Ad for @rajaforil.bsky.social this morning promises to “abolish Trump’s ICE.” I’ll let that little one-word escape hatch fill in the back half of that sentence I think.
February 1, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Ad for @rajaforil.bsky.social this morning promises to “abolish Trump’s ICE.” I’ll let that little one-word escape hatch fill in the back half of that sentence I think.
🧵 A thread for anyone who can hear this meme
January 31, 2026 at 2:30 PM
🧵 A thread for anyone who can hear this meme
Anyone with the slightest modicum of power showing up in the Epstein files
January 31, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Anyone with the slightest modicum of power showing up in the Epstein files
Absolutely not.
January 30, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Absolutely not.
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Career Advice | Bringing Staff Expertise Out of the Shadows
Universities are set up to recognize classification, not contribution—rendering the intellectual contributions of academic staff largely invisible. https://bit.ly/4qaxtaa
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Universities are set up to recognize classification, not contribution—rendering the intellectual contributions of academic staff largely invisible. https://bit.ly/4qaxtaa
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
January 29, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Career Advice | Bringing Staff Expertise Out of the Shadows
Universities are set up to recognize classification, not contribution—rendering the intellectual contributions of academic staff largely invisible. https://bit.ly/4qaxtaa
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Universities are set up to recognize classification, not contribution—rendering the intellectual contributions of academic staff largely invisible. https://bit.ly/4qaxtaa
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
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No.
Opinion | To Avoid More Tragic Deaths, ICE Needs Higher Education and Training Standards
Higher ed can play an important role in making federal immigration enforcement safer. https://bit.ly/4bRR5fx
#EDUSKy #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Higher ed can play an important role in making federal immigration enforcement safer. https://bit.ly/4bRR5fx
#EDUSKy #HigherEd #AcademicSky
January 27, 2026 at 8:34 PM
No.
My day-to-day in graduate higher ed: constant questions about why more int’l students are admitted than domestic, explaining their qualifications are on avg. demonstrably superior, and then dealing with some new manufactured crisis designed to keep international students out of graduate education.
Bill Cassidy sent a letter to a bunch of colleges asking why the massive cuts to education he and his party have gleefully supported for decades did exactly what they're designed to do. www.chronicle.com/article/cong...
January 27, 2026 at 4:38 PM
My day-to-day in graduate higher ed: constant questions about why more int’l students are admitted than domestic, explaining their qualifications are on avg. demonstrably superior, and then dealing with some new manufactured crisis designed to keep international students out of graduate education.
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i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
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Now I can admit that I always hear “Greg Bovino” in the voice of Rachel Bloom singing “West Covina”
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Now I can admit that I always hear “Greg Bovino” in the voice of Rachel Bloom singing “West Covina”
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Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.
January 26, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.
Me and my wife when it’s sub-zero in Chicago
January 23, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Me and my wife when it’s sub-zero in Chicago
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Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.
2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.
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I get this part of Mulholland Drive now
January 23, 2026 at 1:08 PM
I get this part of Mulholland Drive now
I’m old enough to remember being an undergraduate and being sent revisions to my comps over improper use of an en dash.
NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...
NeurIPS papers contained 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims | Fortune
An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic research.
fortune.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:57 PM
I’m old enough to remember being an undergraduate and being sent revisions to my comps over improper use of an en dash.
The Oscars really said everything is trash so let’s have genuinely good nominations all around, as a treat
January 22, 2026 at 1:51 PM
The Oscars really said everything is trash so let’s have genuinely good nominations all around, as a treat
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Every Caleb Williams play
January 19, 2026 at 2:46 AM
Every Caleb Williams play
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Literal Immaculate Reception
January 19, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Literal Immaculate Reception