Just some guy
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Historian and archaeologist working on the Mediterranean. Used to pretend, badly, to be a dead base ball player. Not sure why I’m here now except I missed people from the old place.
Normal like this?
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Normal like this?
Competing for the Big 12 championship today is a repressive university pushing its narrow view of Christian hegemonic politics and also BYU.
December 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Competing for the Big 12 championship today is a repressive university pushing its narrow view of Christian hegemonic politics and also BYU.
Wow this Chancellor’s memo at TTU is not good
December 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Wow this Chancellor’s memo at TTU is not good
Very tempting to keep commenting on the OU situation, especially given their (very bad) announcement. However, I can’t help but think that the likely very scared grad student TA at the center of this more than anything needs support and respect and not to be talked around.
November 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Very tempting to keep commenting on the OU situation, especially given their (very bad) announcement. However, I can’t help but think that the likely very scared grad student TA at the center of this more than anything needs support and respect and not to be talked around.
I played enough Shadowrun and read enough Gibson to expect that large corporation kept teams of assassins on retainer and here pretty much every pharmaceutical company has been just crapped on for months and where is the team of mercenaries assembled by a mysterious man in a suit at the local bar
November 30, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I played enough Shadowrun and read enough Gibson to expect that large corporation kept teams of assassins on retainer and here pretty much every pharmaceutical company has been just crapped on for months and where is the team of mercenaries assembled by a mysterious man in a suit at the local bar
Many, many times I have engaged with people who bemoan “political correctness” by noting that when I hear someone say this, I really hear someone longing to call my disabled son the r-word. This yields a stammered apology almost immediately. Recent events make me think this will no longer work.
November 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Many, many times I have engaged with people who bemoan “political correctness” by noting that when I hear someone say this, I really hear someone longing to call my disabled son the r-word. This yields a stammered apology almost immediately. Recent events make me think this will no longer work.
A family member posted a real clear politics piece about the 7-11 clerk who shot an assailant and was fired for having a gun at work. I asked him if we should question the piece being written by John Lott, a huge gun guy, as relevant for the piece’s framing. He thought this was a very stupid point.
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
A family member posted a real clear politics piece about the 7-11 clerk who shot an assailant and was fired for having a gun at work. I asked him if we should question the piece being written by John Lott, a huge gun guy, as relevant for the piece’s framing. He thought this was a very stupid point.
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Every Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Every Thanksgiving
Was watching this clip recently and table 1 all the way. It was sad in a way to see time reduce Reggie—who was so alive with outsized physicality for my entire life—to an older smaller man; but Jesus, I could listen to him talk and tell stories the entire night.
November 24, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Was watching this clip recently and table 1 all the way. It was sad in a way to see time reduce Reggie—who was so alive with outsized physicality for my entire life—to an older smaller man; but Jesus, I could listen to him talk and tell stories the entire night.
Time to mute the word “alpha,” I think. I’ll miss out on that sweet sweet discourse on early Christian iconography but alas it must be done.
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Time to mute the word “alpha,” I think. I’ll miss out on that sweet sweet discourse on early Christian iconography but alas it must be done.
Growing up in NYC, I saw lots of dudes like Trump. They talked a ton of shit and then backed the fuck down when someone better at it squared off on them. It was the one thing those guys respected. Nice to see a fellow NYer do that today.
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Growing up in NYC, I saw lots of dudes like Trump. They talked a ton of shit and then backed the fuck down when someone better at it squared off on them. It was the one thing those guys respected. Nice to see a fellow NYer do that today.
Jarring to go from Angus King’s recent wailing about the impossibility of stopping Trump to seeing MC Cardamom just absolutely win the dude over
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Jarring to go from Angus King’s recent wailing about the impossibility of stopping Trump to seeing MC Cardamom just absolutely win the dude over
I am way more surprised someone gave a kid an AI powered talking teddy bear than I am that said bear told kids how to find knives and have sex
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I am way more surprised someone gave a kid an AI powered talking teddy bear than I am that said bear told kids how to find knives and have sex
Writers and personalities just absolutely vomiting out personal details. Just clawing over each other to outperform their rivals and earn the title of who can share the most.
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Writers and personalities just absolutely vomiting out personal details. Just clawing over each other to outperform their rivals and earn the title of who can share the most.
What the myth says: an ancient wise god figure gave fire to man and was revered for this. Betraying the other gods came at great personal pain and loss of status
What Jeff Bezos bears: blah blah wise god blah gave fire blah blah blah blah revered. Blah blah blah blah personal blah blah status
What Jeff Bezos bears: blah blah wise god blah gave fire blah blah blah blah revered. Blah blah blah blah personal blah blah status
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
What the myth says: an ancient wise god figure gave fire to man and was revered for this. Betraying the other gods came at great personal pain and loss of status
What Jeff Bezos bears: blah blah wise god blah gave fire blah blah blah blah revered. Blah blah blah blah personal blah blah status
What Jeff Bezos bears: blah blah wise god blah gave fire blah blah blah blah revered. Blah blah blah blah personal blah blah status
So, this is really bad
Texas A&M OKs "race and gender ideology" restrictions
Faculty are also prohibited from teaching material inconsistent with approved syllabi. The changes come in response to a recent controversy over gender identity classroom discussions.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
So, this is really bad
A not insignificant number of NY Times writers seem to be responding to people losing faith in their paper by telling those people that they are stupid
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
A not insignificant number of NY Times writers seem to be responding to people losing faith in their paper by telling those people that they are stupid
Me, seeing the debates about the AL MVP and realizing I will never again have enough passion to feel anything about this
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Me, seeing the debates about the AL MVP and realizing I will never again have enough passion to feel anything about this
Calling bullshit on “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme” now that we have added baseball players rigging games to political supercorruption, tariffs, and rising industrial overlords. This is just derivative repetition of the Gilded Age with no elegant rhyme scheme whatsoever.
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Calling bullshit on “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme” now that we have added baseball players rigging games to political supercorruption, tariffs, and rising industrial overlords. This is just derivative repetition of the Gilded Age with no elegant rhyme scheme whatsoever.
I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I think a lot about the story Carl Reiner told: he’d have been a sewing machine repairman if not for a free WPA drama class. That led to other theater work, to Sid Caesar, to Mel Brooks, and all the rest. All because of one free class paid for by a government that felt the arts were worth teaching.
Lots of sincere hope here tonight and man this is fun
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Lots of sincere hope here tonight and man this is fun
Ahahaha Mamdani just quoted Cuomo’s dad
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Ahahaha Mamdani just quoted Cuomo’s dad
Poor JD Vance now has to hit on another widow
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Poor JD Vance now has to hit on another widow