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“...a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.” economics, public policy, art and literature, philosophy; Rice owl; recovering full-time college adjunct (you may have known me as “tex” in the other place)
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A Polish acquaintance went to British Museum specifically to see this tablet only to be cheated by Ea-nasir from beyond the grave

On 22 February 1943, three young Germans, members of the White Rose Society -- Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst -- were guillotined by the Nazis for distributing leaflets speaking out against the crimes of the Third Reich. Their bravery, and their cause, will not be forgotten.

Elon has demanded federal workers send an email on Monday detailing their top 5 accomplishments from the prior week. Here is the email address. I am not a federal worker but I sent an email listing my top 5 accomplishments. You can do the same! Pass it on! [email protected]

Great how we now have to read US government readouts like they're CCP or Kremlin ones.

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

absolute dumbest people running the government

watching an episode of The Daytripper where they visit Jasper, TX…wondered if/how they were going to address the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr, and they did a really nice job of it it’s a great TV program in general, and Chet Garner is a good guy

between this and the beeper bombs in Lebanon, i would not want to be an armed forces member serving anywhere abroad while federal administrative capacity to protect sensitive supply chains is being hollowed out by a drug-addled techno-fascist white nationalist euromaidanpress.com/2025/02/20/u...

Trump lawyers will go into court so woefully unprepared and ignorant in defense of executive policies so overtly bigoted and dripping with animus, butcher any sense of good faith, and then turn around and cry like little babies when the judge calls them out for their heinous bullshit.

between this and the beeper bombs in Lebanon, i would not want to be an armed forces member serving anywhere abroad while federal administrative capacity to protect sensitive supply chains is being hollowed out by a drug-addled techno-fascist white nationalist euromaidanpress.com/2025/02/20/u...

“moss raging triumphant” is now seared in my brain

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

There are many mysteries and ambiguities in life but the nature of this gesture is not among them. It's a Nazi salute.

I will go to my grave reminding people just how much of an absolute villain he was and how his efforts will continue to hurt people long after I’m gone

Relatedly, reporters should cover how Elon abused his cozy connection w/Jim Jordan. Tell the story of GARM, which had the audacity to not want its content to show up alongside hateful garbage, so Congress subpoenaed and Elon sued. Supporting freedom of association is part of supporting free speech.

This is what weaponizing DOJ looks like.

my psych nurse practitioner and i had a good laugh this morning about RFK coming after SSRIs

Lol

look, it’s really simple: owns several car dealerships, can’t spell bourgeois: blue collar working class adjunct professor surviving on black coffee and tofu, can spell bourgeois: bourgeois

time to lock in some good long-term rates on crab insurance...insurance for crabs

what's old is new, this is america

I hope the EU is ready to throw more weight behind Ukraine and in defense of global democracy, because I’m sad to say the United States under Trump is an enemy of both.

the receipts on Elon's incompetence are absolutely wild. Everything really falls apart on the lightest scrutiny (thread here: x.com/electricfutu...)

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

have yet to encounter a use case of AI that doesn't make me think: i could do that myself with my own mind

After the federal layoffs No staff to collect admission! So the JFK Museum is free Doubt this is a money-saver But free museum 👍🏼

These educated people will either leave Kansas City (thus depleting the local economy) or remain in Kansas City and switch to less productive careers (which will also deplete the local economy) Elon Musk promised "economic hardship" to Americans, and for once he’s about to actually deliver

I escaped poverty because I am a scientist. And I am a scientist because of the National Science Foundation. A 🧵:

lol

"I wonder what this relatively small account that Elon Musk follows is?" "Oh I see, it just posts porn and Nazism only."

doing my part to kill the mood on LinkedIn failures and disappointments of the world, unite!

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

this reboot of “the goonies” sucks

#Econsky 📈📉 😐

if you can’t rely on someone under investigation to do their job, that person can resign and they can be replaced by whatever process NYC has written in its city charter/code

AOC has them sputtering mad because she’s educating people on constitutional rights. You don’t see them freaking out at Jeffries for talking about egg prices.

These systems aren't "hallucinating" - this is exactly what you expect from a word order guessing machine If anyone's having hallucinations it's (a) the tech companies that market them as information engines and (b) the users who eat it up without a single second of questioning