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Sometimes I like to start the day by angering a few people

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

This is my greatest academic accomplishment

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

it didn’t

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Your critique is too powerful. I can’t handle your dialectic. Save me from this discourse.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Nazis: Nazi salutes are back Twitter randos: Well actually…

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submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s my birthday, and I’d like to thank the 20% of Germans who gave me fascism. It wasn’t on my list, but it’s the thought that counts.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Got asked how many genders there were on Twitter again, and I seriously thought about this for a response: There are no genders. There is only différance.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Father: How’s the job search and publishing going?

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Step 1: Acquire trad followers Step 2: Crank the woke Marxist propaganda up to 100 Step 3: Fun

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

My kid just told me I was a better source than the sources they were told to use by school.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

I’m getting tool storage for my birthday. As a middle aged man this excites me greatly.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It’s big academic announcement season, and this year I am once again pleased to offer you my guarantee that you will not need to pretend to be happy for me.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

You had me at Kant

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

Academics are the original influencers.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Wife: I’m such a good bullshitter. They should just give me a PhD.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

I’m devastated

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Some personal news: I have accepted a position on this couch. I am delighted to announce that I am now a structural component of a pillow fort.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

I’ve been told my outfit doesn’t match and it looks like no one loves me.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

I just got a call for papers about decolonizing critical theory, and I thought that was illegal now.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

my kid texted me from school

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

When I took intro to psych, I did an experiment where a professor administered electric shocks while I was in an MRI. She had used to just tell people that they’d be shocked and not do it, but that apparently was more inhumane.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Book Proposal This book will make a negligible contribution to scholarship.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

German Enlightenment : German Romanticism :: Twitter : Instagram

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

6: You don’t know how things work, dad. You’re not smart.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Sometimes you can just tell that the people who tried to do the repair before you watched the wrong YouTube video

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

My wife heard the term secularocene yesterday, and she holds humanities professors responsible for this linguistic crime both individually and collectively.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

The Canvas page for my course with Professor Hegel is completely incomprehensible. I have no idea how I’m supposed to sublate using Google Docs.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Someone on twitter called me frantically underemployed, and that’s the most accurate thing anyone has said about me in a long time.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

When I was a teenager, I got bored and depressed and then acted out in class. Now as an adult, when I get bored and depressed I act out online. This is just one example of how I’ve grown and progressed as a human being.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

Dear colleagues, I write to recommend Jonathan. Out of all the students I have instructed in my career, Eric is in the top 5%. Michael’s paper was one of the few in the class to earn an A+. I urge you to admit Johnathon to your program. Sincerely, Professor Fill in the blank

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

My six year old doesn’t understand why I won’t let her shuffle the grad school applications like a deck of cards.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

Decided I didn’t want to read graduate applications on a screen this year so I printed them out. Now I’m remembering why I stopped doing that.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Wife: You’re saying really dorky things. Me: I’m worried. 14: I’m related to you.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I assume they’re ok with applications written by AI

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Fucks to give are on back order

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

due to supply chain issues, we are all out of fresh hells

submitted 28 days ago • 27 comments

Do you think I don’t know this?

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

I enjoy waking up every morning not knowing what today’s mix of malevolence and incompetence will lead to. Keeps me on my toes.

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments