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submitted 21 minutes ago • 0 comments

fun fact, this is pretty much exactly how classical chinese works

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

Appetite Pleasin’

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

they are never letting a jesuit back in there again

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

“many faculty members voiced concerns about …a ‘lack of proportionality between the relatively small percentage of the lost income versus the large 35% cut in [graduate] programs.’” Congratulations to admin. Give them lemons, by god they’ll make lemonade and then try to drown the humanities in it

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Re-sharing – now without the editorializing! “On Friday, Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs, a decision faculty members say was made after programs had already accepted students.”

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Guerrilla acapella remixes of the classics: someBODY from an antique land said two legs stand, bleak symbols of the hubris of ma-an He was lookin’ kinda glum cos the empire he was from had been swallowed by the desert sa-ands

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

gotta say, I was always offended that "Americano" meant "coffee with water in it"

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

“There is no flag worth saluti—??”

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

There were a lot of hilarious signs at today's Philly protest (because Philly has A+ protest sign game), but this was my favorite from an "I want that as a tattoo" perspective.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

how are all the worst people so feckful

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The stripped shell of the SS United States, holder of the records for fastest trans-Atlantic crossing and least subtle metaphor, will begin judderingly moving toward its final resting place off of Okaloosa County, Florida, where it will be the World's Largest Artificial Reef.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Hot off the presses. Here is “Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus” come to take us home. Thank you, Black Square Editions. If you’d like a review copy, please let me know and I will mail it to ya! You can also preorder via blacksquareeditions.org/books/p/hocusp… Or @asterismbooks.bsky.social 💫👽🛸

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments