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John Rieffel. Professor Clown or Clown Professor?
With the arrival of a Grammy Category for best album cover, I hope The Dwarves finally get the recognition they deserve...
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Holy Cow the new Lily Allen album hits hard. Oooph!
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
@orzelc.bsky.social and all of Whitney Point, NY
November 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Just finished "House of Dynamite". TBH I'd feel much safer if our national security were in the hands of a bunch of British and Swedish expats with feeble American accents.
October 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
They'll write a check for $130M, and yet Billionaires will do just about anything to avoid paying taxes.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Thank you WaPo for a headline that promises a story involving cyclists that does not, in fact, mention cyclists:

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
How Chicago’s MMA gyms, cyclists and pet shelters are uniting to resist ICE
Teachers, clergy and MMA students are finding ways to counter immigration authorities’ attempts to detain undocumented neighbors.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Once again Schenectady, for the love of God, *do not let the witch out of that iron coffin!*
October 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
My cup runneth over. 3lbs of boletes.
Risotto tonight?
October 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

"I'm stuck in vim"
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Archives banned making copies.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.
October 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The last Mission Impossible movie is bad, right? Like really bad? It's not just me?
October 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Just completed my first 200km brevet at the ripe age of 49. Please clap.
Just completed my first cyclocross race at the ripe age of 49. Please clap.
October 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"

Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)
September 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
To be clear: I bikepacked 60 miles, camped, biked 15 more miles to the race, raced, biked 15 more miles back to the campsite , camped, then biked 60 miles home. Ooph!
September 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College, focusing on artists’ books and artist publications:

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September 28, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Just completed my first cyclocross race at the ripe age of 49. Please clap.
September 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Okay but have you heard the one where Gwen Stefani swings by the bakery to pick up bread for her friend's Rosh Hashanah dinner?
September 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"this much" poutine!
a big hamburger
September 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I'm sitting here in a Stewart's in Whitehall, NY a booth away from a 70 year old scrolling conservative AI-sludge TikTok videos without headphones. Thinking of you, @jeffsharlet.bsky.social , as I reflect on the ubiquity and strangely inclusive common ground that is upstate's convenience chain.
September 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Looks like we won the golden green bean prize from our CSA. Hidden like a golden ticket in a chocolate bar it awards us...more tomatoes?
September 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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John Corcoran Ghost Bike by Memorial Drive is missing! @mass.streetsblog.org @universalhub.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Strange - every person I know who's ever had a rooftop view of the whitehouse has had a sniper laser trained on them pretty quickly...
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House

wtaf
September 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
The perfect typo doesn't exi...
August 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It's a tie between Nick Cave in "Wings of Desire" and Lou Reed in "Faraway So Close"
New question for the class: what are your favorite appearances by a musical artist in a film or TV show? Playing live, acting role, whatever. Whaddya got?
August 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
My love for my hometown just keeps growing. #freeDC
The nearly unheard-of event happened again for a third time in rapid succession.
A federal grand jury has declined to indict another person arrested as part of President Trump's D.C. crime surge.

This was the only case we know of in which the National Guard participated in an arrest.

After the grand jury declined to return an indictment, DOJ moved to dismiss the case.
August 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Choosing which media to follow based upon which photo of Lisa Cook they choose. WaPo out. NYT in.
August 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM