Anguirus
@anguirus.bsky.social
Stay-at-home dad, former science teacher.
Obsessed fairly equally with #StarTrek, #StarWars, #Godzilla, and #Transformers.
He/him
All fascists go to Hell
Obsessed fairly equally with #StarTrek, #StarWars, #Godzilla, and #Transformers.
He/him
All fascists go to Hell
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This is that this is basically the end of higher ed. The ROI for education in academia is extremely low as is, but at least you had tenure to look forward to and working on what’s interesting. Take the first and prosecute the second and there’s no incentive.
This has slowly been happening at all but flagship public universities. This would accelerate the practice, and I expect more states (including some blue states) to follow suit in the coming years.
Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com
www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...
February 5, 2026 at 10:16 PM
This is that this is basically the end of higher ed. The ROI for education in academia is extremely low as is, but at least you had tenure to look forward to and working on what’s interesting. Take the first and prosecute the second and there’s no incentive.
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In case anyone thinks OP is exaggerating the point
February 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM
In case anyone thinks OP is exaggerating the point
I don't think of myself as an overly proud man, nor one with an unrealistically idyllic sense of importance the "Nobel Peace Prize."
And yet, if requested or required to abet Donald Trump's embarrassing campaign to obtain one, I would prefer to shoot myself in the head. Funny, that.
And yet, if requested or required to abet Donald Trump's embarrassing campaign to obtain one, I would prefer to shoot myself in the head. Funny, that.
News from Poland. Apparently the Americans have started circulating form letters nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize - all the nation in question has to do is sign it. The Speaker of the Sejm told them to fuck off and the US Ambassador has had a meltdown.
February 5, 2026 at 9:40 PM
I don't think of myself as an overly proud man, nor one with an unrealistically idyllic sense of importance the "Nobel Peace Prize."
And yet, if requested or required to abet Donald Trump's embarrassing campaign to obtain one, I would prefer to shoot myself in the head. Funny, that.
And yet, if requested or required to abet Donald Trump's embarrassing campaign to obtain one, I would prefer to shoot myself in the head. Funny, that.
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Lemme something about the male brain.
I hope this doesn't come out wrong, but even before I transitioned (so, pre- higher testosterone) I had the thing men talk about as being universal for us where I'd generally be up for sex with any woman I liked enough to be friends with (and some I didn't).
I hope this doesn't come out wrong, but even before I transitioned (so, pre- higher testosterone) I had the thing men talk about as being universal for us where I'd generally be up for sex with any woman I liked enough to be friends with (and some I didn't).
February 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Lemme something about the male brain.
I hope this doesn't come out wrong, but even before I transitioned (so, pre- higher testosterone) I had the thing men talk about as being universal for us where I'd generally be up for sex with any woman I liked enough to be friends with (and some I didn't).
I hope this doesn't come out wrong, but even before I transitioned (so, pre- higher testosterone) I had the thing men talk about as being universal for us where I'd generally be up for sex with any woman I liked enough to be friends with (and some I didn't).
Me after today’s “Starfleet Academy”
February 5, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Me after today’s “Starfleet Academy”
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I understand folks are scared but I want you to think about the mechanics of this.
There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate.
Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?
There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate.
Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?
i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:04 AM
I understand folks are scared but I want you to think about the mechanics of this.
There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate.
Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?
There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate.
Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?
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Harvard professor Robert Trivers tried to get Jeffrey Epstein in touch with Norman Finkelstein. Instead of accepting, Norman sent a reply calling Alan Dershowitz a pedophile rapist and saying Trivers should be ashamed for defending them, and both should be strangled instead
February 2, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Harvard professor Robert Trivers tried to get Jeffrey Epstein in touch with Norman Finkelstein. Instead of accepting, Norman sent a reply calling Alan Dershowitz a pedophile rapist and saying Trivers should be ashamed for defending them, and both should be strangled instead
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They’re screaming “fuck ice” at wrestling matches and Chuck Schumer managed to use this leverage to negotiate against himself until the demand is “ here’s a bunch more money, can you guys please promise to not wear masks unless you really need to?”
February 5, 2026 at 3:42 AM
They’re screaming “fuck ice” at wrestling matches and Chuck Schumer managed to use this leverage to negotiate against himself until the demand is “ here’s a bunch more money, can you guys please promise to not wear masks unless you really need to?”
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okay look, i support whatever she could plausibly say she's going to do here, but it would be really, really funny if It Happened tomorrow
February 5, 2026 at 2:38 AM
okay look, i support whatever she could plausibly say she's going to do here, but it would be really, really funny if It Happened tomorrow
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Schumer has graduated to world-historical levels of political malpractice. Van Papen, Quisling, Stephen A. Douglas-level incompetence that in retrospect becomes indistinguishable from evil.
February 1, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Schumer has graduated to world-historical levels of political malpractice. Van Papen, Quisling, Stephen A. Douglas-level incompetence that in retrospect becomes indistinguishable from evil.
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Not content to put universities, high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools under siege with the threat of indiscriminate machine-gunning, the Republican Party and its auxiliaries is psyching itself up to destroy daycares and their toddler inhabitants.
Hope they don’t get to my child’s!…
Hope they don’t get to my child’s!…
a Republican witness in the GOP's "Somali Scammers" hearing details how he drives by childcare centers and looks at how many footprints in the snow there are to determine how many kids are there. Psycho stuff.
February 5, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Not content to put universities, high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools under siege with the threat of indiscriminate machine-gunning, the Republican Party and its auxiliaries is psyching itself up to destroy daycares and their toddler inhabitants.
Hope they don’t get to my child’s!…
Hope they don’t get to my child’s!…
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they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence
February 4, 2026 at 6:08 PM
they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence
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Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer.
Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
The two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.
February 5, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer.
Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
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purity culture's purpose to is to groom victims and enablers
coercive forgiveness is furthered abuse
coercive forgiveness is furthered abuse
James Dobson is in the Epstein files, per the vital research of homeschool alum @dlmayfield.bsky.social.
Link to post:
www.threads.com/@d_l_mayfiel....
Link to post:
www.threads.com/@d_l_mayfiel....
February 4, 2026 at 10:02 PM
purity culture's purpose to is to groom victims and enablers
coercive forgiveness is furthered abuse
coercive forgiveness is furthered abuse
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This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):
February 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM
This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):
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INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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DOJ lawyer welcomes a night in jail to get away from his nightmarish job working for this administration, and get some sleep
Read this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.
February 4, 2026 at 8:58 PM
DOJ lawyer welcomes a night in jail to get away from his nightmarish job working for this administration, and get some sleep
did putting a known enemy spy in charge of US intelligence
go
badly????
go
badly????
February 4, 2026 at 8:38 PM
did putting a known enemy spy in charge of US intelligence
go
badly????
go
badly????
They are pretty similar!
Plus for Crockett: working to add SCOTUS justices (Talarico punts)
Both punt on criticizing Schumer
Plus for Talarico: more clearly opposes the current filibuster without equivocation
BIG YIKES for Talarico: loves the Iron Dome
Plus for Crockett: working to add SCOTUS justices (Talarico punts)
Both punt on criticizing Schumer
Plus for Talarico: more clearly opposes the current filibuster without equivocation
BIG YIKES for Talarico: loves the Iron Dome
We asked Democratic Senate candidates Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico where they fall on major issues, ranging from international policy to taxes.
Here's where they stand, and how they differ.
Here's where they stand, and how they differ.
Q&A: Democratic candidates in Texas’ 2026 Senate primary
To help primary voters differentiate between the two, we asked Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico where they fall on major issues, ranging from international policy to taxes. See where they stand, an...
www.texastribune.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
They are pretty similar!
Plus for Crockett: working to add SCOTUS justices (Talarico punts)
Both punt on criticizing Schumer
Plus for Talarico: more clearly opposes the current filibuster without equivocation
BIG YIKES for Talarico: loves the Iron Dome
Plus for Crockett: working to add SCOTUS justices (Talarico punts)
Both punt on criticizing Schumer
Plus for Talarico: more clearly opposes the current filibuster without equivocation
BIG YIKES for Talarico: loves the Iron Dome
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The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
February 4, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody
I hate it so much
I want to elect both (for their views) and neither (for how their conduct is already annoying me)
I want to elect both (for their views) and neither (for how their conduct is already annoying me)
the texas democratic senate primary is deeply mind numbing because Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico believe basically the same things at their core but they're both rorshach tests for whatever you already believe about Texans and their voting preferences
February 4, 2026 at 2:37 PM
I hate it so much
I want to elect both (for their views) and neither (for how their conduct is already annoying me)
I want to elect both (for their views) and neither (for how their conduct is already annoying me)
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i would be overjoyed if the U.S. had a president as ethical and even-tempered as Chancellor Gowron
February 4, 2026 at 4:36 AM
i would be overjoyed if the U.S. had a president as ethical and even-tempered as Chancellor Gowron
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this unprecedented momentum behind a single issue sure might be a useful fulcrum to try and wrench this country back from over the brink
74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.
Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 3:33 AM
this unprecedented momentum behind a single issue sure might be a useful fulcrum to try and wrench this country back from over the brink