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Assistant Professor, Public/Nonprofit Administration. Avid cook and kayaker, shared custody of Noodle the Boat Kitty.
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Thinking about that time Taylor Swift used a fire extinguisher.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot estimates '75-85% likelihood Trump is a Putin-compromised asset' www.rawstory.com/trump-russia...

"your rights extend only up to the point where they interfere with the rights of others" (Clement Atlee, I think) Being alive is kind of a big right -- also the greatest privilege.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

When AP has to do a primer on "Marbury v. Madison," that is DefCon 2.

Seen on Reddit “Chiefs being dismantled like the US Government” 😆

Apparently I'm not allowed to have feels about things when the Superb Owl is on. Fucking Superb.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

We don't need any of those pesky regulations keeping our food safe, do we? Smdh.

We need to amplify this—the Republican House refused Secretary Buttigieg’s request for safety improvements at Reagan International.

Mark Zuckerberg: I built this platform to give the people a voice Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were

Fall semester grading is done. Let's pretend not to notice that I COMPLETELY forgot to grade the midterms from one class and nobody said a thing.

2/2 So I'm sitting here about to write a question about what I should do, and realize that the answer is "you're stressed TF out and beyond burnt out, just fix your situation". I'm working on a solution, it'll take time, but yeah, I need to make some changes so that I can actually enjoy my life.

1/2 I've been trying to fall asleep earlier for weeks now, and failing. I've also tried cutting out caffeine/alcohol, increased my exercise, adjusted the times when I take my medications or eat, etc etc. I've literally done everything I can find evidence for in the medical and social literature.

Being a passenger on a road trip through the mountains is so much easier when Xanax is involved.

Bryan took Noodle for a walk before joining us for dinner last night. Noodle got a little tree-curious. Of course, he jumped right down and followed along when Bryan walked away to go grab a ladder.

Today, rule 35 was invoked... for Brussels sprouts. I do love my Fark family.

I really need a Starfleet uniform for Noodle. For those of you not in the know, his proper name is Chief Miles Edward O'Brien, the most important purr-son in Starfleet history. Pic: me, Bryan, and Noodle on the WMU team's concrete canoe.

The press treated Michelle Obama pushing vegetables as more politically fraught than RFK Jr anti-vaxxing up the joint.

All y'all losing it tonight make me glad that I both have no interest in fighting sports and that I cancelled Netflix a month or two ago.

One fall class wrapped, two more to go next week. I'll actually be done with all of my classes before Thanksgiving, which is a first for me in over a decade as a prof.

PSA for all the new folks hopping on today.

Looks like everyone's finally migrating over here. Let's see how long it lasts.

Why don't you keep refreshing and contribute to the problem www.courtlistener.com/docket/43558...

I keep forgetting to post here, but then I haven't been on FB much lately either. Shoulder still sucks, still going stir crazy with nothing to do. Blah.

Heard someone refer to the “Cybertruck” as a “sport-futility vehicle,” and that one is gonna take.