JD
@mathewson.us
Community college administrator, international relations and political economy PhD, sports complainer. 🐾🐢 Formerly @RationalPastime on the dying bird site.
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JD
@mathewson.us
· Nov 19
4yo: Dad, you know why your hair’s so long? Because you’re old.
Me: But I don’t have long hair.
4yo: But you’re still old.
Me: But I don’t have long hair.
4yo: But you’re still old.
Me: Arrrgh! *flexes muscles*
6yo: Dad, you barely have any aura.
6yo: Dad, you barely have any aura.
Good morning, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social. Long time listener, occasional heckler.
Question: do you know what a ‘teaser’ is?
Question: do you know what a ‘teaser’ is?
December 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Good morning, @michaelhobbes.bsky.social. Long time listener, occasional heckler.
Question: do you know what a ‘teaser’ is?
Question: do you know what a ‘teaser’ is?
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I miss the days before covid, when in New York, in Times Square or a crowded subway, you would sometimes see people wearing masks and think, "Why are they wearing those? Oh, right--it's none of my fucking business." Let's get back to that.
Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.
December 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I miss the days before covid, when in New York, in Times Square or a crowded subway, you would sometimes see people wearing masks and think, "Why are they wearing those? Oh, right--it's none of my fucking business." Let's get back to that.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
I always wondered what it would be like to be mortified for having worked for someone and now I know.
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year
Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I always wondered what it would be like to be mortified for having worked for someone and now I know.
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Was talking to a kid and she’d never heard of cooties. What a lucky generation. All those cooties shots worked.
December 26, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Was talking to a kid and she’d never heard of cooties. What a lucky generation. All those cooties shots worked.
Today’s music acts just don’t have the virtuosity, authenticity or integrity of Nightmare from Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Today’s music acts just don’t have the virtuosity, authenticity or integrity of Nightmare from Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas.
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NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
December 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
NORAD Santa tracker is Woke
There is no debate to be had on this
Time to sit down with the little one to watch the best version of A Christmas Carol.
a man with a red beard is standing next to a stuffed gnome in front of a building .
Alt: a man with a red beard is standing next to a stuffed gnome in front of a building .
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 2:58 AM
There is no debate to be had on this
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I bought my wife an O. Henry book for Christmas and it turns out she just sold her eyes.
December 17, 2024 at 6:08 PM
I bought my wife an O. Henry book for Christmas and it turns out she just sold her eyes.
Please spray your schnauzer’s butt with Fantastik.
He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him
December 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Please spray your schnauzer’s butt with Fantastik.
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My whole timeline is made up of folks watching a 60 Minutes report the Trump administration tried to kill and unredacting Epstein files that weren't supposed to have been posted yet. Can't stop the signal.
December 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
My whole timeline is made up of folks watching a 60 Minutes report the Trump administration tried to kill and unredacting Epstein files that weren't supposed to have been posted yet. Can't stop the signal.
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If you know who is sending out the takedown notices at or for CBS tonight, let me know! Signal: crg.32
December 23, 2025 at 3:34 AM
If you know who is sending out the takedown notices at or for CBS tonight, let me know! Signal: crg.32
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And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
Pulled 60 Minutes segment on CECOT : CBS : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
This is a screen recording of a 60 Minutes segment about the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison in El Salvador, which was intended to be...
archive.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.
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Bari Weiss CECOT Segment is on mega and as a torrent:
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:594f5dc07f547633a73d2e37cca2c3a43a08644e&xt=urn:btmh:1220a063ccc14c53f6253a5827c7c8ebb3616a85c1ca929dcce1a2e4f65a2e33d608
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:594f5dc07f547633a73d2e37cca2c3a43a08644e&xt=urn:btmh:1220a063ccc14c53f6253a5827c7c8ebb3616a85c1ca929dcce1a2e4f65a2e33d608
December 23, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Done youtu.be/I40YcX-9Awc
60 Minutes - Inside CECOT
YouTube video by mrgermy
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Done youtu.be/I40YcX-9Awc
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Higher quality video from torrent: youtu.be/b0jKZS3xJqA
60 Minutes - Inside CECOT (Better Quality)
YouTube video by mrgermy
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Higher quality video from torrent: youtu.be/b0jKZS3xJqA
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I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...
December 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I'm still able to download it, but just in case I've re-uploaded it here drive.google.com/file/d/1GRcg... and here drive.proton.me/urls/X8C14W3...
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“Did you ever wonder why segments on notorious El Salvadoran prisons used to kidnap American immigrants get pulled at the last moment?”
December 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“Did you ever wonder why segments on notorious El Salvadoran prisons used to kidnap American immigrants get pulled at the last moment?”
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“has feminism gone too far?” and it’s just a review of bari’s career
December 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
“has feminism gone too far?” and it’s just a review of bari’s career
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I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap
He sent a rescue boat, He sent a helicopter…
"Why did God let Trump be president?"
He gave us two thousand years advance warning of the antichrist, made him the individual with the most readily accessible, up-to-date public information about his multiple shortcomings ever, and gave us a mulligan the first time.
We were given an out.
He gave us two thousand years advance warning of the antichrist, made him the individual with the most readily accessible, up-to-date public information about his multiple shortcomings ever, and gave us a mulligan the first time.
We were given an out.
December 21, 2025 at 3:58 PM
He sent a rescue boat, He sent a helicopter…
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I can't imagine revealing to the whole world in 2025 that I got a PhD and still don't understand that there are economic forces more powerful than my own individual choices and merits that shaping whether I get a TT job.
December 17, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I can't imagine revealing to the whole world in 2025 that I got a PhD and still don't understand that there are economic forces more powerful than my own individual choices and merits that shaping whether I get a TT job.
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM