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Great Lakes nomad and occasional metalsmithing. Aura farming @ your library
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Going to need ALOOF WIFE on a nice sweater.
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I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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At this point, these kind of stories are just plain race-baiting. We know what this is. We know what this does. We know who makes the Mac and cheese and who doesn’t. Cmon now.
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Seems bad for us to build an entire economy on Mechanical Turks.
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Their favorite sitter was on schedule again.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I’m sorry but there’s no way Larry Summers is teaching 5 classes this semester. How many credits are we talking? There’s no way he’s some fount of unknown knowledge undergrads will be ruined without. Harvard is telling on itself so loudly.
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We are watching Jungle Book and the vultures are supposed to be the Beatles, right?
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Cats straight up lying to the cat sitter right now.

“We are indoor-outdoor, didn’t she sign the permission slip?”
November 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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who the fuck does Ezra Klein thinks actually writes the overly convoluted regulations he despises?

It's not progressives or anybody even tangentially related to good faith reform movements, it's unchecked corporate power, you insufferable brunchlord
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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when @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I started working on this book, it felt excitingly ambitious to imagine it being used by students at a range of levels in literary studies

...and now we hear it's being picked up by high school teachers, historians, professors of law, and more -- I'm truly floored
Am I the first law professor wanting to assign parts of this book to law students, esp. the Introduction by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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All joking aside, the heartbreaking thing about this story is seeing how a white “journalist” with poor prose & worst journalist ethics gets to repeatedly crash out & land plum jobs while so many poor, trans, Black, Native journalists never get in journalism’s door. Like…
How do you land Vanity Fair west coast editor at age 32 after having affairs with two presidential candidates you were covering as a journalist. That is some prime white lady shit.
November 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Thank you, FFS nobody needs reminding that the guy who looks like the anus judge from The Wall “desires desire” ever. Send each other letters with wax stamps or something.
I do not care what any consenting adult of any gender configuration does sexually with other consenting adults, and also my God, could you sweaty freaks who tragically currently run the world be a little a more goddamned discreet about it?
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Someone should write a Moynihan report on our elite class, explaining that their problems are not socioeconomic but the product of a pathological ghetto culture.
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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this tawdry Olivia Nuzzi stuff highlights why I’m turning into a small-c conservative with regards to “it is unseemly and shameful for people in positions of power and influence to subject the public to their messy-ass sex nonsense on a constant basis”
November 18, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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In sorting my own thoughts about the moment, I began writing about the way science is being used by bad actors under the guise of "evidence-based medicine". I also talk about the limits of our ability to fully boil down evidence into axioms that make subjectivity irrelevant.
The myth of an apolitical science — Jessica Kant
What we might call the modern anti-science movement, starting with efforts to hide the obvious linkage between tobacco and cancer, and the rise of “climate skepticism”, has grown in scale enormously i...
jessk.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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"The plan would reorganize the departments and their faculty members into an array of “schools,” “centers” and “institutes.” Among those that administrators have floated are the School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions & the Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies"
"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"

🎁 link

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I did not ever need to know this much about the sex lives of political journalists
November 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I dunno, I have liked some genuinely weird people a whole lot so she’s got my sympathies for that part, but this is another level of needing an editor.
how dare you criticize this prose
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Them: You better not be a cunty fish vase when I get there
Me:
Fish Vase — Émile Reiber, ca. 1874
Cloisonné Enamel, Gilt and Patinated Bronze
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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'A House of Dynamite' but it's your uncles trying to deep fry a turkey.
November 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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happy monday, taps sign⬇️
happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you
November 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM