Josh Parshall
@jparshall.bsky.social
Bike dad, nonprofit professional, and former historian in Columbia, MO.
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CHOTINER: and when you're in water you
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
December 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
CHOTINER: and when you're in water you
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
PARTICLE MAN: don't get wet, that's right.
CHOTINER: And this is because
PARTICLE MAN: the water gets me instead. It becomes particle-manish
CHOTINER: There's been some debate on this point. Triangle Man, for example
PARTICLE MAN: I think we're done here
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One thing people in the music industry don’t talk about enough is guitarists getting athlete’s foot from using each other’s guitar pedals.
December 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
One thing people in the music industry don’t talk about enough is guitarists getting athlete’s foot from using each other’s guitar pedals.
Relatedly, I was *shocked* yesterday when other Jewish adults hadn’t thought about how latkes predated the arrival of potatoes in Europe.
As a pure math major, I….don’t take any offense at all, this is correct, you and Randall are correct imgs.xkcd.com/comics/avera...
December 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Relatedly, I was *shocked* yesterday when other Jewish adults hadn’t thought about how latkes predated the arrival of potatoes in Europe.
For a second I thought it said “topless.”
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
For a second I thought it said “topless.”
Tough call. Probably either Sideways Stories from Wayside School or Howl and Other Poems.
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Tough call. Probably either Sideways Stories from Wayside School or Howl and Other Poems.
“When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?”
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
“When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks?”
The platform that my bros and I use for the group chat sent a year-end summary to me.
I spend a lot of time yakking with those idiots, and I really love them.
To celebrate, I corrected everyone's apostrophe use on abbreviated decades (e.g., '90s instead of 90's).
I spend a lot of time yakking with those idiots, and I really love them.
To celebrate, I corrected everyone's apostrophe use on abbreviated decades (e.g., '90s instead of 90's).
December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The platform that my bros and I use for the group chat sent a year-end summary to me.
I spend a lot of time yakking with those idiots, and I really love them.
To celebrate, I corrected everyone's apostrophe use on abbreviated decades (e.g., '90s instead of 90's).
I spend a lot of time yakking with those idiots, and I really love them.
To celebrate, I corrected everyone's apostrophe use on abbreviated decades (e.g., '90s instead of 90's).
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Spotify Wrapped is a way to provide legal evidence that you are in fact a music listener. If you don’t (or can’t) supply this widely recognized documentation, how is anyone to trust that you aren’t simply pretending to enjoy music as part of a malicious con job?
December 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Spotify Wrapped is a way to provide legal evidence that you are in fact a music listener. If you don’t (or can’t) supply this widely recognized documentation, how is anyone to trust that you aren’t simply pretending to enjoy music as part of a malicious con job?
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
I don't think that the Creation Museum ads on the MST3K twitch channel are a good investment.
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I don't think that the Creation Museum ads on the MST3K twitch channel are a good investment.
It's year-end giving time, and I'm raising money for transportation advocacy right here in Columbia, MO.
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December 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It's year-end giving time, and I'm raising money for transportation advocacy right here in Columbia, MO.
www.comogives.com/story/eagkye
www.comogives.com/story/eagkye
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Treatment for trans kids cannot wait for adulthood. Adolescent changes in the body are permanent and irreversible. The pain of dysmorphia kills. No medical professional treats kids casually, no family seeks treatment casually. Treatment is safe, effective and is a conservative course of action.
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Treatment for trans kids cannot wait for adulthood. Adolescent changes in the body are permanent and irreversible. The pain of dysmorphia kills. No medical professional treats kids casually, no family seeks treatment casually. Treatment is safe, effective and is a conservative course of action.
Does anybody have a link to the transit system budget? Curious to know how much the University of Iowa is paying in, since that seems to be key in places like this.
“There were early concerns that fare-free travel would heap extra burdens on bus drivers, drawing homeless people or anything-goes behavior. Yet several drivers said that not having to ask passengers for payment or transfers has led to less friction with riders.”
Gift link re: Iowa City free buses!
Gift link re: Iowa City free buses!
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Does anybody have a link to the transit system budget? Curious to know how much the University of Iowa is paying in, since that seems to be key in places like this.
Community showed up strong in Columbia, MO, last night to oppose a "pedestrian safety" ordinance that was mostly aimed at kicking panhandlers off of medians at busy intersections. The vote is tabled, so it's not over, but you do love to see it.
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Community showed up strong in Columbia, MO, last night to oppose a "pedestrian safety" ordinance that was mostly aimed at kicking panhandlers off of medians at busy intersections. The vote is tabled, so it's not over, but you do love to see it.
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The Trump administration wants to do two unbelievably dumb things that would collectively devastate mass transit in America — and be *epically bad for drivers, too,* especially in red states. Broke down the (many) problems with nuking the mass transit account and taking away flex funding.
Breaking: Trump Admin Seeks To Decimate Federal Transit Funding — Streetsblog USA
"When you're talking about taking away money from transit, your proposal is flawed from the get-go," said one expert.
usa.streetsblog.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The Trump administration wants to do two unbelievably dumb things that would collectively devastate mass transit in America — and be *epically bad for drivers, too,* especially in red states. Broke down the (many) problems with nuking the mass transit account and taking away flex funding.
I bring up this film a lot and nobody ever wants to talk about it.
just spent 10 minutes recalibrating the tv to 90s colour tones to watch this
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I bring up this film a lot and nobody ever wants to talk about it.
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They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
November 13, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They market their cars as weapons and we allow them on the same roads as children cycling to school.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
And I still get weird middle-aged men in my notifications obfuscating for and defending this.
This is not a serious society.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
I did a cursory search and didn't see any results, so let me be the first to suggest:
"Gritty Odd Squad reboot."
Tougher cases, harder math, unhinged criminals, and morally ambiguous child detectives.
"Gritty Odd Squad reboot."
Tougher cases, harder math, unhinged criminals, and morally ambiguous child detectives.
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I did a cursory search and didn't see any results, so let me be the first to suggest:
"Gritty Odd Squad reboot."
Tougher cases, harder math, unhinged criminals, and morally ambiguous child detectives.
"Gritty Odd Squad reboot."
Tougher cases, harder math, unhinged criminals, and morally ambiguous child detectives.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
”ride your bikes with some friends“ is unbeatable advice
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
”ride your bikes with some friends“ is unbeatable advice
On top of everything else that’s bad about college football, there are Texas A&M fans walking around my town today. In broad daylight!
November 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
On top of everything else that’s bad about college football, there are Texas A&M fans walking around my town today. In broad daylight!
Whenever I get nostalgic about academia or wish I’d stuck it out on the job market, something like this comes along.
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Whenever I get nostalgic about academia or wish I’d stuck it out on the job market, something like this comes along.
I’ve got this dude‘s calendar and every month is this quality.
as a bird artist, in honor of tonight’s game i have attempted to draw the gorgeous blue jay as accurately as possible. as always please let me know if you have any constructive criticism
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I’ve got this dude‘s calendar and every month is this quality.
It’s hard world, but I got to play “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” on the radio today, so that’s something.
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It’s hard world, but I got to play “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” on the radio today, so that’s something.