Madcap
@madcap777.bsky.social
I work at your local community college.
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It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.
Fox News' Will Cain: "I’m sure there are very honorable law-abiding upstanding citizens and contributors from the Somali community here in the United States, BUT..."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
He goes on to say "we aren’t going to pretend here that all cultures are of equal value or the same."
December 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
It’s true. We shouldn’t pretend that. Trumpist culture is not the same as American culture and not equal. Trumpist culture is proudly ignorant, defiantly against America’s founding values and subsequently developed values, venomously bigoted, and generally despicable.
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I will say, if I never again hear “private public partnership” again in my life, I will have heard it enough.
December 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I will say, if I never again hear “private public partnership” again in my life, I will have heard it enough.
Generational theory is bullshit AND ALSO Gen X is the best generation because we were the last kids who were allowed to grow up by ourselves, not shepherded through a variety of adulthood-training programs
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Generational theory is bullshit AND ALSO Gen X is the best generation because we were the last kids who were allowed to grow up by ourselves, not shepherded through a variety of adulthood-training programs
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Maybe related, maybe not — I talked with Emily Keegin about rural aesthetics and politics
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
Opinion | The Aesthetic That Explains American Identity Now
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Maybe related, maybe not — I talked with Emily Keegin about rural aesthetics and politics
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
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Teaching thing I find useful: if a student stops showing up for class, make the subject line of your email "Is everything OK?" When people are overwhelmed they'll often avoid even opening bad-news emails (cf. me & my bank statements). This way, they know I'm reaching out to help, not chastise.
December 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Teaching thing I find useful: if a student stops showing up for class, make the subject line of your email "Is everything OK?" When people are overwhelmed they'll often avoid even opening bad-news emails (cf. me & my bank statements). This way, they know I'm reaching out to help, not chastise.
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Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Reuters reached out to everyone that Trump or his subordinates singled out publicly for retribution, and reviewed hundreds of official orders, directives and public records. The result: the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
www.reuters.com/investigates...
We see something similar at YLCC, although not yet as pronounced as described here. I chalk it up to the way American high school is now taught (at least where I am).
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We see something similar at YLCC, although not yet as pronounced as described here. I chalk it up to the way American high school is now taught (at least where I am).
Someone told me I would have been a good carnival barker. It wasn't meant as a compliment. I totally take it as one
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Someone told me I would have been a good carnival barker. It wasn't meant as a compliment. I totally take it as one
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We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked
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It's a tangent to Dr Cottom's point, but I love love love working with GED/HiSET students. Give me a classroom full of them and I know we'll have a stellar semester. They show up; they work and think; they know what they're about
I mention because yes sociologist of education. But I also mention because my entire personal code of ethics about educational attainment is core to my moral belief system.
I attended my grandmothers GED diploma ceremony. I would not mock that, not even for a destructive political troll.
I attended my grandmothers GED diploma ceremony. I would not mock that, not even for a destructive political troll.
November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's a tangent to Dr Cottom's point, but I love love love working with GED/HiSET students. Give me a classroom full of them and I know we'll have a stellar semester. They show up; they work and think; they know what they're about
This just reaffirms my drive to, somehow, be named the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
November 27, 2025 at 12:27 AM
This just reaffirms my drive to, somehow, be named the Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Two of the best writers/thinkers here on Al Gore's Internet*, presented free of charge!
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*Or Beyonce's Internet, depending on your Terms Of Service
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"Identity politics are not about dividing groups and comparing them. It's about building solidarity across groups and coalition-building, recognizing the commonalities across different forms of problems and what you do together," says @louiseseamster.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2033...
November 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Two of the best writers/thinkers here on Al Gore's Internet*, presented free of charge!
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*Or Beyonce's Internet, depending on your Terms Of Service
_________
*Or Beyonce's Internet, depending on your Terms Of Service
Master of Magic
Arguably the original XCom; the sequels were fine but I like more of a sandbox than they provide
Arguably the original XCom; the sequels were fine but I like more of a sandbox than they provide
Warcraft II bsky.app/profile/ikex...
I would like to know! 🤓👾
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Master of Magic
Arguably the original XCom; the sequels were fine but I like more of a sandbox than they provide
Arguably the original XCom; the sequels were fine but I like more of a sandbox than they provide
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Marge from the church breakfast committee is about to go John Brown on this fascist rent-a-cop and meanwhile Eric Swalwell and other Congressional and Senate Dems want "masks off and badges out", the nice middle ground.
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Marge from the church breakfast committee is about to go John Brown on this fascist rent-a-cop and meanwhile Eric Swalwell and other Congressional and Senate Dems want "masks off and badges out", the nice middle ground.
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I would wipe Rise of Skywalker from continuity and make tony gilroy write the new end to the sequel trilogy. It can be as bleak as he wants it to be bsky.app/profile/benj...
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I would wipe Rise of Skywalker from continuity and make tony gilroy write the new end to the sequel trilogy. It can be as bleak as he wants it to be bsky.app/profile/benj...
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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give me a miniseries of paul walter hauser’s moleman as like mayor of the underground
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 AM
give me a miniseries of paul walter hauser’s moleman as like mayor of the underground
@jaybatzner.bsky.social Per our earlier conversation:
Excavation reveals 5th century Mayan games room with built-in patolli board
Ancient Maya game board with unique mosaic design discovered in Guatemala
Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered crops and wealth as they raced their opponents around a cross-shaped board.
phys.org
November 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
@jaybatzner.bsky.social Per our earlier conversation:
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this isnt cranky, this is literally journalism 101. These people are not journalists they are corporate lackeys who use Word instead of Excel
while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
this isnt cranky, this is literally journalism 101. These people are not journalists they are corporate lackeys who use Word instead of Excel
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Our trans kin aren't going anywhere. There will always be more; you cannot harass a facet of humanity out of existence. So if we could be kinder to the ones who are here now, I would really appreciate it.
Be nice to my friends. And to the ones who aren't my friends. Please.
Be nice to my friends. And to the ones who aren't my friends. Please.
November 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Our trans kin aren't going anywhere. There will always be more; you cannot harass a facet of humanity out of existence. So if we could be kinder to the ones who are here now, I would really appreciate it.
Be nice to my friends. And to the ones who aren't my friends. Please.
Be nice to my friends. And to the ones who aren't my friends. Please.
As an Extremely Politics Person, I always appreciate well-researched deep dives which confirm that most of us are not Extremely Politics People:
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
As an Extremely Politics Person, I always appreciate well-researched deep dives which confirm that most of us are not Extremely Politics People:
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For Chrissake when I was 12 they tried to keep Dungeons & Dragons out of school.
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
For Chrissake when I was 12 they tried to keep Dungeons & Dragons out of school.
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
The responses to this are fascinating so far. Riffing on EB White, nobody is learning anything new, and several of them are killing the frog.
One of my more unpopular beliefs is that I don’t believe in explaining jokes.
Jokes are, by definition, boundary work. They include by exclusion. If you explain it, you cheat the ingroup and the joke.
I know this leads to some unsavory places but it also gives me a lot of pleasure.
Jokes are, by definition, boundary work. They include by exclusion. If you explain it, you cheat the ingroup and the joke.
I know this leads to some unsavory places but it also gives me a lot of pleasure.
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
The responses to this are fascinating so far. Riffing on EB White, nobody is learning anything new, and several of them are killing the frog.