Lembas Eater
@waybread.bsky.social
Just a person trying to be pseudonymous on the internet. Sometime teacher of philosophy. Episcopal. Trying to love my crooked neighbor with my crooked heart.
This is not my personal style but I don’t think it’s as bad as others are saying. They had a vision and went for it.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is not my personal style but I don’t think it’s as bad as others are saying. They had a vision and went for it.
WHAT DOES GOD NEED WITH A STARSHIP?
JAMES T KIRK VS SOME WEIRD ALIEN THING
JAMES T KIRK VS SOME WEIRD ALIEN THING
December 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
WHAT DOES GOD NEED WITH A STARSHIP?
JAMES T KIRK VS SOME WEIRD ALIEN THING
JAMES T KIRK VS SOME WEIRD ALIEN THING
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That was an address from the president of the Greater Robocop universe
December 18, 2025 at 2:24 AM
That was an address from the president of the Greater Robocop universe
People outside academia have such an incorrect view of academia. People in my community often talk about the little school where I teach as though it was rich. Which, lol. lolol, even.
I don’t think many folks outside academia are fully registering what is going on right now.
1) Neoliberal university-as-business model
2) Mass de-skilling of the intellectual class
3) Unprecedented cuts to programs across the board
4) Dismantling public education
5) AI as partner to de-skilling
1) Neoliberal university-as-business model
2) Mass de-skilling of the intellectual class
3) Unprecedented cuts to programs across the board
4) Dismantling public education
5) AI as partner to de-skilling
No it’s ok we can cut all the area studies programs. We’ll just hire one “global studies“ Prof with a degree in English literature.
December 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
People outside academia have such an incorrect view of academia. People in my community often talk about the little school where I teach as though it was rich. Which, lol. lolol, even.
Amazingly, this is all Bulverism.
The idea that adding an "ism" to a person or website you dislike represents some sort of analysis is very Nate Silver
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Amazingly, this is all Bulverism.
I have never been told this, but even if it happened the advantages that I, a white man, had over basically every minority and female candidate I’ve ever been up against over the course of our lives absolutely dwarf any diversify initiatives at the final step.
This happened to me! A large state flagship university told me straight up that I was second in line, but they hired a Black woman instead. I was like, Great, get the job lady friend. And I was also like, Why are you telling me this? The whole thing was so weird.
The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.
December 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I have never been told this, but even if it happened the advantages that I, a white man, had over basically every minority and female candidate I’ve ever been up against over the course of our lives absolutely dwarf any diversify initiatives at the final step.
Which is an impossible task. You can’t fill a bucket with that many holes.
There is no plan other than make the big guy happy
December 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Which is an impossible task. You can’t fill a bucket with that many holes.
The wages of sin are cringe. Also death. But also cringe.
December 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The wages of sin are cringe. Also death. But also cringe.
I think this is right. Mangione is the OJ Simpson of (a certain faction of) the online left.
the mangione trial is probably going to the maximum hilarity outcome where he's very obviously guilty but the prosecutors and police basically tried to frame him, oj simpson style, for extremely unclear reasons
There’s more:
December 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I think this is right. Mangione is the OJ Simpson of (a certain faction of) the online left.
I live within the hope that some day this country will come to its senses and embrace basketball as the true American/best sport.
December 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I live within the hope that some day this country will come to its senses and embrace basketball as the true American/best sport.
I need help. Wemby and Vassell are making me like the Spurs.
December 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I need help. Wemby and Vassell are making me like the Spurs.
The rub is, legacy admissions is what makes the Ivys the Ivys. It's the mix of smart strivers and established elites that make them desirable. The strivers get access to blue bloods and the blue bloods bring in new strivers. Without that they're just like... Washington University or something.
Already Virginia is banning legacy admissions. The real backdoor that would be impossible to get rid of is sports.
December 16, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The rub is, legacy admissions is what makes the Ivys the Ivys. It's the mix of smart strivers and established elites that make them desirable. The strivers get access to blue bloods and the blue bloods bring in new strivers. Without that they're just like... Washington University or something.
The people 5-10 years older than me went farther, faster in academia than I and my cohort did on the same credentials. But it wasn’t DEI. It was the 2008 crash. I was there. I remember it.
Look, we elected W twice. And he did what he was designed to do. Make the rich richer, screw everyone else.
Look, we elected W twice. And he did what he was designed to do. Make the rich richer, screw everyone else.
One problem with this take is the number of high profile white millennial men in the media...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
December 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The people 5-10 years older than me went farther, faster in academia than I and my cohort did on the same credentials. But it wasn’t DEI. It was the 2008 crash. I was there. I remember it.
Look, we elected W twice. And he did what he was designed to do. Make the rich richer, screw everyone else.
Look, we elected W twice. And he did what he was designed to do. Make the rich richer, screw everyone else.
Those wheels are going to fly off so fast your head will spin. Like you’ve never seen. Bigly.
December 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Those wheels are going to fly off so fast your head will spin. Like you’ve never seen. Bigly.
Paul Krugman used to talk about zombie ideas that shuffle on even when intellectually dead and this is one. Except in extreme cases everyone has a roughly equal chance of a car accident or fire. But healthcare risk isn’t like that. So “insurance” as “insurance doesn’t really work.
Scalise on GOP healthcare plan: "Car insurance or your homeowners insurance - you turn on the TV, there are commercials w/ lizards & all kinds of other animals that are selling you options to get lower insurance. You don't really have that in health insurance. So we want to open up the marketplace"
December 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Paul Krugman used to talk about zombie ideas that shuffle on even when intellectually dead and this is one. Except in extreme cases everyone has a roughly equal chance of a car accident or fire. But healthcare risk isn’t like that. So “insurance” as “insurance doesn’t really work.
This is obviously terrible but also it won't work. I could teach a class where the readings where Plato's Republic, Locke's Second Treatise, The US Constitution, and the Federalist Papers - all "white" dudes claimed by MAGA - and it would be incredibly damning of Trump.
Coming soon to a UNC school near you
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
December 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is obviously terrible but also it won't work. I could teach a class where the readings where Plato's Republic, Locke's Second Treatise, The US Constitution, and the Federalist Papers - all "white" dudes claimed by MAGA - and it would be incredibly damning of Trump.
Oh man that is not what I thought Bovino's voice would sound like.
Bovino on Abrego Garcia: "When he becomes deportable, he is going to get deported. And he needs to be deported now."
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Oh man that is not what I thought Bovino's voice would sound like.
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This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
Imagine you used to go to this bar to hang out with friends and strangers and then the bar got bought by a guy you distrusted so you stopped going and then he changed the name/decor and turned it into a Nazi bar.
You couldn’t go back even if you wanted to. Because the old bar isn’t there anymore.
You couldn’t go back even if you wanted to. Because the old bar isn’t there anymore.
Dear Bluesky liberals. Come back to Twitter. Please. PLEASE.
December 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Imagine you used to go to this bar to hang out with friends and strangers and then the bar got bought by a guy you distrusted so you stopped going and then he changed the name/decor and turned it into a Nazi bar.
You couldn’t go back even if you wanted to. Because the old bar isn’t there anymore.
You couldn’t go back even if you wanted to. Because the old bar isn’t there anymore.
An arch for ANTS?!?!
President Trump is seeking to build a triumphal arch on a Washington roundabout to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary next year. Trump showed models of the proposed arch at a fund-raising dinner on Wednesday for another of his pet projects, a White House ballroom. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
December 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
An arch for ANTS?!?!
You fast-forwarded parts of Plur1bus because it was too slow.
I fast-forwarded parts of Plur1bus because it was too scary.
We are not the same.
I fast-forwarded parts of Plur1bus because it was too scary.
We are not the same.
December 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You fast-forwarded parts of Plur1bus because it was too slow.
I fast-forwarded parts of Plur1bus because it was too scary.
We are not the same.
I fast-forwarded parts of Plur1bus because it was too scary.
We are not the same.
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Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care
Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence platforms such as ChatGPT.
To AI-proof exams, professors turn to the oldest technique of all
A small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful AI platforms.
wapo.st
December 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Absolutely staggering to consider the deadweight loss that AI has caused educators in terms of burdening them by making cheating easier, and how little our society's elites care
I don’t know who PSPP is. But apparently he is a Canadian politician who is very popular with cats?
PSPP refers to the government as the "federal regime" so you'd be surprised at what the PQ intellectual elite think
December 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I don’t know who PSPP is. But apparently he is a Canadian politician who is very popular with cats?
Teaching my students to address an envelope like it’s an ancient wisdom ritual.
December 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Teaching my students to address an envelope like it’s an ancient wisdom ritual.
Don’t nobody let the NYTimes read Hume or they’ll stop believing in cause and effect.
To the New York Times, a constitutional provision is just something that's "traditional."
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Don’t nobody let the NYTimes read Hume or they’ll stop believing in cause and effect.