it can take a bit to get used to the sounds of an old house settling. squeaky floorboards, “footsteps” on the stairs. creaks and groans from other rooms. the feeling of someone sitting on the edge of your bed in the middle of the night. a breath on the nape of your neck. you know, the house settling

PhD students conduct most of the actual work in generating knowledge on college campuses. Cutting the number of students cuts the amount of research by that amount.

A huge divestment from future growth.

Coursework is most fundamentally about learning to think, creating new pathways in your brain. The actual content, which you're likely to forget if you don't use it, is often quite secondary to this.

You know the meal is good when the baby asks for thirds and needs a bath afterwards

Hey @rufflejax something tells me this will come in handy one of these days

future grandchild: like shit, from an ass?

me in 30 years: Swear to God. Then he demolished the White House

If I wrote this into a sci-fi story people would call it ham-fisted

I realize I’m weird and all but I like November

We watched Eraserhead together late one night, horrified and intrigued the entire time, and when we got to this part of the film we just lost it. All the tension and confusion of the past 90 minutes, gone. It was so unexpected, so out of left field, we never stopped laughing about it.

Fill your life with people you can share weird bits with

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

What white male aged 18 to 49 asked for this

1) I love that I have a brand here and that brand is “spooky lady,”
2) I clearly need to see this

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

Many people in America have been deeply poisoned -- for decades -- by lying health insurance companies.

Now Americans are paying more for just health care insurance than people in countries with "super high taxes" pay for ALL THEIR TAXES.

Much of the discourse around disliking children or finding them annoying is just thinly veiled ableism.

(Note: This is not the same as not wanting children. No one should have children if they don’t want them. This is about tolerating children in public spaces.)

NOW WE’RE TALKING

“the president is less popular than the Vietnam war” should be a simply irresistible headline

The snake is growing.

✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿✊🏾✊🏼

Vanderbilt, Texas, AZ…now’s the time.

The world is watching.

The resistance is here.

#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd

please disabuse yourself from the propaganda that leftists glorify violence/seek to incite protests

- is rhetoric to fracture movement (good vs bad protestors)
- ignores state violence instigating (ppl getting attacked ≠ attacking!) & justifies harm
- overwrites practical analysis w/fearmongery

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

I still think about you.
Even though I don’t want to.
Even though you don’t exist.

“My darling, you have an eidetic memory for dumb shit.” - Muscle Husband