Mike Parsons, PhD
@mmparsons.bsky.social
@Marist and @WakeComm alumnus. @OhioCOMS Ph.D.
Communication nerd.
#603Love
Communication nerd.
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We had a cat named Nigel, and one of my friends decided that was short for "The Right Honourable Sir Nigel Cuthbert Parsons, P.C., G.C.M.G."
do you make up ridiculous longform versions of your dog's name? if so please share. I've been calling lambo "lamborghini wigglesworth" (mr. wiggles for short)
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We had a cat named Nigel, and one of my friends decided that was short for "The Right Honourable Sir Nigel Cuthbert Parsons, P.C., G.C.M.G."
"Why should we fund your AI startup?"
"Our CEO has a proven track record of building infrastructure..."
"Good. We like that"
"....and he definitely hates poor people..."
"Oh, that's even better."
"...and he's 100% amoral. A terrible person. Makes Altman look like Kant."
"Please take my money"
"Our CEO has a proven track record of building infrastructure..."
"Good. We like that"
"....and he definitely hates poor people..."
"Oh, that's even better."
"...and he's 100% amoral. A terrible person. Makes Altman look like Kant."
"Please take my money"
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos will be co-CEO of AI startup Project Prometheus
Jeff Bezos has a new job.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"Why should we fund your AI startup?"
"Our CEO has a proven track record of building infrastructure..."
"Good. We like that"
"....and he definitely hates poor people..."
"Oh, that's even better."
"...and he's 100% amoral. A terrible person. Makes Altman look like Kant."
"Please take my money"
"Our CEO has a proven track record of building infrastructure..."
"Good. We like that"
"....and he definitely hates poor people..."
"Oh, that's even better."
"...and he's 100% amoral. A terrible person. Makes Altman look like Kant."
"Please take my money"
When you read the emails documenting the close personal relationship between people taken seriously in polite society and the world’s most notorious sex criminal, and the first thing you feel is nostalgia.
November 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
When you read the emails documenting the close personal relationship between people taken seriously in polite society and the world’s most notorious sex criminal, and the first thing you feel is nostalgia.
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what the actual fuck
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
what the actual fuck
I nominate this guy
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I nominate this guy
The internet was a huge mistake for a lot of reasons, but this goes a little way towards redeeming it.
I made a joke in my main Discord server about DOOM E1M1 being in a major key and @abigbagofkeys.sickonedude.com actually made it. Jesus fucking Christ listen to this hahahaha
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The internet was a huge mistake for a lot of reasons, but this goes a little way towards redeeming it.
I'm just going to leave this here.
November 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I'm just going to leave this here.
I want to see data on the usage of "u" in typed communication. My hypo is that Millennials and Gen-Xers picked it up quickly in the T9 era, but stopped when we got full mobile keyboards because then it's just stupid. Boomers, OTOH, started using it later but for some unknown reason never stopped.
Jeffrey Epstein, dating counselor to a former university president
Also … “dint”?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Also … “dint”?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I want to see data on the usage of "u" in typed communication. My hypo is that Millennials and Gen-Xers picked it up quickly in the T9 era, but stopped when we got full mobile keyboards because then it's just stupid. Boomers, OTOH, started using it later but for some unknown reason never stopped.
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"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
"This could take down Democrats, too."
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office.
Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
“Epstein didn’t kill himself” is a long-running joke, but things like this make you start to wonder.
BREAKING: Trump reportedly met with Epstein in 2019 in London, per House Oversight Committee.
Trump previously said he stopped talking to Epstein in 2004.
In 2019, Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.
Trump previously said he stopped talking to Epstein in 2004.
In 2019, Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
“Epstein didn’t kill himself” is a long-running joke, but things like this make you start to wonder.
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"Is the POTUS in the Epstein emails and texts?"
The emails and texts:
The emails and texts:
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
"Is the POTUS in the Epstein emails and texts?"
The emails and texts:
The emails and texts:
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The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.
Now I believe even less that @shaheen.senate.gov was hearing from constituents that they wanted her to "work together to address the problems that are facing this country."
Her daughter hates this deal. As she should. Her mother is destroying her own political legacy, and she wants none of it.
Her daughter hates this deal. As she should. Her mother is destroying her own political legacy, and she wants none of it.
Improving health care has been the cause of my life. It’s why I am running for congress. So I cannot support this deal when Speaker Johnson refuses to even allow a vote to extend health care tax credits. My statement:
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Now I believe even less that @shaheen.senate.gov was hearing from constituents that they wanted her to "work together to address the problems that are facing this country."
Her daughter hates this deal. As she should. Her mother is destroying her own political legacy, and she wants none of it.
Her daughter hates this deal. As she should. Her mother is destroying her own political legacy, and she wants none of it.
"Now that we've given up our only bargaining chip, we're looking forward to starting to bargain."
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"Now that we've given up our only bargaining chip, we're looking forward to starting to bargain."
This is the whole thing in a nutshell.
Dem leadership doesn't understand the rules of the fight they're in, doesn't understand why they're supposed to be fighting it, and doesn't see the consequences of walking off the field.
Losers, every one of them.
Dem leadership doesn't understand the rules of the fight they're in, doesn't understand why they're supposed to be fighting it, and doesn't see the consequences of walking off the field.
Losers, every one of them.
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This is the whole thing in a nutshell.
Dem leadership doesn't understand the rules of the fight they're in, doesn't understand why they're supposed to be fighting it, and doesn't see the consequences of walking off the field.
Losers, every one of them.
Dem leadership doesn't understand the rules of the fight they're in, doesn't understand why they're supposed to be fighting it, and doesn't see the consequences of walking off the field.
Losers, every one of them.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is not what they actually say. This is what they used to say, in the long ago before times when Shaheen learned to do politics. There is no kumbaya median voter anymore. The question you get knocking doors is not "why can't you all just work together?" it's "why didn't / will you fight harder?
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Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.