Matthew Cushman
@astragalus.bsky.social
Adjunct math prof at Hunter College in NYC. Lefty. Kindness is the only thing that matters.
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We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
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If you are writing an opinion piece about higher education and the three example institutions you use are Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, please just throw your writing in the trash. You are not writing about higher ed, you are writing about a tiny elitist unrepresentative sliver of higher ed.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If you are writing an opinion piece about higher education and the three example institutions you use are Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, please just throw your writing in the trash. You are not writing about higher ed, you are writing about a tiny elitist unrepresentative sliver of higher ed.
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Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song first, and then sank the Edmund Fitzgerald himself in what has come to be recognized as one of the first viral marketing stunts
November 11, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song first, and then sank the Edmund Fitzgerald himself in what has come to be recognized as one of the first viral marketing stunts
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Pour one out for our guys laying on the ground with their mouths open
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Pour one out for our guys laying on the ground with their mouths open
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x is interior to A if and only if
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
x is interior to A if and only if
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
10/10 take. No notes.
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VOICEOVER: in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet entirely opposite, groups: the police, who are afraid of sandwiches, and sandwich wielders, armed with food consisting of two pieces of bread filled with meat, cheese, and vegetables. these are their stories.
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
VOICEOVER: in the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet entirely opposite, groups: the police, who are afraid of sandwiches, and sandwich wielders, armed with food consisting of two pieces of bread filled with meat, cheese, and vegetables. these are their stories.
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if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
November 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam
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folks... you have permission to lib out
November 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
folks... you have permission to lib out
Dick Cheney was alive this whole time? Yikes. Somebody better put a stake in him just to be sure
November 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Dick Cheney was alive this whole time? Yikes. Somebody better put a stake in him just to be sure
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[Admiring Husband Mayor Voice] My Dearest Aloof Wife,
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
[Admiring Husband Mayor Voice] My Dearest Aloof Wife,
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Unfortunately, if Cuomo loses tomorrow I will be forced to leave the city that I love. Never again will I walk out of the door of my building and take three total steps on the public sidewalk before entering my private SUV on the way to Zero Bond. Never again will I experience my private box at MSG
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Unfortunately, if Cuomo loses tomorrow I will be forced to leave the city that I love. Never again will I walk out of the door of my building and take three total steps on the public sidewalk before entering my private SUV on the way to Zero Bond. Never again will I experience my private box at MSG
Day 4 of Toccata and Fugue stuck in head. No hope in sight.
November 3, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Day 4 of Toccata and Fugue stuck in head. No hope in sight.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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the tensor product is that moment right before you go on stage. the moment you realize you're in love. its being snowed in when you have nowhere to be.
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
the tensor product is that moment right before you go on stage. the moment you realize you're in love. its being snowed in when you have nowhere to be.
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a little over a year ago I asked for a nice notion of morphism between combinatorial games, and it looks like someone finally answered me with this paper! this seems neat
November 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
a little over a year ago I asked for a nice notion of morphism between combinatorial games, and it looks like someone finally answered me with this paper! this seems neat
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“Beeves” is an accepted plural of “beef”
October 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“Beeves” is an accepted plural of “beef”
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Five Extended Figures by Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1926)
October 29, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Five Extended Figures by Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1926)
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"Mamdani once offered me a 'Kleenex,' but it was actually a store-brand facial tissue."
October 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"Mamdani once offered me a 'Kleenex,' but it was actually a store-brand facial tissue."
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Sometimes I forget I own the best piece of music merch that ever existed.
October 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Sometimes I forget I own the best piece of music merch that ever existed.