Drew McKevitt
@drewmckevitt.bsky.social
John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University. Books: GUN COUNTRY (2023) and CONSUMING JAPAN (2017).
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Kant's moral philosophy
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Kant's moral philosophy
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Lemme introduce you to the most important thing you'll ever eat
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Lemme introduce you to the most important thing you'll ever eat
No. It's donors. It's still obscene but it's not state money. What it does do, though, is reflect a higher ed environment in which university admins will ask donors for $54 million to pay off a coach but they'll never ask those same donors to fund the English or history or sociology departments
Are the people of Louisiana - one of the poorest and worst performing states in the nation on every metric - going to be paying him $54 million?
5:45 pm on Thanksgiving Eve?
Now THIS is how you news dump.
Now THIS is how you news dump.
November 27, 2025 at 2:53 AM
No. It's donors. It's still obscene but it's not state money. What it does do, though, is reflect a higher ed environment in which university admins will ask donors for $54 million to pay off a coach but they'll never ask those same donors to fund the English or history or sociology departments
Never forget?
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Never forget?
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One of the many ways that gambling continues to enshittify the sports experience is that it turns every little injury into BREAKING NEWS because a million people have money on the possible consequences
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
One of the many ways that gambling continues to enshittify the sports experience is that it turns every little injury into BREAKING NEWS because a million people have money on the possible consequences
Ralph Abraham is not only a notorious vaccine dingbat but he was also among the country's worst offenders when it came to prescribing opioids and also he may actually be a horse doctor rather than a human doctor?
One of America's foremost authorities on vaccines has appointed a notorious vaccine skeptic as its second-in-command.
RFK Jr.’s CDC Gives Top Job to Doctor Who Slammed Vaccines
Critics have blasted Dr. Ralph Abraham for pushing bogus treatments during the pandemic and halting Louisiana’s vaccination campaign.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Ralph Abraham is not only a notorious vaccine dingbat but he was also among the country's worst offenders when it came to prescribing opioids and also he may actually be a horse doctor rather than a human doctor?
One thing that you might overlook about AI in our Bluesky "bubble" is that it is definitely going to replace all the coders and programmers before it replaces the writers and artists on this little website
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
One thing that you might overlook about AI in our Bluesky "bubble" is that it is definitely going to replace all the coders and programmers before it replaces the writers and artists on this little website
As outrageous as that sentence is, the first is more damning: it says "we've known this was true for almost a decade but we're just reporting it now, whoopseeeees"
he believes what now
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 AM
As outrageous as that sentence is, the first is more damning: it says "we've known this was true for almost a decade but we're just reporting it now, whoopseeeees"
If you are writing a tv script and you want to tell the audience that a character is Catholic you write a scene in which a priest is in their kitchen eating their food. As a Catholic I can tell you that this happens to Catholics all the time
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
If you are writing a tv script and you want to tell the audience that a character is Catholic you write a scene in which a priest is in their kitchen eating their food. As a Catholic I can tell you that this happens to Catholics all the time
I think if a journalist really probed Trump for a couple minutes he would agree that he really is the most openly corrupt president in American history but he would said that it's a good thing
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I think if a journalist really probed Trump for a couple minutes he would agree that he really is the most openly corrupt president in American history but he would said that it's a good thing
A proper gentleman
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A proper gentleman
We are cursed with the dumbest villains
November 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We are cursed with the dumbest villains
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narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
November 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
narrator: 50 years ago...
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
me: [nods] in 1945
narrator: in 1975...
me: what
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Oh hi! We’re branching out in hopes of spreading the good Bookfair word as widely as possible. See you Saturday, December 6! And follow us here for details about this year’s vendors, speakers, and so on.
November 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Oh hi! We’re branching out in hopes of spreading the good Bookfair word as widely as possible. See you Saturday, December 6! And follow us here for details about this year’s vendors, speakers, and so on.
Summer 2002 my grandmother pulled out a Heinz ketchup bottle that said "proud sponsor of the 1988 Seoul Olympics" and we never let her forget it
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Summer 2002 my grandmother pulled out a Heinz ketchup bottle that said "proud sponsor of the 1988 Seoul Olympics" and we never let her forget it
D'Alessandro's was my local for a few years and it was fine but nothing can beat Larry's and this is empirically true
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/d...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/d...
Michelin Honored the Cheesesteak. Not All Philadelphians Cheered.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
D'Alessandro's was my local for a few years and it was fine but nothing can beat Larry's and this is empirically true
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/d...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/d...
Sorry NYT Cooking but when I see "minimal effort" in the description but then have to scroll down to "Step 11" in the instructions I start to think you don't really know me at all
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Sorry NYT Cooking but when I see "minimal effort" in the description but then have to scroll down to "Step 11" in the instructions I start to think you don't really know me at all
It is indeed very funny to say to a computer "do a vulgar roast"
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It is indeed very funny to say to a computer "do a vulgar roast"
There is only one explanation and it is that Noah Smith was a dumb puppy in 2010
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
There is only one explanation and it is that Noah Smith was a dumb puppy in 2010
Surely these first numbers are people in a survey reporting that they're paying more, because as much as prices have gone up, nobody's paying 85% more for groceries
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Surely these first numbers are people in a survey reporting that they're paying more, because as much as prices have gone up, nobody's paying 85% more for groceries
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
I am ready to sleep with RFK Jr, if it will improve my book sales
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I am ready to sleep with RFK Jr, if it will improve my book sales