Brian Kenna
@drbrianish.bsky.social
Ph.D., WWI/modernist Brit lit and modern fantasy lit. I also really like board games and baseball, so expect to see a lot about them. He/him.
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Brian Kenna
@drbrianish.bsky.social
· Mar 19
Look all I'm saying is that in our stories we know what to do with dragons.
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Regardless of user behavior it would seem to me that if you’re trying to create a healthier ecosystem you would simply not ever engage in behavior like this? You would instead demonstrate the standards you’re asking people to live up to?
December 8, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Regardless of user behavior it would seem to me that if you’re trying to create a healthier ecosystem you would simply not ever engage in behavior like this? You would instead demonstrate the standards you’re asking people to live up to?
I'm generally pretty hard on organized religion, but one thing that the last year has brought home is that there is an upside to powerful organizations that believe they answer to a higher power than money or the government.
In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations
(RNS) — 'We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to flee and faces political violence,' the Rev. Michael Woolf said.
religionnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I'm generally pretty hard on organized religion, but one thing that the last year has brought home is that there is an upside to powerful organizations that believe they answer to a higher power than money or the government.
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it me
December 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
it me
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growing problem for the dems is that their voters want progressive candidates but the party leadership generally doesn't. so there's no structure to identify and vet good progressive candidates until it's too late.
The noisiest Dem primary so far is probably Maine Senate, and here for instance I think it’s useful to see that despite all the bad publicity Platner still appears to be the favorite:
December 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
growing problem for the dems is that their voters want progressive candidates but the party leadership generally doesn't. so there's no structure to identify and vet good progressive candidates until it's too late.
Easy: I've watched it two times in the past twenty-four hours.
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Easy: I've watched it two times in the past twenty-four hours.
Spoilers for season 6, I guess.
this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Spoilers for season 6, I guess.
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The goal of a course is to teach students certain skills, not give them an opportunity to live journal. The assignments are designed to teach and assess the development of those skills. That’s the deal. Instructors teach you what they plan to teach you. Not what your mommy told you to want to learn.
December 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
The goal of a course is to teach students certain skills, not give them an opportunity to live journal. The assignments are designed to teach and assess the development of those skills. That’s the deal. Instructors teach you what they plan to teach you. Not what your mommy told you to want to learn.
This time I'm saving it.
December 6, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This time I'm saving it.
I've decided that Hundreds of Beavers is a Christmas movie. I will not be taking questions at this time.
December 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I've decided that Hundreds of Beavers is a Christmas movie. I will not be taking questions at this time.
"Needy Amin" is pretty, pretty damn good.
Needy Amin strikes again.
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
December 6, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Needy Amin" is pretty, pretty damn good.
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$20 billion could end homelessness in the US
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
$20 billion could end homelessness in the US
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
$40 billion could end hunger globally
Both would still only cost 3/4 of what Meta blew on Mark Zuckerberg’s obviously bad ideas because nobody would tell him they were stupid because he’s worth over $200 billion because he doesn’t pay his share of taxes
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
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My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
The part that I can't figure out is what John Roberts thinks he is doing. He used to seem to be a judge who was very attentive to appearances, I think on a theory that you can't draw too much attention to yourself without undermining your ability to continue to shape the law.
Every legal story now is either
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach
or
In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
My theory, fwiw, is that Supreme Court Justices are not immune to Twitter brain poisoning. I suspect all six have horrific information environments and have therefore lost the ability to understand the people who don't agree with them.
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he has the kamala harris thing of spending his whole life preparing to run for president in a political climate that ended 15 years ago. kinda sad as a personal story but not my problem.
Josh Shapiro believes he is uniquely suited to win over Trump voters—but he’ll need to overcome distrust among some in his own party first, Tim Alberta reports: theatln.tc/mR9AHSG4
December 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
he has the kamala harris thing of spending his whole life preparing to run for president in a political climate that ended 15 years ago. kinda sad as a personal story but not my problem.
This meme but a bunch of pictures of pets.
December 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This meme but a bunch of pictures of pets.
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Boom! We getting in the political game.
Because if we don't fight in the political arena for the best interests of universities—which includes their students, faculty, & communities!—then these politicians will keep trying to take over our universities & dictate what we teach & research.
Because if we don't fight in the political arena for the best interests of universities—which includes their students, faculty, & communities!—then these politicians will keep trying to take over our universities & dictate what we teach & research.
That’s right and we are gonna fight for free public higher ed, and end to student debt, an end to contingent and a new compact that prioritizes academic freedom, freedom of speech, shared governance and the right to assembly & protest on campus! JOIN US!
@aaup.org
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
@aaup.org
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Professors Launch PAC to Fight Back Against Trump’s Attacks
The American Association of University Professors, a union whose members are fighting policies from the Trump administration and GOP Congress, launched a PAC this week to spend in federal elections.
news.bgov.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Boom! We getting in the political game.
Because if we don't fight in the political arena for the best interests of universities—which includes their students, faculty, & communities!—then these politicians will keep trying to take over our universities & dictate what we teach & research.
Because if we don't fight in the political arena for the best interests of universities—which includes their students, faculty, & communities!—then these politicians will keep trying to take over our universities & dictate what we teach & research.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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(IGN walkthrough) before you defeat fascism you have to defeat the mini boss hakeem jeffries
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
(IGN walkthrough) before you defeat fascism you have to defeat the mini boss hakeem jeffries
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We don’t talk about just how many things Reagan broke nearly enough.
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We don’t talk about just how many things Reagan broke nearly enough.
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you can be the most reasonable, intelligent, measured person on the planet and 3 minutes of a migraine will have you looking longingly at a drill and considering whether trepanning was honestly that bad of an idea
December 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM
you can be the most reasonable, intelligent, measured person on the planet and 3 minutes of a migraine will have you looking longingly at a drill and considering whether trepanning was honestly that bad of an idea
My "Antisemitism isn't exploding on the right" t-shirt, etc, etc.
"...when I talk to young conservatives, I don’t see some simmering antisemitism that’s exploding.” -JD Groyper Vance
Vance says antisemitism isn't 'exploding' on the right
In an exclusive interview with NBC News, the vice president covered a wide range of topics, including his thoughts on high prices, 2028 and Democrats he appreciates.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
My "Antisemitism isn't exploding on the right" t-shirt, etc, etc.
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There’s a lot of dumb shit in this post but there is nothing ambiguous about the ending of No Country.
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
There’s a lot of dumb shit in this post but there is nothing ambiguous about the ending of No Country.