Bruce Dickerson
@badickerson.bsky.social
Retired history professor. Aging punk rocker, sci-fi geek, pet lover and Hoosier fan.
Ranting and raving and boasting, oh my!
December 18, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Ranting and raving and boasting, oh my!
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Elitist party hack fears losing influence...
I pick up my mail each afternoon in the faculty lounge -- at an Ivy League institution, no less! -- and I've never heard anything discussed there that's been picked up by the Democratic Party.
Stop repeating Republicans' lies about your own party.
In fact, John Podesta -- please just stop talking
Stop repeating Republicans' lies about your own party.
In fact, John Podesta -- please just stop talking
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
December 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Elitist party hack fears losing influence...
#nature #nationalparks #arizona #roadtrip #camping
Mid November at Petrified Forest and Painted Desert
Taken with my phone, no enhancements.
Mid November at Petrified Forest and Painted Desert
Taken with my phone, no enhancements.
December 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
#nature #nationalparks #arizona #roadtrip #camping
Mid November at Petrified Forest and Painted Desert
Taken with my phone, no enhancements.
Mid November at Petrified Forest and Painted Desert
Taken with my phone, no enhancements.
December 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
HCR is a voice of reason in an age of unreasonable ideas and attitudes. We see you Nate.
related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
December 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
HCR is a voice of reason in an age of unreasonable ideas and attitudes. We see you Nate.
December 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
How to Start a War 101:
Declare target state supports illegal activity.
Designate activity terrorism.
Build up military presence.
Bomb alleged terrorists.
Violate airspace of target state.
Declare government of target state illegitimate.
Use 205 year old Proclamation to justify actions.
And...
Declare target state supports illegal activity.
Designate activity terrorism.
Build up military presence.
Bomb alleged terrorists.
Violate airspace of target state.
Declare government of target state illegitimate.
Use 205 year old Proclamation to justify actions.
And...
December 11, 2025 at 12:41 AM
How to Start a War 101:
Declare target state supports illegal activity.
Designate activity terrorism.
Build up military presence.
Bomb alleged terrorists.
Violate airspace of target state.
Declare government of target state illegitimate.
Use 205 year old Proclamation to justify actions.
And...
Declare target state supports illegal activity.
Designate activity terrorism.
Build up military presence.
Bomb alleged terrorists.
Violate airspace of target state.
Declare government of target state illegitimate.
Use 205 year old Proclamation to justify actions.
And...
How to get people to stop talking about the double tap execution.
Seize an oil tanker.
Seize an oil tanker.
December 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
How to get people to stop talking about the double tap execution.
Seize an oil tanker.
Seize an oil tanker.
Pass the buck please, and thank you for your attention to this matter.
December 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Pass the buck please, and thank you for your attention to this matter.
December 8, 2025 at 1:59 PM
December 7, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Not sure how many times, but certainly more than 6.
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Not sure how many times, but certainly more than 6.
If they're so righteous I'm sure he'll have no problem with letting the public see them...
And by excusing this second strike, the daily strikes now seem to be deemed justified despite the fact that we are not at war, the drugs are not coming to the U.S. and the whole thing is just a ruse to seize a bunch of oil and give MAGA some sweet sociopathic ecstasy. We are a rogue superpower.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), to reporters, after viewing video footage of the U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean on Sept. 2:
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
"Righteous strikes." "Entirely lawful."
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If they're so righteous I'm sure he'll have no problem with letting the public see them...
Jeb will rise again!
Please clap.
Please clap.
Make America Only Normally Racist And Violent Again
Yeah you do that
December 3, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Jeb will rise again!
Please clap.
Please clap.
He wasn't sleeping he was just mesmerized by the overwhelming levels of bullshit.
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
He wasn't sleeping he was just mesmerized by the overwhelming levels of bullshit.
#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #mono
An Osprey enjoying a snack at Morro Bay, CA., early November 2026. Taken with my phone camera and without any edits. I really do need to get a good birding camera...
An Osprey enjoying a snack at Morro Bay, CA., early November 2026. Taken with my phone camera and without any edits. I really do need to get a good birding camera...
December 2, 2025 at 5:09 PM
#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #mono
An Osprey enjoying a snack at Morro Bay, CA., early November 2026. Taken with my phone camera and without any edits. I really do need to get a good birding camera...
An Osprey enjoying a snack at Morro Bay, CA., early November 2026. Taken with my phone camera and without any edits. I really do need to get a good birding camera...
#birds #BirdoftheDay
During a recent visit to Morro Bay, CA., I was rewarded with a few opportunities to watch Great Egrets.
During a recent visit to Morro Bay, CA., I was rewarded with a few opportunities to watch Great Egrets.
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
#birds #BirdoftheDay
During a recent visit to Morro Bay, CA., I was rewarded with a few opportunities to watch Great Egrets.
During a recent visit to Morro Bay, CA., I was rewarded with a few opportunities to watch Great Egrets.
Having to deal with AI crap, and anticipating more of this kind of thing is one of the reasons I chose to go ahead and retire this past spring.
If a Psych prof assigns students an essay response paper with explicit guidelines and then flunks a student for turning in a paper that ignores those guidelines but instead makes vague gestures to "the Bible" then THAT IS NOT A VIOLATION OF THE STUDENT'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Having to deal with AI crap, and anticipating more of this kind of thing is one of the reasons I chose to go ahead and retire this past spring.
Recently traveled through the Southwest, a few of the Ravens I met along the way. 1) Meteor Crater 2) Grand Canyon 3) Tehachapi, CA ) Dead Horse Point. #birds #BirdOfTheDay
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Recently traveled through the Southwest, a few of the Ravens I met along the way. 1) Meteor Crater 2) Grand Canyon 3) Tehachapi, CA ) Dead Horse Point. #birds #BirdOfTheDay
Hey, with so much statesmanship can't we just accept the occasional beheading or two...
There's a whole swath of political media -- Semafor, Axios, Politico, etc. -- where the average piece reads like a press release commissioned by its subject rather than an objective and independent analysis of them.
This is just embarrassing.
This is just embarrassing.
Assuming this is related to Ben Smith I was honestly shocked by this, an astonishing bit of bootlicking from top to bottom
November 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Hey, with so much statesmanship can't we just accept the occasional beheading or two...