Jesse O’Connell
@oconnell.bsky.social
Advancement at the American Council on Education. Del Ray dad and 2x Hoya. Books, baseball, beer, higher ed, and all things Alexandria. Subscribe to ALXtra: https://alxtra.ghost.io/
I now understand they were going for a shell game vibe with this illustration, but my brain absolutely read it as a beer pong thing. Instant click.
ED’s ‘Special Projects’ Grants Spark Concern Over Congressional Intent
The pushback, which arose Monday, is part of an ongoing debate about how much flexibility the Trump administration has to move money around. https://bit.ly/3LtsTFr
The pushback, which arose Monday, is part of an ongoing debate about how much flexibility the Trump administration has to move money around. https://bit.ly/3LtsTFr
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I now understand they were going for a shell game vibe with this illustration, but my brain absolutely read it as a beer pong thing. Instant click.
It’s a real shame the Bible doesn’t cover whether you should do something like this or not.
A new digital awakening is unfolding in churches, where pastors and prayer apps are turning to artificial intelligence to reach worshippers, personalize sermons, and power chatbots that resemble God.
Meet chatbot Jesus: Churches tap AI to save souls and time as pews get more empty
Chatbots answer prayers and algorithms write sermons.
www.axios.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It’s a real shame the Bible doesn’t cover whether you should do something like this or not.
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HUGE FIRST BSKY POST
November 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
HUGE FIRST BSKY POST
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A Republican Supreme Court allowed a Republican President to block food aid so a Republican Congress could end health insurance aid.
If you're mainly angry at Democrats about this I don't know what to tell you.
If you're mainly angry at Democrats about this I don't know what to tell you.
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A Republican Supreme Court allowed a Republican President to block food aid so a Republican Congress could end health insurance aid.
If you're mainly angry at Democrats about this I don't know what to tell you.
If you're mainly angry at Democrats about this I don't know what to tell you.
Not who I would have cast as President Skroob in the new Spaceballs but sure ok whatever.
Chris Cuomo is trying to make this atrocious little mustache happen even though it looks like he drew it on with a ballpoint pen
November 11, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Not who I would have cast as President Skroob in the new Spaceballs but sure ok whatever.
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this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks
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an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
Took the kids and some friends to the bowling alley and this pins on strings setup is some bullshit. We used to be a real country.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Took the kids and some friends to the bowling alley and this pins on strings setup is some bullshit. We used to be a real country.
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the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:
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explaining to my grandkids that the choice was fast trains and healthcare for everyone or a digital girlfriend for elon musk and that’s why they are walking to the witch doctor
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
explaining to my grandkids that the choice was fast trains and healthcare for everyone or a digital girlfriend for elon musk and that’s why they are walking to the witch doctor
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We keep paying teachers more for graduate degrees, but the evidence they improve teaching is not there. Add the surge in online credentials and you’ve got a really ugly incentive structure.
I wonder sometimes about the number of colleges that leaned into online credentialing for the short term $$$ and are now seeing the long term costs showing up...
(Long term costs, I'd add, that more than just colleges are paying)
(Long term costs, I'd add, that more than just colleges are paying)
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
We keep paying teachers more for graduate degrees, but the evidence they improve teaching is not there. Add the surge in online credentials and you’ve got a really ugly incentive structure.
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DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
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I wonder if Kyler Murray ever thinks about how he could be in the prime of his arbitration years right now, making $5.4 million to play 81 games a year in Sacramento while batting in front of Jacob Wilson and Nick Kurtz
November 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I wonder if Kyler Murray ever thinks about how he could be in the prime of his arbitration years right now, making $5.4 million to play 81 games a year in Sacramento while batting in front of Jacob Wilson and Nick Kurtz
I’m sorry the Seahawks score is what? In which quarter?
November 9, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I’m sorry the Seahawks score is what? In which quarter?
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Headlines 11/7:
⬩ Congress Tackles College Cost Transparency via @insidehighered.com
⬩ Graduate Programs Will Soon Feel the Brunt of Loan Caps as Changes to Federal Aid Advance via @chronicle.com
more: ow.ly/gp6v50Wtv5f
⬩ Congress Tackles College Cost Transparency via @insidehighered.com
⬩ Graduate Programs Will Soon Feel the Brunt of Loan Caps as Changes to Federal Aid Advance via @chronicle.com
more: ow.ly/gp6v50Wtv5f
HEADLINES: Top Higher Education News for the Week
A selection of the day's most important college and university news stories.
ow.ly
November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Headlines 11/7:
⬩ Congress Tackles College Cost Transparency via @insidehighered.com
⬩ Graduate Programs Will Soon Feel the Brunt of Loan Caps as Changes to Federal Aid Advance via @chronicle.com
more: ow.ly/gp6v50Wtv5f
⬩ Congress Tackles College Cost Transparency via @insidehighered.com
⬩ Graduate Programs Will Soon Feel the Brunt of Loan Caps as Changes to Federal Aid Advance via @chronicle.com
more: ow.ly/gp6v50Wtv5f
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Jacky Rosen is one of the more moderate Democrats. She's a pretty even-keeled person and she's been livid this whole week.
Pure 🔥🔥🔥from Sen. Rosen: "This is a Republican shutdown...You are in control of the White House, the House, and the Senate. If you went home to a food bank instead of going to Mar-A-Lago...while people are starving, you might see and hear your constituents. You are blind to the suffering."
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Jacky Rosen is one of the more moderate Democrats. She's a pretty even-keeled person and she's been livid this whole week.
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I binge-capped the new Netflix series DEATH BY LIGHTNING for @vulture. Tremendously entertaining show about our American tradition of progress being undone by violent, fame-seeking dipshits. www.vulture.com/article/deat...
Death by Lightning Series-Premiere Recap: A Man Can Be Anyone
Two very different sorts of narcissist — the 20th U.S. president and the man who shot him — set off on a crash course for the history books.
www.vulture.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I binge-capped the new Netflix series DEATH BY LIGHTNING for @vulture. Tremendously entertaining show about our American tradition of progress being undone by violent, fame-seeking dipshits. www.vulture.com/article/deat...
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Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc
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"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong
September 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"did you even read the article???? the headline is bad but the article is good!!!" buddy if I see a restaurant called Dan's Fecal Stew i am not gonna go in there to see if maybe they printed the sign wrong
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Does man who spends 14 hours a day posting deserve one trillion dollars? Many posters say the matter is complicated.
Elon Musk wants a pay package worth $1 trillion.
But an emerging group of opponents argue the package is excessive, and some say Musk’s political and side ventures have put the company at risk.
But an emerging group of opponents argue the package is excessive, and some say Musk’s political and side ventures have put the company at risk.
Elon Musk’s ultimatum to Tesla: Make me a trillionaire or I may leave
A proposed pay package could make Tesla CEO Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, but it faces resistance from shareholders and critics who say it’s unearned.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Does man who spends 14 hours a day posting deserve one trillion dollars? Many posters say the matter is complicated.
RIKER WITH A TROMBONE ALERT!
NEW — LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
#StarTrek #Lego
blog.trekcore.com/2025/11/lego...
LEGO Unveils New 3600-Piece STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D Brick Set
LEGO finally unveils their long-rumored 3600pc, $400 STAR TREK: TNG Enterprise-D brick set and limited-availability Shuttlepod kit, coming in late November
blog.trekcore.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
RIKER WITH A TROMBONE ALERT!
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Exactly so.
The rich, which you are not...the people who's yachts have yachts, can easily
E A S I L Y
afford to pay their fair share. They don't WANT to do that.
Jeff Bezos takes vanity trips to 'space' while his workers rely on SNAP benefits
Anything that erodes their power, they will fight
The rich, which you are not...the people who's yachts have yachts, can easily
E A S I L Y
afford to pay their fair share. They don't WANT to do that.
Jeff Bezos takes vanity trips to 'space' while his workers rely on SNAP benefits
Anything that erodes their power, they will fight
"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Exactly so.
The rich, which you are not...the people who's yachts have yachts, can easily
E A S I L Y
afford to pay their fair share. They don't WANT to do that.
Jeff Bezos takes vanity trips to 'space' while his workers rely on SNAP benefits
Anything that erodes their power, they will fight
The rich, which you are not...the people who's yachts have yachts, can easily
E A S I L Y
afford to pay their fair share. They don't WANT to do that.
Jeff Bezos takes vanity trips to 'space' while his workers rely on SNAP benefits
Anything that erodes their power, they will fight