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Eddington / The Chair Company double feature to wrap up my last day of teaching this semester.
December 3, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Eddington / The Chair Company double feature to wrap up my last day of teaching this semester.
My non-binary kid is having a hell of a time navigating their school's upcoming #Miscast concert. Imagine being told by your teacher, "sure you can perform those roles in youth theater, but you'd never be cast in them in professional theater."
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
My non-binary kid is having a hell of a time navigating their school's upcoming #Miscast concert. Imagine being told by your teacher, "sure you can perform those roles in youth theater, but you'd never be cast in them in professional theater."
Not really my uncle
October 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Not really my uncle
This game is so long the Roku asked if we are still watching.
October 28, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This game is so long the Roku asked if we are still watching.
Nothing makes me happier than children's theater stage combat
October 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Nothing makes me happier than children's theater stage combat
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It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
And he makes an unbearable din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
And he makes an unbearable din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
August 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
And he makes an unbearable din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
The unholy thing shambles in
He’s too big for the chair sitting next to me
And he makes an unbearable din
Sing us a song, you’re the piano man
Your skin is a wooden facade
You’ve brass pedals for hands
And your hair’s copper strands
Give unbearable insult to god
If this dumb Marvel movie prevents me from being able to see Sinners in 70mm I will be so angry.
(Go see Sinners.)
(Go see Sinners.)
April 28, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If this dumb Marvel movie prevents me from being able to see Sinners in 70mm I will be so angry.
(Go see Sinners.)
(Go see Sinners.)
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This is gonna be four years of the dumbest motherfuckers alive painfully discovering why things worked the way they did before they broke them, then reinventing a shittier version with more nazis.
April 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This is gonna be four years of the dumbest motherfuckers alive painfully discovering why things worked the way they did before they broke them, then reinventing a shittier version with more nazis.
AI is just Family Feud, y'all. Survey Says!
April 25, 2025 at 1:21 PM
AI is just Family Feud, y'all. Survey Says!
J D Vance is a lot like Grima Wormtongue but I worry that he's even more like Tom Riddle.
April 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
J D Vance is a lot like Grima Wormtongue but I worry that he's even more like Tom Riddle.
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The cool part about The Onion in print is people leave them around coffee shops and workplaces. Kids steal them and bring them to school. People love this shit, which makes the staff happy, which makes the paper better, which makes business better. We consult no algorithm. We just make fun of jerks.
April 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The cool part about The Onion in print is people leave them around coffee shops and workplaces. Kids steal them and bring them to school. People love this shit, which makes the staff happy, which makes the paper better, which makes business better. We consult no algorithm. We just make fun of jerks.
I just saw Pirates! A Penzance Musical on its first night of previews and while the show did a great job of relocating the original in New Orleans, including musically, the overt Indigenous erasure of the last song and the half-hearted attempt to justify it spoiled what was an otherwise fun show.
April 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I just saw Pirates! A Penzance Musical on its first night of previews and while the show did a great job of relocating the original in New Orleans, including musically, the overt Indigenous erasure of the last song and the half-hearted attempt to justify it spoiled what was an otherwise fun show.
Muppets Little Shop of Horrors has to have a human dentist, right? But who?
April 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Muppets Little Shop of Horrors has to have a human dentist, right? But who?
Visiting the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas, I wonder why, if the US can justify dispossessing a community of its land in Nevada for national security, it can't also justify dispossessing billionaires of their property for the same reasons.
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Visiting the Atomic Museum in Las Vegas, I wonder why, if the US can justify dispossessing a community of its land in Nevada for national security, it can't also justify dispossessing billionaires of their property for the same reasons.
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But seriously Columbia how did anticipatory obedience work out for you
March 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
But seriously Columbia how did anticipatory obedience work out for you
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imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"
December 20, 2024 at 10:05 PM
imagine if people went to retailers and just took stuff and called it "generative shopping" and then, when the retailers said that's illegal, people said "regular shopping is too expensive so we have disrupted it" and then the retailers were like "OH! Carry on, innovators!"
Democrats moving right to pick up voters is basically the same as the humanities touting their utility for medicine and business.
December 22, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Democrats moving right to pick up voters is basically the same as the humanities touting their utility for medicine and business.
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The way I’ve come to think of it is like this:
Tech wants to go fast and break things. Nuclear needs to go very very slowly and nothing can break.
That means getting nuclear to power a very rapidly developing AI boom may not work.
Tech wants to go fast and break things. Nuclear needs to go very very slowly and nothing can break.
That means getting nuclear to power a very rapidly developing AI boom may not work.
December 9, 2024 at 3:46 PM
The way I’ve come to think of it is like this:
Tech wants to go fast and break things. Nuclear needs to go very very slowly and nothing can break.
That means getting nuclear to power a very rapidly developing AI boom may not work.
Tech wants to go fast and break things. Nuclear needs to go very very slowly and nothing can break.
That means getting nuclear to power a very rapidly developing AI boom may not work.
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November 20, 2024 at 9:14 PM
We're bringing together scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists to reflect, critique, and imagine the manifold ways that digital, physical, and social infrastructures are built, broken, reconstructed, and mythologized. Learn more and apply by January 17, 2025! datasociety.net/announcement...
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Morning reading: this interview with @jeffsharlet.bsky.social on Substack.
Night falls, stars shine: Jeff Sharlet on Trump, extremism, and journalism’s future
The author of The Undertow and The Family strikes a bleak tone, but predicts “some brilliant, heroic reporting.”
open.substack.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Morning reading: this interview with @jeffsharlet.bsky.social on Substack.
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if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything
November 13, 2024 at 1:52 PM
if i've learned one thing from doing union stuff while also doing other forms of organizing, it's that you're better off with people you disagree with who are nevertheless trying to do the same thing as you than with people you agree with who aren't trying to do anything