. We’ve never dealt with how many humans became disposable.

Just had a really fun birthday brunch for the 6th grader at The Hand & The Eye. It’s an immersive magic show where you can be up close with a number of magicians doing their work, plus the space itself has some neat immersive features. Great brunch. Then in-a-theater magic show. Loads of fun.

In case you missed it: @kqednews.kqed.org and ProPublica revealed how delays and inaction, combined with a lack of transparency, allowed educators to get new jobs after school districts reported them to the state teacher licensing agency for sexual harassment or other misconduct.

He Was Fired for Sexually Harassing Students. California Allowed Him to Keep Teaching Anyway.

Math teacher Jason Agan was deemed “unfit to teach.” But the finding was never made public. This is how the state allowed him — and dozens of other educators found to have committed sexual harassment…

propublica.org

Look, guys, I have committed—as a birthday present for the 6th grader—to refrain from telling dad jokes to the family until the sun comes up on Wednesday morning. Which just means that I am going to be posting many more terrible jokes on this niche microblogging website.

It’s August, and I have assured my chair that I’ve reached the parameters of a syllabus for all my classes.

It’s August, and I have assured my chair that I’ve reached the parameters of a syllabus for all my classes.